Cabot Phillips

When I explain it like that, it sounds quite simple.

And in principle, it is beautifully simple.

I cannot take up that sword again.

And so you've never seen a child here for eight years?

And how does that make you feel, knowing that this place is receiving $1.9 million?

Disgusting.

Thank you.

Right.

Our listeners will remember that we reported on the FBI thwarting a series of New Year's Eve terror attacks that a radical leftist group was planning to carry out.

The group called itself the Turtle Island Liberation Front and opposed a very serious threat.

Members of the group had already begun testing pipe bombs.

And one of those indicted sent messages to other members saying things like, I identify as a terrorist and I'm a Hamas fangirl.

Hmm.

Now, at the same time, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been ramping up her warning about the threat posed by terror actors, something that's really been heightened since the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia and the attacks on U.S.

service members in Syria.

Now, here was Gabbard during a speech in America Fest on this earlier this month.

In the wake of all of that, major cities around the world, including here in the U.S., have altered and even canceled New Year's Eve celebrations due to security concerns.

Well, Chicago is one.

They've ramped up their security measures.

State and local officials released a joint threat assessment last week, warning that crowded celebrations such as the annual New Year's Eve fireworks at Navy Pier could be, quote, attractive targets for either domestic or foreign terrorists.