Transcript of Shocking details emerge about major New Orleans security failures

Shocking new details about the major security failures in New Orleans and why police didn't do more to prevent this attack. The police superintendent there admitting that she had no idea the city had access to steel barriers that could have prevented the terrorist from driving his truck onto crowded Bourbon Street.

Yellow what we call archers, and they're along the sidewalk. That would be to be preventive if someone had, or if this particular terrorist went around up on the sidewalk, that's what that would do. It would slow that down for anyone who thought that they could reach our targets. Yellow archers, where did they come from? Actually, we have them. I didn't know We don't know about them, but we have them. God help us.

God help us. The 700 pound steel barrier that the city has had since 2017 just got installed yesterday before Bourbon Street reopened. They are designed to stop over 5,000 pound trucks going 60 miles per hour. But it turns out the CEO of that company that makes them says that the barriers are still not being used correctly, saying, quote, not only did they not know they had them, they didn't even know how to describe them. Even now, in the pictures I've seen, the barriers aren't even set up properly because the wheels are still down. Despite not using these preventative barricades, the superintendent is still refusing to take the blame.

Are you upset that you didn't know about this archer, something that would have prevented them? It's not a matter of being upset. This is not a matter of pointing blame anywhere. We have this, we're going to implement it, and end of story.

Tyress, it feels like some of this is about taking blame and responsibility.

Every appendage I have is pointing at you. You are 1,000% to blame for this. This is the problem with she refused it. They just want to pass the buck. It's not on me. I didn't know that. You're the head of the police. You're the one who's supposed to keep everyone safe. It's New Year's Eve in New Orleans, and you don't think the plan that you put in place that, quote, the terrorist just beat, was not to put the barriers in? This is when you say, This is on me, and you resign because people's lives are changed for 14 people aren't coming home, 35 or 37 or whatever, lives will never be the same again. People who barely miss getting hurt, people who witnessed, people who watched people's body parts being picked up off the streets. Your answer is, I didn't know we had them. There should be people fired. This is the problem. New Orleans is a microcosm of just ineptness. The mayor, her, they're terrible at what they do. They don't think about the people, and all they're worried about with their press conferences is covered in their own behind. The fact that she could sit there and say, It's not about pointing fingers.

Your job is to protect and make sure it's done correctly. If that's not done, whom, pray tell, do we blame? The terrorists and bad men do bad things. We understand that. But when you are in charge of keeping cities safe and you make it easy for them, the blood's just not on the street. It's on your hands, too. Period.

Judge, we've been noticing this over the last couple of the day is the stark contrast between how the New Orleans team is handling this versus Las Vegas, which seems to be an incredible example of competency and togetherness. Can you reflect on the dichotomy?

That's what I went off on yesterday. I mean, you have what?

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