CNN’s Evan Perez: FBI Has Recovered Video Showing Three Men, One Woman Who May Have Been Involved in Placing IEDs in New Orleans

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MATTINGLY: “Evan, you‘ve been breaking news on this throughout the course of the day. You‘re getting new information about the FBI‘s investigation into whether the suspect had help. What are you learning?”

PEREZ: “They key question obviously, is the help, the additional associates that the FBI assistant special agent in charge was mentioning. And what we know at this point, Phil, is that they have the FBI has recovered video, surveillance video that appears to show three, three men and one woman appearing to help put ieds. What are believed to be ieds, at locations in the French quarter. Now, we heard from the FBI there that there were additional potential explosives that were found during a search later this morning, and they were rendered safe during the day today. And so the surveillance video appears to show those people either helping to put those devices there or being close by. Again, that‘s part of this investigation. Now to to find those people, to ask them whether they were involved in some way, did they help build the explosives or were they just, you know, perhaps standing by? All of those things are on the table for the FBI. The other thing that‘s very key to this is, you know, the association with I.s.I.s., the idea that this person was inspired by a terrorist organization and what they found was some writings inside the truck, perhaps on the person of this, of this suspect who that appears to to suggest inspiration by I.s.I.s.. again, that helps buttress the the view by law enforcement that this was a terrorist attack, that this was something that was inspired by I.s.I.s. or by terrorist organizations. Again, all of this is now part of the investigation. The question of where this person got their radicalization, how far back does that go? We know that he is a former army member, a member of the U.S. Army. So, you know, how far back does that radicalization go? We know he‘s from Houston. All of those places are now being investigated, including locations in Houston as well as locations in Louisiana where the suspect stayed before coming to carry out this attack. All of those things now, part of this very broad investigation. It‘s going to be a long time, I think, before we get a final answer on everything that was involved here.”

MATTINGLY: “Create more questions at this point on some level, given the fact that they‘re looking at more people. Real quick.”

PEREZ: “Real quick, I mean, the idea that you have more than one person involved, I think is a huge deal as far as investigation, because, you know, in the last few years, even in the era of I.s.I.s., what we‘ve usually seen is, is lone wolf attacks. We‘ve covered so many of that of these, you and I. and for you to have more than one person involved typically is problematic for for carrying out attacks, because the more the more people involved, the greater the chance that the law enforcement is going to find out something. So the idea that they were able to carry this out more than one person‘s involvement is a big, big part of this. That‘s going to be very, very hard for the FBI to try to again figure out.”