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SEXTON: They're going to be stepping up static security at crowded venues, places that would seem to be the kinds of choices, the kinds of -- of target venues you may see. For this kind of an attack, quite honestly, there's very little you can really do to prevent this.
And I think that's why it's so unsettling and so frightening to people. You can see a difference between this and what happened in -- on Bastille Day in France in Nice, is that there were no weapons that were found.
It seems like they've recognized -- that the terrorists have recognized that just using a large vehicle with enough momentum can cause a mass casualty attack. So by going for weapons or by doing some of the additional things that happened on in the past, you actually heightened the chances of being stuck (ph), right?
You might get caught doing that. You might actually trip up somehow. Just getting into a very large vehicle and driving into a crowded area is near impossible to stop.
You can try to make it harder. But you're not going to get all of these.
BARTIROMO: And ISIS recommended this, right, in -- in their magazine, basically saying, look, followers across the world, just get into cars and trucks and ram into crowded areas. Exactly what they did.
SEXTON: Yes, these sorts of terrorist acts go in waves. There's certainly a copycat effect as well in the aftermath of an attack that killed over 80 people in France.
It was really just a matter of time before we saw something similar to this. And I -- I think what you can expect is that they'll try a sort of mixed of these sorts of tactics going forward using vehicles perhaps, vehicles in -- in tandem, multiple vehicles at one time.
And stopping this really requires getting the terrorist in the planning phase because once it's actionable, now, you're just hoping that barriers and other things you can put in place at large venues may stop a vehicle.
GABRIELLE: And in fact, you know, Rumiyah magazine, ISIS' newer magazine, talks about how spilling the blood of infidels honors Allah. That's what - - that's what they're trying to share in this propaganda as they spread it.
It talks about trying to kill businessmen who are in taxicabs, people at sporting events, things like that. What can you say about the role of propaganda and what our intelligence community can do, what the -- what the Trump administration can -- can sort of influence in terms of trying to stop this flow of propaganda, which is the communications device that's helping people to decide how to -- how to make these attacks against what a lot of people call soft targets but what others would say as a really cheap shot, low-hanging fruit?
SEXTON: And that's also incredibly difficult because every time you shut down one of the known Jihadist forms. First of all, you're losing a source of intelligence because oftentimes, especially if it's out in the open, if it's not necessarily encrypted or password-protected, there's a lot of really valuable information you get off of there.
But if you shut down some of the venues that are used to share the information among the Jihadist community, another one will pop up very quickly as we all know. In the digital world, you can have an endless amount of different communication hubs.
So the counter-propaganda narrative that we're going to come up with that we should be coming up with is something that no one's really figured out yet quite honestly. I mean, we can put out there as much as you want.
You know, don't mass murder innocent people because of Jihad or because of what's happening in Aleppo or in a number of other places to reach this very specific, very small community that actually acts upon that kind of information in the first place has been a challenge for the intelligence community all along.
HILSENRATH: So we -- we haven't had this wave of refugees that they have in Europe. What layer of protection does that give us here in the United States compared to these serial attacks that we keep seeing in -- in Europe?
SEXTON: Well, one of the biggest problems that Germans have because of the million refugees is just an issue of the security services and the resources that they have while we, in this country, know the FBI director in the past has said that there are active terrorist investigations in every U.S. state, in the case of Germany, there are active investigations that will be going on just within the refugee population that's come in. So it really just adds to the burden of trying to engage in human surveillance, which is incredibly labor-intensive.
And they just frankly don't have enough teams in Germany despite what ar pretty competent security services to monitor all of these people. So when you add that to the already existing extremist community in Germany, which has been there for quite some time, looks (ph) like what the Harmburg has had (ph) in the past.
In fact, Germany has some very long-standing ties to -- to the Jihadist community. Now, you're looking at essentially overwhelmed security services that are just trying to do what they can to make sure there's not a mass casualty.
HILSENRATH: And we have the resources here to keep track of the threatening population here in the United States?
SEXTON: We have resources to do a pretty good job. But you're asking for essentially a hundred percent -- a hundred percent efficacy in this.
And -- and unfortunately, that's -- that's never going to be the case. So for every clout (ph), we -- where we -- we stop nine clouts (ph) if one gets through, that's what's going to be on the mix (ph).
GABRIELLE: And that's why the FBI see (ph) something -- say (ph) something because human intelligence, our greatest resource, are our own people and people watching out for each other in public places, looking to see if something's unusual, right?
SEXTON: Yes, it's also a constant learning mechanism. Every time we disrupt a plot, especially if it relies on whether it's informants, essentially people that are acting at the behest of the intelligence services or perhaps even some of the collection methods that might be used if it gets out there in the Jihadist community, all these (ph) forms, now they know this is how we can get tripped up.
And so what worked in the past may not work in the future.
HILL: You brought up something really interesting, which is the counter- recruitment strategy that we need to build out in this country, which is that, you know, we can't find all of these terrorists in the streets. NYPD can't track down and -- and -- and beat down the door of any suspected terrorist before, you know, before they launch an attack.
So we need to get to these people before they're actually radicalized by ISIS. So what's at the root of ISIS message to -- to a young youth that, you know, is susceptible to radicalization?
Like what -- what is their message to them? What do they get from joining ISIS?
SEXTON: Well, it depends. Generally speaking, it's that they're joining a great cause. And they're -- they're striking out against infidels who are part of oppression, whether it's in the Middle East--
HILL: Yes.
SEXTON: --or anywhere around the world. In some cases, some of the youth, in particular, that have joined ISIS are really just looking for some sort of form of -- of adventure and -- and a way to--
HILL: Meaning (ph)?
SEXTON: --a way to derive meaning in their lives. But there -- there are others who, depending on where you're talking about these individuals coming from, they see what's happening in Syria, in -- in Iraq, elsewhere.
And they just want to sort of join up in that fight. So the counter- narrative is -- is really a question of, well, which individual are we talking about because if they're trying to stop bombs from falling on Aleppo or trying to stop what's happening in Afghanistan or -- or in Iraq, or any number of places, that's a -- that's a much bigger policy issue.
If you're talking about somebody who's disaffected youth coming from the U.K., other European countries, they've tried these kind of radicalization programs. And again, they worked to some extent.
But they're not perfect. And therefore, you're going to continue to deal with this problem going forward.
BARTIROMO: What are you expecting in -- in the coming weeks? So the FBI is concerned about terrorist activity on inauguration day, a lot of plans being put down.
The "Military Times" is reporting that 13,000 military personnel will be present. Is that enough to calm the fears?
What would you expect on inauguration day? And do we have the capabilities to stop it?
SEXTON: Yes, I think a lot of what the counterterrorism actions that we do in this country are meant to accomplish is really sort of put the public's minds at ease, especially the sort of show of force with many, many thousands of people, security personnel, whether military, police or -- and others who gather at -- at important events like the inauguration. It also puts in place some mechanisms of stopping an actual obvious attack from happening like -- like using a vehicle or something along those lines.
But much of the best work happens on either the signals (ph) intelligence side of things, meaning collecting communications of terrorists who are trying to coordinate before this kind of mass casualty attack or human intelligence side, which means people that are informants, people that can get close to the terrorists beforehand. You want to stop things before they're actually operational and going.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
SEXTON: And that requires a lot of work ahead of time that you won't see on inauguration day or any other day.
BARTIROMO: So what's your advice for the Trump administration? What do you want to see the incoming administration do to fight back?
SEXTON: Well, the big advantage they have is that they take the threat in sort of a different context than the Obama administration does. They seem willing to speak about it openly.
And I think that'll also lead to more sort of open-thinking on the policy discussion side about -- about how to handle it. They're going to be looking at all these problems in much the same way as the Obama administration did in terms of the actual logistics, of fighting specific thoughts, just as by the way, the Bush administration gave a lot of its counterterrorism policies to the Obama administration.
This is often forgotten. But there are some things that really are bipartisan. And using these different tools to stop these plots falls in that category.
I think -- I think you're going to see with Trump willingness, though, to look at entry into this country, to look at immigration into this country. And that's where they'll be different, especially in the aftermath of something like Germany.
BARTIROMO: Sure. Buck, thanks so much for your insights.
SEXTON: Thank you.
BARTIROMO: Appreciate it very much.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you.
BARTIROMO: Buck Sexton joining us there, former CIA.
Coming up, potential delivery delays -- Amazon is warning customers this morning, their holiday packages may arrive late due to the pilot strike. We'll tell you what you need to know.
And bottomless French fries coming your way -- McDonalds expanding their all-you-can-eat promotion to another location, where you can get those fries, coming next. Back in a minute.
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BARTIROMO: Welcome back. Markets are looking higher this morning. Once again, the Dow Jones Industrial Average expected to be up about 25 points.
We've got a firmer tone in the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ as well. A couple of names on the move this morning, Land's End naming a new CEO, the company announcing Jerome Griffith will take the reins beginning in March.
He will replace former CEO, Federica Marchionni, who was forced out in September. Shares of Land's End are down 24 percent this year alone. We're watching Facebook this morning.
The European Union is accusing the company of providing misleading information during its purchase of WhatsApp. Facebook would face fines of up to one percent of the worldwide revenue as part of that probe.
As you can see, Facebook shares are looking really flat at the open this morning. An intense search underway right now for the man who shot and killed a toddler in Little Rock, Arkansas -- a horrible story.
Lauren Simonetti on the story right now with the other headlines.
Lauren?
LAUREN SIMONETTI, FBN CORRESPONDENT: this is a tough one. Arkansas investigators are now offering a $40,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a gunman who killed this three-year-old little boy in an apparent fit (ph) of road rage.
The boy and his grandmother were sitting at a top sign in Little Rock, Arkansas on Saturday, when another driver got out of his car, and opened fire on them, apparently annoyed about the delay at the stop sign. The gunman then sped away in an older black Chevy Impala.
The grandmother was not injured in the shooting. Well, in China, air pollution is so bad in Beijing and the northern part of the country that a red alert has been issued.
The World Health Organization says airborne pollutants exceed its guidelines by 100 times. State media reported that a hundred and 69 flights have been cancelled at Beijing International Airport, where visibility fell at 1.984 feet.
Officials in Beijing shut down parts of major highways all in a bid to keep cars off the roads. Well, your Amazon's Christmas packages may be delayed and not because you were late ordering them but because of a pilot strike.
The pilots work for a cargo company contracted by Amazon. And they've walked off the job. Here is the reason. They're understaffed.
And they cannot keep up with the demand while a judge has ordered them back to work. So now, they're appealing directly to customers to have their complaints heard.
Hey, pilots, you're busy. It's Christmas and Hanukkah. And bottomless French fries for all at one McDonald's in Glassdale (ph), Missouri, now offering all-you-can-eat fries.
You can get them from today through the end of January in store only if you also order something that's called a signature-crafted extra value meal.
So there you have it, Maria, bottomless French fries.
BARTIROMO: I like it.
SIMONETTI: I'll take it. Me, too.
HILSENRATH: Right in -- right in time for all these New Year's diets you keep (ph)--
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know.
UNIDENTIFIED: I know.
HILSENRATH: You can get limitless French fries.
BARTIROMO: Well, get your fries now before the end of the year--
HILL: Yes, that's right.
HILSENRATH: It goes through -- it goes through--
HILL: Good point.
HILSENRATH: --January, though. You've got to stockpile them in December, I guess.
BARTIROMO: I know. Well, that's the thing. You have just a couple of weeks to eat what you want.
HILSENRATH: Yes, and then all bets are off.
GABRIELLE: So how about (ph) -- how about (ph) this pilot strike right in time for the holidays?
BARTIROMO: They always do it that way with time (ph) stuff.
GABRIELLE: I don't think any customers are going to be on the side of the pilots right now when so many people are ordering things through Amazon, trying to get things, people across the country.
BARTIROMO: That's a good point, yes, yes.
GABRIELLE: I mean, I just can't even imagine trying to put (ph) the customers right now--
HILSENRATH: Are we going the way at France? Isn't -- isn't that when they have all the rail delays, right, when people can't--
BARTIROMO: And the airlines do it that way, too. The -- the pilots--
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
BARTIROMO: --on the airlines and the stewardesses, right?
GABRIELLE: Yes. And they have a valid point. But I just don't think you're going to -- you're going to have much success trying to get customers to be on your side when they're just trying to get their Christmas and their Hanukkah and all their gifts to people across the country and around the world, you know.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
HILSENRATH: Well, I'm struck by that China's smog story. It's more evidence to me that that is a country that has been stretched to its limits.
GABRIELLE: Yes.
HILSENRATH: That's a story in 2017 we can't forget about. China's transformation from this industrial powerhouse to a significant slowdown.
BARTIROMO: Look, they are producing products for the world. They've got all of these, you know, factories all over the place, producing products for the world.
And that, as a result, is creating terrible smog and pollution in the air. I don't know the last time you were in Beijing -- Beijing.
But when I was there a couple of years ago, you could not escape the smog and the stench in the air, even when I went back to the hotel room. It was just a stench in the air.
JOLY: They have too much capacity -- too much capacity.
HILL: So this isn't (ph) forever in China. I mean, because of the rise of automation, a lot of these middle-class manufacturing jobs are going to go, you know, they're going to go out.
I mean, they're going -- they're going to come to an end. And so they've to start grappling with what the new Chinese economy looks like because it's changing.
HILSENRATH: Absolutely.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
GABRIELLE: Yes.
BARTIROMO: Coming up, we've got a preview of my exclusive interview with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. He's going to tell us what the new $5, $10 and $20 bills may look like.
We'll bring you that when we come right back. Don't miss it. Back in a minute.
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BARTIROMO: Well, welcome back. We are talking money now. Iconic civil rights figure and underground railroad leader, Harriet Tubman, set to adorn (ph) in the front of the $20 bill in coming years -- a vision from the mind of U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who sat down with me yesterday exclusively to talk about what the paper currency will eventually look like, whether or not it will, in fact, materialize, and the feedback he's received from the public.
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JACK LEW, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY: I think that the -- the -- the idea of the Harriet Tubman being on our currency is pretty broadly accepted in this country. You hear people calling them Tubmans already.
Since the president said it once, it's become kind of a common phrase. It tells a story about how American history has many different lenses, the -- the life of someone born a slave who fights her way to freedom, travels back and forth to bring other people to freedom, becomes a spy to help the union army find its way through the rivers into battle.
BARTIROMO: What a story.
LEW: And in the end, being one of the early suffrages in this country that gave women the right to vote. It is -- it is a, you know, a quintessential American story but a uniquely important one and a part of our history that belongs on our currency.
BARTIROMO: That'll be on the back?
LEW: That will be on the -- the front of the $20. And what we've laid as a vision is on the backs to use the reverse side to tell a story so to animate the buildings that are there now.
The Lincoln Memorial is sitting there just as a building on the back of the $5, to surrounded with images that bring it to life as a place where so many important things happened in international history from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech," to Marian Anderson, breaking the segregation line in -- in Washington and singing for 70,000 people. The back of the $10, where we have Hamilton on the front, can show the image of women demonstrating for the right to vote, coming to the steps of the Treasury Department to make the case for the -- the women's right to vote, which happened in 1920.
And in 2020, what better time to have a woman on the currency and the history of suffrage shown on our money? And we've proposed it on the $20 that Alexander Hamilton be -- pardon me, Andrew Jackson, be retained on the reverse side -- an -- an image that would show the White House with the sculpture that is facing the White House, which is a sculpture of Andrew Jackson.
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BARTIROMO: That is a small piece of my exclusive interview with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. Later on in the program, we get his take on his replacement, Steve Mnuchin.
We'll get an insight look at how the transition is going from inside the Obama White House. And keep in mind, those bills that he is proposing to change will not happen on his watch, obviously.
He's just another month in -- in this administration. But I think there's a feeling that if, in fact, he gets this idea, these proposals out now, perhaps, the Trump administration won't change them.
We'll see about that. But we are, of course, waiting on the Trump administration, the incoming administration to decide what will happen with the -- with those currencies -- the $5, the $10 and the $20. A lot more to come from Jack Lew coming up in the hour, particularly his thoughts on tax cuts and on rolling back regulations.
Many of the regulations that his administration put in just in the last two years will be rolled back by Donald Trump. So we'll talk about that coming up from Jack Lew.
Next hour, the number one job to have when it comes to the annual cash bonuses business, it will surprise you. So what sector gives out the biggest pay? Back in a minute.
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BARTIROMO: Good Tuesday morning, everybody. Welcome back. Thanks so much for being with us. I'm Maria Bartiromo.
And it is Tuesday, December 20, five days from Christmas. Your top stories, 7 a.m. on the East Coast.
The global terrorism threat alive and real -- authorities searching for details this morning in the deadly truck crash in Germany yesterday, that crash killing at least 12 people, injuring dozens more, witnesses describing chaos at the scene.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When it just passed me, passed my girlfriend, I think it missed me by three meters, missed her by five. It came in through the entrance to hit the sides of the barriers and then carried on past us.
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BARTIROMO: The very latest developments coming up this morning. And the election results are official.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They describe cass at the scene. Just to think that amiss me by 3 meters. And then it carried on past it.
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MARIA BARTIROMO, FBN HOST: The very latest developments coming up this morning. And the election results are official. The Electoral College stealing Donald Trump's victory -- sealing Donald Trump's victory rather. Former President and Elector Bill Clinton's reaction coming up. He won as everyone expected he would. China returning the American drone at sea from the South China Sea.
The handoff coming after friendly negotiations between the two countries. We've got the very latest coming up. And the tree is not only green, many will see this Christmas. It's also bonus season. Find out which jobs are set to get the highest pay-outs, coming up. Plus Twinkies ice cream coming to a store near you. We've got the details on the new offerings coming up. Markets this morning looking positive. Futures indicating another gain at the opening of trading.
We're pretty strong this morning with the Dow, it sets to open up about 28 points. The Nasdaq, the S&P 500 also strong. In Europe stocks are hovering near the flat line as you will see here, not major move. Although, the CAC quarante in Paris up a third of a percent. The others just fractionally moving from where they closed yesterday. In Asia overnight, mixed performances, the Japanese Central Bank held interest rates steady at the BOJ meeting yesterday.
The Nikkei average was up one half of one percent. A surprise on the basketball court, a Notre Dame player surprising -- surprised by his big brother coming home from Afghanistan. More on that great moment. Really emotional. Coming up. All the stories coming up this morning. And joining me to talk about it, a Fox News Correspondent, Lea Gabrielle; Wall Street Journal, Jon Hilsenrath; and Democratic Strategist, Harlan Hill. Great to see you.
HARLAN HILL, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Great to be with you.
BARTIROMO: Yes. Five more days --
JON HILSENRATH, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CHIEF ECONOMIC CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Maria.
LEA GABRIELLE, FBN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning.
BARTIROMO: -- until Christmas. Yearend coming. This rally well not quit.
HILSENRATH: Are we going to hit Dow 20,000 before Christmas?
BARTIROMO: (inaudible) I don't know, Jon.
HILSENRATH: But you called the rally. I want to hear if you're going to - - if you're going to (inaudible)
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BARTIROMO: No. I think we have a serious and solid bid under this market. And I think that it is very much in place. To me, round numbers don't matter. I mean, it's -- you know, it will make people feel better to get to Dow 20,000. But it's just a round number. And round numbers always create some resistance so we could back and fill --
HILSENRATH: Right.
BARTIROMO: -- for a little while. But I think that there is a strong bid under this market still. I don't think that it's showing signs of slowdown yet. What do you think?
HILSENRATH: I agree with you. I mean, I think a lot it's going to depend on whether Trump delivers early in his presidency on some of the things he's been promising. Namely, tax reform and then corporate tax cut. That corporate tax cut is everything. If the -- if the stock market gets it then the rally continues.