Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones grilled Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry Thursday morning over conflicting reports on the current state of security in New Orleans.
The city of New Orleans is reeling after a US citizen, military veteran, and alleged ISIS sympathizer killed over a dozen pedestrians on Bourbon Street early New Year’s Day by mowing them over with a rented pickup truck. The college football playoff game scheduled to take place at the Superdome was postponed to Thursday afternoon, but during an earlier appearance on the same show, Louisiana State Attorney General Liz Murrill called for the game to be delayed further and complained about not getting reports from the FBI.
Landry posted a photo on social media on Wednesday evening of his dining out with staff at a New Orleans steak house that drew bipartisan criticism for being tone-deaf given the state of security in the city while reports of co-conspirators still being at large emerged.
“Governor, I hate to jump on you, but there’s conflicting information,” Jones said. “On one hand, you’re telling the people that it is safe. But then you have coconspirators that are out there. And then to layer on that of getting all the information we just had, your attorney general, your chief law enforcement officer, says she hasn’t even been briefed about those people that they brought into custody.”