Rep. Micheal McCaul (R-TX), Chairman Emeritus of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Homeland Security Committee, outlined the threats that he wants President-elect Donald Trump to focus on immediately after getting sworn into office.
McCaul made the remarks during a Sunday interview on ABC News’ “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos while discussing 42-year-old ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s attack on New Orleans’ French Quarter last week.
McCaul said that he was specifically looking forward to learning more about his month-long trip to Egypt prior to the attack since investigators have found that he produced a rare explosive compound for bombs that he made.
“What was he doing in Egypt for a month?” he asked. “It reminds me so much, George, of the Boston bomber, who traveled to Dagestan, came back, and then built this pressure cooker bomb that led to the deaths…
