Video NewsNation: The FBI stops planned terrorist attack in Californa on New Year's Eve by a left wing, anticapitalist and antigovernment group. Four arrested when preparing bombs in the desert.

2025-12-16

Alleged terror group were anticapitalist and antigovernment: Prosecutor | Elizabeth Vargas Reports

By NewsNation, December 16, 2025

The FBI announced it foiled an alleged terrorist attack planned for Los Angeles on New Year's Eve that involved the suspects placing backpacks with IEDs in them across Southern California. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli joins “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” to discuss the situation. “They were logistics-type centers. Think like Amazon-type warehouses,” Essayli says about the group’s intended targets.