If someone plows their truck into a crowd of people celebrating New Year’s with an ISIS flag and IEDs are found at the scene of the attack, what would you call that? It seems like a simple question, but for the cast of Thursday’s CNN Newsroom, it wasn’t as they shamed the Democratic mayor of New Orleans for calling the attack on her city an act of terrorism.

Host Pamela Brown asked national security analyst Juliette Kayyem, “I mean, I've sadly covered too many tragedies like this and it struck me because normally you don't come right out of the gate and label it a terrorist attack or not, Juliette, you know, you say ‘we're looking into all possibilities’ because it's so early, you don't really know. And there were these explosive devices. This suspect shot at police and hit two police officers. Ten people are killed. More than 30 in the hospital. I mean, this is horrific, Juliette, how do you see this?”