Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the Vice President, Jan. 8, 2026

[00:00:00] Good afternoon everybody. [00:00:02] Let me be clear. President Trump and his [00:00:05] entire administration stand fully behind [00:00:08] the heroic men and women of ICE and will [00:00:11] always uphold law and order in the [00:00:13] United States of America. The deadly [00:00:16] incident that took place in Minnesota [00:00:18] yesterday occurred as a result of a [00:00:20] larger sinister left-wing movement that [00:00:24] has spread across our country where our [00:00:26] brave men and women of federal law [00:00:28] enforcement are under organized attack. [00:00:31] Right now, immigration and customs [00:00:33] enforcement officers are facing a 1,200% [00:00:36] increase in assaults, a 32 uh 3,200% [00:00:42] increase in vehicle rammings, and an [00:00:44] 8,000% increase in death threats. ICE [00:00:47] agents are faithfully enforcing federal [00:00:50] law to protect the safety of the [00:00:52] American people by removing criminal [00:00:55] illegal aliens from our country, which [00:00:57] is exactly what nearly 80 million [00:01:00] Americans elected President Trump and [00:01:02] Vice President JD Vance to do. Radicals [00:01:05] in the Democrat party are furious over [00:01:08] this. They don't want our border secured [00:01:10] or criminal illegal aliens being [00:01:12] removed. As a result, Democrats are [00:01:15] impeding immigration enforcement [00:01:17] operations daily, creating extremely [00:01:20] heightened and dangerous circumstances [00:01:22] that make it nearly impossible for the [00:01:25] men and women of law enforcement to [00:01:27] simply do their jobs. Democrats are [00:01:30] calling to defund federal law [00:01:31] enforcement agencies who are protecting [00:01:33] public safety. And Democrats are calling [00:01:36] to abolish ICE and defund the police. [00:01:39] That will never be allowed to happen [00:01:42] under this president. and vice [00:01:43] president. The Trump administration will [00:01:46] redouble our efforts to get the worst of [00:01:48] the worst criminal, illegal alien [00:01:50] killers, rapists, and pedophiles off of [00:01:53] American streets. The Department of [00:01:56] Homeland Security will continue to [00:01:57] operate on the ground in Minnesota, not [00:02:00] only to remove criminal illegal aliens, [00:02:02] but also to continue conducting [00:02:05] door-to-door investigations of the [00:02:07] rampant fraud that has taken place in [00:02:10] the state under the failed and corrupt [00:02:12] leadership of Democrat Governor Tim [00:02:14] Walls. Taxpayers have been ripped off to [00:02:17] the tune of billions of dollars in this [00:02:19] one state alone, and that is going to [00:02:22] end. and people are going to be held [00:02:24] accountable. The Trump administration [00:02:26] has activated thousands of federal [00:02:28] agents, doubled the number of US [00:02:30] attorneys in the DOJ office in [00:02:32] Minneapolis, and surged resources to [00:02:34] hold fraudsters accountable and demand [00:02:36] justice for law-abiding American [00:02:39] taxpayers and citizens across our [00:02:41] country. And that's what brings the vice [00:02:43] president out here with me today to [00:02:45] discuss all the Trump administration is [00:02:47] doing and to make an additional [00:02:48] important announcement on this front. [00:02:50] So, please, Mr. vice president will be [00:02:52] joining us now. [00:02:56] >> Guys, [00:02:58] Carolyn, [00:02:59] >> thank you. [00:03:00] >> Great. Well, good afternoon, everybody. [00:03:01] And I want to echo some of what Carolyn [00:03:03] said about what we're doing to combat [00:03:06] the rampant fraud that exists in our [00:03:07] immigration system thanks to failed [00:03:10] politicians and thanks to people who [00:03:12] allowed the American taxpayer to be [00:03:13] taken advantage of for far too long. Uh [00:03:16] I I think it's important to understand [00:03:18] why this matters to the American people. [00:03:20] I am a father of three young kids. A lot [00:03:23] of kids, a lot of people in my [00:03:25] generation. What is that going on there? [00:03:27] >> Is that normal? [00:03:29] >> Okay. CNN installed this broken camera [00:03:32] just to throw me off my game, but it's [00:03:34] not going to work. So, here's here's [00:03:36] here's the simple fact here. If you're a [00:03:39] young parent struggling to afford child [00:03:42] care in the United States of America, [00:03:44] there are programs that we have to make [00:03:46] it easier for your kids to get in [00:03:48] daycare, for your kids to get in [00:03:49] preschool. Those programs should go to [00:03:51] American citizens, not be defrauded by [00:03:54] Somali immigrants and others. Make it [00:03:55] hard for you to get the access to the [00:03:58] resources you need. But number two, [00:04:00] making it easier for people who [00:04:01] shouldn't even be in this country to [00:04:03] fleece the United States and our [00:04:05] taxpayers to begin with. We have [00:04:07] actually activated a major inter agency [00:04:10] task force to make it possible to get to [00:04:13] the heart of this fraud. We have [00:04:14] department of agriculture resources that [00:04:16] are focused on SNAP fraud so that people [00:04:19] who need food benefits can get them but [00:04:21] illegal aliens and other fraudsters [00:04:23] don't. We have uh over 1500 subpoenas [00:04:26] the Department of Justice has issued to [00:04:28] get to the heart of the fraud ring. [00:04:30] We've done almost a hundred indictments, [00:04:32] mostly Somali immigrants, but also a few [00:04:34] others. And of course, we're looking in [00:04:36] with broad investigatory authority to a [00:04:38] number of the the instances of [00:04:41] wrongdoing that we've seen in [00:04:42] Minneapolis. But we also want to expand [00:04:45] this. We know that the fraud isn't just [00:04:47] happening in Minneapolis. It's also [00:04:48] happening in states like Ohio. It's [00:04:50] happening in states like California. And [00:04:53] so what we're doing in order to help [00:04:55] coordinate this remarkable inter agency [00:04:57] effort from the Trump administration, [00:04:58] but also to make sure that we prosecute [00:05:01] the bad guy bad guys and do it as [00:05:03] swiftly and efficiently as possible, is [00:05:06] we are creating a new assistant attorney [00:05:09] general position who will have [00:05:10] nationwide jurisdiction over the issue [00:05:13] of fraud. Now, of course, that person's [00:05:15] efforts will start and focus primarily [00:05:17] in Minnesota, but it is going to be a [00:05:19] nationwide effort because unfortunately, [00:05:22] the American people have been defrauded [00:05:24] in a very nationwide way. I want to [00:05:26] thank a couple of people for their [00:05:27] cooperation, in particular Pam Bondi, [00:05:29] our attorney general. First of all, for [00:05:31] getting a lot of resources to [00:05:32] Minneapolis to start to investigate and [00:05:34] prosecute this fraud, really at an [00:05:37] industrial scale. We've never seen fraud [00:05:39] like this in the history of our country. [00:05:41] Pam has been doing a great job to get [00:05:42] the resources there to uncover it. But [00:05:44] importantly, creating a job like this [00:05:47] often takes months, sometimes even [00:05:49] longer. When we realized that we needed [00:05:51] this associate attorney general [00:05:53] position, Pam got this person up and [00:05:55] running in about a week. We're going to [00:05:56] make the nomination hopefully in the [00:05:58] next few days. We'll obviously let you [00:05:59] guys know who that is when we do it. [00:06:01] I've talked to Senate Majority Leader [00:06:03] John Thoon, who has promised me swift [00:06:04] confirmation for this official, but this [00:06:07] is the person who is going to make sure [00:06:08] that we stop defrauding the American [00:06:11] people. Here's one final thing I'll say [00:06:13] about this. I've heard a lot of people [00:06:15] say that we need a special counsel to [00:06:17] investigate fraud in the United States [00:06:18] of America. I actually agree. And that's [00:06:21] what this position does. It has all the [00:06:23] benefits, all the resources, all the [00:06:26] authority of a special counsel, but with [00:06:28] two crucial differences. Number one, it [00:06:30] will be run out of the White House under [00:06:32] the supervision of me and the president [00:06:34] of the United States. And number two, [00:06:36] it's actually constitutionally [00:06:37] legitimate. As you guys may know, the [00:06:39] special counsel statute has some major [00:06:41] constitutional questions. When we get [00:06:42] the bad guys, we want to make sure we [00:06:44] get them permanently and they don't have [00:06:46] some legal technicality they can get out [00:06:48] of, which is why we set it up as an [00:06:50] associate attorney general. I'll take [00:06:52] some questions, but I want to make just [00:06:53] one final observation here. Uh, when I [00:06:55] was actually walking out here, um, [00:06:58] somebody sent me a photo of a CNN [00:07:01] headline about what happened in [00:07:03] Minneapolis. And this is the headline. [00:07:04] I'm just going to read it. Outrage after [00:07:07] ICE officer kills US citizen in [00:07:10] Minneapolis. Well, that's one way to put [00:07:13] it. And that is the way that many people [00:07:15] in the corporate media have put this [00:07:17] attack over the last 24 hours. And I say [00:07:19] attack very, very intentionally because [00:07:22] this was an attack on federal law [00:07:23] enforcement. This was an attack on law [00:07:25] and order. This was an attack on the [00:07:27] American people. The way that the media [00:07:30] by and large has reported this story has [00:07:32] been an absolute disgrace and it puts [00:07:35] our law enforcement officers at risk [00:07:37] every single day. What that headline [00:07:39] leaves out is the fact that that very [00:07:41] off ICE officer nearly had his life [00:07:44] ended, dragged by a car six months ago, [00:07:48] 33 stitches in his leg. So, you think [00:07:50] maybe he's a little bit sensitive about [00:07:52] somebody ramming him with an automobile? [00:07:54] What that headline leaves out is that [00:07:56] that woman was there to interfere with a [00:07:58] legitimate law enforcement operation in [00:08:00] the United States of America. What that [00:08:02] headline leaves out is that that woman [00:08:04] has is part of a broader left-wing [00:08:06] network to attack, to dox, to assault, [00:08:10] and to make it impossible for our ICE [00:08:11] officers to do their job. If the media [00:08:13] wants to tell the truth, they ought to [00:08:15] tell the truth that a group of left-wing [00:08:18] radicals have been working tirelessly, [00:08:20] sometimes using domestic terror [00:08:22] techniques to try to make it impossible [00:08:24] for the president of the United States [00:08:26] to do what the American people elected [00:08:28] him to do, which is enforce our [00:08:30] immigration laws. The president stands [00:08:32] with ICE. I stand with ICE. We stand [00:08:34] with all of our law enforcement [00:08:36] officers. And part of that is [00:08:38] recognizing that you people in the [00:08:39] media, not everybody in this room, but [00:08:42] many people in this room have been lying [00:08:44] about this attack. She was trying to ram [00:08:47] this guy with his with her car. He shot [00:08:50] back. He defended himself. He's already [00:08:53] been seriously wounded in law [00:08:55] enforcement operations before. And [00:08:56] everybody who's been repeating the lie [00:08:59] that this is some innocent woman who was [00:09:00] out for a drive in Minneapolis when a [00:09:02] law enforcement officer shot at her, you [00:09:04] should be ashamed of yourselves. Every [00:09:06] single one of you questions. [00:09:08] >> Thank you, Mr. Vice President. I wanted [00:09:09] to read a quote from Tim Walsh earlier [00:09:11] today. He said, "When things looked [00:09:13] bleak, it was Minnesota's first that [00:09:14] held the line for the nation on July [00:09:16] 3rd, 1863." And I think we may be in [00:09:19] that moment now. Can you comment on his [00:09:21] rhetoric and Mayor Jacob Fry and whether [00:09:23] they want to see unrest in Minneapolis? [00:09:25] >> Well, it's very tough rhetoric from a [00:09:27] guy who just quit because his fraudulent [00:09:29] activities have been uncovered. Look, [00:09:31] Tim Walls is a joke. His entire [00:09:32] administration has been a joke. the idea [00:09:35] that he's some sort of freedom fighter. [00:09:36] He's not. He's a guy who has enabled [00:09:38] fraud and maybe in fact has participated [00:09:40] in fraud. That's what this new assistant [00:09:42] attorney general position is going to [00:09:43] find out. I don't care what Tim Waltz [00:09:45] says. I care about getting to the bottom [00:09:46] of this fraud for the American people [00:09:48] and I care about enforcing the nation's [00:09:49] immigration laws. That's what we're [00:09:51] going to stay focused on. [00:09:53] >> A related question here. I mean, [00:09:54] Democrats have accused ICE of murder. [00:09:57] They've said they're targeting [00:09:58] Americans. Uh they've told ICE to get [00:10:00] the f out of Minnesota. this is going to [00:10:03] stoke the fire against ICE agents and [00:10:05] you're talking about ICE agents right [00:10:06] now and being concerned about them. What [00:10:08] if anything is the administration going [00:10:09] to do to make sure these folks are [00:10:11] protected during these protests, but [00:10:12] also should DHS sort of revisit their [00:10:16] procedures here? I mean, nobody wants to [00:10:18] see an American killed. Uh are there [00:10:20] changes that need to be made to make [00:10:22] sure something like this doesn't happen [00:10:24] again? [00:10:24] >> Look, first of all, of course, nobody [00:10:26] wants an American citizen to be killed. [00:10:28] This is absolutely a tragedy, but it's [00:10:30] it's a tragedy of the making of the [00:10:32] far-left. They have radicalized a very [00:10:35] small segment of the population, taught [00:10:37] them that ICE agents are engaging in w [00:10:39] in widescale violation of people's [00:10:42] rights. What our ICE officers are doing [00:10:44] is deporting the millions of criminal [00:10:46] aliens that were let in during the B [00:10:48] administration. So, number one, we have [00:10:50] to say as a matter of leadership, and I [00:10:52] would appreciate if the Democrats would [00:10:53] join me on this, let's be honest about [00:10:55] the fact that we have way too many [00:10:57] illegal aliens in this country. Our ICE [00:10:59] officers should be supported in doing [00:11:00] their job. You're trying to actually [00:11:03] marshall the far-left lunatic fringe to [00:11:06] engage in doxing to try to make it [00:11:09] impossible for them to enforce the law [00:11:11] and in some cases actually to engage in [00:11:13] acts of domestic terrorism against our [00:11:15] law enforcement officers. Uh, when you [00:11:17] talk about different plans, different [00:11:18] protocols, different policies, I I I [00:11:20] forget exactly how you asked the [00:11:21] question. Here's the simple fact. What [00:11:23] we're going to do is make it easier for [00:11:25] the American people's administration to [00:11:27] enforce the American people's law. And [00:11:29] that means that Democrats have to stop [00:11:33] rallying the mob against legitimate law [00:11:35] enforcement operations. And that means [00:11:37] that we are going to get tougher. And [00:11:39] that's what this AAG position is about. [00:11:41] We're going to get tougher at the people [00:11:43] who are defrauding the United States by [00:11:46] in inciting violence against our law [00:11:48] enforcement officers. That's one of the [00:11:50] things that we're going to do. We've [00:11:51] already started that work at the [00:11:53] Department of Justice, but we're going [00:11:54] to keep on doing it. And this new AAG [00:11:56] position is going to kick that into high [00:11:58] gear. [00:11:58] >> Sir, Vice President Vance, you just [00:12:01] suggested that this woman who was [00:12:02] killed, Bnee Good, is part of a a [00:12:05] broader left-wing network. Who do you [00:12:08] think is behind this broader left-wing [00:12:10] network? [00:12:11] >> Well, it's one of the things we're going [00:12:11] to have to figure out. But here here's [00:12:13] the way that I put it. When somebody [00:12:14] throws a brick at an ICE agent or [00:12:16] somebody tries to run over an ICE agent, [00:12:18] who paid for the brick and who told [00:12:20] protesters to show up and engage in [00:12:23] violent activity against our law [00:12:24] enforcement officers? Do you see just [00:12:26] with this most recent terrible incident [00:12:29] in Minneapolis, do you see friends of [00:12:31] this woman's or other people who are [00:12:32] eyewitnesses saying basically that she [00:12:34] was there to engage in obstruction of a [00:12:38] legitimate law enforcement operation? [00:12:40] How did she get there? How did she learn [00:12:41] about this? There's an entire network [00:12:43] and frankly some of the media are [00:12:45] participating in it that is trying to [00:12:47] incite violence against our law [00:12:49] enforcement officers. It's ridiculous. [00:12:51] It's preposterous and part of our [00:12:53] investigatory work is getting to the [00:12:54] bottom of it. who's funding it, who's [00:12:56] supporting it, who's cheerleading it, [00:12:58] and of course, if there's illegal [00:12:59] activity related to that, we're going to [00:13:02] get to the bottom of that and prosecute [00:13:03] it where we can. [00:13:05] >> Mr. Vice President, thank you for taking [00:13:06] questions today. Is there a risk with [00:13:09] you describing her as a deranged leftist [00:13:12] talking about very specific facts of [00:13:13] these events? When an investigation is [00:13:16] just beginning, are you preempting a [00:13:19] thorough investigation by drawing such [00:13:21] conclusions? And have you received any [00:13:23] information beyond the videos we've seen [00:13:26] publicly about this individual her [00:13:28] specific acts that has informed your [00:13:31] point of view? [00:13:31] >> Well, first of all, the Department of [00:13:33] Justice is going to investigate this. [00:13:35] The Department of Homeland Security is [00:13:37] already investigating this. But the [00:13:38] simple fact is what you see is what you [00:13:40] get in this case. You have a woman who [00:13:43] is trying to obstruct a legitimate law [00:13:45] enforcement operation. Nobody debates [00:13:47] that. You have a woman who aimed her car [00:13:49] at a law enforcement officer and pressed [00:13:51] on the accelerator. Nobody debates that. [00:13:53] I can believe that her death is a [00:13:55] tragedy while also recognizing that it's [00:13:57] a tragedy of her own making and a [00:13:59] tragedy of the far-left who has [00:14:01] marshaled an entire movement, a lunatic [00:14:04] fringe against our law enforcement [00:14:06] officers. Uh I I think what what is [00:14:08] clearly happening here and it's going to [00:14:09] keep on happening unless the Democrats [00:14:11] wake up and say, "You know what? You [00:14:13] don't have to agree with our immigration [00:14:14] policies. You don't have to agree with [00:14:16] what the president or the vice president [00:14:17] believe about immigration enforcement, [00:14:19] but why don't you take this to the [00:14:20] ballot box? Why don't you vote? Why [00:14:22] don't you organize? Instead, what some [00:14:25] of them are doing, what some of them are [00:14:27] doing is encouraging people to get [00:14:29] violent with our law enforcement [00:14:30] officials. It's disgraceful and it's got [00:14:33] to stop. [00:14:34] >> Just to follow up on that question and [00:14:36] again, thank you for taking questions, [00:14:37] Mr. Vice President. There's clearly a [00:14:38] lot of emotion in Minnesota, across the [00:14:41] country over this incident. You're [00:14:43] calling Renee Good a deranged leftist. [00:14:45] There's been heated rhetoric that we've [00:14:47] also heard from officials. What [00:14:48] responsibility do you and the president [00:14:51] have to diffuse some of the tension that [00:14:52] we are seeing play out in Minnesota? [00:14:54] Bring down the temperature as this [00:14:56] investigation is unfolding. [00:14:57] >> What we have a responsibility to do is [00:15:00] to protect the people who are enforcing [00:15:01] the law and protect the country at [00:15:03] large. Whether you're Democrat or [00:15:04] Republican, you deserve to have the [00:15:06] people's laws enforced in the United [00:15:08] States of America. Now again, I I don't [00:15:10] want I I'm not happy that this woman [00:15:12] lost her life. I'm not happy that this [00:15:14] woman was there at a protest violating [00:15:17] the law by interfering with a law [00:15:19] enforcement action. I think that we can [00:15:21] all recognize that the best way to turn [00:15:22] down the temperature is to tell people [00:15:24] to take their concerns about immigration [00:15:26] policy to the ballot box. Stop [00:15:29] assaulting and stop inciting violence [00:15:31] against our law enforcement officers. [00:15:33] That's the best way to take down the [00:15:34] temperature. And we're not, look, we're [00:15:36] not going to give in to terrorism on [00:15:38] this. And that's exactly what's [00:15:40] happening. People trying to antagonize, [00:15:43] to commit acts of violence. They throw [00:15:44] bricks at them. Sometimes they shoot at [00:15:46] them. Sometimes they dox them. Sometimes [00:15:48] they go to their place of residence and [00:15:50] harass their families. This is classic [00:15:52] terrorism. And we cannot say that when [00:15:55] when when a far-left fringe is inciting [00:15:58] violence against our brave law [00:16:00] enforcement officials that we're no [00:16:02] longer going to enforce the law. that's [00:16:04] rewarding the very people who are [00:16:05] engaged in this garbage. The actual [00:16:07] reward that they just got is a new [00:16:09] assistant attorney general who is going [00:16:11] to prosecute and investigate this stuff [00:16:13] even more even more aggressively than [00:16:15] before. [00:16:16] >> President, thanks for taking [00:16:19] Thanks for taking my question. Um, so [00:16:20] the head of Minnesota's investigations [00:16:22] agency says that the US attorney's [00:16:24] office has essentially cut off the state [00:16:26] investigations agency's access to the [00:16:29] investigation. What is the precedent for [00:16:31] that? And why shouldn't the Minnesota [00:16:33] officials on the ground have access and [00:16:34] evidence to work on this investigation? [00:16:37] >> First of all, I wish the state officials [00:16:38] in Minnesota would investigate why you [00:16:41] have so many people who are using their [00:16:43] vehicles and other means to actually [00:16:45] interfere with a legitimate law [00:16:46] enforcement operation. The precedent [00:16:48] here is very simple. You have a federal [00:16:50] law enforcement official engaging in [00:16:51] federal law enforcement action. That's a [00:16:53] federal issue. That guy is protected by [00:16:55] absolute immunity. He was doing his job. [00:16:58] The idea that Tim Walsh and a bunch of [00:17:00] radicals in Minneapolis are going to go [00:17:02] after and make this guy's life miserable [00:17:04] because he was doing the job that he was [00:17:06] asked to do is preposterous. The [00:17:08] unprecedented thing is the idea that a [00:17:11] local official can actually prosecute a [00:17:14] federal official with absolute immunity. [00:17:16] I've never seen anything like that. It [00:17:17] would get tossed out by a judge. So, [00:17:19] what I'd like Minnesota to focus on is [00:17:21] the real issue that they're encouraging [00:17:23] people, Minneapolis officials are [00:17:25] encouraging people to commit violence [00:17:27] against ICE officials. It's ridiculous. [00:17:29] It's got to stop. [00:17:30] >> Go ahead, [00:17:30] >> Mr. President. Thank you. You said [00:17:32] earlier that there's a left-wing network [00:17:36] to attack, to dock, to assault, and make [00:17:38] it impossible for ICE officers to do [00:17:40] their job. Uh you told my colleague just [00:17:43] now that there's an investigation going [00:17:46] on into that into that network. [00:17:48] >> Yep. So, if everything that you say is [00:17:51] true, [00:17:53] how does being part of that network [00:17:55] justify being shot? [00:17:58] >> Well, being part of a network doesn't [00:17:59] justify being shot, but ramming an ICE [00:18:02] officer with your car, that's what [00:18:03] justifies being shot. It's not a good [00:18:05] thing, by the way, but when you force [00:18:07] somebody to engage in self-defense, it's [00:18:09] almost a preposterous question. I'm not [00:18:12] saying that funding some of this stuff [00:18:14] justifies capital punishment. Nobody [00:18:17] would suggest that the reason this woman [00:18:19] is dead is because she tried to ram [00:18:21] somebody with her car and that guy acted [00:18:23] in self-defense. That is why she lost [00:18:26] her life and that is the tragedy. Now, [00:18:28] there may be other violations of the law [00:18:31] and other penalties that that that are [00:18:34] associated with those violations of the [00:18:35] law. For example, if you are funding [00:18:38] violence against our law enforcement [00:18:40] officers, I I'm I'm not a prosecutor. My [00:18:42] guess is that's not the sort of thing [00:18:43] that earns capital punishment, but it [00:18:45] should sure as hell earn you a few years [00:18:46] in prison if you're funding the effort [00:18:49] to try to assault our law enforcement [00:18:51] officers. What What is I'm sorry, guys. [00:18:53] What's going on here? You guys are meant [00:18:56] to report the truth? How have you let [00:18:59] yourself become agents of propaganda of [00:19:02] a radical fringe that's making it harder [00:19:04] for us to enforce our laws? You just [00:19:06] asked me a question that presumed that [00:19:08] the reason why this woman died is [00:19:10] because she was engaged in legitimate [00:19:12] protest. She tried to run somebody over [00:19:14] with her car and the guy defended [00:19:15] himself when that happened. Next [00:19:17] question. [00:19:18] >> The investigation is still ongoing. [00:19:19] >> I said next question. Mr. [00:19:20] >> Vice President, Mr. Vice President, I [00:19:22] mean, you presumably watched the video [00:19:24] yourself. There's not the slightest [00:19:25] doubt in your mind having viewed it that [00:19:29] uh this the victim you still believe [00:19:32] that she deliberately tried to ram him [00:19:34] despite despite seeing this video. [00:19:36] >> Look, I don't know what is in a person's [00:19:38] heart or in a person's head. And [00:19:39] obviously, we're not going to get the [00:19:40] the chance to ask this woman what was [00:19:42] going on. What I am certain of is that [00:19:44] she violated the law. What I am certain [00:19:46] of is that that officer had every reason [00:19:47] to think that he was under very serious [00:19:50] threat for injury or in fact his life. [00:19:53] Uh, what I'm certain of is that she [00:19:55] accelerated in a way where she ran into [00:19:58] the guy. I don't know what was in her [00:20:01] heart and what was in her head, but I [00:20:02] know that she violated the law and I [00:20:04] know that officer was acting in [00:20:05] self-defense. That that's it raised an [00:20:06] interesting point, though. Look, if [00:20:08] people want to say that we should have a [00:20:10] legitimate debate about, you know, what [00:20:12] what was she really doing, right? Was [00:20:13] she panicking when she drove into this [00:20:16] officer or was she actually trying to [00:20:17] ram him? That's a that's a reasonable [00:20:19] conversation. What's not reasonable is [00:20:22] for so many of you to plaster all over [00:20:24] the media that this was an innocent [00:20:26] woman and that the ICE agent committed [00:20:28] murder, which is what many of you have [00:20:29] said explicitly and some of you have [00:20:31] said implicitly. That's what I have an [00:20:34] objection to. The idea that this was not [00:20:36] justified is absurd and I think [00:20:38] everybody knows it in their heart. [00:20:40] >> Yeah, Mr. Vice President [00:20:43] taking down the temperature. It seems [00:20:45] like political violence is ratcheting up [00:20:47] and riots could be around the corner. [00:20:48] What steps does the administration have [00:20:50] planned to try to unite America? Average [00:20:52] people on both political sides are so [00:20:54] tired of fighting with with each other [00:20:55] and I think all the journalists in this [00:20:57] room could agree with me that we don't [00:20:59] want to be part of the problem. Um do [00:21:01] you have any do you have any words to [00:21:03] unite America? [00:21:04] >> You know I I know you don't want to be a [00:21:05] part of the problem and I think that's [00:21:06] true of a lot of you. I'm not sure it's [00:21:08] true for everybody because the reporting [00:21:09] over this has been one of the biggest [00:21:11] scandals I've ever seen in media. I've [00:21:13] never seen a case so misrepresented and [00:21:16] misreported when you have a guy who was [00:21:18] defending himself and is now being [00:21:19] treated by as some sort of federal [00:21:21] assassin by so many of the people in [00:21:23] this room. What what I first of all, let [00:21:25] me say about about crime. You mentioned [00:21:27] violence. One of the things we're [00:21:29] proudest about is that you saw violent [00:21:30] crime over the last year drop by 20%. [00:21:33] Why is that dropped by 20%. Is it [00:21:35] because we're attacking our law [00:21:37] enforcement officers? Or is it because [00:21:39] we in the administration are empowering [00:21:41] our law enforcement officers to enforce [00:21:42] the law? I think that's one of the ways [00:21:44] you take down the temperature is you [00:21:45] make people feel more secure and safe in [00:21:48] their person and property. That's why we [00:21:49] care so much about protecting our law [00:21:51] enforcement because it it acrrues to the [00:21:53] benefit of the entire national [00:21:55] community. I think that we can [00:21:56] absolutely talk about the ways in which, [00:21:59] you know, we we we can we can try to we [00:22:02] can lower the temperature by discussing [00:22:04] differences in a reasonable and rational [00:22:06] way. Again, I'm happy to talk with any [00:22:09] congressional Democrat or any of you [00:22:11] about our immigration policy, about why [00:22:13] I think it's necessary, about why I [00:22:14] think it's in the best interest of the [00:22:15] country, about why the president of the [00:22:16] United States was elected to actually [00:22:19] enforce the border for the first time in [00:22:21] at least four years. So, here's the [00:22:23] problem. That's not the debate so many [00:22:25] people are having. They are actively [00:22:28] covering for people who are committing [00:22:30] acts of violence against federal law [00:22:32] enforcement. It is preposterous. The way [00:22:34] to take down the temperature is to stop [00:22:36] it. Have your debates about policy. [00:22:38] Attack me. Attack the president of the [00:22:39] United States. Don't attack our law [00:22:41] enforcement officers. They are trying to [00:22:43] do the job the American people demanded [00:22:45] that they do. They that they are not [00:22:48] policy actors. They are enforcing the [00:22:51] law. They should be treated with a [00:22:52] modicum of dignity and respect. And the [00:22:55] fact that they're not is why incidents [00:22:57] like yesterday happen. The one final [00:22:59] point I'll make about this is look, [00:23:01] there there's a part of me that feels [00:23:03] very very sad for this woman, not just [00:23:05] because she lost her life, but because I [00:23:07] think she is a victim of left-wing [00:23:09] ideology. What young mother shows up and [00:23:12] decides they're going to throw their car [00:23:14] in front of ICE officers who are [00:23:16] enforcing legitimate law? You've got to [00:23:18] be a little brainwashed to get to that [00:23:20] point to where you're willing not not [00:23:22] just to protest. That's fine. Not [00:23:24] peacefully protest, but throw your [00:23:26] vehicle in front of legitimate law [00:23:29] enforcement officers and drive your car [00:23:31] into them. To get to that point, you [00:23:33] have to be, I think, radicalized in a [00:23:36] very, very sad way. I certainly wish [00:23:38] that she hadn't got there. I know [00:23:39] there's an ICE officer right now who [00:23:41] very much wishes he was not put in the [00:23:43] position where he had to fire a gun to [00:23:45] defend his own life. [00:23:46] >> Yeah. [00:23:47] >> Thank you, Mr. Vice President, what's [00:23:49] your message following up on that? [00:23:50] What's your message to the leaders in [00:23:53] Minnesota, the governor of Minnesota, [00:23:55] the mayor of Minneapolis to calm down [00:23:58] the situation on the ground, on the [00:24:00] streets? What's your message also to [00:24:02] those protesters who saw that video in a [00:24:06] completely different way than you saw [00:24:07] that video? Well, first of all, I I [00:24:09] think if you watch every angle of that [00:24:11] video, um there is one angle where if [00:24:15] you squint, you can maybe tell yourself [00:24:17] that it's not clear what happened. But [00:24:19] when you look at all angles of that [00:24:20] video, it is very clear that her vehicle [00:24:23] went right for the guy. She actually [00:24:24] collided with him and then that's of [00:24:27] course when he fired his shots. That's [00:24:29] obvious. Okay. So, what I'd say to the [00:24:31] protesters is by all means protest [00:24:33] peacefully, but make this about ideas. [00:24:35] Make this about disagreement with our [00:24:37] policy. Don't use your protest as a [00:24:40] justification or an encouragement for [00:24:43] people to go and and incite violence and [00:24:45] participate in violence against our law [00:24:47] enforcement officials. To the people on [00:24:49] the ground in Minneapolis, meaning the [00:24:50] the local officials in Minneapolis from [00:24:52] Tim Wallace all down, I I'd say, look, [00:24:55] why can't you just disagree with a given [00:24:58] piece of immigration policy without [00:25:00] turning law enforcement into the enemy? [00:25:03] And what I mean, think about, for [00:25:05] example, a criminal law where a police [00:25:08] officer goes and arrests somebody [00:25:10] because they violated a criminal law. If [00:25:12] you're mad about that, go and protest [00:25:14] the politician who passed that law. [00:25:16] Don't attack the police officer who's [00:25:18] just doing their job. We had a wide open [00:25:20] border under Joe Biden. I happen to [00:25:22] think it's a good thing the president of [00:25:23] United States has closed it down. If you [00:25:25] think that's a bad idea, criticize this [00:25:27] administration for a policy decision. [00:25:29] Don't attack our people for enforcing [00:25:32] the law because I guarantee you go to [00:25:34] ICE, there are black people and white [00:25:36] people. There are Democrats and [00:25:37] Republicans. They are patriotic [00:25:39] Americans who are trying to enforce the [00:25:41] law. Attack me. Lay off of our ICE [00:25:43] agents. [00:25:45] >> Yeah. In the blue all the way. Yeah. [00:25:47] >> Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Um, [00:25:48] you called on Tim Walls to resign. Can [00:25:50] you lay out the case as to why he should [00:25:52] step down? Well, I look, I think Tim [00:25:54] Wall should resign because it's very [00:25:56] clear either that he knew about the [00:25:58] fraud in Minneapolis, he knew about the [00:25:59] welfare fraud, or at the very least, he [00:26:01] looked the other way. I mean, this is [00:26:03] not [00:26:05] this is not like Lex Luthther, right? [00:26:07] This is not movie villain fraud. This is [00:26:10] the lowest IQ possible fraud. This is [00:26:14] we're going to take kids or sorry, we're [00:26:16] going to take the absence of kids and [00:26:18] set up a daycare center where there are [00:26:20] no children and we're going to call our [00:26:22] early childhood education center the [00:26:24] quality learing center. By the way, if [00:26:27] you can't spell learning, maybe you [00:26:30] shouldn't be in early childhood [00:26:32] education. But people got rich off of [00:26:34] this. We know that there were schools [00:26:36] who either had no enrollment or at least [00:26:38] they overstated their enrollment. Tim [00:26:40] Waltz either it was unbelievable [00:26:43] incompetence or he was in on the fraud. [00:26:45] That's one of the things we're gonna get [00:26:46] to the bottom of. [00:26:47] >> Sir, thank you. Mr. Vice President, [00:26:50] >> can you explain the difference between [00:26:52] this associate attorney general and a [00:26:54] special counsel and do you envision this [00:26:56] being a permanent position or having [00:26:58] more of a limited scope? [00:26:59] >> Well, it's going to be permanent until [00:27:01] we get to the bottom of what's going on. [00:27:02] So, I think it's going to last for at [00:27:03] least the remainder of the [00:27:05] administration. What's different about [00:27:06] it from a special counsel is if you [00:27:08] remember uh the Jack Smith case where [00:27:10] the special counsel was found [00:27:12] unconstitutional. One of the big issues [00:27:14] there is that that person was not an [00:27:16] appointed person uh completely aside [00:27:19] from all the other issues that the [00:27:20] person was a lunatic and that the case [00:27:22] had no merit. There was a fundamental [00:27:23] constitutional issue which is that he [00:27:26] had not been appointed by the president [00:27:28] and he had not been confirmed by the [00:27:30] United States Senate. An assistant or [00:27:32] excuse me an assistant attorney general. [00:27:34] What that's going to allow us to do is [00:27:36] appoint this person, have them confirmed [00:27:38] by the Senate. That's one difference. [00:27:39] The more substantive difference is that [00:27:41] this person is going to be part of a [00:27:43] very broad inter agency White House [00:27:45] that's being led from the president of [00:27:46] the United States on down. And that's [00:27:48] going to give him the resources, the [00:27:50] access to material and information to [00:27:52] make this person more effective. I think [00:27:54] a lot of people have asked, how are you [00:27:56] really going to get to the heart of the [00:27:58] fraud? We've been asking oursel that [00:27:59] question for the past couple of months [00:28:01] and we think this is the critical piece [00:28:03] at the Department of Justice to to [00:28:05] really ramp this fraud investigation [00:28:07] into high gear [00:28:10] >> in the red tie. Yeah. [00:28:11] >> Vice President Vance, I want to ask [00:28:12] what's your message to far-left [00:28:14] agitators who feel emboldened to [00:28:16] obstruct to ICE activity in Minnesota [00:28:18] and around the country. Well, I think [00:28:20] they shouldn't feel emboldened because [00:28:21] now they have an assistant attorney [00:28:22] general who is going to prosecute and [00:28:24] investigate their fraud and their [00:28:26] violence more aggressively than it has [00:28:28] ever been investigated in the United [00:28:29] States of America. We are doing so much [00:28:32] to try to find the financing networks [00:28:35] and the domestic terrorism networks that [00:28:37] legitimate this violence that fund this [00:28:39] violence and that of course engage in [00:28:40] the violence. These people should not [00:28:42] feel emboldened because they have for [00:28:43] the first time maybe in American history [00:28:46] an administration that is not going to [00:28:47] tolerate political violence of any kind [00:28:50] from anywhere. [00:28:52] >> Yeah. [00:28:53] >> Clear today that the entire weight of [00:28:55] the federal government is behind these [00:28:56] ICE agents and this ICE agent in [00:28:58] particular. There is still a federal [00:29:00] investigation happening on the ground. [00:29:02] Does that mean that they are not looking [00:29:03] into this ICE agent at all? They are [00:29:06] just focused on the woman who was in the [00:29:08] car. What what is the investigation if [00:29:10] the federal government has already [00:29:11] determined that its weight is behind [00:29:12] this ICE investigation? [00:29:13] >> So So what do you mean when you say [00:29:15] investigation? Do you mean investigation [00:29:17] of the shooting yesterday or of the [00:29:18] fraud that's happening in Minneapolis? [00:29:20] Yesterday. [00:29:20] >> Okay. Look, DHS, as I understand it, has [00:29:22] an investigation already ongoing. I know [00:29:24] that other organs of our government are [00:29:26] looking at this. So yes, there is [00:29:27] certainly an investigation that's [00:29:29] happening right now. Uh but but as part [00:29:31] of the broader fraud investigation, a [00:29:33] lot of what we're doing with the [00:29:34] Department of Justice has already [00:29:36] started. We've got over 1500 subpoenas. [00:29:38] We've got people this morning actually. [00:29:40] We're going doortodoor to actually knock [00:29:42] on some of these fraudulent care [00:29:43] centers, these fraudulent social [00:29:45] services organizations to get to the [00:29:47] bottom of what's going on there. So, the [00:29:49] investigation in some ways has already [00:29:50] been ramping up into the anti-fraud [00:29:52] element for at least a few weeks. What [00:29:55] we're trying to do is supercharge it and [00:29:56] make sure there's a designated person [00:29:58] within the Department of Justice who [00:30:00] completely controls that particular [00:30:02] focus. [00:30:04] >> Just to follow up on that, Mr. vice [00:30:05] president uh on the agent. Is he still [00:30:08] on duty or has he been placed on leave [00:30:11] uh on administrative leave? And what [00:30:12] really was the target of the operation [00:30:14] on Wednesday of the of the ICE operation [00:30:17] on Wednesday? [00:30:17] >> Well, first of all, it was a legitimate [00:30:18] law enforcement operation. We were going [00:30:20] door to door to try to find criminal [00:30:21] illegal aliens and deport them from the [00:30:23] United States of America. Because if you [00:30:24] come to our country illegally in [00:30:26] violation of our immigration laws, then [00:30:28] we have the mandate and in fact, we have [00:30:30] the legal duty to enforce those [00:30:32] immigration laws. Whether he's been [00:30:34] placed on administrative leave, I don't [00:30:35] know the answer to that question. I'd [00:30:36] refer it to the Department of Homeland [00:30:38] Security and they can follow up. I will [00:30:40] say, look, I I would appreciate [00:30:41] everybody saying a prayer for that that [00:30:43] agent. Look, in the past 6 months, he [00:30:45] has been hit twice by a motor vehicle. [00:30:47] One time, the first time it led to over [00:30:50] 30 stitches and very serious injuries to [00:30:52] his legs. This is a guy who's actually [00:30:54] done a very, very important job for the [00:30:56] United States of America. He's been [00:30:58] assaulted. He's been attacked. He's been [00:31:00] injured because of it. He deserves a [00:31:02] debt of gratitude. And I think the media [00:31:04] prejudging and talking about this guy as [00:31:06] if he's a murderer is one of the most [00:31:08] disgraceful things I've ever seen from [00:31:09] the American media. [00:31:11] >> Vice President, what is your specific [00:31:12] role in the future of Venezuela? And I'm [00:31:16] wondering, could you confirm reports [00:31:18] that the director of national [00:31:19] intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was kept [00:31:21] out of the planning for the operations [00:31:23] because of her past concerns about [00:31:25] military involvement in Venezuela? [00:31:26] >> So, I've heard a couple of things. One, [00:31:28] that I was kept out of the planning for [00:31:30] the Venezuela operation. and that's [00:31:31] false. And another that Tulsi was kept [00:31:33] out of the Planning for Venezuela [00:31:34] operations. That's completely false. [00:31:36] Look, we're all part of the same team. [00:31:38] And one of the things that is really [00:31:39] amazing about that operation is that uh [00:31:42] we kept it very tight to the senior [00:31:44] cabinet level officials and related [00:31:45] officials in our government and we kept [00:31:48] this operation secret for a very long [00:31:49] time. I'm very proud of that. I think it [00:31:51] suggests I think it suggests that the [00:31:52] team works very well together. Looking [00:31:54] ahead, what is my role? Look, my role is [00:31:56] going to be whatever the president asks [00:31:57] me to do. Um, [00:32:00] >> well, every single or I should say every [00:32:02] other day, I'm chairing the meeting that [00:32:04] we do on this among White House [00:32:05] principles to talk about next steps to [00:32:07] try to ensure that Venezuela is stable [00:32:09] and as the president has directed us to [00:32:10] do to ensure that the new Venezuelan [00:32:12] government actually listens to the [00:32:14] United States and does what the United [00:32:16] States needs it to do under our [00:32:19] country's best interest. So, I'm going [00:32:20] to be as involved as the president wants [00:32:22] me to be. So far that's been very [00:32:23] involved and I'll keep on doing that so [00:32:25] long as the president asks me to do it. [00:32:29] >> Even even the powers, [00:32:32] >> we'll go purple and then we'll go for [00:32:34] whatever that is in front. [00:32:34] >> Royal purple [00:32:35] >> and then beige. [00:32:36] >> All right. [00:32:36] >> Okay. [00:32:36] >> Uh are there any indications? You talked [00:32:38] about the network. Are there any [00:32:39] indications that the uh the lady who was [00:32:41] shot I know there are different reports [00:32:43] from there. Her her wife said they were [00:32:45] new to the area. Um, are there any [00:32:47] indications she may have been a paid [00:32:49] agitator and maybe that there are others [00:32:50] that were brought to the area? Um, [00:32:52] considering everything that's going on [00:32:54] in Minneapolis, [00:32:55] >> I wouldn't say that she was paid. I [00:32:56] don't have the evidence to say that one [00:32:57] way or the other. What I do know is that [00:32:59] she was violating the law. And if you [00:33:00] just look at the eyewitness accounts, [00:33:02] they were saying she was there to [00:33:04] prevent the enforcement of the law. She [00:33:06] was trying to obstruct a legitimate law [00:33:07] enforcement operation. That much is [00:33:09] obviously clear. The rest of it, of [00:33:11] course, is part of the reason why we [00:33:12] investigate this stuff. [00:33:13] >> Yeah. [00:33:14] >> Mr. Vice President, even beyond war the [00:33:16] war powers resolution today, Congress [00:33:19] has bucked President Trump on issues [00:33:21] like tariffs, are you concerned that [00:33:23] President Trump is losing his grip on [00:33:26] Republicans in the Congress? And what [00:33:28] are you going to do about it? [00:33:29] >> No, I'm not concerned at all. First of [00:33:30] all, you know, we talked to some of the [00:33:31] senators who are going to vote the wrong [00:33:32] way in my view on this resolution today. [00:33:35] Much of their argument was based more on [00:33:36] a legal techn technicality than any [00:33:38] disagreement in policy. If you look at [00:33:40] the people who actually voted, every [00:33:42] single one of them have supported the [00:33:43] administration's plan. Second of all, as [00:33:45] the president, I believe, himself has [00:33:46] already said, every president, Democrat [00:33:49] or Republican, believes the War Powers [00:33:51] Act is fundamentally a fake and [00:33:53] unconstitutional law. It's not going to [00:33:54] change anything about how we conduct [00:33:56] foreign policy over the next couple of [00:33:58] weeks, the next couple of months. Uh, [00:34:00] and that that will continue to be how we [00:34:01] approach things. Go ahead. [00:34:02] >> Thank you so much, Mr. President. So, we [00:34:04] are seeing regarding Iran, we are seeing [00:34:06] the protest in Iran these days. The [00:34:07] cities are are begging for help from the [00:34:09] US and Israel, naming streets in the [00:34:12] city after President Trump. It seems [00:34:14] there is an opportunity here that may [00:34:16] not come again. Will the United States [00:34:17] stands by the citizens of Iran? And if [00:34:20] Israel decides to strike again the [00:34:21] nuclear sites in Iran, is the US [00:34:23] expected to take part? [00:34:25] >> Well, look, we we certainly stand by [00:34:26] anybody who's engaged in peaceful [00:34:28] protest, anybody who's trying to exert [00:34:30] their rights for free association and to [00:34:32] have their voices heard? Obviously, the [00:34:33] Iranian regime has a lot of problems. [00:34:35] And as the president of the United [00:34:36] States has said, the smartest thing for [00:34:38] them to have done, it was true two [00:34:39] months ago, it's true today, is for them [00:34:42] to actually have a real negotiation with [00:34:45] the United States about what we need to [00:34:47] see when it comes to their nuclear [00:34:48] program. I'll let the president speak to [00:34:50] what we're going to do in the future, [00:34:51] but we certainly stand with anybody [00:34:53] across the world, including the Iranian [00:34:54] people who are advocating for their [00:34:56] rights. I'll take just a couple of more [00:34:57] questions. Mr. [00:34:58] >> Vice President, [00:34:59] >> thank you very much, Mr. President. Vice [00:35:01] President uh concerning Venezuela, how [00:35:04] would you assure the Caribbean region [00:35:07] that they will remain a zone of peace [00:35:09] because some member states in the region [00:35:11] are concerned? [00:35:12] >> Well, look, the president had a a very [00:35:14] productive phone call with the president [00:35:16] of Colombia yesterday and we continued [00:35:18] to talk at all levels of government with [00:35:19] a number of our friends in the Caribbean [00:35:21] region. I actually think this is really [00:35:23] good for peace in the Caribbean because [00:35:24] when you take away a major source of [00:35:27] illegal cartel revenue, which is the [00:35:29] cocaine trade, the fentanyl trade, other [00:35:31] sources of illicit revenue, you actually [00:35:34] remove the power of one of the main [00:35:36] destabilizing forces in Latin America [00:35:38] and in the Caribbean. I really do think, [00:35:40] look, we we say it all the time, this is [00:35:42] the president of peace. One of the ways [00:35:44] that you establish peace in your own [00:35:46] hemisphere is to make it clear that the [00:35:48] United States is going to be respected, [00:35:49] that the United States is willing to [00:35:51] take power away from criminal cartel [00:35:53] organizations and give it to legitimate [00:35:55] governments. That's how we see the [00:35:57] future of the Western Hemisphere and we [00:35:59] think it's going to be much more [00:36:00] peaceful than it was certainly under Joe [00:36:02] Biden. I'll take one more question. Go [00:36:03] ahead. [00:36:04] >> Mr. Thank you. On Greenland, do you have [00:36:07] a message for European leaders? Many in [00:36:10] Europe reject the idea that the island [00:36:12] could be forsane. [00:36:14] >> Well, first of all, Secretary Rubio, I [00:36:16] believe, is meeting with the leaders of [00:36:18] Denmark and Greenland next week. I want [00:36:20] to say it is, but maybe it's the week [00:36:21] after that. Uh, we we'll continue to [00:36:23] deliver some of these messages in [00:36:25] private, some of them in public. But I I [00:36:26] guess my advice to European leaders and [00:36:28] anybody else would be to take the [00:36:30] president of the United States [00:36:31] seriously. What has he said about [00:36:33] Greenland? set set to the side the crazy [00:36:36] overreactions that I've seen from the [00:36:38] press and from certain people in Europe. [00:36:40] What has the president said? Number one, [00:36:41] Greenland is really important not just [00:36:43] to America's missile defense, but to the [00:36:45] world's missile defense. Number two, we [00:36:48] know that there are hostile adversaries [00:36:49] that have shown a lot of interest in [00:36:51] that particular territory, that [00:36:53] particular slice of the world. So, what [00:36:54] we're asking our European friends to do [00:36:57] is to take the security of that land [00:36:59] mass more seriously because if they're [00:37:01] not, the United States is going to have [00:37:02] to do something about it. what that is. [00:37:04] I'll leave that to the president as we [00:37:06] continue to engage in diplomacy with our [00:37:07] European friends and everybody on this [00:37:09] particular topic. And again, thank you [00:37:11] all for for listening. Thanks for taking [00:37:12] questions. And I just ask you, look, [00:37:15] this is politics and often Republicans [00:37:17] and, you know, get get in get in [00:37:19] arguments with the press about things [00:37:20] and I understand that. I think it's [00:37:23] really irresponsible for you guys to go [00:37:25] out there and imply or tell the American [00:37:28] people that a guy who defended himself [00:37:31] from being rammed by an automobile is [00:37:33] guilty of murder. Be a little bit more [00:37:35] careful. We're going to talk about [00:37:36] toning down the temperature, which I [00:37:38] know the president wants to do, and I [00:37:39] certainly want to do. One of the ways we [00:37:41] tone down the temperature is to have a [00:37:43] media that tells the truth. I encourage [00:37:45] you all to do that. God bless you. [00:37:50] >> Happy New Year, guys.