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[00:00:20] Thank you very much. Thank you. Please
[00:00:29] Oh, it's a great honor to have all my
[00:00:31] friends here. It's It's like old home
[00:00:34] week. What a job you're doing. And thank
[00:00:37] you very much for that. We want to uh
[00:00:41] begin by thanking the people that have
[00:00:44] done such a great job at the White
[00:00:45] House. They have been doing really
[00:00:48] incredible work during a shutdown. Uh I
[00:00:51] don't even know if they're supposed to
[00:00:53] be working, but they wouldn't miss a
[00:00:54] day. So, I just want to thank everybody
[00:00:56] for that very much. And we're here today
[00:00:58] to discuss a sweeping, unprecedented,
[00:01:01] and historically successful operation
[00:01:03] that my administration has carried out
[00:01:05] in recent weeks to arrest, prosecute,
[00:01:08] and permanently remove members of
[00:01:10] foreign drug cartels from American soil.
[00:01:13] And the people gathered around this
[00:01:15] table are the ones that are doing it.
[00:01:17] And in this room, some of them sitting a
[00:01:19] little behind. In fact, some of them,
[00:01:20] I'm surprised, are not actually at the
[00:01:22] table. Well, you people should be very
[00:01:24] insulted by that, but you've done a
[00:01:27] great job back there. On my first day in
[00:01:29] office earlier this year, I signed an
[00:01:31] executive order to officially designate
[00:01:33] the drug cartels and savage
[00:01:36] transnational gangs as foreign terrorist
[00:01:39] organizations. It was my honor to do so.
[00:01:42] And on that same day, I also signed an
[00:01:44] order directing the creation of the
[00:01:45] Homeland Security Task Force to bring
[00:01:48] together all federal, state, and local
[00:01:50] partners to achieve the national policy
[00:01:53] goal of eliminating the cartel presence
[00:01:55] in America once and for all. And the
[00:01:59] results are and it's early and the
[00:02:02] results are spectacular.
[00:02:04] led by ICE and the FBI. This task force
[00:02:07] includes the Department of Justice, the
[00:02:09] Department of War, DHS, the intelligence
[00:02:12] community, ATF, the DEA, the US
[00:02:15] Marshalss, and the state and local
[00:02:17] agencies in every part of our country.
[00:02:19] Other than that, we don't include too
[00:02:21] many people. That's a hell of a group,
[00:02:23] isn't it? Huh? When you think of it,
[00:02:25] that's not a group you want against you.
[00:02:28] Certainly not at one time. In addition
[00:02:30] to the task force members, we're pleased
[00:02:32] to be joined by representatives of law
[00:02:34] enforcement at every level. The highest
[00:02:37] level actually, but every level,
[00:02:39] including national president of the
[00:02:41] Fraternal Order of Police, Patrick Yo,
[00:02:43] where's Patrick? Patrick, thank you,
[00:02:46] Patrick. Thank you for the endorsement,
[00:02:47] too. That really hit it off. I would
[00:02:51] have gotten 98% anyway, but it was still
[00:02:54] good to have your endorse. Thank you,
[00:02:55] Patrick. I don't forget those things.
[00:02:58] President of the National Sheriff's
[00:03:00] Association, Chris West. Chris, thank
[00:03:03] you, Chris, very much. Great. Good job.
[00:03:07] Major City's Chief Association Executive
[00:03:10] Director Laura Cooper. Laura, thank you,
[00:03:13] Laura, very much. Major County Sheriffs
[00:03:17] of America, executive director, Megan
[00:03:20] Noland. Megan, thank you. Thank you very
[00:03:23] much. and president of the National
[00:03:26] Border Patrol Council, my friend, and a
[00:03:28] very good speaker, by the way. Whenever
[00:03:29] he gets up and speaks, I say, "That guy
[00:03:31] can really speak." I don't know. I don't
[00:03:33] want him to run for office. I want him
[00:03:35] to stay where he is. Paul Perez. Paul,
[00:03:38] thank you. Paul, where is Paul? Hi,
[00:03:40] Paul. What are you doing over there,
[00:03:42] Paul? Good job. Good speaker you are,
[00:03:45] though, Paul. I mean, too, you've made
[00:03:47] some incredible speeches. Some and all
[00:03:50] from the heart, too, right? Some great
[00:03:52] ones. Today you'll hear details from my
[00:03:55] national security and homeland security
[00:03:57] teams about the extraordinary historic
[00:03:59] achievements of this new homeland
[00:04:02] security task force since it became
[00:04:03] fully operational last month in all 50
[00:04:06] states. The job they're doing what we
[00:04:09] inherited from this past administration
[00:04:11] is like disgraceful. In a matter of
[00:04:14] weeks, the task force has made the
[00:04:16] largest number of arrests of cartel
[00:04:18] leaders, operatives, and gang members in
[00:04:20] American history. more than 3,000 in
[00:04:23] counting. That includes members of the
[00:04:25] ultraviolent new generation cartel, the
[00:04:29] Sinaloa cartel, the LNFM cartel, MS-13
[00:04:35] cartel, and you know MS-13, the gang,
[00:04:38] and Tren dear, another beauty. That's
[00:04:40] group of real, real garbage we have to
[00:04:43] deal with that we shouldn't have to deal
[00:04:45] with. These are in addition to the
[00:04:48] massive numbers of dangerous criminals
[00:04:50] my administration arrested nationwide
[00:04:52] since January 20th, numbering over
[00:04:56] 120,000. It's a record. And 120,000
[00:05:00] criminal arrests. Thank you very much.
[00:05:02] Unfortunately, for four long years
[00:05:05] before I took office, the last
[00:05:07] administration allowed the cartels and
[00:05:09] their operatives to frankly take over
[00:05:11] our country to freely infiltrate America
[00:05:15] and all the communities nationwide along
[00:05:17] with transnational gangs. These groups
[00:05:20] have unleashed more bloodshed and
[00:05:22] killing on American soil than all other
[00:05:24] terrorist groups combined. These are the
[00:05:26] worst of the worst. It should now be
[00:05:29] clear to the entire world that the
[00:05:31] cartels are the ISIS of the Western
[00:05:33] Hemisphere in addition to their
[00:05:36] monstrous violence such as cutting off
[00:05:39] heads, burning their enemies alive, and
[00:05:42] burning innocent people alive, too. By
[00:05:44] the way, the cartels control large swats
[00:05:47] of territory. They maintain vast
[00:05:49] arsenals of weapons and soldiers. and
[00:05:52] they use extortion, murder, kidnapping
[00:05:54] to exercise political and economic
[00:05:57] control. Thank you very much, Joe Biden,
[00:05:59] for allowing that to happen. Biden
[00:06:02] surrendered the
[00:06:05] I mean, he just surrendered our country
[00:06:06] to the cartels. And don't worry, we're
[00:06:09] taking it gets better. We're taking it
[00:06:10] back. It's uh really fast at at levels
[00:06:14] that nobody's ever seen before. But what
[00:06:17] we had to put up with, what we inherited
[00:06:20] was just a disgrace. And while Biden was
[00:06:23] president, if he was president, I think
[00:06:25] the autopen was president, not Biden,
[00:06:27] nearly 100% of those who infiltrated our
[00:06:30] southern border did so because they were
[00:06:32] personally approved. They admitted they
[00:06:34] were they were just what happened
[00:06:37] assisted by the most dangerous and
[00:06:40] violent criminal organizations anywhere
[00:06:42] on the planet. the worst people on the
[00:06:44] planet they allowed into our beautiful
[00:06:47] country. Under the Trump administration,
[00:06:50] we're finally treating the cartels as
[00:06:52] the core national security threat that
[00:06:55] they really are. The cartels are waging
[00:06:57] war on America. And just as I promised
[00:07:00] in the campaign, we're waging war on
[00:07:02] them like they've never seen before. All
[00:07:04] you have to do is turn on your
[00:07:05] television and you'll see what's
[00:07:06] happening to them. Past administrations
[00:07:09] have tried to mitigate this threat and
[00:07:11] our objective is to eliminate it. We're
[00:07:14] not mitigating, we're eliminating, we're
[00:07:16] getting them out. The bad ones we're
[00:07:18] putting in prison. We hate to do that
[00:07:20] because that means we're stuck with them
[00:07:21] for 50 years or more. In recent weeks,
[00:07:24] our Homeland Security Task Force has
[00:07:26] seized more than 70 tons of deadly
[00:07:28] narcotics along with more than 1,000
[00:07:31] illegal guns. And that's just recently.
[00:07:33] This is already the most successful
[00:07:36] anti-cartel and anti-gang operation in
[00:07:39] American history and it's just getting
[00:07:41] started. We have incredible people. A
[00:07:44] lot of them are in this room with us
[00:07:45] today and it's an honor to have them.
[00:07:48] But we're going to not stop until the
[00:07:50] threat has been fully and completely
[00:07:52] eradicated. I want to thank task force
[00:07:55] members with us today, including a
[00:07:58] person who's doing a fantastic job,
[00:08:00] Attorney General Pam Bondi. Thank you,
[00:08:02] Pam. Thank you. Secretary of War Pete
[00:08:05] Hex sounds so much better than Secretary
[00:08:08] of Defense. I don't know. Do you guys
[00:08:10] agree with that? I don't know. It
[00:08:11] sounds, you know, we won the First World
[00:08:13] War, the Second World War. I always say
[00:08:16] everything before and everything in
[00:08:18] between and then we got woke and we
[00:08:20] said, "Well, let's call it defense. I
[00:08:22] don't think I think we like it this way
[00:08:24] better." You know, it's funny. That's uh
[00:08:26] that's something I thought it would be
[00:08:28] maybe controversial and it's only
[00:08:30] controversial that we changed the name
[00:08:32] in the first place. It's not
[00:08:33] controversial at all. It's been
[00:08:35] unbelievably well accepted. Uh Pete,
[00:08:39] >> hasn't it? Right. It's been pretty
[00:08:40] amazing. I thought it would be
[00:08:42] controversial. People want to have our
[00:08:44] country back. People want to do exactly
[00:08:47] what we're doing right now. We're
[00:08:48] getting a lot of credit for it and we
[00:08:50] should. I want to thank though Pete.
[00:08:52] You're doing a great job. Pete Hex,
[00:08:55] Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy
[00:08:57] Gnome. Christy, thank you very much.
[00:08:59] Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi
[00:09:02] Gabbard. Tulsi, good job. And the heads
[00:09:06] of all of the law enforcement agencies
[00:09:09] all throughout the room. You're really
[00:09:10] amazing the job you've done. to provide
[00:09:13] additional details on our mission. I
[00:09:15] would like also to ask uh General Bondi
[00:09:18] to say a few words, followed by
[00:09:20] Secretary Gnome, Secretary Hegath,
[00:09:23] Director Gabbard, Homeland Security
[00:09:25] Advisor, Steven Miller. Stephen, you're
[00:09:29] such a superstar, Stephen.
[00:09:32] They called Stephen the other day a very
[00:09:34] bad name, and I said, "You should sue
[00:09:35] them, Stephen. I think he will. I hope
[00:09:37] he does." FBI Director Cash Patel and
[00:09:40] Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch. And
[00:09:43] I just want to say it's an honor the job
[00:09:45] we're doing and and these people are
[00:09:48] doing uh absolutely incredible. I just
[00:09:52] add a couple of things in Memphis, as
[00:09:54] you know, where the numbers are down in
[00:09:56] half already and it's only been about
[00:09:58] two weeks. Doing a fantastic job there.
[00:10:00] Thank you. Uh incredible. Nobody thought
[00:10:03] it was possible. It was really a It was
[00:10:06] very sick city. It was horrible what
[00:10:08] happened there. People would go from, if
[00:10:11] you're on the board of FedEx, they would
[00:10:12] ride you one block to the hotel. They
[00:10:14] said you couldn't walk it because it was
[00:10:15] too dangerous. And they're already
[00:10:18] feeling better about it. But the best
[00:10:20] example right now is Washington DC. We
[00:10:23] have we went from one of the most unsafe
[00:10:26] places uh in the planet, I hate to say,
[00:10:29] but in this country, to a totally safe
[00:10:32] city. It's nothing's crime free, I
[00:10:35] guess, but this is about as close to
[00:10:37] crime free as you're going to get. And
[00:10:39] you guys have done an incredible job
[00:10:40] with that. Every one of you that have
[00:10:42] worked so hard on on this one. And it's
[00:10:45] our nation's capital. And people would
[00:10:47] go to the nation. They'd go from, I
[00:10:50] always say, Iowa, Indiana. They'd go
[00:10:53] from Florida. They'd come up. They want
[00:10:55] to see the monument. I want to see the
[00:10:58] Lincoln Memorial. I want to see one of
[00:11:00] the monuments. Any one of them. and
[00:11:01] they'd go home in a coffin.
[00:11:04] But not anymore. It's not happening
[00:11:06] anymore. We haven't had that happen in a
[00:11:08] long time. Was averaging more than one a
[00:11:10] week, one person a week. Who would think
[00:11:12] that's possible? And it hasn't happened
[00:11:14] anymore. And we have a safe city. We
[00:11:17] have a city where the restaurants are
[00:11:18] booming. People are going out. Nobody's
[00:11:20] being mugged, hit over the head with a
[00:11:22] baseball bat. None of that stuff is
[00:11:24] gone. We took out 1,700
[00:11:28] criminals. Many of them career
[00:11:29] criminals. Many of them uh given to us
[00:11:32] by Joe Biden and his ridiculous open
[00:11:34] borders policy. They came in from jails
[00:11:36] from all over the world, not just South
[00:11:39] America, from all over the world. Jails.
[00:11:42] They came in from mental institutions
[00:11:44] and insane asylums all over the world.
[00:11:47] Drug dealers. And we got them the hell
[00:11:49] out of here. They're either that or if
[00:11:50] they're so bad, as I said before, we put
[00:11:53] them in jail because we can't take a
[00:11:55] chance that they come back. But I want
[00:11:57] to just say that
[00:12:00] Washington DC
[00:12:02] is such an example of what could be
[00:12:04] done. And now the same thing's happening
[00:12:07] in Memphis. We're just halfway through
[00:12:09] the process. And already the numbers are
[00:12:11] far superior, far far better than what
[00:12:14] we we would have thought at this time.
[00:12:16] Uh and Chicago. Uh I just saw the number
[00:12:21] last week was last weekend. Four were
[00:12:24] murdered, 11 were shot. And then I have
[00:12:27] this guy Pritsker is a
[00:12:30] very weak governor. Let me be nice. I'm
[00:12:32] gonna be very nice. He's extremely weak.
[00:12:34] He's pathetic. I have Pritska get up and
[00:12:37] say how great they're doing in Chicago.
[00:12:38] They're doing very poorly. So four were
[00:12:41] murdered. Four, 11 were shot, I would
[00:12:45] say. And that was not a bad week for
[00:12:46] him. Okay, that was not a bad week. He's
[00:12:49] had some where 18 or 19 were murdered.
[00:12:52] And you know what his excuse was? Yeah,
[00:12:54] but that was a long weekend. Okay, can
[00:12:57] you believe it? He said that was a long
[00:12:58] weekend. He's bad. And the mayor is
[00:13:01] worse. I mean, that mayor is worse. Low
[00:13:04] IQ. Very low IQ. And we don't need low
[00:13:07] IQ people. We need people that are going
[00:13:09] to take care. And I love Chicago. And I
[00:13:11] love those beautiful women. Black women,
[00:13:15] beautiful women wearing MAGA hats. And
[00:13:17] they're all over the place in Chicago.
[00:13:19] They want protection. And they don't
[00:13:21] care if it's the National Guard, if it's
[00:13:23] the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines,
[00:13:27] they'll take Space Force, okay? Space
[00:13:29] Force, send them in. They couldn't. They
[00:13:31] just don't want to be mugged, killed,
[00:13:33] raped, shot in the head, and we stop it.
[00:13:37] So, we're going to be given a very
[00:13:40] special uh we're going to give Chicago
[00:13:42] very special care. Uh, as you probably
[00:13:45] know, maybe you heard, we were going to
[00:13:48] do a big surge in San Francisco, but I
[00:13:50] call got a great call from some
[00:13:53] incredible people, some friends of mine,
[00:13:55] very successful people, uh, Mark, who's
[00:13:59] everybody knows him, and Jensen,
[00:14:02] everybody knows Jensen,
[00:14:04] Nvidia,
[00:14:06] uh, and others called me from San
[00:14:09] Francisco, and they said, "We're working
[00:14:11] really, really hard with the mayor.
[00:14:13] We're making progress. Would it be
[00:14:15] possible for you hold off for you to
[00:14:17] hold off the surge? And I had four or
[00:14:20] five calls and I think they're making
[00:14:22] progress of their own. That would be the
[00:14:23] greatest. I mean, if they could do that,
[00:14:25] that would be great. And they have great
[00:14:27] confidence in those people. I mean,
[00:14:29] incredible competence. Some of the
[00:14:30] smartest business leaders. And they're
[00:14:33] working very well with the police
[00:14:34] department. They're doing a good job.
[00:14:36] So, we are holding off that surge,
[00:14:38] everybody. And we're going to let them
[00:14:41] see if they can do it. I said I think we
[00:14:43] can do it much faster. I know we can do
[00:14:44] it faster. I think we can do it better
[00:14:46] than anybody. We can take criminals out
[00:14:48] that they're not going to know about and
[00:14:50] probably they don't have the legal
[00:14:51] authority maybe to do what we can. But
[00:14:54] I'm okay with it. And uh we're going to
[00:14:56] let San Francisco has the potential to
[00:14:58] be it was a great great city. Has the
[00:15:01] potential very quickly to be a great
[00:15:02] city again. And these are the companies
[00:15:05] that are there that are all working.
[00:15:06] Those are the people that ask me, could
[00:15:08] you uh do away with the surge and let's
[00:15:11] see how it works. And we'll do that. If
[00:15:13] we need to, we'll do it. But it's
[00:15:16] possible that we won't need to. And we
[00:15:18] will be focusing on other places like
[00:15:20] Chicago. And we'll have Chicago taken
[00:15:22] care of very quickly. But just remember,
[00:15:24] 11 people shot, four people murdered,
[00:15:28] okay? And that was this weekend. And uh
[00:15:31] that was Chicago. And then you'll see
[00:15:33] Pritsker get up and talk about, well, we
[00:15:36] have it under control. They don't have
[00:15:37] it under control. Just the opposite's
[00:15:39] getting worse. So, we'll take care of as
[00:15:42] soon as we give the go-ahad, which is
[00:15:44] all I have to do is give the go-ahad. We
[00:15:46] won the big court case the other day on
[00:15:48] the National Guard. That was a good
[00:15:50] case. Uh, same thing with Portland.
[00:15:52] Speaking of that, because that's where
[00:15:54] we won it. But uh I mean I looked at I
[00:15:57] looked the other night, Saturday night.
[00:16:00] Portland is like burning to the ground
[00:16:02] and these people are saying it's just
[00:16:05] friendly stuff. The whole place is
[00:16:08] burning to the ground. So we'll uh take
[00:16:11] care of that one. That's like an
[00:16:13] insurrection more than it is anything
[00:16:14] else. That's that's crazy. Portland's
[00:16:16] crazy. And then you listen to these
[00:16:19] radical left people talking about uh
[00:16:22] it's really okay. You're seeing things.
[00:16:24] you you're really seeing things. So,
[00:16:26] we're going to take care of Chicago.
[00:16:28] We're going to take care of Portland.
[00:16:29] We're going to take care of Memphis. Uh
[00:16:31] we're proud of DC. There's nothing to
[00:16:33] take care of anymore, but we're not
[00:16:34] going to let it ever go bad. It's never
[00:16:36] going to happen again. Our nation's
[00:16:38] capital. And with that, I'm just going
[00:16:40] to uh tell you that Pam Bondi has done a
[00:16:43] fantastic job. And Pam, would you say a
[00:16:45] few words, please?
[00:16:46] >> Thank you, President Trump, and thank
[00:16:48] you for for your leadership. And this is
[00:16:51] all about collaboration. And around this
[00:16:54] table, I'm looking around this table. We
[00:16:56] all work so well together. I don't think
[00:16:58] another administration in our nation's
[00:17:00] history has worked so well together. We
[00:17:03] talk constantly, Secretary Gnome, Tulsi,
[00:17:06] Pete, constantly, but also all of our
[00:17:09] agencies working hand inand. And that's
[00:17:11] why this is so successful. And these
[00:17:14] people around this table are working
[00:17:16] seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Even
[00:17:19] though the Democrats have tried to shut
[00:17:20] down the government, Terry Cole, I I'm
[00:17:23] laughing because you're around the
[00:17:24] clock. You're all over the world.
[00:17:26] Director Patel, you're unstoppable what
[00:17:29] you're doing around this country. Gouty
[00:17:31] Serala, US Marshall. Rob Sakata and Dan
[00:17:34] Driscoll wearing your ATF hats. What?
[00:17:36] Rob, I was on the texting. Todd Blanch
[00:17:39] and I were on texting you at 1:00 a.m.
[00:17:41] on cases. I mean, that's how committed
[00:17:44] all of these people are to just keeping
[00:17:46] all of our citizens safe. And that's
[00:17:49] what it's all about. And this is this
[00:17:52] project is the brainchild of Steven
[00:17:54] Miller. And you are doing so much to
[00:17:57] keep our citizens safe, our kids safe,
[00:18:00] and get these drugs off our streets.
[00:18:02] Like, mayor of San Francisco and I are
[00:18:04] going to be meeting on fentanyl in a few
[00:18:06] weeks and working hand inand on that.
[00:18:08] Secretary Gnome spoke to him. But the
[00:18:10] results of this last month have been
[00:18:12] historic. As the president said, in the
[00:18:15] last month, think about this, 3,200,
[00:18:18] more than 3,200
[00:18:21] violent gangs and drug dealers have been
[00:18:24] taken off the streets. Off the streets.
[00:18:28] Now, Director Patel and all of these
[00:18:29] agencies has have also been working so
[00:18:32] hard on getting the leadership, but we
[00:18:35] are getting all the gang members off the
[00:18:37] streets and the drug dealers. Sinaloa,
[00:18:39] CJNG, MS13, and more. TDA. 91 tons of
[00:18:46] drugs have been seized as a result of
[00:18:49] this task force. We tried to put this in
[00:18:51] perspective for you. This would be
[00:18:54] filling four 18 wheelers
[00:18:58] for all the drugs just in the last month
[00:19:00] that have been taken off the streets.
[00:19:03] 58,000
[00:19:04] kilos of cocaine. Think about a big
[00:19:07] backyard swimming pool. That would fill
[00:19:10] one and a half swimming pools. Just the
[00:19:13] powder cocaine that has been removed,
[00:19:16] saving lives this last month. Thanks to
[00:19:18] all of these people around the table,
[00:19:20] 2,300 kilos of fentanyl powder and 2.1
[00:19:26] million fentanyl pills off the streets.
[00:19:30] And as the president said, more than a
[00:19:32] thousand illegal guns. The Biden
[00:19:34] administration was for way too long. All
[00:19:38] of these great law enforcement officers
[00:19:40] surrounding the table were not able to
[00:19:42] do their jobs. What they've said is now
[00:19:44] they've been uncuffed. They can do their
[00:19:47] jobs now. We've been watching
[00:19:49] transnational gangs grow in our country,
[00:19:52] become organized, set up infrastructure
[00:19:55] in all of our states, but no longer
[00:19:58] under President Trump. We are destroying
[00:20:01] the infrastructure and we're no longer
[00:20:03] on defense. All of these great men and
[00:20:06] women are on offense. So, they better
[00:20:08] get ready. We're dismantling the cartels
[00:20:10] and we are taking the leaders into
[00:20:12] custody and all of the gangs. We are
[00:20:15] going to supercharge this work. This is
[00:20:18] not a pilot program. This is permanent.
[00:20:20] We are here to stay. And Secretary
[00:20:23] Hegsth, we couldn't do this without you
[00:20:25] and the Department of War. Thank you all
[00:20:27] so much for everything you're doing
[00:20:29] around this table, working tirelessly,
[00:20:32] and President Trump, thank you for
[00:20:34] giving them the ability to do it.
[00:20:36] >> Thank you very much. Thank you,
[00:20:40] >> Mr. President. Since the year 2000, we
[00:20:43] have lost over one million Americans to
[00:20:45] drugs, uh, to overdoses, uh, to these
[00:20:49] cartels, um, that have proliferated that
[00:20:52] kind of a disease on our our people and
[00:20:54] have gone to war with our next
[00:20:55] generation of Americans. Uh, when you
[00:20:57] signed the executive order that was
[00:20:59] protecting the American people from
[00:21:00] invasion, what you did is that you took
[00:21:03] these cartels and gangs that we've known
[00:21:05] for decades and you declared them to be
[00:21:07] what they really are, and that's
[00:21:09] terrorists. you declared war on them and
[00:21:11] you didn't say we were just going to
[00:21:13] fight them. You said we are going to
[00:21:15] destroy them. And everybody around this
[00:21:17] table uh is so honored to be here to to
[00:21:20] work with you to destroy these
[00:21:22] terrorists that have been killing
[00:21:24] Americans for years and getting rich off
[00:21:26] of it. Um I'm so proud of the work that
[00:21:28] was done just in the September surge.
[00:21:30] You referenced that earlier. Uh we had
[00:21:32] over 400 operations that went down in
[00:21:35] those force first 43 days of the
[00:21:38] Homeland Security Task Force in
[00:21:40] operations that brought as Pam
[00:21:42] referenced 3,200 terrorists to justice.
[00:21:45] Got them off the streets. Sir, we also
[00:21:47] have had over uh precursors and
[00:21:50] chemicals that were brought in. We've
[00:21:51] had the work uh at the southern border.
[00:21:53] We've got Border Patrol here at the
[00:21:54] table with you. Oh, fentanyl has been
[00:21:57] cut down by 50% coming into this country
[00:22:00] over our borders. Uh we've continued to
[00:22:02] work not just nationally but
[00:22:04] internationally and on our maritime
[00:22:06] borders as well. The ICE agents that
[00:22:08] have so much violence against them and
[00:22:09] threats against them. Sir, they get up
[00:22:11] every day ready to work with this task
[00:22:13] force to be able to keep people safe.
[00:22:15] And then we've got Coast Guard who's
[00:22:17] been doing uh just a ton of our
[00:22:19] incredible interdictions out on the seas
[00:22:21] and the waters and cooperation with
[00:22:23] operations that you've targeted in the
[00:22:25] Caribbean with the Department of War.
[00:22:27] And sir, I just want to thank you for
[00:22:28] the leadership you put at this table,
[00:22:30] uh, for your cabinet members, for Steven
[00:22:32] Miller, uh, for putting this in place to
[00:22:35] make sure that what you did when you
[00:22:36] consolidated the Homeland Security task
[00:22:39] force, you took a thousand other task
[00:22:41] forces that were already established in
[00:22:43] the federal government and you
[00:22:44] streamlined them into this room, into
[00:22:47] this group right here, so that we can
[00:22:49] look at each other in the face every day
[00:22:51] and say, "What's our problem? How do we
[00:22:53] address it? How do we fix it?" And then
[00:22:55] we go to work together with our arms
[00:22:57] link to do exactly what you told us to
[00:22:59] do. And that's not just protect the
[00:23:00] American people from invasion, but to
[00:23:02] kill these terrorists. You gave us the
[00:23:04] task to eliminate them, destroy them so
[00:23:07] that they can't destroy the next
[00:23:08] generation of Americans. So, thank you,
[00:23:10] sir. Thank you for the people you put
[00:23:12] around this table.
[00:23:12] >> Thank you very much. That's great job.
[00:23:14] Thank you, Pete.
[00:23:16] >> Yes, sir. Well, thank you, Mr.
[00:23:18] President, for your leadership. Uh,
[00:23:19] Chief, likewise, Tulsi and Todd and Dan
[00:23:22] and Pam and Christy and Steven and Cash.
[00:23:25] I mean, I could go around the table from
[00:23:26] the Department of War. We are thankful
[00:23:29] and grateful for the incredible effort
[00:23:31] that your agencies put in. And we could
[00:23:33] not be more proud to stand
[00:23:34] shoulder-to-shoulder with you. Not
[00:23:36] superficially, not kind of over here,
[00:23:38] but front and center on the Homeland
[00:23:40] Security Task Force right there with
[00:23:42] you. because our department has spent
[00:23:44] over two decades defending other
[00:23:46] homelands and we're very proud to be
[00:23:48] defending our own. And if you talk to
[00:23:49] the troops down say on the southwest
[00:23:51] border, Mr. President, morale is skyhigh
[00:23:53] and continues to be because they're
[00:23:55] proud to be defending their own
[00:23:56] communities, their own state, and their
[00:23:58] own country. So when that executive
[00:24:00] order was signed, the mission was clear,
[00:24:02] protecting the American people against
[00:24:05] invasion. And so the Department of War
[00:24:07] went straight to the southwest border.
[00:24:08] We still have 10,000 troops there. We
[00:24:10] have national defense areas. is we're
[00:24:12] standing alongside the border patrol and
[00:24:14] we've locked that border down. 100%
[00:24:16] control of the southwest border. You
[00:24:17] stop the invasion and then we're proud
[00:24:20] to be going on the offense. Counter
[00:24:21] cartel operations and it's not counter
[00:24:23] cartel as was mentioned. These are
[00:24:25] designated terrorist organizations,
[00:24:28] foreign terrorist organizations. Our
[00:24:30] generation spent the better part of two
[00:24:32] decades hunting al-Qaeda. Hunting ISIS.
[00:24:35] Well, as the president said, this is the
[00:24:37] ISIS. This is the al-Qaeda of the
[00:24:40] Western Hemisphere. They intimidate,
[00:24:42] they terrorize, they extort, they poison
[00:24:45] the American people. The president's
[00:24:47] right. Every boat we strike is 25,000
[00:24:49] Americans whose lives are saved because
[00:24:51] of the drugs that were headed in our
[00:24:53] direction. So our message to these
[00:24:55] foreign terrorist organizations is we
[00:24:58] will treat you like we have treated
[00:25:00] al-Qaeda. We will find you. We will map
[00:25:03] your networks. We will hunt you down.
[00:25:06] And we will kill you. And you've seen
[00:25:08] that evidence in the maritime domain.
[00:25:10] Whether it's in the Caribbean or in the
[00:25:12] Pacific with the last two strikes, we
[00:25:14] know exactly who these people are. We
[00:25:16] know what networks they work with, what
[00:25:18] foreign terrorist organizations they're
[00:25:19] a part of. We know where they're going,
[00:25:21] where they originated from, what they're
[00:25:23] carrying, and they know. We know. And
[00:25:25] that will soon start to change the
[00:25:27] calculus of these boats. So the crit the
[00:25:29] critique of this is, of course, as often
[00:25:31] is the case, wrong. Uh we know our
[00:25:34] authorities. It's locked tight, and
[00:25:36] we're going to treat them like foreign
[00:25:38] terrorist organizations on the offense.
[00:25:40] So, the Department of War is not going
[00:25:41] to degrade uh or just simply arrest.
[00:25:44] We're going to defeat and destroy these
[00:25:46] terrorist organizations to defend the
[00:25:48] homeland on behalf of the American
[00:25:49] people, making the jobs of law
[00:25:51] enforcement safer in the process, making
[00:25:53] the communities of Americans safer in
[00:25:55] the process. We think it's a very core
[00:25:57] mission uh of the Department of War, and
[00:25:59] we're proud to be here, Mr. President.
[00:26:00] >> Thank you very much, Pete. Thank you.
[00:26:02] Telsey, please.
[00:26:04] >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. The key
[00:26:06] reason that you are hearing about these
[00:26:08] incredible effects uh is number one the
[00:26:11] team that you've assembled here and the
[00:26:12] leadership and the tone that you have
[00:26:14] set first and foremost about keeping the
[00:26:16] American people safe. Uh the
[00:26:18] intelligence community plays a critical
[00:26:20] role in being able to support our law
[00:26:22] enforcement at the federal, state, and
[00:26:24] local level to make sure that they are
[00:26:26] armed with actionable intelligence to be
[00:26:28] able to actually go after those who
[00:26:30] threaten the safety and security of the
[00:26:32] American people. Uh Mr. Mr. President,
[00:26:34] under your leadership, for the first
[00:26:35] time, there is a newly created national
[00:26:38] intelligence fusion cell uh at the
[00:26:41] office of the director of national
[00:26:42] intelligence, national counterterrorism
[00:26:45] that has a very simple purpose to make
[00:26:47] sure that we have two-way intelligence
[00:26:49] sharing of actionable information
[00:26:50] between the intelligence community and
[00:26:52] law enforcement. I want to talk briefly
[00:26:54] about three um successes that we've had
[00:26:57] just here in the last few weeks, Mr.
[00:27:00] president through the success of this
[00:27:02] inter agency fusion cell. Just this last
[00:27:04] week, our national counterterrorism
[00:27:06] center uh supported through actionable
[00:27:08] intelligence to both US law enforcement
[00:27:11] as well as Mexican law enforcement the
[00:27:13] arrest of aoloa cartel boss El Plato in
[00:27:16] Huarez, Mexico, as well as his top three
[00:27:19] money launderers. Uh in a separate and
[00:27:23] recent successful inter agency
[00:27:24] operation, NCTC worked closely with the
[00:27:26] US Marshall Service that led to the
[00:27:29] arrest of another dangerous Senoloa
[00:27:30] cartel member responsible for tracking a
[00:27:33] huge amounts of cocaine and uh hundreds
[00:27:36] of thousands of dollars in this single
[00:27:38] incident with drug proceeds through his
[00:27:41] network. And I'll say the last example
[00:27:43] I'll share is is probably the most
[00:27:45] insidious was providing intelligence to
[00:27:47] the Mexican law enforcement that led to
[00:27:50] the arrest of a CJNG cartel affiliated
[00:27:53] baby trafficker called La Diablo. Her
[00:27:56] whole money-making operation was
[00:27:58] centered around luring pregnant women,
[00:28:00] performing illegal C-sections,
[00:28:02] harvesting organs, and selling newborn
[00:28:06] babies. Uh Mr. President, it's your
[00:28:08] leadership that has made all of this
[00:28:10] possible. I can tell you in the midst of
[00:28:12] this government shutdown, our folks like
[00:28:14] everyone around this table are working
[00:28:16] 247 without pay and eager to get after
[00:28:20] this because they believe in your
[00:28:21] leadership and the mission that you have
[00:28:23] presented to them.
[00:28:25] >> Thank you, Mr. President. I'll hand this
[00:28:26] off to uh Homeland Security Adviser
[00:28:28] Steven Miller, the leader of this task
[00:28:30] force.
[00:28:33] >> Let me just say, Mr. President, that
[00:28:35] this country was going to die without
[00:28:37] you. This country was going to actually
[00:28:39] die without you. That's what we were
[00:28:41] facing in 2024. We've been invaded for
[00:28:44] four years. Our communities were
[00:28:45] sinking. Our public safety had gone to
[00:28:49] zero. Cartels were running entire
[00:28:51] communities. Sex trafficking, child
[00:28:53] trafficking, labor trafficking was out
[00:28:54] of control. Overdoses were out of
[00:28:56] control. The cartels were claiming more
[00:28:58] and more territory. City services were
[00:29:01] buckling. This was a country on the
[00:29:03] verge of dying. And you alone saved it.
[00:29:06] And when you stepped forward originally
[00:29:08] in 2016, you started the movement to
[00:29:12] make America great again. And that means
[00:29:14] make America great again in every way.
[00:29:16] And that means safety and prosperity and
[00:29:18] peace and freedom from cartels and crime
[00:29:21] and gangs. And your vision and your
[00:29:23] leadership in declaring war on the drug
[00:29:25] cartels is the single most successful
[00:29:28] public safety initiative in American
[00:29:30] history. And I need the media to
[00:29:31] understand what President Trump has
[00:29:33] done. People have been talking about
[00:29:35] drug cartels for longer than I've been
[00:29:37] alive. And everyone has just taken for
[00:29:40] granted that they can't be touched or
[00:29:42] stopped. They're too big. They're too
[00:29:44] powerful. They're too evil. They're too
[00:29:45] murderous. They can operate with
[00:29:47] impunity. And in just nine months,
[00:29:50] President Trump is the only American
[00:29:51] leader, not just in our lifetimes, but
[00:29:53] ever, to actually take the fight to the
[00:29:56] drug cartels to actually seek their
[00:29:58] eradication. And it is happening. And so
[00:30:01] while the Democrats are shutting the
[00:30:04] government down and fighting for free
[00:30:05] healthcare for illegal aliens, look at
[00:30:07] what President Trump has assembled here.
[00:30:09] He's assembled a team under his vision,
[00:30:11] direction, and leadership that is saving
[00:30:13] hundreds of thousands of lives. Hundreds
[00:30:16] of thousands of lives. And only
[00:30:18] President Trump could have done this.
[00:30:20] And I will say one last thing, which is
[00:30:21] that his courage has been an inspiration
[00:30:24] to everyone else in this room. There
[00:30:26] there are people in this room, you know,
[00:30:28] looking, for example, at Todd Lions who
[00:30:30] have been relentlessly doxed and
[00:30:32] harassed and threatened. But when when
[00:30:34] they see President Trump's courage, what
[00:30:36] he's been through for 10 years to save
[00:30:38] America, when they came after his
[00:30:40] family, his businesses, his safety, his
[00:30:44] freedom, everyone at this table knows we
[00:30:46] can give whatever it takes to get the
[00:30:48] mission done. So, President Trump, thank
[00:30:50] you for your leadership, your boldness,
[00:30:52] your courage, and your vision. We're
[00:30:53] honored to serve underneath you.
[00:30:55] Well, I want to thank you, Stephen, and
[00:30:57] and I have to say that, you know, I've
[00:30:59] been making the rounds. I'm leaving
[00:31:02] tomorrow for some very big meetings,
[00:31:04] including with the president of China,
[00:31:06] where I think we're going to come out
[00:31:07] very well and everyone's going to be
[00:31:10] very happy. But, uh, everybody said the
[00:31:13] same thing. A year ago, we had a dead
[00:31:15] country. We were a dead country. We
[00:31:18] really were. in a lot of ways, not just
[00:31:20] this, we were dead as doornails on this,
[00:31:22] but we were a country that was in
[00:31:25] serious trouble and beyond that. And uh
[00:31:29] we have the hottest country anywhere in
[00:31:31] the world right now. The whole world is
[00:31:33] talking about it. We have the hottest
[00:31:34] country anywhere in the world. We're
[00:31:36] going to clear up this crime in our
[00:31:38] cities. We can do it quickly, too. Uh
[00:31:40] they showed how quickly we could do it
[00:31:42] in DC. It was a real bad place. It was a
[00:31:45] real mess. Dirty, filthy, disgusting.
[00:31:47] graffiti all over the place, tents on
[00:31:50] every ounce of parks that we had. Uh
[00:31:53] just disgusting. And I rode around last
[00:31:56] weekend. I rode around the city. I felt
[00:31:59] very safe in that car, but you know, I
[00:32:01] would have done it without it. I I
[00:32:03] wouldn't need that car so much anymore,
[00:32:05] I will tell you. But uh the place was
[00:32:08] clean. Uh we we've started that also.
[00:32:11] Not only law and order, but we you know
[00:32:14] that cleanliness is important. And I
[00:32:15] think cleanliness is almost a part of
[00:32:17] law and order. If you see dirty,
[00:32:19] disgusting streets and potholes all over
[00:32:21] the place and railings falling down and
[00:32:24] graffiti all over the marble, beautiful
[00:32:27] statuary marble columns, those gorgeous
[00:32:29] columns where they had graffiti. It's
[00:32:31] all gone and I think it's a part of it.
[00:32:34] I really do. I think it's a big part of
[00:32:35] it. But we have a city that we can be
[00:32:37] proud of. It's we're going to be that
[00:32:39] way with every city we have. That's why
[00:32:40] with San Francisco, I wish him luck, but
[00:32:43] we could do it so much faster. So, I
[00:32:45] told the mayor, "I love what you're
[00:32:46] doing. I respect it, and I respect the
[00:32:48] people that are doing it. They're the
[00:32:50] biggest people in the country. They're
[00:32:51] the biggest people in the world. A lot
[00:32:53] of the high-tech, some people like them,
[00:32:56] some people don't, but they're smart,
[00:32:58] and they want to do it." And I said, "I
[00:32:59] am so honored to let you do it, and if
[00:33:02] it doesn't work out, we'll do it for you
[00:33:03] very quickly." But, uh, I just want to
[00:33:06] thank the people around this table are
[00:33:08] amazing. Uh, Cash, please go ahead.
[00:33:11] >> Mr. President, I'll I'll just keep it
[00:33:13] short, but I think what the media should
[00:33:15] realize is the amount of courage it
[00:33:17] takes to do this and you led that
[00:33:19] mission. You led it during your campaign
[00:33:21] and you brought it to the American
[00:33:23] people. I think the media should focus
[00:33:24] on some of these numbers the attorney
[00:33:26] general just riled off. Those aren't
[00:33:27] numbers. Those are lives. Lives saved by
[00:33:29] the millions, the millions. Enough,
[00:33:32] excuse me, enough fentinol to kill over
[00:33:33] 200 million Americans gone. Evaporated
[00:33:36] off our streets permanently. Your vision
[00:33:38] to safeguard American freedoms and our
[00:33:40] children and our future is the most
[00:33:42] courageous thing I've ever seen a
[00:33:44] president of the United States ever do.
[00:33:45] And your ability to marshall it out in
[00:33:47] eight months in eight months. These
[00:33:50] statistics would have taken other
[00:33:51] administrations decades. Decades. And
[00:33:54] the partnership that you see around the
[00:33:56] table. I just want to, you know, sum it
[00:33:58] up with the following. When I call these
[00:33:59] folks around the table, when I call our
[00:34:01] state and local law enforcement partners
[00:34:02] who have been absolutely critical to
[00:34:04] this mission, when Steven Miller called
[00:34:06] me and said, "We're going to create the
[00:34:07] Homeland Security Task Force and the FBI
[00:34:09] and DHS are going to co-lead it." I
[00:34:10] said, "Absolutely. The country's been
[00:34:12] yearning for this and needing it." And
[00:34:14] the one thing I see different than any
[00:34:16] other administration is when I call
[00:34:17] these people, they pick up. I don't get
[00:34:19] a voicemail. When I make an ask, they
[00:34:21] answer. And the same is true. And so,
[00:34:23] the FBI is playing a pivotal role in
[00:34:25] your administration in helping lead out
[00:34:27] this mission. And Steven's vision has
[00:34:29] finally come to life. And instead of
[00:34:31] attacking the people at this table,
[00:34:33] maybe the media should go out there and
[00:34:35] talk to the lives that have been saved
[00:34:37] forever and the communities that have
[00:34:39] been safeguarded because it takes
[00:34:40] courage to do that. It takes courage to
[00:34:42] implement that plan and it takes a
[00:34:44] president and President Trump to put a
[00:34:46] leadership team like this together. We
[00:34:48] are actual friends and I know the media
[00:34:49] doesn't want to call us that, but we do
[00:34:51] do that. We do hang out. We do work
[00:34:53] together. It's a 247 365 mission that
[00:34:56] doesn't turn off, Mr. President. And as
[00:34:58] Steven said, we're inspired by your
[00:35:00] leadership and this country is thankful
[00:35:01] for these eight months and I can't wait
[00:35:03] to see what the next four years looks
[00:35:04] like.
[00:35:05] >> Thank you very much. Thanks, Gio. Great
[00:35:07] job, Todd. Please.
[00:35:10] >> Thank you, Mr. President. The number
[00:35:13] that I think matters
[00:35:15] um the three over 3, 3,266
[00:35:19] terrorists have been taken off the
[00:35:20] streets in two months. And for each of
[00:35:22] those arrests, there's any anywhere from
[00:35:24] between four to 20 law enforcement
[00:35:27] agents, federal, state, and local,
[00:35:29] executing those arrests. And that that
[00:35:31] means every one of them are putting
[00:35:32] their lives on the line to make these
[00:35:34] arrests, to make our communities safer.
[00:35:36] And so what I will say to them is thank
[00:35:38] you. But also what I will say to them is
[00:35:40] that to the extent that there are
[00:35:41] politicians as recently as today
[00:35:44] suggesting they are doing something
[00:35:46] wrong, we have governors, district
[00:35:48] attorneys, mayors, and even congressw
[00:35:50] women suggesting that our federal law
[00:35:52] enforcement and the state and local law
[00:35:55] enforcement that are helping them are
[00:35:57] doing something wrong. That is that is
[00:36:00] disgusting and something that we will
[00:36:02] not tolerate that that every day
[00:36:04] Attorney General Bondi and I talk um
[00:36:06] with all of our partners making sure
[00:36:08] that they know that if any one of our
[00:36:10] federal agents, our state or local
[00:36:12] agents working under the HSTF banner are
[00:36:14] even touched by any of these terrorists
[00:36:17] or riers, they will be prosecuted to the
[00:36:20] f full fullest extent of the law. When
[00:36:22] politicians
[00:36:24] aid these terrorists by trying to give
[00:36:26] them comfort or protection or suggesting
[00:36:28] that somehow our men and women are doing
[00:36:30] the wrong thing, same problem. We will
[00:36:33] not tolerate it, Mr. President. So,
[00:36:35] thank you to all of our state and local
[00:36:37] um men and women that are helping us and
[00:36:39] our federal law enforcement officers
[00:36:41] that are literally putting their lives
[00:36:43] on the line every single day. We will
[00:36:45] always protect you. Thank you, Mr.
[00:36:47] President.
[00:36:48] >> Thank you very much, Todd. Um, a really
[00:36:50] good job you're doing too. Thank you.
[00:36:53] Uh, any questions? Uh, maybe pertaining,
[00:36:56] >> Mr. President.
[00:36:57] >> How about pertaining to this for a
[00:36:59] little while? And well, Mr. President,
[00:37:01] would you have any questions of these
[00:37:03] incredible people?
[00:37:04] >> Mr. President,
[00:37:05] >> Mr. President.
[00:37:06] >> Yeah, go ahead, please.
[00:37:07] >> Go ahead,
[00:37:08] >> Mr. President. Um, thank you, Mr.
[00:37:10] President. Thank you. Good to see you.
[00:37:11] Um, if I could just ask both of you,
[00:37:13] including Secretary Hexath, um, there's
[00:37:15] reporting the US just sent B1 bombers
[00:37:17] near Venezuela to ramp up some military
[00:37:20] pressure there. Is that accurate? And
[00:37:22] can you tell us more about that?
[00:37:23] >> No, it's not accurate. No, it's false.
[00:37:25] But we're we're not happy with Venezuela
[00:37:29] for a lot of reasons, drugs being one of
[00:37:31] them, but also they've been sending
[00:37:34] their prisoners into our country for
[00:37:37] years under the Biden administration.
[00:37:39] Not anymore. We have a closed border. We
[00:37:41] had actually nobody for the last four
[00:37:43] months, I guess five months. They say
[00:37:45] they report nothing. They report zero. I
[00:37:48] don't know if that can be possible, but
[00:37:50] that's we'll accept it, right, fellas?
[00:37:52] But uh we have closed borders. We have
[00:37:55] people coming into our country, but they
[00:37:56] only come in legally. We have the
[00:37:58] strongest borders we've ever had. We
[00:38:00] might have the strongest borders of
[00:38:01] almost any nation right now. And that's
[00:38:04] a big difference from what it was two
[00:38:05] years ago when everybody was pouring in.
[00:38:08] But we're very unhappy with Venezuela uh
[00:38:11] because of what they've done. They've
[00:38:12] emptied their prisons into our country.
[00:38:15] Nobody can do that. Only a stupid person
[00:38:18] would have accepted it. And that's what
[00:38:21] we had running our country. Very stupid
[00:38:23] people. So we're not happy with
[00:38:25] Venezuela. I will tell you. Yeah. Mr.
[00:38:27] President Mr. Mr. Thank you, President
[00:38:30] Trump. Um on
[00:38:32] >> Yes.
[00:38:34] On fentinel.
[00:38:35] >> I'm saying sorry about that. Um on on on
[00:38:38] fentinal president some good medical
[00:38:39] help right over that's all right
[00:38:42] >> on fentinel according to CDC data uh
[00:38:45] nearly 330,000 Americans died over the
[00:38:48] past 5 years from fentinel that's one in
[00:38:51] every 1,000 Americans who died
[00:38:53] >> it's more more than that but that's all
[00:38:55] right
[00:38:56] >> yes I know you think it's even more
[00:38:57] >> I'll be discussing that with president
[00:38:59] >> so that's actually my question I was
[00:39:01] wondering um since it mostly comes from
[00:39:03] China and has caused such carnage in the
[00:39:05] US what are you going to say to convey
[00:39:06] the seriousness And also a second
[00:39:08] question for you or Secretary Hexath. Is
[00:39:10] there any evidence that China is now
[00:39:12] smuggling fentinel through Venezuela to
[00:39:14] bypass US and Mexican port controls?
[00:39:17] >> They are doing that. Yes. But they are
[00:39:20] paying right now 20% tariff because of
[00:39:23] fentinol. That's billions and billions
[00:39:25] of dollars that they're paying. Uh we're
[00:39:28] actually on November 1st the tariff on
[00:39:31] China goes to 157%
[00:39:35] which is record setting territory and we
[00:39:37] don't want that because that's not
[00:39:38] sustainable for them. They can't sustain
[00:39:40] that. We don't want them to have to go
[00:39:42] through that. So I'm meeting with
[00:39:44] President Xi and I would say the first
[00:39:47] we have some big issues like with the
[00:39:49] farmers and various other things but the
[00:39:52] first question I'm going to be asking
[00:39:53] him about is fentinol.
[00:39:55] And if you think about it, they make a
[00:39:57] hundred million dollars. Think of this.
[00:40:00] They make a hundred million dollars
[00:40:02] selling fentinol into our country. 100
[00:40:05] million. Uh they lose a hundred billion
[00:40:08] dollars with the 20% tariff. So it's not
[00:40:11] a good business proposition.
[00:40:13] It's a hundred billion dollars
[00:40:14] approximately that they have to pay.
[00:40:16] That's a big penalty to make a hundred
[00:40:18] million. So I think they want to do
[00:40:20] something. They want to put it on the
[00:40:22] list. It's on the list. It's one of the
[00:40:24] things we're talking about and I'm
[00:40:26] putting it right at the front of the
[00:40:27] list. So, they pay a very big penalty
[00:40:29] for doing that and I don't think they
[00:40:32] want to be doing it and we'll see what
[00:40:33] happens at the end of uh next week
[00:40:35] because I'll be meeting next week as you
[00:40:37] know along with we're stopping in
[00:40:39] Malaysia, we're stopping in South Korea.
[00:40:41] We're stopping in Japan. Uh I'm meeting
[00:40:44] with President Xi actually in South
[00:40:46] Korea. So, it'll be the first thing on
[00:40:48] the list. Yeah. Please
[00:40:50] >> on the drug boats. On the drug boats,
[00:40:52] sir. Has there been any any discussion
[00:40:54] about capturing one so that you can show
[00:40:56] the amount of narcotics?
[00:40:58] >> Everything about them. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:40:59] Jennifer, we know everything about them.
[00:41:02] We know where they're coming from, who
[00:41:05] they're coming with, generally who's in
[00:41:07] the boat. I'll let Pete discuss it a
[00:41:09] little bit, but they have incredible
[00:41:11] intelligence. And you know, usually when
[00:41:13] you see five engines, I've never even
[00:41:16] seen that before, but when you see five
[00:41:18] engines on a boat going about 65 miles
[00:41:21] an hour loaded up with white powder in
[00:41:25] silver cases, generally speaking, that's
[00:41:28] not a good sign. They're not going
[00:41:30] fishing, right? And you don't see any
[00:41:32] fishing rods, right? So, uh, Pete, I'll
[00:41:34] let you discuss that a little bit,
[00:41:35] please.
[00:41:36] >> Well, yes, sir. Likewise, generally you
[00:41:38] don't see uh fishing in submarines
[00:41:41] either, sir.
[00:41:42] >> So this the US military, as I mentioned,
[00:41:46] nobody better in the world at mapping
[00:41:49] networks, identifying who's connected to
[00:41:51] who inside terrorist organizations. It's
[00:41:54] just the media is used to hearing that
[00:41:55] when it pertains to Afghanistan and Iraq
[00:41:57] and ISIS and al-Qaeda. But if you
[00:42:00] reframe how you understand the world in
[00:42:02] our own hemisphere, that's exactly what
[00:42:04] these foreign terrorist organizations
[00:42:05] are. And so we will track them, we will
[00:42:07] map them, we will network them, and we
[00:42:09] will hunt them and kill them because
[00:42:11] they're trying to and they are killing
[00:42:13] and and poisoning the American people.
[00:42:15] Uh and inside that we have all the
[00:42:17] license necessary, all the authorities
[00:42:19] necessary to take these kinetic strikes
[00:42:20] and we'll continue to take them.
[00:42:23] >> And we've been, you know, just to add
[00:42:24] because I think it's important, we've
[00:42:26] been capturing them for years. You know,
[00:42:28] it's not like, gee, let's capture one.
[00:42:30] We've been doing that for years. For 25
[00:42:32] years, we've been doing it. Not at a
[00:42:34] level like we're doing it now. I mean,
[00:42:36] just with the hits we're hitting, but we
[00:42:38] have much more intensity than any
[00:42:41] administration's ever had. But we've
[00:42:43] been capturing these boats for years.
[00:42:45] And they get back into the system and
[00:42:47] they do it again and again and again.
[00:42:48] And they don't fear that. They have no
[00:42:50] fear. The thing I can tell you right
[00:42:52] now, it's very hard to find any floating
[00:42:54] vessel right now on the Pacific or on
[00:42:58] the in the Gulf. And I I Fred I I would
[00:43:01] like to call it by its official name,
[00:43:03] the Gulf of America. Another little
[00:43:06] triumph of of the Trump administration.
[00:43:10] Uh I said for years I said why aren't we
[00:43:12] call why do we call it the Gulf of
[00:43:13] Mexico? It's 93% the shoreline is 93%.
[00:43:18] All right. So I never understood that.
[00:43:19] So I made that change. I never realized
[00:43:21] how easy that was going to be other than
[00:43:24] I guess AP
[00:43:26] uh AP fought us in court and the judge
[00:43:28] said uh but that's the name and actually
[00:43:31] they were sort of semi-prohibited from
[00:43:34] even covering us after that. It was
[00:43:36] pretty amazing. But we have the Gulf of
[00:43:38] America and there are very few boats,
[00:43:41] very, very few boats. Not even fishing
[00:43:43] boats to be honest. I don't want to do
[00:43:45] that to the fishing industry, but it's
[00:43:47] been so effective. And our uh our sea
[00:43:51] drugs, as they call them, they use the
[00:43:52] term sea drugs. The drugs coming in by
[00:43:54] sea are are like 5% of what they were a
[00:44:00] year ago, less than 5%. So now they're
[00:44:03] coming in by land. And even the land is
[00:44:06] concerned because I told them that's
[00:44:07] going to be next. You know, the land is
[00:44:08] going to be next. And we may go to the
[00:44:10] Senate. We may go to the, you know,
[00:44:12] Congress and uh tell them about it. But
[00:44:15] I can't imagine they'd have any problem
[00:44:17] with it. I think, in fact, while we're
[00:44:19] here, I think it's a good idea, Pete.
[00:44:20] You go to Congress, you tell them about
[00:44:22] it. What are they going to do? Say,
[00:44:23] "Gee, we don't want to stop drugs
[00:44:25] pouring in. They're killing 300,000
[00:44:27] people a year." I think that's the real
[00:44:29] number. 300,000 people a year. So
[00:44:31] between that and my discussion with
[00:44:33] President Xi, I think we're we have
[00:44:35] never made progress like we've made. The
[00:44:38] the sea drugs are almost dead and they
[00:44:41] can't come in that fast from the land
[00:44:43] and the land drugs are much more
[00:44:45] dangerous for them. It's going to be
[00:44:46] much more dangerous. You'll be seeing
[00:44:48] that soon. So that's the way it is.
[00:44:50] Yeah.
[00:44:52] >> Go ahead.
[00:44:54] >> Yeah. Go ahead, please.
[00:44:55] >> With the glasses. Go ahead.
[00:44:57] >> Thank you, Mr. President. I want to ask
[00:44:59] what's your reaction to Representative
[00:45:00] Dan Goldman calling on NYPD to arrest
[00:45:04] ICE agents who he says are acting
[00:45:06] illegally. He says they are illegally
[00:45:07] assaulting people and illegally
[00:45:09] detaining people at immigration courts
[00:45:10] in New York.
[00:45:11] >> Well, you know, I know Dan and Dan's a
[00:45:13] loser. You understand? He's he's a guy
[00:45:15] that doesn't have what it takes. He's
[00:45:17] been trying so hard and they're
[00:45:20] exhausted. I mean, they're ex It's so
[00:45:22] ridiculous, right? A suggestion like
[00:45:24] that. So, uh, you know, they're just
[00:45:27] trying so hard and it's not working.
[00:45:30] They've even now started imitating me of
[00:45:32] all people. They want to imitate me and
[00:45:34] they start using foul language, but they
[00:45:36] use too much of it. You know, you can't
[00:45:38] use the f-word seven times in one
[00:45:40] sentence. It doesn't work. It might work
[00:45:43] once every seven news conferences, but
[00:45:45] you can't do it you can't do it seven
[00:45:48] times in one sentence. So, I don't know.
[00:45:49] They're they're uh they're really uh
[00:45:52] they're in big trouble, that party. Go
[00:45:53] ahead,
[00:45:53] >> Mr. President.
[00:45:55] on these boat strikes. Some alleged some
[00:45:57] alleged smugglers have survived some of
[00:45:59] these recent strikes and been sent back
[00:46:01] to their home country. If they're
[00:46:02] terrorists, why not just arrest and
[00:46:04] detain them?
[00:46:06] >> Go ahead.
[00:46:07] >> Uh, two points on that. First, uh, when
[00:46:09] I I served in Iraq in 2005 and 2006, we
[00:46:12] used to in sort of a gallows humor way
[00:46:14] talk about the Iraqi catch and
[00:46:16] releaselease program. The reality that
[00:46:17] we would catch a lot of people, hand
[00:46:18] them over, uh, and then they would be
[00:46:20] recycled back through and we'd have to
[00:46:21] recapture them or attack them again. And
[00:46:23] that's why changing the dynamic and
[00:46:25] actually taking kinetic strikes on these
[00:46:27] boats ought change the psychology of
[00:46:29] these foreign terrorist organizations.
[00:46:31] Uh to those two that were that that
[00:46:33] survived the shot on these
[00:46:34] semi-submersible. Uh it's think again
[00:46:37] compared to Iraq and Afghanistan the
[00:46:39] vast majority of people that we captured
[00:46:40] on the battlefield we handed over to the
[00:46:42] home country. Did we always like how it
[00:46:44] shaped out? Sometimes we did sometimes
[00:46:46] we did not. But 99% would go to the af
[00:46:48] Afghan authorities or the Iraqi
[00:46:50] authorities. So in this case, those two,
[00:46:52] they were treated by American medics and
[00:46:54] handed immediately over to the their
[00:46:56] countries where they came from,
[00:46:57] hopefully to face prosecution, which is
[00:46:59] a very standard way of handling
[00:47:00] something like this.
[00:47:00] >> And you'll do that with future
[00:47:01] survivors, anyone else?
[00:47:03] >> We've got protocol of how we'll handle
[00:47:04] it.
[00:47:09] >> Not that guy. He's so hopeless.
[00:47:11] >> Go ahead.
[00:47:13] >> Go ahead.
[00:47:13] >> Yesterday there was a vote at the on
[00:47:16] annexing the West Bank. Do you see it as
[00:47:18] a as a challenge to your peace efforts?
[00:47:21] >> Could you say that louder, please?
[00:47:23] >> Yes. Yesterday there was a vote at the
[00:47:25] in Israel on annexing the West Bank. Do
[00:47:28] you see it as a challenge to your peace
[00:47:30] efforts?
[00:47:31] >> Will you answer that, please? Because I
[00:47:32] cannot understand the words you're
[00:47:34] saying. Where are you? Where are you
[00:47:36] from?
[00:47:37] >> Where are you from?
[00:47:39] >> You're from France. Beautiful accent,
[00:47:40] but we can't understand what you're
[00:47:42] saying.
[00:47:45] She said a vote at the cadessa on the
[00:47:47] West Bank.
[00:47:51] >> The West Bank
[00:47:52] >> is Don't worry about the West Bank.
[00:47:54] Israel is not going to do anything with
[00:47:56] the West Bank. Okay.
[00:47:58] >> Don't worry about it. Is that your
[00:47:59] question? They're not going to do
[00:48:00] anything with the West Bank. Don't worry
[00:48:02] about it.
[00:48:03] >> Israel is doing very well. They're not
[00:48:05] going to do anything with it. Yeah. Mr.
[00:48:07] President,
[00:48:07] >> thank you so much. Thank you, President
[00:48:08] Trump. Are there any safeguards in place
[00:48:11] to protect Americans from fentinel and
[00:48:13] cartels when you leave office in 2028?
[00:48:15] Uh any protocols that could be put in
[00:48:17] place in case a future administration
[00:48:19] comes in that wants open borders? And I
[00:48:22] also have a question for the secretary
[00:48:23] of war as well after your answer.
[00:48:25] >> Well, the biggest thing we can do is
[00:48:26] make sure they don't come in because
[00:48:28] open borders
[00:48:30] it's they would destroy. It's amazing
[00:48:33] that our country is even surviving with
[00:48:36] what we went through. coming in by the
[00:48:37] millions and coming in from the wrong
[00:48:40] places. You know, I know all these
[00:48:41] people that run these countries and
[00:48:43] they're smart. They're very street smart
[00:48:46] and they're not sending their best. You
[00:48:48] know, they're not sending they're taking
[00:48:49] them out of their prisons and their
[00:48:51] mental institutions, as I say over and
[00:48:53] over again. They're the drug dealers.
[00:48:56] They're the drug addicts. They're people
[00:48:59] that don't work. I mean, the best of
[00:49:02] them are people that don't work. They
[00:49:04] don't work. They're on welfare, their
[00:49:05] form of welfare, which is tiny. You know
[00:49:07] what their form of welfare? They give
[00:49:08] you a piece of paper,
[00:49:11] but they want people that work. They
[00:49:13] don't let those people come out because
[00:49:14] they want those people. You know, they
[00:49:15] cherish those people. Those are the
[00:49:17] people that make their country run. They
[00:49:19] give us all of the people that don't
[00:49:21] work and and are murderers. 11,843
[00:49:26] murderers came in. 11,800. Many of them
[00:49:30] committed more than 50% committed more
[00:49:32] than one word murder. Now, why do we
[00:49:34] want them? Why would Biden and that
[00:49:37] group of thugs that he had working for
[00:49:39] him, why would they accept these people?
[00:49:41] Why would he accept? Nobody understands
[00:49:44] it. You know, they say maybe they wanted
[00:49:45] to vote, but I did great with the
[00:49:47] Hispanic vote, but these are people from
[00:49:49] all over the world. Why would they do
[00:49:51] it? So, one question, no matter what I
[00:49:53] do, I can't. You always like to know the
[00:49:56] opponent. You have an opponent. What are
[00:49:59] they getting at? And usually you can.
[00:50:01] Why would they allow 20 million maybe 25
[00:50:05] million people into this country almost
[00:50:07] all of which but most of which should
[00:50:09] not have been allowed into our country?
[00:50:11] It's uh one of the great enigmas. What
[00:50:14] they've done to this country should
[00:50:15] never be forgotten. In history should
[00:50:18] never ever be forgotten. And now it
[00:50:20] looks like we're going to have a
[00:50:21] communist mayor in New York. That'll be
[00:50:23] a lot of fun. But remember this, they
[00:50:25] have to go through the White House.
[00:50:27] Yeah, please go ahead.
[00:50:28] President Trump today you pardoned the
[00:50:30] founder of Binance. Uh can you explain
[00:50:32] why you chose to pardon him and did it
[00:50:34] have anything to do with his involvement
[00:50:35] in your family? Who is that?
[00:50:37] >> The founder of Binance. He has a
[00:50:38] involvement in your own family crypto
[00:50:40] business. The uh I believe we're talking
[00:50:43] about the same because I do pardon a lot
[00:50:45] of people. Uh I don't know. He was
[00:50:47] recommended by a lot of people. A lot of
[00:50:50] people say that. Are you talking about
[00:50:51] the crypto person?
[00:50:53] >> Uh a lot of people say that he wasn't
[00:50:55] guilty of anything. He served four
[00:50:56] months in jail and they say that uh he
[00:50:59] was not guilty of anything that what he
[00:51:01] did well you don't know much about
[00:51:03] crypto you know nothing about you know
[00:51:05] nothing about nothing you fake news but
[00:51:07] let me just tell you that he was uh
[00:51:10] somebody that as I was told I don't know
[00:51:12] him I don't believe I've ever met him
[00:51:15] but uh I've been told by a lot of
[00:51:17] support he had a lot of support and they
[00:51:19] said that what he did is not even a
[00:51:22] crime it wasn't a crime that he was
[00:51:23] persecuted by the Biden administ
[00:51:25] administration
[00:51:27] uh and so I gave him a partner at the
[00:51:29] request of a lot of very good people.
[00:51:31] >> Mr. President,
[00:51:33] [Music]
[00:51:34] >> please
[00:51:36] thank you so much.
[00:51:37] >> This is the kind of question I liked
[00:51:39] right here.
[00:51:40] >> The the the numbers from this task force
[00:51:42] are jaw-dropping. I wanted to know this
[00:51:44] is a question for you and both Stephen
[00:51:46] since it was said this is your
[00:51:47] brainchild. What what are the lessons to
[00:51:48] be learned from the success of the task
[00:51:50] force and what are your continued goals
[00:51:54] with this task force now that you have
[00:51:55] about three years left?
[00:51:56] >> Well, the best thing we have going is we
[00:51:58] have such talent around this tab. I
[00:51:59] could go over every one of these men and
[00:52:01] women and we have unbelievable talent.
[00:52:04] They've got the naturals, you know, like
[00:52:07] somebody that hits a baseball or a golf
[00:52:09] ball or a you know that you see more
[00:52:11] it's more evident. It's beautiful
[00:52:13] because it's sports. You can tell
[00:52:14] somebody right away are they good or are
[00:52:17] they not? these people, the most
[00:52:18] talented people at what they do. And
[00:52:21] when we started talking about this,
[00:52:23] Stephen and all of us, it was it seemed
[00:52:26] so easy. What what is surprising to me
[00:52:29] is how quickly we can straighten out a
[00:52:32] large city, a big city, a mean city, a
[00:52:35] city that's sick, that got very sick
[00:52:37] with guns all over the place, with
[00:52:39] bullets shooting all over, where you I
[00:52:42] mean, you you take your life in your
[00:52:43] hands if you go out and buy a loaf of
[00:52:45] bread. That's not America. That's not
[00:52:47] our country. And those people don't care
[00:52:50] how you do it. They just want it done.
[00:52:51] They really do. You know, when you go to
[00:52:53] the people in the street, they're not
[00:52:55] they don't know is it National Guard,
[00:52:58] they just want it done. They want to be
[00:53:00] safe. And we've gained a great following
[00:53:03] of Americans, real Americans, people
[00:53:05] that want to be safe. But I think the
[00:53:08] biggest thing we we say is we have
[00:53:09] tremendous talent. We were able to
[00:53:11] recognize like a football team, like a
[00:53:13] baseball team. We were able to recognize
[00:53:15] the talent and the talent is largely in
[00:53:19] this room for the whole country. It's
[00:53:21] largely in this room. There's really
[00:53:23] nothing like it. And that's why in I
[00:53:26] think we had DC done not perfectly, but
[00:53:29] pretty much done at least normalized in
[00:53:32] 12 days. When you say tw you say 12 days
[00:53:36] on the 12th day it felt different and
[00:53:40] then and you know we took a lot of bad
[00:53:42] people out never to never to come back
[00:53:44] again then most of them never to come
[00:53:47] back again but there's great talent and
[00:53:50] there's also great courage it's you know
[00:53:53] it's I've been watching what goes on and
[00:53:55] then you have the radical left lunatics
[00:53:57] and what's that all about? I mean,
[00:54:00] they're fighting us because we want to
[00:54:03] stop crime. Where did these people come
[00:54:05] from? They're paid money. I guess
[00:54:10] they're paid a lot of money, but like I
[00:54:12] saw that ridiculous march the other day.
[00:54:15] They say these people are not
[00:54:17] representative of our country. And not
[00:54:20] all of them, of course, but many of them
[00:54:23] are total low lives. These are low
[00:54:24] lives. These are people that are paid
[00:54:26] agitators.
[00:54:28] and they're not representative of our
[00:54:30] country. So, I don't know. I can just
[00:54:32] tell you that our country has tremendous
[00:54:33] spirit right now. You know that better
[00:54:35] than anybody because you cover it well.
[00:54:37] But we have a lot of people that are
[00:54:39] very happy right now with the direction.
[00:54:41] They did a poll the other day. The
[00:54:42] direction of our country is better than
[00:54:44] it's been in 37 years. And I'm upset
[00:54:47] because I think it's it should be better
[00:54:49] than that. I actually said we should be
[00:54:52] better than that. So, you know, thank
[00:54:54] you very much for your question, Brian.
[00:54:56] >> Brian,
[00:54:57] >> Mr. President. Yes. Thank you, Mr.
[00:54:58] President. You guys have done an amazing
[00:55:00] job in Memphis. Some of those numbers
[00:55:01] are staggering and we've gotten message
[00:55:03] on social media wanting to thank you for
[00:55:05] that. But I think Can you talk about the
[00:55:07] number of missing children you guys have
[00:55:09] discovered in Memphis? That's amazing.
[00:55:12] >> Well, it's uh hundreds of thousands were
[00:55:15] lost through Biden and the Biden
[00:55:17] administration and we are getting a lot
[00:55:19] of them back, but they're either dead,
[00:55:23] they're slaves, they're captured in some
[00:55:26] form. But think of it, hundreds of
[00:55:28] thousands we're talking about. Not even
[00:55:31] believable. And they came in through the
[00:55:33] border. They were sold. They were
[00:55:35] bargained for. And this was all Biden.
[00:55:39] Meaning Biden and Obama, the same, you
[00:55:41] know, the same mentality. Frankly, I
[00:55:44] think it's the same mentality. Let me
[00:55:46] tell you, Barack Hussein Obama was a
[00:55:48] lousy president. A lot of bad things
[00:55:50] happened. Remember when they used to
[00:55:51] talk about Trump with the jail cells?
[00:55:53] Well, he built the jail cells for the
[00:55:55] children. He built those jail cells.
[00:55:58] Remember that came out? But sir, they
[00:56:00] were built in 2014. You remember when
[00:56:02] that came out after me going through
[00:56:04] that stuff for about two weeks and then
[00:56:06] they found out it was Barack Obama that
[00:56:09] built those jail cells? No, these people
[00:56:11] are they were bad leaders. I hope I hope
[00:56:14] we don't have it again. I hope we don't
[00:56:16] have it again because you know our
[00:56:18] country's come back a long way but it
[00:56:21] can only withstand so much and we don't
[00:56:23] want to ever go through that again. We
[00:56:25] never want to have open borders again.
[00:56:27] We don't want to have we don't want to
[00:56:29] have men playing in women's sports. We
[00:56:31] don't want to have transgender for
[00:56:33] everybody. We don't want that. We want
[00:56:35] to have a great country with low
[00:56:39] interest rates, nice housing, great
[00:56:41] education, a strong military.
[00:56:44] the basics. Yes, please.
[00:56:48] >> Um, in last night's New York City
[00:56:50] mayoral debate, uh, Zoran Mdani said he
[00:56:52] would close Riker's Island if elected.
[00:56:55] Uh, what kind of impact would that have
[00:56:57] on public safety?
[00:56:57] >> Well, it's not good. I I guess it's not
[00:56:59] a very nice place, but uh,
[00:57:03] you need it. You know, you need you need
[00:57:05] something. You have a lot of additional
[00:57:07] people in New York City that should not
[00:57:09] have been here. They came here through
[00:57:11] the open border through Biden's, you
[00:57:13] know, I don't know how they even do it.
[00:57:14] New York City's always been tight for
[00:57:16] money and then they spend, you know,
[00:57:19] eight billion dollars and nobody
[00:57:21] complains about it on people that just
[00:57:23] showed up and they just came out of
[00:57:25] nowhere. Where did they get the money?
[00:57:27] All of a sudden they have money. Uh, I
[00:57:30] tell you what, uh, we have to keep our
[00:57:34] prisons very fair and very safe, but you
[00:57:37] get a lot of criminals. we have a lot of
[00:57:39] additional criminals. I used to talk
[00:57:41] about it. They used to say, "Well, only
[00:57:43] good people come in from foreign
[00:57:45] countries." I said, "That's not right."
[00:57:47] I didn't know that for a fact, but it
[00:57:48] had just started, right? The open
[00:57:50] borders and people flowing in by the
[00:57:52] millions. They make our criminals look
[00:57:56] like the nicest people on Earth. That's
[00:57:58] the only good thing. They make our
[00:58:00] criminals look like nice people. They
[00:58:02] are the meanest, the most vicious.
[00:58:04] Trenagua,
[00:58:05] you don't get any sicker. They cut
[00:58:07] people's fingers off because they called
[00:58:09] the cop. Did you call the cop? Yes. They
[00:58:12] cut off his finger so he can't call the
[00:58:14] cop anymore. And then they said, "Next
[00:58:16] time we're going to cut off your hand if
[00:58:18] you cut because they took over his
[00:58:20] apartment in Colorado." You know,
[00:58:22] Colorado, they took over a town, then
[00:58:24] they took over another town and you have
[00:58:26] a weak governor over there. He doesn't
[00:58:28] know what the hell he's doing, so he
[00:58:30] lets it go on. But we're getting them
[00:58:32] out of here. We're getting them all out.
[00:58:34] They're going back to lots of not just
[00:58:36] Venezuela, they're going back to lots of
[00:58:37] countries. Venezuela would be one,
[00:58:40] however. Yeah, please.
[00:58:40] >> Thank you, Mr.
[00:58:41] >> President.
[00:58:43] >> Thank you, Mr. President.
[00:58:44] >> Uh, a moment ago, you said that if
[00:58:46] Secretary Hexath went to Congress and
[00:58:48] briefed them on the operations. We will
[00:58:51] go. I see you will go and difficult for
[00:58:54] them to object.
[00:58:54] >> I don't see any loss in going. No reason
[00:58:56] not to. You know, they'll always
[00:58:57] complain, oh, we should have gone. So,
[00:58:59] we're going to definitely I'd like to
[00:59:01] just tell you, let's go. We'll go and
[00:59:04] tell them what we're going to do and I
[00:59:05] think they're going to probably like it
[00:59:06] except for the radical left lunatics.
[00:59:09] >> And Mr. President, if you are declaring
[00:59:11] war against these cartels and Congress
[00:59:13] is likely to um approve of that process,
[00:59:16] why not just ask for a declaration of
[00:59:18] war?
[00:59:19] >> Well, I don't think we're going to
[00:59:21] necessarily ask for a declaration of
[00:59:23] war. I think we're just going to kill
[00:59:25] people that are bringing drugs into our
[00:59:27] country. Okay. We're going to kill them.
[00:59:30] You know, they're going to be like dead.
[00:59:32] Okay,
[00:59:33] >> Mr. President.
[00:59:33] >> Yeah,
[00:59:35] [Music]
[00:59:37] >> he has red hair.
[00:59:38] >> Thank you.
[00:59:38] >> Beautiful red hair.
[00:59:39] >> Thank you. I'll tell my hairdresser that
[00:59:41] she'll she'll love it. Uh this is a
[00:59:43] question for both you and uh the
[00:59:45] secretary of war uh Mr. Hexath. Uh
[00:59:49] >> who are you with?
[00:59:50] >> I'm with the center square. Uh we're
[00:59:52] newswire service. um with everything
[00:59:54] that's going on um with between the
[00:59:56] narco terrorists and in the Caribbean
[00:59:58] and then also um with the ex with more
[01:00:01] uh Chinese, Iranian, Russian ships also
[01:00:04] um taking part in Venezuela. Do you are
[01:00:07] you have any plans of expanding
[01:00:09] operations out of Roosevelt roads and in
[01:00:12] fact uh placing some homeporting some
[01:00:14] ships there? Yeah, I be
[01:00:18] >> uh we're familiar with the location that
[01:00:19] you're referring to and we we'll make
[01:00:21] sure that we're properly displaced in
[01:00:23] order to deal with the contingency we're
[01:00:25] dealing with there and also any ways in
[01:00:27] which other countries would attempt to
[01:00:29] be involved also. So we're we can walk
[01:00:31] and chew gum. We're definitely keeping
[01:00:32] our eyes on nearpeer adversaries at the
[01:00:35] same time. But we think sending a
[01:00:37] message on these cartels, these narot
[01:00:39] terrorists uh is an important important
[01:00:41] inside our hemisphere which for far too
[01:00:43] long other presidents as the president
[01:00:44] pointed out they've ignored our own
[01:00:45] backyard and allowed other countries to
[01:00:47] increase their influence here which only
[01:00:49] threatens the American people. We're uh
[01:00:51] we're changing that bas
[01:00:53] >> one one big thing that has happened
[01:00:55] though because you mentioned expansion
[01:00:56] and expand our efforts. know uh when I
[01:00:59] was running for office second term uh
[01:01:02] everybody was talking about uh the fact
[01:01:05] that nobody wanted to join the military
[01:01:07] nobody wanted to join the great police
[01:01:08] force you know they didn't want to join
[01:01:10] New York's finest or any of our police
[01:01:12] forces uh they didn't want to join
[01:01:15] anything having to do almost like with
[01:01:16] the country with the uniform uh we are
[01:01:19] setting records with the army navy air
[01:01:22] force marine space force coast guard
[01:01:25] we're setting records We've never had
[01:01:28] anything like it. And I'll tell you when
[01:01:29] it started, November 5th. We didn't even
[01:01:32] have to wait till January 20th. They saw
[01:01:34] spirit. And now we have people coming in
[01:01:37] that are It's unbelievable. And if we
[01:01:40] wanted to increase our military force,
[01:01:41] if we wanted to increase any one of
[01:01:43] these, including police forces, they can
[01:01:45] now get men. People didn't want to be
[01:01:48] policemen and women. They didn't want to
[01:01:50] be firemen and women. They didn't want
[01:01:52] to go into the military. We were having
[01:01:54] tremendous recruiting problems. And now
[01:01:56] we're setting records. We literally last
[01:01:59] year at this time you were doing stories
[01:02:02] that uh the recruitment was a disaster.
[01:02:04] We couldn't get men and women to go into
[01:02:07] the military. Now we have such an
[01:02:10] overabundance.
[01:02:12] We've never had I mean it's as I
[01:02:14] understand it, it's like record setting
[01:02:17] recruitment. This is in less than a
[01:02:19] year. It's been amazing. So this is a
[01:02:22] good time to expand if we want to do it.
[01:02:23] And I think we should. I think we should
[01:02:26] and we probably will. Yeah, please.
[01:02:29] >> Yeah.
[01:02:29] >> Blue. Blue.
[01:02:31] >> Mr. President, couple questions for you.
[01:02:32] Um, first for you and um, Secretary
[01:02:34] Hath, is uh, the administration
[01:02:36] supportive of sending National Guardsmen
[01:02:38] to cities for the express purpose of
[01:02:40] aiding deportation and immigration
[01:02:43] enforcement efforts
[01:02:46] >> to expand deportation efforts
[01:02:47] >> to sending uh, National Guardsmen to to
[01:02:50] US cities for the express purpose of
[01:02:52] aiding deportation and immigration
[01:02:54] enforcement effort. What we've done so
[01:02:56] far is is stand alongside federal law
[01:02:58] enforcement in every way, facilities and
[01:03:00] personnel, but also we have uh we have a
[01:03:02] great deal of lift inside the military.
[01:03:04] We're able to move assets in a way that
[01:03:06] no other aspect of the US government
[01:03:07] can. And so where we can rapidly assist
[01:03:10] with mass deportations, we have been
[01:03:11] happy to do that.
[01:03:12] >> And then one more question if I may. Um
[01:03:15] is the administration at all supportive
[01:03:17] of potential measures to crack down or
[01:03:19] regulate or even ban apps that track ICE
[01:03:22] agents locations?
[01:03:24] What do you mean by that?
[01:03:25] >> Like specific apps that are used to
[01:03:28] track the location of ICE agencies?
[01:03:29] >> I guess we'll do that. I'm not a big app
[01:03:31] guy. I'm not into that too much. I think
[01:03:33] Pam might be it. Let's go. Yes. Good
[01:03:36] answer there.
[01:03:37] >> Yes, these organizations, President
[01:03:39] Trump are coming in and their apps to
[01:03:42] track our federal law enforcement
[01:03:44] officers and it jeopardizes their lives,
[01:03:46] where they're going to be, their
[01:03:48] location. And we've actually been
[01:03:50] working really well with the tech
[01:03:51] companies who have been cooperating
[01:03:53] because they don't want our law
[01:03:54] enforcement officers to to get injured.
[01:03:57] So, yes.
[01:03:57] >> Well, I mean, I see it with ICE where
[01:03:59] they're having, you know, what where
[01:04:01] they define where they live, who they
[01:04:03] are, and you know, I wasn't
[01:04:07] I didn't take I didn't have a big view
[01:04:09] on the mask, but I now understand why
[01:04:11] they should wear masks. I think it's
[01:04:13] very dangerous for them not to wear
[01:04:14] masks. They can do whatever they want. I
[01:04:16] noticed some do it and some don't, but
[01:04:18] it's pretty dangerous. But when you look
[01:04:21] at, you know, you you talk about that
[01:04:22] question, uh, I think it's very
[01:04:24] dangerous and I think you're coming down
[01:04:26] on that very hard, right?
[01:04:28] [Music]
[01:04:30] Sir,
[01:04:30] >> Mr. President, go ahead.
[01:04:31] >> Thank you, sir. um when when you were
[01:04:33] running for reelection in 2024, you
[01:04:36] released a video statement where you did
[01:04:38] this you made this exact promise to show
[01:04:41] no mercy on the cartels and employ every
[01:04:44] military asset necessary to combat them.
[01:04:46] In that same video, you also said that
[01:04:48] you plan to expose all the bribes and
[01:04:50] corruptions with politicians and the
[01:04:52] cartels. Has your task force been
[01:04:55] looking into that in American
[01:04:56] politicians?
[01:04:56] >> Yeah. where the money's coming from
[01:04:58] because you see it like even that
[01:05:01] garbage deal they had this weekend which
[01:05:03] was embarrassing to them and the crowds
[01:05:05] were much more the crowds were not big
[01:05:08] those crowds were not big at all but
[01:05:11] when you look at signs and they're all
[01:05:13] made beautifully the yellow signs I saw
[01:05:16] the yellows the blues but they're all
[01:05:18] made professionally in a printing shop
[01:05:21] looks like on Madison Avenue someplace
[01:05:24] some guy is paying for all all that
[01:05:27] stuff. And we don't mind protest.
[01:05:29] Protest is a good thing. I protest. I'm
[01:05:31] always protesting, right? But but when
[01:05:34] you see some of these people, these
[01:05:36] people are going crazy that they're
[01:05:38] going crazy because they're getting paid
[01:05:40] because there's no reason for them to be
[01:05:41] going crazy. But you watch some of them
[01:05:43] and they're professional agitators and
[01:05:46] we are finding out who's paying them.
[01:05:47] Yeah, we we have a lot of information
[01:05:49] about who they are. You're going to be
[01:05:50] very surprised when you find out.
[01:05:52] >> And I have a question for Secretary
[01:05:54] Hegathth. Um sir, a memo circulating on
[01:05:58] social media uh details the
[01:06:00] establishment of a National Guard
[01:06:01] response force that's going to be
[01:06:03] trained in crowd control and civil
[01:06:05] unrest and deployed in all 50 states by
[01:06:08] April of 2026. Uh can you verify the
[01:06:11] authenticity of that memo? And do you
[01:06:13] have any more information on the
[01:06:14] operations? U I'm not going to answer
[01:06:17] particulars on something that may be in
[01:06:18] the planning process, but we definitely
[01:06:20] do have multiple layers of National
[01:06:22] Guard response forces, whether it's in
[01:06:24] each state, whether it's regionally, whe
[01:06:27] whether it's Title 10 active duty,
[01:06:29] whether it's uh Washington DC. We've got
[01:06:32] a lot of different ways that
[01:06:33] constitutionally and legally we can
[01:06:35] employ Title 10 and Title 32 forces, and
[01:06:37] we will do so when necessary.
[01:06:39] [Music]
[01:06:45] Thank you. President President Putin
[01:06:47] basically said today that Russia is
[01:06:49] immune from US sanctions. He said that
[01:06:51] it would not impact the Russian economy
[01:06:54] in any serious way. Is he
[01:06:56] >> I'm glad I'm glad he feels that way.
[01:06:57] That's good. I'll let you know about it
[01:06:59] in six months from now. Okay. Let's see.
[01:07:01] Let's see how it all works out.
[01:07:04] >> Yeah. Go ahead, please. Blue.
[01:07:07] >> One question about the task force one
[01:07:08] about the shutdown. I'm Taylor Poplers
[01:07:10] with Spectrum News. The same day you
[01:07:12] established this task force back on
[01:07:13] January 20th was the same day you
[01:07:15] pardoned the January 6 defendants. Just
[01:07:17] last
[01:07:18] >> very proud of that. Yeah. Ju just last
[01:07:19] weekend, one of them was charged with
[01:07:21] allegedly threatening to kill House
[01:07:24] Minority Leader Hakee Jeff. And a big
[01:07:26] theme of this task force has been
[01:07:28] allowing law enforcement to do their job
[01:07:29] and holding accountable people who go
[01:07:31] after law enforcement. Do you worry that
[01:07:33] your actions back on day one undermine
[01:07:35] what this task force is trying to
[01:07:37] accomplish?
[01:07:37] >> No. You have thousands of people that
[01:07:40] we're dealing with. And you know, if one
[01:07:42] goes haywire, look at look at what this
[01:07:44] guy in Virginia said where he wanted to
[01:07:46] kill his opponent. He's going to kill
[01:07:49] his opponent. He's going to kill his
[01:07:50] opponent's children and I think wife and
[01:07:53] he continues to run. And the Democrats
[01:07:55] continue. He's running for what?
[01:07:56] Attorney General in Virginia. Uh look
[01:07:59] what he said. So now do you think all
[01:08:02] Democrats should be prohibited from
[01:08:04] living anymore? I mean, think of what he
[01:08:07] said. He's going to kill his opponent
[01:08:09] and he's going to kill the children of
[01:08:10] his opponent and I think the wife. I
[01:08:14] said, "This guy's sick. That is a sick
[01:08:16] guy." And how do you vote for somebody
[01:08:19] like that? But I don't view that every
[01:08:21] Democrat would say that because not
[01:08:23] every Democrat would say that. So, you
[01:08:25] can't, you know, you could have one
[01:08:26] person, but I don't I don't know of the
[01:08:28] incident. I can say we're very proud of
[01:08:30] uh what we did. We had the courage to do
[01:08:34] something that should have been done.
[01:08:36] The problem sometimes the Republicans
[01:08:38] are too nice. They're a very nice party.
[01:08:40] The Democrats play a much dirtier fight.
[01:08:42] Uh you know, it's amazing. You go after
[01:08:45] dirty cops like Comey and you go after
[01:08:48] these are dirty cops. Uh Leticia James
[01:08:51] is a dirty cop. You go after these
[01:08:53] people and they say how horri horrible
[01:08:54] you are and yet I got indicted five
[01:08:57] times and impeached twice. Nobody says
[01:08:59] anything about that. You know, they say,
[01:09:01] "Oh, they actually said the other day,
[01:09:03] oh, he's trying to indict somebody." I
[01:09:05] got indicted
[01:09:07] four or five times, Todd, maybe more
[01:09:10] than that. Yeah, I think you could you
[01:09:12] could say 87 times if you really think
[01:09:14] about it, right? With the 80 with the
[01:09:16] charges, a bunch of phony guys, but
[01:09:19] nobody says anything about that. But,
[01:09:21] uh, they mentioned it the other way. No,
[01:09:24] the Democrats play a very dirty game.
[01:09:26] It's all they're good at. They're good
[01:09:27] at a couple of things. cheating on
[01:09:29] elections and playing very dirty. And
[01:09:32] they have one good trait. They stick
[01:09:33] together. They stick together. They
[01:09:35] stick together through the worst
[01:09:38] policies that anybody's ever seen. It's
[01:09:40] unbelievable how they stick together.
[01:09:42] And I I respect them for sticking
[01:09:44] together. But uh it's a dead party
[01:09:46] because their policies are no good.
[01:09:48] Okay.
[01:09:50] >> Right. We'll do a few more and we'll go
[01:09:52] home.
[01:09:52] >> Wonderful. Speaking of
[01:09:53] >> Everybody's going to go home. I'm going
[01:09:54] back to the Oval Office. However,
[01:09:56] >> uh speaking of Democrats, uh there's
[01:09:58] report that there's a grand jury on Adam
[01:10:01] Schiff for apparent mortgage fraud. If
[01:10:03] he isn't indicted,
[01:10:05] >> should he step down as a US senator?
[01:10:08] >> Well, you know, I'm not going to comment
[01:10:10] on that. I will just say Adam Schiff is
[01:10:13] one of the lowest forms of scum I've
[01:10:16] ever dealt with in politics. He's a
[01:10:18] horrible human being, very dishonest
[01:10:21] person. I have no idea what's going on.
[01:10:23] You tell me that he's going to be
[01:10:24] indicted. I don't know. You could ask
[01:10:26] Pam. I don't know if she's she could say
[01:10:28] it. Probably you are allowed to say it,
[01:10:30] but uh I would know about that. I can
[01:10:32] only tell he's a very he's a very bad I
[01:10:36] think he's actually a sick person.
[01:10:38] >> Do you want to talk about that?
[01:10:42] >> We're not going to comment on any grand
[01:10:43] jury that's open. We can't legally.
[01:10:47] >> I don't know,
[01:10:48] [Music]
[01:10:51] >> by the way. I hope it's true, but I
[01:10:53] don't know anything about it.
[01:10:56] >> Yeah.
[01:11:00] >> Oh, millions of dollars. Yeah. Well, I
[01:11:03] also give, you know, I give a lot of
[01:11:05] money to the White House. The White
[01:11:06] House is uh, as you know, I give my
[01:11:09] salary and I usually like to steer it to
[01:11:11] the White House because this house was a
[01:11:14] little bit abandoned. First of all, for
[01:11:16] four years, you had a guy walking around
[01:11:18] that didn't know where the hell he was.
[01:11:19] And this this house was not taken care
[01:11:22] of the way it was supposed to be. I take
[01:11:23] very good care of uh property. I was
[01:11:26] very good at that. And you'll notice the
[01:11:29] floors downstairs. I paid for them.
[01:11:31] Marble, the most beautiful marble you've
[01:11:33] ever seen. The white floors down in the
[01:11:34] palm room, which were they look like
[01:11:37] they came out of I I don't want to lose
[01:11:38] because they're big supporters of mine,
[01:11:40] Home Depot. So, I'm not going to say
[01:11:42] bad, but they did come out of a box from
[01:11:44] Home Depot about 30 years ago. They were
[01:11:46] all broken, but now they have the most
[01:11:47] beautiful floors, the most beautiful
[01:11:49] lights and chandeliers. I think most of
[01:11:51] you, Brian, you've seen that, right? How
[01:11:54] beautiful is that? And I take care of
[01:11:56] it. So, uh, I spend millions of dollars
[01:11:59] on this building taking care of it. It
[01:12:02] was not properly maintained and now it's
[01:12:05] starting to gleam like it should. It
[01:12:06] should really gleam. And you should go
[01:12:08] down and visit the presidential walk of
[01:12:11] fame. Have you seen it? It's quite quite
[01:12:15] good. I'm sure that a lot of people
[01:12:16] coming to the White House. It's hot.
[01:12:18] It's very hot. But it's really a tribute
[01:12:21] to the president's past presidents of
[01:12:23] our country. Yeah. Please,
[01:12:25] >> Mr. President.
[01:12:28] >> Yeah. Behind you, please. Yeah. Go
[01:12:30] ahead.
[01:12:30] >> Thank you. Um, so on Monday, question
[01:12:33] for you as well as Secretary Gnome. On
[01:12:34] Monday, Mayor Karen Bass of LA and
[01:12:37] Representative Robert Garcia, they held
[01:12:39] a press conference and they called for
[01:12:40] an investigation into DHS, accusing them
[01:12:43] of unlawfully arresting US citizens and
[01:12:46] racially profiling and only arresting
[01:12:49] people because, in Robert Garcia's
[01:12:51] words, they look like me. He's a
[01:12:53] Hispanic individual. Do Do you have a
[01:12:54] response to that?
[01:12:55] >> Are you asking me that question?
[01:12:57] >> You as well as Secretary
[01:12:59] >> They are arresting bad criminals and
[01:13:02] they're really good at it, too. Uh, I
[01:13:04] look at the numbers, you know, they
[01:13:06] always like to say that, "Oh, you're
[01:13:07] arresting this and that." Then when you
[01:13:09] check it, you find out, geez, almost
[01:13:11] every single time. And, you know,
[01:13:13] obviously every once in a while they may
[01:13:15] get one wrong, but they always correct
[01:13:17] it. They're able to correct it. But they
[01:13:19] are arresting really bad people. They're
[01:13:21] arresting people that kill, people that
[01:13:23] would cut your throat and not even care
[01:13:25] about it. These are brave people and
[01:13:28] it's very dangerous. And if they go even
[01:13:31] a little bit too far, uh, they get into
[01:13:34] trouble, you know, which is a shame. I
[01:13:36] protect them, but they get into trouble,
[01:13:38] but they're arresting very serious
[01:13:40] criminals and they're getting them out
[01:13:41] of here. Okay, one or two.
[01:13:45] [Music]
[01:13:46] >> Don't Doug, do you have a question?
[01:13:48] >> I'd love to have Doug have a question.
[01:13:50] Our great photographer, because he's
[01:13:51] such a great guy, and he might be the
[01:13:53] most talented person over there. I don't
[01:13:55] know. Huh? Go ahead. Let's hear your
[01:13:58] question. This is this guy's a real
[01:14:00] beauty.
[01:14:01] >> On the cartel strategy, hearing you talk
[01:14:02] about it as a war, hearing Secretary
[01:14:04] Hegbet talk about defeating and
[01:14:06] destroying and the comparisons to ISIS
[01:14:07] and al-Qaeda.
[01:14:08] >> Those efforts took American troops being
[01:14:11] engaged in foreign countries. Do you
[01:14:13] think that's ultimately where this is
[01:14:14] headed with the cartels having American
[01:14:16] troops in countries like Venezuela?
[01:14:17] >> The cartels are very bad. They a lot of
[01:14:19] bad people coming in. They were
[01:14:21] interviewed uh recently and they were
[01:14:24] asking people what their problem was and
[01:14:26] one guy said, "Yes, I was I'm up for
[01:14:29] murder." Didn't know what he was saying,
[01:14:31] obviously. You know, I'm sure his lawyer
[01:14:33] was not thrilled with his statement, but
[01:14:36] uh no, they're rough people coming into
[01:14:38] those cartels. Those cartels are rough.
[01:14:41] Uh you look at what happens, the trip
[01:14:42] up, the trip up is horrible, especially
[01:14:45] for women. They're being killed. They're
[01:14:46] being raped at levels that nobody
[01:14:48] thought even possible. In my opening
[01:14:51] speech, I mentioned that, but in a very
[01:14:52] light way. I mentioned the word rape.
[01:14:54] Then it found out that you take a look
[01:14:56] at what happens at those cartels. It's
[01:14:58] horrible what's what's going on. And
[01:15:01] we're doing uh the world a big service
[01:15:03] by just telling them, you know, they're
[01:15:06] not. You don't have too many cartels now
[01:15:07] because they know when they get up here,
[01:15:09] they're going to be stopped. Under
[01:15:11] Biden, they were just flowing into the
[01:15:13] country. It didn't matter what you were,
[01:15:16] where you came from, what you looked
[01:15:17] like, what your record. They didn't
[01:15:18] check records. Millions of people came
[01:15:21] into this country that should not be in
[01:15:23] our country right now. We've gotten a
[01:15:24] lot of them out. It's the single biggest
[01:15:27] problem that we were given. Inflation
[01:15:30] have already taken care of. Uh
[01:15:32] economically, the country is the
[01:15:34] strongest it's ever been. Thank God for
[01:15:35] tariffs. If we didn't have tariffs, we'd
[01:15:37] be a third world nation. But thank God
[01:15:40] for tariffs. We're we're the richest
[01:15:42] nation in the world now because of
[01:15:43] tariffs. And we're able to economically
[01:15:46] protect oursel. and we're able to really
[01:15:48] protect oursel from a national security,
[01:15:51] you know, situation, but uh we have
[01:15:55] cartels that, you know, I I somebody
[01:15:59] came up with the word cartel. I won't
[01:16:01] tell you who that person was, but you
[01:16:04] got a lot of bad people in the cartels.
[01:16:06] And you could look at a country like
[01:16:07] Mexico, and I really respect the
[01:16:09] president. I really respect a lot of the
[01:16:11] people over there, but a lot of the
[01:16:13] leadership, but they are in fear in
[01:16:16] their own country because those cartels
[01:16:19] are running those countries. Okay? And
[01:16:21] that includes Colombia. Colombia is a
[01:16:24] drug den. It's a drug den and it has
[01:16:26] been for a long time. You got a lousy
[01:16:28] leader over there right now. Bad guy, a
[01:16:30] thug. But they make cocaine at levels
[01:16:33] that we've never seen before and they
[01:16:35] sell it back into this and they're not
[01:16:37] going to get away with it much longer.
[01:16:39] We're not going to we're not going to
[01:16:40] put up with it much longer. Colombia is
[01:16:42] very bad. Mexico is run by the cartels.
[01:16:45] I have great respect for the president,
[01:16:48] a woman that I think is a tremendous
[01:16:50] woman. She's a very brave woman. But
[01:16:53] Mexico is run by the cartels and we have
[01:16:55] to defend ourselves from that.
[01:17:00] >> Go ahead. Let's let's go with you. Go
[01:17:02] ahead. Let's listen to this beauty.
[01:17:04] >> Do you expect a resolution on the
[01:17:05] government shutdown by the time you
[01:17:06] return from your trip to Asia? I expect
[01:17:08] to have it resolved by the time I
[01:17:10] reserve. I don't know. Uh I said long
[01:17:13] ago we shouldn't have been in this
[01:17:15] problem. Uh this was September 28th. It
[01:17:18] came due in Biden's regime and before
[01:17:22] the election, September 28th, and they
[01:17:24] pushed it off into the future. And I was
[01:17:26] running when they did that. And when
[01:17:28] you're running, you know, but I did say,
[01:17:29] "What the hell are they doing?" That and
[01:17:31] debt ceiling, you know, they also pushed
[01:17:33] the debt ceiling past the election date.
[01:17:37] said that would mean the next president
[01:17:38] has it. But I did say that uh I think
[01:17:42] the Democrats have gone totally crazy
[01:17:46] and you don't know what they're going to
[01:17:48] do because they don't care about the
[01:17:50] people. They don't I I really think they
[01:17:53] have no leadership. They have a lot of
[01:17:56] very low IQ people. Jasmine Crockett is
[01:17:58] a low IQ person. A lot of them are. I
[01:18:00] don't want to insult too many of them,
[01:18:02] but a lot of them are. They have no They
[01:18:06] have no ruer. I don't think they know
[01:18:07] what they're doing right now. You know,
[01:18:08] they've never done this before. They
[01:18:10] always agreed to go and, you know,
[01:18:12] called an extension. Let's do an
[01:18:14] extension and talk. Uh even today, look
[01:18:18] at what happened today. They wouldn't
[01:18:20] even they don't want to pay the people
[01:18:21] that have worked. And you know, this was
[01:18:23] supposed to be sort of this was a test
[01:18:26] and they wouldn't pay the people that
[01:18:28] have been working. They said, "No, no,
[01:18:29] we don't want to pay them. This is all
[01:18:31] the Democrats." Now, all we need is five
[01:18:33] Democrats. And I I know a lot of
[01:18:35] Democrats that are saying they're more
[01:18:37] than five. Not probably not that many
[01:18:39] more than five, but there are more than
[01:18:41] five. And all we need is like five
[01:18:43] Democrat votes. So we're we open our
[01:18:45] country again. Sad though, we have the
[01:18:47] greatest economy in our history. We have
[01:18:49] the highest stock market. All these
[01:18:51] things are rocking. We have we will have
[01:18:53] by the end of my first year more than 20
[01:18:56] trillion dollars of investment. The
[01:18:58] all-time record is three three trillion.
[01:19:01] I think it's China. We're going to have
[01:19:03] 20 or 21 trillion dollars. We've never
[01:19:05] had anything like it coming in because
[01:19:07] of tariffs. The money pouring into our
[01:19:09] country, the plants that are opening,
[01:19:11] AI, automos, everything. And the
[01:19:13] Democrats want to close our country.
[01:19:17] They're really, you know, they say
[01:19:18] deranged. They are. They suffer. I guess
[01:19:21] it's Trump derangement syndrome, which I
[01:19:23] think is going down now as an official
[01:19:26] condition by the doctors. I think they
[01:19:27] get paid extra money if they handle it
[01:19:30] because it's more difficult to handle
[01:19:31] than a normal mental disease. But but
[01:19:34] you know what? Uh they they really
[01:19:38] should approve an extension. Get the
[01:19:41] country back to work. Get the people
[01:19:43] paid. And you know, it's very simple.
[01:19:47] You can't you just don't know what's
[01:19:49] going on. There's something wrong with
[01:19:51] them. You know, it's sad actually.
[01:19:55] Mr. President, I mean, have you raised
[01:19:57] the full 300 million needed to fund your
[01:19:59] Have you raised the full 300 million
[01:20:00] needed to fund your ballroom? And how
[01:20:02] much specifically are you donating to
[01:20:04] this construction?
[01:20:04] >> I think $350 million. All all donor
[01:20:08] money and money that we put up. Uh we've
[01:20:10] raised it's going to be uh it's going to
[01:20:14] cost right in the neighborhood of 300
[01:20:16] million. It's been expanded and made.
[01:20:19] Absolutely. It'll be the most beautiful
[01:20:21] ballroom anywhere in the world, I think.
[01:20:23] And how much specifically are you
[01:20:24] donating to it personally?
[01:20:25] >> How much am I donating? I won't be able
[01:20:27] to tell you until I finish, but I'll
[01:20:29] donate whatever is needed. I'll tell you
[01:20:31] that.
[01:20:36] >> Do I have a name for the
[01:20:38] >> I won't get into that now.
[01:20:42] >> Yeah. Go ahead, please.
[01:20:43] >> Follow up on the shutdown. In the next
[01:20:45] couple days, a lot of Americans are
[01:20:47] going to go without their first full
[01:20:48] paychecks.
[01:20:49] workers. A man, a friend of mine,
[01:20:51] talking about donors, a friend of mine,
[01:20:53] a man that's great. I'm not going to use
[01:20:55] his name unless he lets me do it.
[01:20:57] >> Uh Susie can tell you about this, but he
[01:21:00] was uh he called us the other day and he
[01:21:02] said, "I'd like to contribute any
[01:21:04] shortfall you have because of the
[01:21:06] Democrat shutdown. Uh I'd like to
[01:21:08] contribute personally contribute any
[01:21:10] shortfall you have with the military
[01:21:12] because I love the military and I love
[01:21:14] the country. And any shortfall, if
[01:21:16] there's a shortfall, I'll contribute
[01:21:17] it." And today he sent us a check for
[01:21:21] $130
[01:21:23] million. Do
[01:21:24] >> you share who that is?
[01:21:26] >> I would love to tell you he deserves he
[01:21:28] doesn't really want the recognition if
[01:21:30] you want to know the truth. But he gave
[01:21:32] us a check for $130 million
[01:21:35] >> and that's going to go
[01:21:36] >> which was sort of a shortfall. Yeah.
[01:21:38] >> And that's going to go to the military.
[01:21:40] Yeah.
[01:21:40] >> And what's your message?
[01:21:41] >> Is that the correct number? $130
[01:21:44] million. That's what I call a patriot.
[01:21:48] Okay, thank you very much everybody.
[01:21:50] Thank you. Thank you.
[01:21:52] [Applause]
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