Donald Trump LIVE: 'Lockdown Now' — Immediate Order Sends Shockwaves Across Nation — US News

[0:00] 25,000 kilograms of cocaine seized and thanks to our Department of Justice partners who had [0:04] 2,100 indictments in three months from June to September alone. Mr. President, that in and of [0:12] itself would be historic for a four-year presidency. You did that in seven months because you let good [0:17] cops be cops and you partnered us with the right people, the Department of Justice, to put the [0:21] handcuffs on and bring them to court and put them in prison. And if that weren't enough, when you [0:26] look at the year for the entire seven-month period that we're talking about here, if you look at the [0:30] past four years of the Biden administration, 16,000, 17,000, 15,000, 15,000, that's the number [0:37] of arrests year over year of violent felons in this country for the Biden administration. Mr. President, [0:43] in seven months, you have 28,600 arrests of violent feminists in just seven months alone because of [0:51] your leadership and the dedication of the men and women at the FBI who want to go out there and do [0:55] the job. They were prevented from doing because that department used to be weaponized and politicized. [1:00] And this is what happens when you take out the fangs of weaponization. This number is historic by every [1:05] metric. 28,000 people have been arrested, violent felons alone. And then when you go over there and look [1:11] at some of these charts, if you don't mind, I'll just hop over here. Look at the metrics for not just [1:18] by the crime, but the homeland. Mr. President, during your administration, the FBI has found and located [1:25] 5,400 children. That is a 30% increase year to date over the last administration. Violent crime [1:33] against children arrests alone are up 10%. Gang arrests are up 210% in the last seven months alone. [1:41] And transnational organized crime, which Stephen Miller has been a great partner in, [1:45] is up over 12% alone. These numbers are historic just as a snapshot. But just so people don't think [1:52] we're focusing on violent crime alone. The national security mission, Mr. President, [1:56] your leadership has never been stronger. We have gone after espionage activities against our main [2:01] counterparts in China, Russia, and Iran. In China alone, we've had over a 50% increase in espionage [2:08] arrests alone in prosecution. In Iran, we have had a 50% increase, again, in espionage cases. And in Russia, [2:17] we've had a 33% increase in espionage cases alone. When it comes to counterterrorism, year to date, [2:24] we have 125 arrests this year versus 100 last year, year to date alone. And when it comes to the [2:30] cybercriminal activities, which are some of the largest enterprises plaguing everyday Americans, [2:34] we at the FBI have put out a mission to go after cybercriminals like never before. Last year, [2:40] they have, in total, 191. This year, you already have 252 arrests, 52 arrests of violent cybercriminals [2:49] who are stealing from senior citizens, who are violating our children's rights and freedoms, [2:53] and who are violating everyday Americans. These programs are a record. And some of the two of the [2:59] things I'll finish with that I'm most proud of, Mr. President, this FBI, fentanyl. As you know, [3:03] it's a scourge that's killing our youth, 100,000 plus a year. To date, the FBI has seized 1900 kilograms [3:10] of fentanyl. That's enough lethal doses to kill 127 million Americans alone, to date. And if that [3:17] weren't enough, Mr. President, you said, we have to go after the worst of the worst. And you empowered [3:23] our Department of Justice, our Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, and the Deputy Director [3:27] of the FBI led the charge, not just on summer heat, but he also led the charge to the FBI's 10 most [3:33] wanted fugitive. These people have been on the run for years. And in seven months, you captured [3:38] not one, not two, not three, but four of the FBI's most top 10 fugitives. Four. And just [3:44] to put that in perspective, Mr. President, the Biden administration captured four in all four [3:48] years. You're on seven, and we're going to get to 10. We're going to get to 10 of 10. [3:52] This includes a lady who murdered her six-year-old handicapped child in Pleasant India. We got her [3:56] in two months. This includes a narco trafficker. This includes a sex trafficker. This includes [4:01] another cursory murder and gangbang. These people were on the run because of the prior [4:06] administration's reckless policies that destroyed our communities. And you came in and the mandate [4:11] said, go after the worst of the worst. This is just the beginning. This is what happens [4:15] when you let big cops be good cops at the FBI. Mr. President, I just want to thank you for [4:19] your incredible leadership, our brave partnership with prosecutors who know how to bring cases [4:25] and make sure these arrests stick. And that's what the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney [4:29] General have led the charge across this country. Because arrests without prosecutions are meaningless. [4:33] We are deterring criminals from doing this activity. We are preventing criminals from coming [4:38] into America. And we are absolutely crushing violent crime at the level of reform and defending [4:43] this homeland, sir. And not to mention, I almost forgot this one. It took you, sir, two weeks [4:48] to get the aggregate bomber. Joe Biden had four years to look for him. He got him in two weeks. [4:55] The FBI and the CIA went to Pakistan and found 13 brave warriors who were sent to see murder [4:59] because of the disaster that the Afghanistan had thrown. They have justice. Their families [5:02] have the peace of mind. And we're going to continue to find the others, Mr. President. [5:05] On behalf of the FBI, sir, I just want to thank you. [5:07] President Trump, the men and women of law enforcement say two things to me repeatedly. [5:18] First, you have taken the handcuffs off them and let them do their jobs. And you let cops [5:25] be cops. That's why all this is happening. The director, the deputy director, are working [5:31] around the clock. All of these great men and women in the FBI, they have, think about, they [5:36] have families at home. And they are working during a government shutdown right now. Many [5:41] of them have small children. Many of them, I was talking to an agent this morning, many of [5:46] them have babies at home. And they are working around the clock to not only keep our country, [5:52] but our world safe. And that's what Operation Summer Heat did. Thank you, director and to [5:58] the deputy director for everything you did on behalf of the Department of Justice. And you're [6:02] going to continue to keep doing. And they set the stage for what we're doing in Memphis. [6:08] You're going to hear a lot more about that, our joint task force next week. But they set [6:13] the stage for Memphis. And last night alone in Memphis, there were almost 70 arrests. There [6:18] were 12 guns seized. And there was a 70-year-old man arrested as a result of our operation in [6:24] Memphis who raped a child under the age of three. That one case makes everything we're doing worthwhile. [6:31] So thank you all for being here on behalf of both of us. Thank you, President Trump. [6:36] Thank you. Todd, do you want to say something? [6:38] Sure. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. So this is a great day. And I think there's [6:42] stats that the director talked about which are important. But I want to give two examples [6:47] of what Summer Heat has done that actually will apply hopefully to everybody in this room. The [6:53] first is for over four years, during the last administration, there was a hotel in a town, [7:00] the middle of a town in Alaska, that was being run as a drug den. There were over 1,000 calls [7:07] to 911 over four, four and a half year period. There were multiple violent crimes, drug dealers, [7:16] overdoses and murders at this one hotel, ruining a community. Summer Heat went in there. It's not [7:23] only arrested all the participants that were controlling the hotel, but seized the hotel. And [7:28] so that's one example of what Summer Heat means to everyday Americans that just want to live in peace. [7:33] The second example is a large narcotics trafficking group that was selling fentanyl in the state of [7:39] Washington. They were shipping fentanyl using commercial aircraft, putting fentanyl pills and [7:46] powder in suitcases, flying them from the southwest border, mostly Arizona, all the way to [7:52] Washington. It had been going on for an extremely long time. And the entire organization was [7:57] arrested. And I say those two examples because it's easy to look at the board and see 1,000 arrests. [8:03] How much different is our communities now compared to the past four years? But there's actual life [8:09] examples. Every one of these arrests means that our streets are safer. And that's because of the work of [8:15] this administration, of President Trump and Director Patel. So I will tell you, Attorney General [8:20] Bondi and I are together every day with Director Patel, figuring out ways that we can continue to do [8:25] this work. And it's not going to stop like the Attorney General said and like the President said. This is [8:31] just the beginning or phase one or a start, whatever you want to say. But it will continue on. So thank you, [8:37] Mr. President, and thank you very much. Director Patel. [8:39] Director Patel, and Mr. President, just one last thank you from the men and [8:41] women at the FBI. You found a way to get these individuals paid during a [8:45] government shutdown, our 1811 agents. So on behalf of the FBI, it's a great debt that we owe you, sir. [8:51] They're now allowed to pay for their families. So thank you. [8:53] And the military. Good? [8:54] That's right. [8:55] Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. Any questions, please? [9:00] Brian, go ahead. [9:01] First of all, I know the feedback I'm getting from the American people, but they want to say thank you. [9:06] Law and order is not an option in this country. It's a mandate. So I know the American people, [9:10] thank you for that. In terms of the guns that have been taken off the street, do you have a number [9:15] of how many guns were taken away from someone that had a prior felony or a previous crime that [9:21] perhaps we can prosecute that? Because I know that wasn't the case of a Joe Biden. [9:25] We don't take guns off the streets of people that are allowed to have guns. So every gun that we're [9:30] taking off the street is because it belongs to somebody who is not allowed to have it. Could be a felon. [9:34] Could be somebody who hears illegally. There's all sorts of conditions. But if there's a gun [9:39] taken off the streets by the FBI, it's because the person who has it is not allowed to. It's [9:43] not somebody who's lawfully allowed to have it. So every single one of those guns were taken [9:47] off of people that aren't allowed to have it. [9:49] And not including the FBI, all of the other agencies. ATF alone since January 20th has [9:55] removed over 25,000 illegal guns off our streets just since President Trump's been in office. [10:02] Mr. President, if I could follow up on that. Could there be any further conversation to have [10:06] national concealed carry apply to actual D.C.? Like if you had a driver's license in Texas and you had a permit, [10:14] of course, you could drive. [10:15] Well, as you know, they've been talking about that for a long time. It's an interesting question. [10:19] A lot of people feel strongly both ways. But we are talking about that, Brian. Thank you. [10:23] Mr. President, on Venezuelans boats, I want to ask you why not have the Coast Guard stop them, [10:30] which it is empowered by law to do. You know, this way you can confirm who's on the boat and ensure that they're doing what they would suspect. [10:37] Because we've been doing that for 30 years and it has been totally ineffective. [10:42] They have faster boats. Some of these boats are seriously, I mean, they're world-class speedboats. [10:49] And but they're not faster than missiles. But we've been trying to do that for years. [10:54] And so much of the drugs, 25, 30 percent would come in through the seas. [10:59] Right now, we have, I would say, none coming in through the seas. In fact, I don't know about the fishing industry. [11:04] If you want to go fishing, a lot of people aren't deciding to even go fishing. [11:08] We've almost totally stopped it by sea. Now we'll stop it by land. [11:13] But it never worked. It never worked when, you know, when you did it in a very politically correct manner. [11:20] What's the next step in this war on cartels? And are you considering options, are you considering strikes on land? [11:26] Well, I don't want to tell you exactly, but we are certainly looking at land now because we've got the sea very well under control. [11:32] We've had a couple of days where there isn't a boat to be found. [11:36] And that, I view that as a good thing, not a bad thing. [11:39] But we had tremendous amounts coming in by boats, by very expensive boats. [11:42] You know, they have a lot of money. Very fast, very expensive boats that were pretty big. [11:47] And the way you look at it is every boat that we knock out, we save 25,000 American lives. [11:53] So every time you see a boat and you feel badly, you say, wow, that's rough. [11:58] It is rough. But if you lose three people and save 25,000 people, these are people that are killing our population. [12:05] Every boat is saving 25,000 lives. And you can see it. The boats get hit. [12:10] And you see that fentanyl all over the ocean. It's like floating in bags. It's all over the place. [12:15] And it's a tremendous — we're saving tremendous amounts of lives. [12:22] Yeah, please. [12:23] Mr. President, I know you've talked about — I have a question for you, and then I also have a question for Director Patel. [12:28] I know you talked about having some distaste for Boston recently. [12:33] Is this one of the cities that you might be looking into? [12:35] And can you give us a hint about other cities that you might be sending federal — [12:38] You're saying for where? For where? [12:39] For Boston. [12:40] Well, Boston has a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. [12:46] You know, most of them are low IQ. But — and they're so bad. [12:49] I mean, what's going on in Chicago is just — you'd think the guy would say, [12:53] Hey, look, we have a problem, Mr. President. Could you come in and straighten it out? [12:58] I could have that — we could have that done in a month if we had their cooperation. [13:02] It's going to be done anyway. But we could have it done in a month. [13:05] Yeah, Boston, she's got four areas that are, you know, wrong. [13:09] And, you know, somebody said, Would we take — would we think about taking the World Cup away from Boston [13:14] if they don't straighten it out? [13:16] And the answer is yes. We have the right to do that with FIFA. [13:19] So if we think that L.A. is going to be bad or we think — [13:22] That applies a little bit to the Olympics, too. But we'll talk about FIFA first. [13:25] You know, FIFA is very hot. If we think there's any reason that, [13:30] whether it's Boston or anywhere else, that they're not doing their job, [13:33] we're going to take that — those World Cup games and move them someplace else. [13:37] Thank you. And then, Director Patel, there's been so many conspiracy theories swirling around [13:42] about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Do you have any updates for us, [13:45] especially in light of all the online content that everyone's been talking about? [13:48] The only thing we deal with at the FBI and the Department of Justice is facts. [13:52] And we delivered in record speed a manhunt to capture Charlie Kirk's alleged assassination in 33 hours. [13:57] And if you put that in perspective, to Luigi Mangione with a Boston bomber, [14:00] they took them five days and a police officer lost their life in their manhunt. [14:04] We are running out absolutely every single lead. [14:06] And the best thing we can do to honor my friend Charlie Kirk's life [14:09] is to make sure that everyone involved is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. [14:12] And that's what we're focused on — investigating the facts, not trading in conspiracy theories. [14:16] Okay. [14:17] Mr. President, thank you so much. [14:19] Thank you. [14:20] The Press. [14:21] The Press. [14:22] The Press. [14:23] The Press. [14:24] In light of China's export curbs on rare earths, do you view India as a reliable partner going forward? [14:27] And are you planning to meet Prime Minister Modi in Malaysia? [14:31] Are you open to talks in terms of — [14:33] The President. [14:34] Yeah, sure. [14:35] He's a friend of mine. [14:36] We have a great relationship. [14:37] He just said that two days ago, as you know. [14:39] We have a great relationship. [14:40] No, we were not happy with him buying oil from Russia, because that lets Russia continue on with this ridiculous war, [14:48] where they've lost a million and a half people. [14:50] the way Russia has lost a million and a half people soldiers mostly this is a [14:55] war that should have never started but it's a war that Russia should have won [14:58] in the first week and they're going into the fourth year and I want to see it [15:03] stop so I was not happy that India was buying oil and he assured me today that [15:08] they will not be buying oil from Russia that's a big stop now I got to get China [15:14] to do the same thing you know that that is relatively easy compared to what we [15:19] just did over the last week in the Middle East Middle East was three [15:23] thousand years and we got it done this is three years and I think we'll get it [15:29] done I think that Putin President Putin I think is gonna I think he wants to get [15:33] it done we'll see there's a great animosity between him and Zelensky you probably [15:38] have noticed right and it's I think it's hurting the process yeah yeah please [15:43] thank you curious why did you authorize the CIA to go into Venezuela and is [15:49] there more information you can share about these strikes on the alleged well [15:53] I can't do that but I authorized for two reasons really number one they have [15:58] emptied their prisons into the United States of America they came in through [16:02] the well they came in through the border they came in because we had an open [16:08] border policy and as soon as I heard that I said a lot of these countries [16:11] they're not the only country but they're the worst abuser and they've entered [16:15] there they've they've allowed thousands and thousands of prisoners mental [16:21] institution people from mental institutions insane asylums emptied out [16:26] into the United States we're bringing them back but that's a really bad and they [16:30] did it at a level that probably not many many countries have done it but not like [16:34] Venezuela they were down and dirty and the other thing of drugs we have a lot of [16:38] drugs coming in from Venezuela and a lot of the Venezuelan drugs come in [16:42] through the sea so you get to see that but we're going to stop them by land also [16:46] does the CIA have authority to take out Maduro oh I don't want to answer a [16:50] question like that that's a ridiculous question for me to be given not really a [16:54] ridiculous question but wouldn't it be a ridiculous question for me to answer but [16:59] I think Venezuela is feeling heat but I think a lot of other countries are [17:03] feeling heat too we're not going to let this country our country be ruined because [17:07] other people want to drop as you say their worst they they have given us [17:12] their worst they've loaded up our country with prisoners with with mentally ill [17:17] people that are seriously ill criminally ill and we're not going to take it and so [17:23] I mean it's just one of those things and I can tell you we've taken care of the [17:28] sea there's nobody and we're watching we're watching and if we see it we'll save it [17:32] yeah please there are Republicans and Democrats up on the Hill concerned that [17:38] in the briefings they've gotten about those attacks they're not necessarily [17:42] getting information about who was on them and what exactly was on those ships can [17:45] you well but they are given information that they were loaded up with drugs and [17:50] that's the thing that matters when they're loaded up with drugs they're fair [17:54] game and every one of those ships were they're not ships they're their boats [17:58] they're speed boats they're extremely fast record-setting type speed boats that [18:03] cost a lot of money and they have a lot of money because they're drug sellers but [18:07] they know one thing and they all have the same thing in common there's there's [18:13] drug dust they call it drug dust they call it fentanyl dust all over the boat [18:17] after those bombs go off and you can take a long we know we know before we know when [18:25] they go out we know we have much information about each boat that goes out deep strong [18:31] information yeah please [18:33] sir you're gonna have one of your solicitor this week what is your message at this stage of the [18:39] war for him and shy of to who is it for Zelensky yeah shy of talks for Ukraine are you [18:46] considering other options and will you speak with no we're looking at other options we are [18:51] president Zelensky is coming in I'm not a fan of the war I'm not a fan of the way it started it [18:58] should have never happened it wouldn't have started if I were president the election was rigged and [19:04] because of that we lost a lot of lives have been lost because of that we're not American lives but [19:10] if I can save a lot of lives that's why I'm in it I want to save lives I've I've had eight wars the [19:16] prime minister of Pakistan got up the other day said so beautifully says you saved millions of lives [19:22] he told that to a group of people right in this office he said the president saved millions of [19:27] lives and I think what he's referring to is the fact that that would have been with India nuclear war [19:31] that was getting very close you know seven planes they don't talk about it but seven aircraft were [19:37] shot in fact we have the new ambassador to India right here they're well represented you better [19:43] represent us not them okay but Sergio is going to do a great job he's going to do a great job but [19:49] no we'll be talking about the war with with him and we'll be talking about I mean they want they [19:55] want to go offensive I'll make a determination on that but they would like to go offensive you know [20:02] that and we'll have to make a determination you mean deranged Jack he's a deranged [20:14] individual you know well they should I'm surprised it takes so long you know we're talking about [20:19] violent crime what about the crime against a political opponent that's what we have to talk [20:24] about too I think it was the worst weaponization of a political opponent in the history of the world let [20:39] alone this country and I hope that everybody's you know they're involved in it I'm not I I'm the one [20:45] that had to suffer through it and ultimately win but what they did was criminal deranged Jack Smith in [20:53] my opinion is a criminal and I noticed his his interviewer was I think that was Weissman and I hope [21:00] they're going to look into Weissman too Weissman's a bad guy and he had somebody in Lisa who was his [21:06] puppet worked in the office really as the top person and I think that she should be looked at [21:15] very strongly it there was tremendous criminal activity having to do if we don't have fair [21:20] elections in this country we're not going to have a country and I've said it from the beginning fair [21:24] elections and border borders and we need also fair press because if you don't have fair press it's very [21:30] tough and we've got the strongest border of anybody nobody has a border we have a border where [21:37] the numbers just came out again you saw zero people came in illegally now we do take people [21:42] into our country legally but zero people but you know you're talking about a different subject you're [21:47] talking about political crime they have committed massive political crime I hope they're looking at [21:54] shifty shift I hope they're looking at all these people and I'm allowed to find out I'm allowed to you [21:59] know I'm in theory the chief law enforcement officer but I have a very good talented group this is about [22:05] something else but I hope they're looking at political crime because there's never been so much [22:09] political crime against a political opponent as what I had to go through they raided my house in [22:16] Florida it was an illegal raid I have a lawsuit that was doing very well and when I became president I [22:22] said I'm sort of suing myself I don't know what he has settled the lawsuit I'll say give me x dollars [22:28] right and I don't know what to do with the lawsuit it's a great lawsuit and now I won it sort of looks [22:33] bad I'm suing myself right so I don't know but but that was a lawsuit that was a very strong very [22:39] powerful they raided illegally my house in Florida Mar-a-Lago they went through the drawers of my young [22:46] son they went through all of the cabinets and drawers of the first lady she walked in she said wow what [22:53] happened because she's very meticulous and this wasn't so meticulous as she looked into the drawers and [23:00] she saw everything a mess it's it's uh just what they did against the person that just got out of [23:06] office and then you look at these corrupt people you look at Hunter Biden you look at the signature [23:11] as an example the auto pen I just signed so many different things an admiral a four-star general that [23:18] I'm signing them left and right the commissions and by the way I want to compliment John Thune [23:22] and also Mike our great speaker but John Thune all of a sudden I'm getting these things by the hundreds [23:29] I was getting one every two weeks it would have been four years before you got them in more you [23:34] would have had some that didn't even get in all because of Democrat obstruction so John Thune did [23:40] a great job I signed I must have signed 200 into the administration we're just about caught up it's [23:46] amazing and so compliments to John he had to do some things that were very tough to do that [23:51] he didn't want to do but he was forced to do it by the Democrats and as far as the shutdown is [23:56] concerned this is a Democrat Schumer shutdown and he's trying to do it to get relevance back into [24:02] the party because he's a loser I've known him all his life he's always been sort of a loser but an [24:07] intelligent one but I think he's losing IQ points with time I think that happens I hope it hasn't [24:12] happened with me I know if it did you guys will let me know about it very quickly [24:17] yeah it's incredible in no jail time that's justice Janine Pirro is doing a fantastic job and she is [24:33] beside herself because you have these radical left judges that they beat the hell out of this guy and [24:39] it was many people against this one guy who was really trying to protect his girlfriend he didn't [24:45] when he's hooded over the door because but they really beat him up badly that just happened right [24:51] wow that's terrible I think the judge should be ashamed of himself that's a big problem you know [24:59] they can do their job and then they go into a court and the people are protected by these I don't know [25:04] where they come from where do these people come from where did the judges come from I want to [25:08] compliment on behalf of Pam and Todd and all of us because cash I think that Janine has done a fantastic job [25:15] and the case I heard was like flawless it's a flawless case they have them on tape they have [25:20] everything and then a judge gives them a little probation it's very these are these are rough guys [25:25] and they're young and if that happens they're going to grow up they're going to be real bad [25:31] they're going to cause they're going to cause a lot of problems yeah please go ahead [25:35] what were the conversations like with Prime Minister Modi and the other I think they were great [25:43] he reported to me that you're great he's a great man you know Modi is a great man that he he loves [25:52] Trump now I don't know if the word love I don't want you to take that any different I don't want [25:57] to destroy his political career okay but you have to understand I've watched India for years it's an [26:02] incredible country and every single year you'd have a new leader I mean some would be in there for a [26:07] few months and this was year after year after year and my friend has been there now for a long time [26:13] and he is and he's assured me there will be no oil purchased from Russia I don't know maybe that's [26:18] a breaking story can I say that would you say there will be no oil he's not buying his oil from Russia [26:23] it started you know you can't do it immediately it's a little bit of a process but the process is [26:28] going to be over with soon and all we want from President Putin is stop this stop killing Ukraines [26:35] and stop killing Russians because he's killing a lot of Russians again it doesn't make him look good [26:41] it's a war that he should have won in one week and he's now going into his fourth year [26:45] that does not look this make this big so-called war machine look good but he could make a settlement [26:54] we're willing to settle I thought we had a deal the hatred of the two leaders is very it's an obstacle [27:01] it's an obstacle there's no question about it but I thought we had a deal two months ago [27:06] who would think I created peace in the Middle East and can't get the two guys to settle but I think [27:13] we'll get them but if India doesn't buy oil it makes it much easier and they're not going to buy [27:20] they assured me they will within a short period of time they will not be buying oil from Russia [27:24] and they'll go back to Russia after the war is open over Jennifer [27:27] on the shutdown sir are FBI officials being paid right now are all the FBI employees being paid [27:33] well that's what I understand I hope so [27:35] thanks to your great work Mr. President [27:38] got a lot of people paid actually [27:43] we got the people that we want paid paid okay and we want the FBI paid we want the military paid [27:50] we got the people that we want paid and I'll tell you the Democrats they don't talk about this [27:55] you know we're getting rid of programs that we didn't like but that were negotiated in but we [28:02] didn't like we're terminating those programs and they're going to be terminated on a permanent basis [28:06] and it's thousands of people and it's it's you know billions of dollars we're getting rid of a lot [28:12] of things that we never wanted because of the fact that they made this stupid move and their day coming [28:18] up and they want to have their day in the sun but they should really make a deal so what we're doing [28:25] I mean they call him Darth Vader but he's actually a very nice person Russell Vogt but Russell Vogt is [28:32] is really terminating tremendous numbers of Democrat projects this is not only jobs I mean the project [28:40] in Manhattan the project in New York it's billions and billions of dollars that Schumer [28:46] has worked 20 years to get it's terminated tell him it's terminated Jennifer all right [28:53] what is your understanding of the pace of returning the deceased hostages are you [29:01] well they're looking for absolutely they're looking so we have the living hostages all back [29:06] they returned some more today it's a gruesome process I almost hate to talk about it so [29:12] but they're digging they're actually digging there are areas where they're digging and they're finding [29:17] a lot of bodies then they have to separate the bodies you wouldn't believe this this is [29:22] and some of those bodies have been in there a long time and some of them are under rubble [29:27] they have to remove rubble but there are graves and some are some are in tunnels that are that [29:34] that died in tunnels that are way down under the earth and the tunnels are like three feet can [29:41] you believe it three feet high they lived like this for a long period of time it's a horrible it's a [29:46] horrible atrocity at the same time we meaning Israel but I knew everything they were doing pretty much [29:53] I knew most of the things they were doing but they've killed probably 70,000 of these people Hamas [30:01] and I said it's time now so we'll see what happens we'll also see what happens your next question is going [30:07] to be the weapons we want the weapons to be given up sacrificed and they've agreed to do it now they [30:13] have to do it if they don't do it we'll do it today suggest that Hamas needs to hurry up and disarm [30:21] and follow your comprehensive plan that it was the head of CENTCOM saying that is that not a signal [30:26] to Hamas to the rest of the world that at some point the U.S. military more made more directly engaged [30:31] we won't need the U.S. military we won't need it well because we're very much involved in it if we weren't [30:37] involved there wouldn't be peace if we didn't destroy the nuclear capability of Iran that deal [30:46] would have never happened for two reasons the Arab nations would not have felt bold enough to do it [30:50] because you have a very powerful at that time Iran is not powerful anymore between what we what Israel [30:57] and us did because you know the attack was was if you look at it we helped them very much they will be [31:03] the first to tell you including shooting down thousands of drones that were coming into Israel you [31:07] know we shot them down we were shooting them down like it was target practice but we shot down [31:13] thousands of drones and missiles also going into Israel but between what we did to Iran that way [31:21] with the you know conventional we will call it and what that beauty see that beautiful plane that [31:27] beat till I notice it on the desk I always thought it was beautiful but I never understood it now I [31:31] understand it took in hundreds of thousands of bombs in the form of two but hundreds of thousands of [31:39] pounds of bombs and every single bomb hit perfectly then they sent tomahawks and they sent 30 tomahawks [31:46] on top of it and that was totally you know CNN said well maybe it wasn't as bad as you know as Trump said [31:53] because I said obliterated obliterated is not a strong enough word actually and you saw the Atomic [32:00] Energy Commission came out and said the word obliteration is very very they think of it they [32:06] came in under potential fire they entered Iran airspace late at night in the dark no moon the moon [32:15] was low for a reason was the what time we picked it couldn't see anything and they hit every target [32:20] and they weren't hit nobody saw that plane that plane of stealth nobody said the problem with that is [32:27] it may be still today but tomorrow it won't be and we just ordered about 20 brand new B2 bombers it's [32:34] unbelievable as a weapon I know Putin when I was riding with him in Alaska we passed a lot of them [32:40] and he said that really did the trick I said yeah it did it's amazing the flying wing it's no reason for [32:47] the US military to get involved in Gaza no I don't see that no I think we're going to handle it very well [32:52] we'll be helping Israel but we have other countries that are now you know we signed many many countries [32:57] signed and many of those countries relatively are very strong military powers and Hamas has no [33:03] support see Hamas had the support of Iran and now Iran says don't get us involved the last time they [33:10] got them involved didn't work out too well so they used to have the support of Iran today Iran is they're [33:18] trying to survive you know when I heard the reports two weeks ago Iran's looking to build a nuclear [33:23] weapon I said don't worry about it they got a lot of things they want to do before nuclear weapons [33:28] I said the last thing they want to do is a nuclear weapon it didn't work out and if they did a nuclear [33:34] weapon before they got even close that site would be attacked and it would be wiped out [33:38] Mr. President you're meeting with President Xi in a few weeks if you can't come to an agreement or a deal [33:45] at that meeting are we in for a sustained trade war with China well you're in one now look we have [33:52] a hundred percent tariff if we didn't have tariffs we would be exposed as being a nothing we would have [34:00] no defense you know they've used tariffs on us but we've never had anybody sitting in that chair that [34:07] felt the need to do it and and they've allowed us to be 37 trillion dollars in debt etc etc [34:15] we tariffs are a very important tool for our defense for our national security if we don't [34:21] have tariffs we're not going to have national security as an example if you look at Pakistan [34:28] and Iran I told them I was in the midst of negotiating a trade deal with actually with Iran and Pakistan [34:35] was going to be in line and because of tariffs they all want to negotiate much differently we'll make [34:41] it a good deal and then I heard that they're shooting at each other and I said during one of [34:46] my conversations are you guys going to go to war two nuclear powers we are thinking about I said here's [34:52] the deal you go to war I'm going to put a 200 percent tariff I'm going to stop you from doing any [34:57] business in the United States I said it to both of them within 24 hours the war ended that would have [35:03] been a nuclear war and again the prime minister of Pakistan who was here two weeks ago said that that [35:10] man saved many millions of lives in front of a whole group of people because he thought it was [35:15] going to be war but when it came to war or having to pay massive tariffs the tariffs overrode that's [35:22] why it's so important not only the money we're taking in trillions of dollars not only the money [35:27] the power to keep peace the power to be used for good is enormous but a lot of people didn't [35:36] understand tariffs it's also made us very rich we have a big case coming up in the Supreme Court and [35:42] I will tell you that's one of the most important cases in the history of our country because if we [35:48] don't win that case we will be a weakened troubled financial mess for many many years to come I don't [35:58] even know if survivable you know survivable is is a good term and if we do we're going to be the most [36:04] powerful economic country in the world and all we're doing is using them as a defense against [36:11] what's what took place for many years China would charge us tariffs it was incredible but we weren't [36:16] allowed to charge and we were so we're allowed to do whatever we want we just had presidents that [36:21] didn't want to do it for whatever reason and it was nothing but of the eight wars I was saying seven [36:27] of the eight wars I would say tariffs are response directly responsible for me ending six of them [36:34] five or six without the tariffs you have wars raging all over the world with the tariffs other than Russia [36:42] we have no wars out there and we've made a lot of good friends too tariffs are so important to our new [36:52] our national security if we don't have tariffs we don't have national security our country would would [37:00] suffer a level that because they use so strongly on us as an example the European Union they won't [37:08] take our cars they won't take our agriculture they won't take anything but they send their cars in [37:13] Mercedes BMW Volkswagen by the millions we don't send any cars they don't take them they were tariffing us [37:20] out agricultural products they don't take our agriculture they want their farmers to do it I understand [37:26] that but it was very unfair and they were tariffing our product they're keeping out by using tariffs [37:31] and we didn't use it but I used them and now we made one of the great deals with your 650 billion [37:39] dollars they pay us and we've evened it out it's really a good thing to see and you have to understand [37:46] they've all signed Japan South Korea I mean South Korea 350 billion dollars up front Japan 650 billion [37:55] dollars and they've all agreed to it they're all happy but before it was a total ripoff and if we [38:02] don't have the use of tariffs we have no national security this country will have no financial [38:07] security will not have national security and the people that brought the lawsuit are people that are [38:12] aligned with foreign nations that are now being treated fairly as opposed to just ripping us off and [38:20] ripping us asunder so but if we don't if we are not allowed to use what other people use against us [38:27] there's no defense it would be a disaster for America that's why I think I'm going to go to [38:32] the Supreme Court to watch it I've not done that and I had some pretty big cases this is I think it's [38:37] I think it's one of the most important cases ever brought because we will be defenseless against the [38:45] world okay did you have one yes please thank you mr. president um I want to ask you about the [38:54] georgia senate race I know it's very early but there's several republicans in that field that are [38:58] vying for your endorsement a lot of good people in that field yes no I know I haven't made a decision [39:04] on that but you have some very good people in the georgia senate race well governor has endorsed [39:11] no no the governor has he's spoken to me about it a lot he likes that candidate a lot and I understand [39:18] that I haven't made a decision yet but I'm following that race very carefully I think it's very important [39:24] for georgia to get a real senator because the senator they have now is a horrible senator he he allows [39:30] all the crime all the borders you have open borders I mean his whole philosophy is a disaster [39:35] that's not representative of the people of georgia I know the people of georgia I won georgia [39:39] three times but they say twice okay I wanted very big the last time and I want to big the first time [39:47] and I want to big the second time but we had criminals that didn't allow I mean they I hope [39:53] they're going to go into that I hope they go into the votes which are being stored in fulton county [39:57] and take a look at a real look at those votes okay because I want it the second time too [40:02] but I know georgia very well I love georgia those people are great [40:06] and they deserve a good senator because the man they have now is a [40:10] weak ineffective person okay [40:13] by the way you won georgia three times [40:20] do you agree with me he's the media for someone that he spends a lot of time in georgia I believe [40:26] you won that uh I really have a question you know the word believe isn't strong enough right [40:31] you know I know I want to oh we have the great newt gingrich newt you agree with us good otherwise [40:39] I have him dismissed immediately from you know his wife as you know is becoming an ambassador to a [40:45] great country calista so congratulations and we're going to take a picture and uh the only [40:51] reason I'm doing he speaks so well of me he said I'll go down as the greatest president in history [40:57] and then he blew it he said I'm not sure if I put him above Washington or Lincoln [41:02] so I'm not that happy about that dude [41:05] I had a question about the weaponization of the doj the media often says your department [41:10] is weaponizing the doj that's the opposite it's the opposite todd you represented president trump [41:16] and probably the greatest weaponization uh of the doj by alvin bragg you know firsthand if you [41:23] can describe what you saw under the biden administration how they weaponized the doj well [41:29] i mean i think it's hard to describe what happened in the last four years after president trump [41:37] alvin bragg a local prosecutor his office staffed by some of the media [41:41] jack smith picked as a special counsel staffs his entire office with doj prosecutors [41:48] and then there are countless things that happen all all in writing most of them on the docket [41:53] that require no explanation except a complete abomination of the place that the attorney [41:59] all night long now and the director itself so when people talk about this department [42:03] weaponizing it's embarrassing because there's no scenario where you can look at what we're [42:09] doing restoring justice doing the right thing in every single case and say that that's weaponization [42:16] and yet remain eerily silent about what happened for the past three years and we read these articles [42:23] and giggle because it cannot be true that people really think that what they did to him [42:28] not once not twice i'm still counting three four times but we're the ones that are weaponizing [42:35] this man is not weaponizing the department of justice we're not weaponizing the department of [42:39] justice it's the opposite i mean and also nobody questions what i'm saying because it's true [42:44] because we all lived the past four years so listen they never want to bring up the details [42:50] but i i watch the fake news and oh he's weaponized and he wants to send them to prison he wants all [42:58] they they indicted me like five times i took a mug shot who would have thought it turned out to my [43:07] favor because it was a good shot but i had to take a mug shot it's right out there in the door [43:11] new york post front page of the every paper in the world i had a mug shot they wanted to send me nobody [43:18] says that they say he's acting very very tough he's acting unfair let me tell you [43:24] if they've been nice to anybody it's to those criminals because they are so good having to do [43:31] with all of the things we're talking about today with violent crime but if anything i think this [43:37] justice department has been so respectful of the law because the other justice department [43:43] with rita or lisa and all of that scum real scum what they did to the political opponent of a guy that [43:53] has a seriously low ikea now in his case it was it was low based on his career but it got real low [44:03] okay it was descending rapidly but what they did to go after his political opponent is legendary [44:13] worse than any third world country banana republic and what we're doing is nothing are you kidding [44:22] nothing they write stories why aren't they doing this this and we'll leave i don't have to leave it [44:30] up to them but i choose to at this moment at least but there's never been anybody treated in the history [44:37] of politics you know they say the two worst treated presidents by the media etc was that man right there [44:44] the late great abraham lincoln and this grant right there andrew jackson they say andrew jackson was [44:52] treated terribly they give him number one and number two but that was before i came along newt i say i [44:59] have number one times ten nobody's been uh and make better the white house and that's really what's [45:07] happened and we're getting tremendous reviews and we appreciate it but we're here for a different [45:12] reason it's called operation summer heat which is an appropriate term in light of what we're doing [45:18] and early yesterday morning i returned from the middle east where we celebrated a historic agreement [45:23] to end years of suffering and conflict amazing every country came together [45:29] i mean even the enemies came out and and totally endorsed it everybody i've never seen anything like [45:35] it nobody's seen anything like it and just as we are forging peace and stability abroad we're [45:40] also restoring peace and safety and stability at home and you see that in washington d.c may be better than any place [45:47] because we got there and within 12 days it was it was very good and within 30 days it's been as safe as [45:54] any city in the country it's been great took out 1700 people got them out these are career criminals in [46:00] many cases and people that shouldn't have been allowed in by the biden administration historically [46:05] the summer months have been a time when violent crime soar as you know but not under president trump [46:12] today we're announcing the results of a sweeping law enforcement effort known as operation summer heat [46:18] we were in many cities that people didn't know about we kept it a little quiet and uh it had a big impact [46:24] and you'll hear that in a second but over the past few months fbi offices in all 50 states made crushing [46:31] violent crime a top enforcement priority that's what they did rounding up and arresting thousands of the [46:38] most violent and dangerous criminals and these are among the most dangerous and violent people in [46:43] the world they were allowed in many cases not in all cases but in many cases they were allowed in by a [46:49] very foolish actually stupid open border policy just anybody could have come in they emptied out their [46:56] jails their prisons their mental institutions they emptied them into our country and the people behind [47:02] me have done an incredible job because uh if we didn't have that administration it would have been so [47:07] much easier they allowed millions of people in this country that shouldn't have been allowed [47:12] including over 11 000 murderers half of whom murdered more than one person and many of them are gone now [47:19] or they're put in prison because we're we don't want to have them come back so we literally put them in [47:24] our prison which we don't want to do but we bring them back to their countries working with state and [47:29] local partners the fbi arrested over 8 000 violent criminals during the course of this period [47:35] in major cities like in new orleans nashville we saw 250 percent increase in arrests we got [47:43] and we really went after the bad ones these include 725 individuals wanted for violent crimes against [47:51] children and murderers these arrests are in addition to the work of our historic federal task forces that [47:59] uh make dc safe task force has been unbelievable i mean the job they've done it's incredible and it's [48:07] been so nice because so many people they're going out to dinner and they're having dinners they wouldn't [48:12] they didn't go out for four years and now they're going out three times a week the restaurants are opening [48:19] restaurants are full and usually that means a lot of good things but restaurants that were closed are now [48:25] opening up and everybody's happy it's nobody's ever seen anything like it actually and everybody feels [48:30] safe you can you can have a child walk right through the middle of washington dc and nothing's going to [48:35] happen we were losing more than one person a week in one they're being killed on an average of over one a [48:41] week the make dc safe task force has been incredible and the make memphis safe task force is having very [48:52] similar results it's much earlier but we've been there for a week and a half but i'm hearing the results [48:57] are pretty incredible and you'll hear about that they're mobilizing more than 20 federal agencies for [49:03] the largest law enforcement operation targeting violent criminals in american history as a result of [49:09] these efforts violent crime declined nearly 20 percent nationwide compared to the same period last [49:14] year and it was the safest and most peace peaceful summer in two decades and honestly we haven't really [49:20] even gotten going yet if we didn't have to fight all of these radical left governors we could have had [49:25] chicago taken care of as an example they had in a short period of time 4 000 murders in chicago and we have [49:33] to listen to this man stand up and say that we're bad people and the people of chicago are walking around [49:38] with mega hats you have women beautiful black women walking around with mega hats please let the [49:45] president in and we don't care how he does it they're not interested in national guard or army navy bring [49:52] them in marines bring in the marines they just want the crime to stop and more so because of the success [49:58] that we had in dc i think if we didn't have that success nobody would even believe it so i want to [50:05] congratulate all of the incredible law enforcement professionals joining us today especially attorney [50:11] general pam bondi who's terrific deputy attorney general todd blanche who is uh a fantastic legal [50:20] talent he really is he's a great guy too and of course fbi director cash patel they have worked so [50:27] hard on this and other things since the start of the administration the fbi has arrested over 23 000 [50:33] violent criminals more than double the number arrested in the final year of the biden disaster [50:40] the fbi has also destroyed or severely disrupted more than 170 organized criminal enterprises and gangs [50:49] 1600 of the most violent gangs and confiscated over 6 000 illegal firearms and they've tracked down and [50:57] arrested four fugitives on the most wanted list four of the most wanted actually two of them were [51:04] the most wanted fugitives in the world there's still much more work to be done which is why the fbi [51:10] continues to work alongside the department of justice the department of homeland security [51:15] and the department of war to defend and pete hegseth has been fantastic by the way on this too on other [51:22] things but on this too to defend law and order and combat violent crime arrest illegal aliens and make [51:30] american cities the safest in the world and when i campaigned i talked about crime but i never knew [51:36] that we were going to get into it like we did you know i mean i used to watch these cities with the [51:40] murders chicago recently had one deal where they had 11 murders in one weekend and they said well yeah [51:47] but it was a holiday weekend they actually told me that was the reason like it was okay because it was a [51:52] holiday it was labor day these people are the worst they are they really have to they better i tell you [51:58] what the the people in chicago and the people in places like that that could be fixed at some point [52:04] it gets to where you can't fix it anymore it's too far gone and we have some cities like that [52:10] but these are great cities that could be fixed i'm going to be strongly recommending [52:14] at the request of government officials which is always nice that you start looking at san francisco [52:20] i think we can make san francisco there's one of our great cities 10 years ago 15 years ago now it's a [52:27] mess and we have great support in san francisco so i'd like to recommend that for inclusion maybe in [52:33] in your next group you'll get great support every american deserves to live in a community where they're [52:39] not afraid of being mugged murdered robbed raped assaulted or shot and that's exactly what our [52:45] administration is working to deliver i didn't realize i was going to make this such a big factor [52:50] in the i didn't really campaign i campaigned on crime but i never thought we'd go into every city and [52:56] take a really safe city that we've all been living with for years and make them safe and now it's like [53:02] a passion for me and it's a passion for the people behind me so i didn't get elected i did get elected [53:09] for crime but i didn't get elected for what we're doing this is many many steps above and i want to [53:14] thank steven miller who's right back in the audience right there i'd love to have him i love watching him [53:20] on television i'd love to have him come up and explain his true feelings but maybe not his truest [53:27] feelings that might be going a little bit too far but steven thank you for doing an unbelievable job [53:32] and the people of this country love you i'll tell you and they love what you say about crime and stopping [53:37] crime so now i'd like to ask director i'd like to ask uh director patel to say a few words and then [53:45] pam and todd also and i just want to congratulate them this is an amazing thing and we're just at [53:51] the start we're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely we're getting ready [53:55] to go in and when they go in like cash is an example told me that people didn't even know [54:00] five months ago they went into chicago and they started doing a lot of work in chicago and we brought the [54:07] the numbers down a little bit and uh but that really was just preparatory work for what we're [54:13] going to do with the surge we're going to have a surge of uh strong good people patriots and they're [54:21] going to go in they straighten it all out so uh a lot of these cities we're already working on but [54:26] we don't do it with a big a big flavor but in a little while you're going to see some numbers that [54:31] you're not going to believe and i think you'll probably start with memphis because i'm hearing the [54:35] numbers are much quicker than we even thought possible uh but uh again dc is it speaks for [54:42] itself chicago is going to be okay we're going to save chicago and i told you and i told them [54:48] a very respected man the head of the union pacific said sir save chicago it can be saved and the way he [54:54] said it was like can you believe it we're trying to save chicago but i understood exactly what he wants [55:00] and that's what we're going to do we're going to save all of our cities and we're going to make them [55:04] essentially crime free like other countries have crime free if you go all over the world you go [55:11] to the world you hear afghanistan and you hear all these different places uh our crime in certain [55:16] cities is worse than anything they can even imagine and we're not going to have that any [55:21] longer it's going to stop and it stops right here cash please thank you mr president what i'd like to [55:26] do is just highlight some of the outstanding work that the men and women of the fbi have been doing [55:30] and thanks to your brave leadership and the mandate you were given by the american people not only [55:34] defend the homeland but crush violent crime you tasked us with our great partners at the department [55:38] of justice and the attorney general and the deputy attorney general to start making arrests and bring [55:42] prosecutions and safeguard our cities and you said it this is just the beginning in just seven months [55:48] i hope the media takes a look at every one of these charts because these are the best numbers [55:52] for fighting crime in u.s history and it's only seven months in and to do that our vehicle to do it of [55:59] choice was operation summer heat which the fbi architected to go after violent criminals and [56:04] in just a three month span you had 8 700 arrests of violent criminals you had 2200 firearms seized off [56:12] the streets permanently to safeguard our communities you had 421 kilograms of fentanyl seized just to put [56:19] that in perspective that's enough to kill 55 million americans alone you had 45 000 kilograms of cocaine seized [56:28] and thanks to our department of justice partners who had 2100 indictments in three months from june [56:34] to september alone mr president that in and of itself would be historic for a four-year presidency [56:40] you did that in seven months because you let good cops be cops and you partnered us with the right [56:45] people the department of justice to put the handcuffs on and bring them to court and put them in prison [56:50] and if that weren't enough when you look at the year for the entire seven month period that we're [56:54] talking about here if you look at the past four years of the biden administration 16 000 17 000 15 000 [57:02] that's the number of arrests year over year of violent felons in this country for the biden [57:06] administration mr president in seven months you have 27 28 600 arrests of violent feminals in just [57:14] seven months alone because of your leadership and the dedication of the men and women at the fbi [57:19] who want to go out there and do the job they were prevented from doing because that department used [57:24] to be weaponized and politicized and this is what happens when you take out the fangs of weaponization [57:29] this number is historic by every metric 28 000 people have been arrested violent felons alone [57:35] and then when you go over there and look at some of these charts if you don't mind i'll just hop over [57:39] here look at the metrics for not just by the crime to the homeland mr president during your administration [57:48] the sbi has found and located 5 400 children that is a 30 percent increase year to date over the last [57:57] administration violent crime against children arrest alone are up 10 percent gang arrests are up 210 [58:04] in the last seven months alone and transnational organized crime which stephen miller has been a [58:09] great partner in is up over 12 percent alone these numbers are historic just as a snapshot but just so [58:17] people don't think we're focusing on violent crime alone the national security mission mr president [58:22] your leadership has never been stronger we have gone after espionage activities against our main [58:27] counterparts in china russia and iran in china alone we've had over a 50 percent increase in espionage [58:34] of arrests alone in prosecution in iran we have had a 50 percent increase again in espionage cases and in [58:42] russia we had a 33 percent increase in espionage cases alone when it comes to counterterrorism year [58:49] to date we have 125 arrests this year versus 100 last year year to date alone and when it comes to the [58:55] cyber criminal activities which are some of the largest enterprises plaguing everyday americans we at the [59:01] fbi have put out a mission to go after cyber criminals like never before last year they had in total 191 [59:08] this year you already have 252 arrests 52 arrests of violent cyber criminals who are stealing from [59:15] senior citizens who are violating our children's rights and freedoms and who are violating everyday [59:20] americans these programs are record and some of the two of the things i'll finish with that i'm most proud [59:26] of mr president this fbi fentanyl as you know it's a surge that's killing our youth 100 000 plus a year [59:32] to date the fbi has seized 1900 kilograms of fentanyl that's enough lethal doses to kill 127 million [59:40] americans alone to date and if that weren't enough mr president you said we have to go after the worst of [59:47] the worst and you empowered our department of justice our attorney general deputy attorney general and the [59:51] deputy director at the fbi led the charge not just on summer heat but he also led the charge to the fbi's [59:58] 10 most wanted fugitive these people have been on the run for years and in seven months you captured [1:00:04] not one not two not three but four of the fbi's most top ten fugitives four and just to put that [1:00:10] in perspective mr president the biden administration captured four in all four years you're on seven and [1:00:15] we're going to get to ten we're going to get the ten of ten this includes a lady who murdered her six [1:00:19] year old handicapped child and fled to india we got her in two months this includes a narco trafficker [1:00:24] this includes a sex trafficker this includes another first three murder and gangbang these [1:00:29] people were on the run because of the prior administration's reckless policies that destroyed [1:00:34] our communities and you came in and with a mandate said go after the worst of the worst this is just [1:00:39] the beginning this is what happens when you let good cops do good cops at the fbi mr president i just [1:00:44] want to thank you for your incredible leadership our brave partnership with prosecutors who know how to [1:00:50] bring cases and make sure these arrests stick and that's what the attorney general and the deputy [1:00:54] attorney general led the charge across this country because arrests without prosecutions are [1:00:58] meaningless we are deterring criminals from doing this activity we are preventing criminals from coming [1:01:03] into america and we are absolutely crushing violent crime at level 4 and defending this homeland sir [1:01:09] and not to mention i almost forgot this one it took you sir two weeks to get the aggregate bomber [1:01:15] joe biden had four years to look for him you got him in two weeks next to the internet [1:01:18] and we're going to continue to find the elders mr president on behalf of the fbi sir i just want to [1:01:32] thank you thank you very much thank you very good very good very impressive president trump the the men [1:01:41] and women of law enforcement say two things to me repeatedly first you have taken the handcuffs off them [1:01:47] and let them do their jobs and you let cops be cops that's why all this is happening the director the [1:01:56] deputy director are working around the clock all of these great men and women in the fbi they have [1:02:01] think about they have families at home and they are working during a government shutdown right now many [1:02:07] of them have small children many of them i was talking to an agent this morning many of them have [1:02:12] they have babies at home and they are working around the clock to not only keep our country [1:02:18] but our world safe and that's what operation summer heat did thank you director and to the deputy [1:02:24] director for everything you did on behalf of the department of justice and you're going to continue [1:02:29] to keep doing and they set the stage for what we're doing in memphis you're going to hear a lot more about that [1:02:36] our joint task force next week but they set the stage for memphis and last night alone in memphis [1:02:42] there were almost 70 arrests there were 12 guns seized and there was a 70 year old man arrested as [1:02:49] a result of our operation in memphis who raped a child under the age of three that one case makes [1:02:55] everything we're doing worthwhile so thank you all for being here on behalf of both of us thank you [1:03:01] president trump thank you todd you want to say something sure thank you thank you mr president [1:03:06] so this is a great day and i think there's stats that the director talked about which are important [1:03:11] but i want to give two examples of what summer heat has done that that actually will apply [1:03:17] hopefully to everybody in this room the first is for over four years during the last administration [1:03:23] there was a hotel in a town the middle of a town in alaska that was being run as a drug den [1:03:30] there were over one thousand calls to 911 over four four and a half year period there were multiple [1:03:40] violent crimes drug dealers overdoses and murders at this one hotel ruining a community summer heat [1:03:47] went in there it's not only arrested all the participants that were controlling the hotel but [1:03:52] seized the hotel and so that's that's one example of what summer heat means to everyday americans that [1:03:58] just want to live in peace the second example is is a large narcotics trafficking group that was [1:04:03] selling fentanyl in the state of washington they were shipping fentanyl and using commercial aircraft [1:04:10] putting fentanyl pills and powder onto come in suitcases flying them from the southwest border mostly [1:04:17] arizona all the way to washington it had been going on for an extremely long time and the entire [1:04:23] organization was arrested and i i say those two examples because it's easy to look at the board [1:04:28] and see a thousand arrests how much different is our communities now compared to the past four years [1:04:34] but there's actual life examples every one of these arrests means that our streets are safer [1:04:39] and that's that's because of the work of this administration of president trump and and director [1:04:44] patel so i will tell you attorney general bondi and i are together every day with with director patel [1:04:50] figuring out ways that we can continue to do this work and and it's it's not going to stop like like [1:04:55] the attorney general said and like the president said this is just the beginning or phase one or [1:05:00] start whatever you want to say but it will continue on so so thank you mr president thank [1:05:04] you very much director patel and mr president just one last thank you from the men and women at the fbi [1:05:09] you found a way to get these individuals paid during a government shutdown our 1811 agents [1:05:14] on behalf of the fbi it's a great debt that we owe you sir they're now allowed to pay for their [1:05:19] families so thank you and the military that's right thank you okay thank you very much any questions [1:05:25] please brian go ahead first of all i know the feedback i'm getting from american people but they [1:05:31] want to say thank you law and order is not an option in this country it's a mandate so i know the american [1:05:36] people thank you for that in terms of the guns that have been taken off the street do you have a [1:05:41] number of how many guns were taken away from someone that had a prior felony or a previous [1:05:47] crime that perhaps we can prosecute that because i know that wasn't the case of a joe biden we [1:05:51] don't take guns off the streets of people that are allowed to have guns so every gun that we're [1:05:56] taking off the street is because it belongs to somebody who is not allowed to have it could be a [1:06:00] felon could be somebody who hears illegally there's all sorts of conditions but we if there's a gun [1:06:05] taken off the streets by the fbi it's because the person who has it is not allowed to it's not [1:06:10] somebody who's lawfully allowed to have it so every single one of those guns were taken off of [1:06:14] people that aren't all down and not including the fbi all of the other agencies atf alone since [1:06:19] january 20th has removed over 25 000 illegal guns off our streets just since president trump's been in [1:06:27] office mr president if i could follow up on that could there be any further conversation to have [1:06:32] uh national concealed carry applied to our actual dc uh like if you had a driver's license in texas and [1:06:39] you had a permit of course you could drive well as you know they've been talking about that for a long [1:06:43] time it's a it's an interesting question a lot of people feel strongly both ways but [1:06:48] we are talking about that brian thank you mr president on venezuelan's boats um i want to ask [1:06:53] you why not have the coast guard stopped them which it is empowered by a lot to do you know this way you [1:07:00] can um confirm who's on the boat and ensure that they're doing what they would suspect because we've [1:07:05] been doing that for 30 years and it has been totally ineffective uh they have faster boats some of these [1:07:12] boats are seriously i mean they're world-class speed boats and but they're not faster than missiles [1:07:19] but we've been trying to do that for years and so much of the drugs 25 30 percent would come in through [1:07:24] the seas right now we have i would say none coming in through the seas in fact i don't know about the [1:07:30] fishing industry if you want to go fishing a lot of people aren't deciding to even go fishing we've [1:07:36] almost totally stopped it by sea now we'll stop it by land what's the next but it never worked it never [1:07:41] worked when when you know when you did it in a very politically correct manner what's the next [1:07:47] step in this war on cartels and are you considering options are you considering strikes on land well i [1:07:53] don't want to tell you exactly but we are certainly looking at land now because we've got the sea very [1:07:57] well under control uh we've had a couple of days where there isn't a boat to be found and that i view [1:08:03] that as a good thing not a bad thing but we had tremendous amounts coming in by boats by very expensive [1:08:08] boats you know they have a lot of money very fast very expensive boats that were pretty big [1:08:14] and the way you look at it is every boat that we knock out we save 25 000 american lives so every time [1:08:20] you see a boat and you feel badly you say wow that's rough it is rough but if you lose three people and [1:08:26] save 25 000 people these are people that are killing our population every boat is saving 25 000 lives and you [1:08:34] can see it the boats get hit and you see that fentanyl all over the ocean it's like floating in bags it's [1:08:40] all over the place and it's uh it's a tremendous say we're saving tremendous amounts of lives [1:08:48] mr president i know you've talked about i have a question for you and then i also have a question [1:08:52] for director patel i know you talked about having some uh distaste for boston recently is this one of [1:08:59] the cities that you might be looking into and can you give us a hint about other cities that you might be [1:09:03] you're saying for where for where for boston yeah well boston has a a bad mayor who at least is [1:09:10] a reasonable iq person you know most of them are low iq but uh and they're so bad i mean what's going [1:09:16] on in chicago is just you'd think the guy would say hey look we have a problem mr president could you [1:09:22] come in and straighten it out i could have that we could have that done in a month if we had their [1:09:26] cooperation it's going to be done anyway but we could have it done in a month yeah boston she's got four [1:09:32] areas that are you know wrong and uh you know somebody said would we take would we think about [1:09:38] taking the world cup away from boston if they don't straighten it out the answer is yes we have [1:09:42] the right to do that with fifa so if we think that l.a is going to be bad or we think uh that applies [1:09:48] a little bit to the olympics too but we'll talk about fifa first you know fifa is very hot if we [1:09:54] think there's any reason that whether it's boston or anywhere else that they're not doing their job we're [1:09:59] going to take that those world cup games and move them someplace else thank you and then director [1:10:04] patel there's been so many conspiracy theories swirling around about the assassination of charlie [1:10:09] kirk do you have any updates for us especially in light of all the online content that everyone's been [1:10:14] talking about the only thing we deal with at the fbi and the department of justice is facts and we [1:10:18] delivered in record speed a manhunt to capture charlie kirk's alleged session in 33 hours and if you put [1:10:23] that in perspective to luigi mangione with a boston bomber they took them five days and a police officer lost [1:10:28] their life in their manhunt we are running out absolutely every single lead and the best thing [1:10:32] we can do to honor my friend charlie kirk's life is to make sure that everyone involved is prosecuted [1:10:37] to the full extent of the law and that's what we're focused on investigating the facts not trading and [1:10:41] conspiracy theories okay mr president thank you so much thank you uh in light of china's export [1:10:47] curves on rare earths do you view india as a reliable partner uh going forward and uh are you planning to [1:10:55] meet prime minister modi in malaysia um are you open to talks in terms of yeah sure he's a friend [1:11:01] of mine we have a great relationship he just said that two days ago as you know we have a great [1:11:06] relationship no we were not happy with him buying oil from russia because that lets russia continue [1:11:12] on with this ridiculous war where they've lost a million and a half people by the way russia has lost [1:11:16] a million and a half people soldiers mostly uh this is a war that should have never started but it's a war [1:11:22] that russia should have won in the first week and they're going into the fourth year and i want to [1:11:28] see it stop so i was not happy that india was buying oil and he assured me today that they will [1:11:34] not be buying oil from russia that's a big stop now i got to get china to do the same thing you know that [1:11:42] that is relatively easy compared to what we just did over the last week in the middle east middle east [1:11:48] was 3 000 years and we got it done this is three years uh and i think we'll get it done i think that [1:11:55] putin president putin i think is going to i think he wants to get it done we'll see there's a great [1:12:01] animosity between him and zielinski you probably have noticed right and it's uh i think it's hurting [1:12:07] the process yeah yeah please thank you um curious why did you authorize the cia to go into venezuela [1:12:14] and is there more information you can share about these strikes on the alleged well i can't do that [1:12:19] but i authorized for two reasons really number one they have emptied their prisons into the united [1:12:26] states of america they came in through the uh well they came in through the border they came in because [1:12:32] we had an open border policy and as soon as i heard that i said a lot of these countries they're not the [1:12:37] only country but they're the worst abuser and they've entered their they've they've allowed thousands [1:12:43] and thousands of prisoners mental institution people from mental institutions and [1:12:49] insane asylums emptied out into the united states we're bringing them back but that's a really bad [1:12:55] and they did it at a level that probably not many many countries have done it but not like venezuela [1:13:00] they were down and dirty and the other thing of drugs we have a lot of drugs coming in from venezuela [1:13:05] and a lot of the venezuelan drugs come in through the sea so you get to see that [1:13:09] but we're going to stop them by land also does the cia have authority to take out maduro [1:13:14] oh i don't want to answer a question like that that's a ridiculous question for me to be given [1:13:19] not really a ridiculous question but wouldn't it be a ridiculous question for me to answer [1:13:25] but i think venezuela is feeling heat but i think a lot of other countries are feeling heat too [1:13:30] we're not going to let this country our country be ruined because other people want to drop as you [1:13:35] say their worst they they have given us their worst they've loaded up our country with prisoners with [1:13:41] with mentally ill people that are seriously ill criminally ill and we're not going to take it [1:13:48] and so i mean it's just one of those things and i can tell you we've taken care of the sea there's [1:13:53] nobody and we're watching we're watching and if we see it we'll save it yeah please on the ships though [1:13:59] sir there are republicans and democrats up on the hill concerned that in the briefings they've gotten about [1:14:05] those attacks they're not necessarily getting information about who was on them and what exactly was on [1:14:10] those ships can you well but they are given information that they were loaded up with drugs [1:14:15] and that's the thing that matters when they're loaded up with drugs they're fair game and every [1:14:20] one of those ships were they're not ships they're they're boats they're speed boats they're extremely [1:14:25] fast record-setting type speed boats that cost a lot of money and they have a lot of money because [1:14:30] they're drug sellers but they know one thing and they all have the same thing in common there's [1:14:36] uh there's uh there's drug dust they call it drug dust they call it fentanyl dust all over the boat [1:14:43] after those bombs go off and you you can take a long we know we know before we know when they go out [1:14:51] we know we have uh much information about each boat that goes out deep strong information yeah please [1:14:59] sir you're going to have one years here this week what is your message at this stage of the war for [1:15:05] him and shy of to who is it for zelinski yeah shy of tom oggs for ukraine are you considering other [1:15:12] options and will you speak with no we're looking at other options we are uh president zelinski's coming [1:15:20] in i'm not a fan of the war i'm not a fan of the way it started it should have never happened it [1:15:25] wouldn't have started if i were president the election was rigged and because of that we lost [1:15:31] a lot of lives have been lost because of that we're not american lives but if i can save a lot [1:15:36] of lives that's why i'm in it i want to save lives i've i've had uh eight wars the prime minister of [1:15:43] pakistan got up the other day said so beautifully says you saved millions of lives he told that to a [1:15:48] group of people right in this office he said the president saved millions of lives and i think what [1:15:53] he's referring to is the fact that that would have been with india nuclear war that was getting [1:15:58] very close you know seven planes they don't talk about it but seven aircraft were shot in fact we [1:16:04] have the new ambassador to india right here they're well represented you better represent us not them [1:16:10] okay but sergio is going to do a great job he's going to do a great job but no we'll be talking about [1:16:16] the war with with him and we'll be talking about i mean they they want to go offensive uh i'll make [1:16:24] a determination on that but they would like to go offensive you know that and we'll have to make [1:16:29] a determination a question given about the fbi director and attorney general here today do [1:16:34] jordan has asked jack smith to appear at the house judiciary you mean deranged jack he's a deranged [1:16:40] individual yeah well they should i'm surprised it takes so long you know we're talking about violent [1:16:45] crime what about the crime against a political opponent that's what we have to talk about too [1:16:50] i think it was the worst weaponization of a political opponent in the history of the world [1:17:04] let alone this country and i hope that everybody's you know they're involved in it i'm not i i'm the [1:17:11] one that had to suffer through it and ultimately win but uh what they did was criminal deranged jack [1:17:18] smith in my opinion is a criminal and i noticed his his interviewer was i think that was weissman [1:17:25] and i hope they're going to look into weissman too weissman's a bad guy and he had somebody in lisa [1:17:31] who was his puppet worked in the office uh really as the top person and i think that uh she should be [1:17:40] looked at very strongly it there was tremendous criminal activity having to do if we don't have fair [1:17:45] elections in this country we're not going to have a country and i've said it from the beginning fair [1:17:49] elections and border borders and we need also fair press because if you don't have fair press it's very [1:17:56] tough and uh we've got the strongest border of anybody nobody has a border we have a border where [1:18:02] the numbers just came out again you saw zero people came in illegally now we do take people into our [1:18:08] country legally but zero people but you know you're talking about a different subject you're talking about [1:18:13] political crime they have committed massive political crime i hope they're looking at shifty [1:18:20] shift i hope they're looking at all these people and i'm allowed to find out i'm allowed to you know [1:18:25] i'm in theory the chief law enforcement officer but i have a very good talented group this is about [1:18:31] something else but i hope they're looking at political crime because there's never been so much [1:18:35] political crime against a political opponent as what i had to go through they raided my house in [1:18:42] florida it was an illegal raid i have a lawsuit that was doing very well and when i became president [1:18:48] i said i'm sort of suing myself i don't know what he has settled the lawsuit i'll say give me x dollars [1:18:54] right and i don't know what to do with the lawsuit it's a great lawsuit and now i won it sort of looks [1:18:59] bad i'm suing myself right so i don't know but but that was a lawsuit that was a very strong very [1:19:04] powerful they raided illegally my house in florida mar-a-lago they went through the draws of my young [1:19:12] son they went through all of the cabinets and drawers of the first lady she walked in she said [1:19:18] wow what happened because she's very meticulous and this wasn't so meticulous as she looked into [1:19:24] the drawers and she saw everything a mess it's it's uh what they did against a person that just got out [1:19:31] of office and then you look at these corrupt people you look at hunter biden you look at the signature as [1:19:37] an example of the auto pen i just signed so many different things an admiral a four-star general [1:19:44] that i'm signing them left and right the commissions and by the way i want to compliment john thune [1:19:48] and also mike our great speaker but john thune all of a sudden i'm getting these things by the [1:19:54] hundreds i was getting one every two weeks it would have been four years before you got them in [1:19:59] wars you would have had some that didn't even get in all because of democrat obstruction so john [1:20:05] thune did a great job i signed i must have signed 200 into the administration we're just about caught [1:20:11] up it's amazing and so compliments to john he had to do some things that were very tough to do that [1:20:16] he didn't want to do but he was forced to do it by the democrats and as far as the shutdown is concerned [1:20:22] this is a democrat schumer shutdown and he's trying to do it to get relevance back into the party because [1:20:28] he's a loser i've known him all his life he's always been sort of a loser but an intelligent one [1:20:33] but i think he's losing iq points with time i think that happens i hope it hasn't happened with [1:20:38] me i know if it did you guys will let me know about it very quickly here in dc a judge has given the [1:20:47] two teenagers that beat up ex-juge staffer big balls probation that's incredible in no jail time [1:20:56] janine pirro is doing a fantastic job and she is beside herself because you have these radical left [1:21:02] judges that they beat the hell out of this guy and it was many people against this one guy who was [1:21:09] really trying to protect his girlfriend he didn't want he's hooded over the door because but they [1:21:14] really beat him up badly that just happened right wow that's terrible i think the judge should be [1:21:21] ashamed of himself that's a big problem you know they can do their job and then they go into a court and [1:21:27] the people are protected by these i don't know where they come from where did these people come from [1:21:31] where did the judges come from i want to compliment on behalf of pam and todd and all of us because [1:21:37] cash i think that janine has done a fantastic job and the case i heard was like flawless it's a [1:21:43] flawless case they have them on tape they have everything and then a judge gives them a little [1:21:48] probation it's very these are these are rough guys and they're young and if that happens they're going to [1:21:55] grow up they're going to be real bad they're going to cause they're going to cause a lot of problems yeah [1:21:59] please go ahead what were the conversations like with prime minister modi and i think they were [1:22:08] great he reported to me that you're great the great he's a great man you know modi is a great man [1:22:16] that he he loves trump now i don't know if the word love i don't want you to take that any different i [1:22:22] don't want to destroy his political career okay but you have to understand i've watched india for years [1:22:27] it's an incredible country and every single year you'd have a new leader i mean some would be in [1:22:32] there for a few months and this was year after year after year and my friend has been there now for a [1:22:38] long time and he is and he's assured me there will be no oil purchased from russia i don't know maybe [1:22:43] that's a breaking story can i say that would you say there will be no oil he's not buying his oil from [1:22:48] russia it's it started you know you can't do it immediately it's a little bit of a process but the [1:22:53] process is going to be over with soon and all we want from president putin is stop this stop killing [1:22:59] ukraines and stop killing russians because he's killing a lot of russians again it doesn't make him [1:23:06] look good it's a war that he should have won in one week and he's now going into his fourth year [1:23:12] that does not look this make this big so-called war machine look good but he could make a settlement [1:23:19] we're willing to settle i thought we had a deal the hatred of the two leaders is very you know [1:23:26] it's an obstacle it's an obstacle there's no question about it but i thought we had a deal [1:23:30] two months ago uh who would think i created peace in the middle east and can't get the two guys to [1:23:38] settle but i i think we'll get them but uh if india doesn't buy oil it makes it much easier and they're [1:23:45] not going to buy they they assured me they will within a short period of time they will not be buying [1:23:49] oil from russia and they'll go back to russia after the war is open over jennifer on the shutdown [1:23:54] sir are fbi officials being paid right now are all the fbi employees being paid well that's what i [1:24:00] understand i hope so thanks to your great work mr president especially that the fbi are going to [1:24:06] receive their paychecks got a lot of people paid actually we got the people that we want paid paid [1:24:12] okay and we want the fbi paid we want the military paid we got the people that we want paid and i'll tell [1:24:17] you the democrats they don't talk about this you know we're getting rid of programs that we didn't [1:24:24] like but that were negotiated in but we didn't like we're terminating those programs and they're going [1:24:29] to be terminated on a permanent basis and it's thousands of people and it's it's you know billions [1:24:35] of dollars we're getting rid of a lot of things that we never wanted because of the fact that they [1:24:41] made this stupid move and they don't want to talk about it you know they have their day coming up i [1:24:45] hear very few people are going to be there by the way but they have their day coming up and they [1:24:50] want to have their day in the sun uh but they should really make a deal so what we're doing i mean they [1:24:56] call him darth vader but he's actually a very nice person russell vote but russell vote is is really [1:25:04] terminating tremendous numbers of democrat projects this is not only jobs i mean the project in manhattan [1:25:12] the project in new york it's billions and billions of dollars that schumer has worked 20 years to get [1:25:20] it's terminated tell him it's terminated jennifer all right [1:25:25] sir uh what is your understanding of the pace of returning the deceased hostages are you [1:25:32] pleased well they're looking for absolutely they're looking so we have the living hostages all back [1:25:37] uh they returned some more today it's a gruesome process i almost hate to talk about it so but [1:25:44] they're digging they're actually digging there are areas where they're digging and they're finding a lot [1:25:49] of bodies uh then they have to separate the bodies you wouldn't believe this this is and some of those [1:25:54] bodies have been in there a long time and some of them are under rubble they have to remove rubble but [1:26:00] uh there are graves and some are some are in tunnels that are that died in tunnels that are [1:26:08] way down under the earth and the tunnels are like three feet can you believe it three feet high [1:26:13] they lived like this for a long period of time it's a horrible it's a horrible atrocity at the same time [1:26:20] we meaning israel but i knew everything they were doing pretty much i knew most of the things they [1:26:26] were doing but they've killed probably 70 000 of these people hamas and i said it's time now [1:26:35] so we'll see what happens we'll also see what happens your next question is going to be the weapons we [1:26:39] want the weapons to be uh given up sacrificed and they've agreed to do it now they have to do it if [1:26:45] they don't do it we'll do it today suggests that hamas needs to hurry up and and disarm and follow your [1:26:53] conference plan that was the head of cencom saying that is that not a signal to hamas to the rest of [1:26:58] the world that at some point the u.s military more made more directly engaged we won't need the u.s [1:27:03] military we won't need it because we're very much involved in it if we weren't involved there wouldn't [1:27:09] be peace if we didn't uh destroy the nuclear capability of iran that deal would have never [1:27:17] happened for two reasons the arab nations would not have felt bold enough to do it because you have [1:27:22] uh a very powerful at that time iran it's not powerful anymore between what we what israel and [1:27:28] us did because you know the attack was was if you look at it we helped them very much they will be the [1:27:34] first to tell you including shooting down thousands of drones that were coming into israel you know we [1:27:39] shot them down we were shooting them down like uh it was target practice but we shot down thousands [1:27:45] of drones and missiles also going into israel but between what we did to iran that way with the [1:27:53] you know conventional we will call it and what that beauty see that beautiful plane that b2 i noticed it [1:27:58] on the desk i always thought it was beautiful but i never understood it now i understand it took in [1:28:05] hundreds of thousands of bombs in the form of two but hundreds of thousands of pounds of bombs [1:28:11] and every single bomb hit perfectly then they sent tomahawks and they sent 30 tomahawks on top of it [1:28:18] and that was totally you know cnn said well maybe it wasn't as bad as you know as trump said because [1:28:24] i said obliterated uh obliterated is not a strong enough word actually and you saw the atomic energy [1:28:31] commission came out and said the word obliteration is very very they think of it they came in under [1:28:38] potential fire they entered iran airspace late at night in the dark no moon the moon was low for a [1:28:46] reason was the one time we picked it couldn't see anything and they hit every target and they weren't [1:28:52] hit nobody saw that plane that plane is stealth nobody said the problem with that is it may be stealth [1:28:58] today but tomorrow it won't be and we just ordered about 20 brand new b2 bombers it's unbelievable as a [1:29:06] weapon i know putin when i was uh riding with him in alaska we passed a lot of them and he said that [1:29:12] really did the trick i said yeah it did it's amazing the flying wing it's no reason for the u.s [1:29:18] military to get involved in gaza no i don't see that no i think we're going to handle it very well [1:29:23] we'll be helping israel but we have other countries that are now you know we signed many many countries [1:29:28] signed and many of those countries relatively are very strong military powers and hamas has no support [1:29:35] see hamas had the support of iran and now iran says don't get us involved the last time they got [1:29:41] them involved didn't work out too well so they used to have the support of iran today iran is [1:29:48] they're trying to survive you know when i heard the reports two weeks ago iran's looking to build [1:29:54] a nuclear weapon i said don't worry about it they got a lot of things they want to do before nuclear [1:29:58] weapons i said the last thing they want to do is a nuclear weapon it didn't work out and if they did [1:30:04] a nuclear weapon before they got even close uh that site would be attacked and it would be wiped [1:30:09] out mr president you're meeting with president xi in a few weeks yeah if you can't come to an [1:30:15] agreement or a deal at that meeting are we in for a sustained trade war with china well you're in one [1:30:21] now look we have a hundred percent tariff if we didn't have tariffs we would be exposed as being a [1:30:30] nothing we would have no defense you know they've used tariffs on us but we've never had anybody [1:30:36] sitting in that chair that felt the need to do it and and they've allowed us to be 37 trillion dollars [1:30:44] in debt etc etc we uh tariffs are a very important tool for our defense for our national security if [1:30:52] we don't have tariffs we're not going to have national security as an example uh if you look at [1:30:58] pakistan and iran i told them i was in the midst of negotiating a trade deal with actually with iran [1:31:05] and pakistan was going to be in line and because of tariffs they all want to negotiate much differently [1:31:12] we're making a good deal and then i heard that they're shooting at each other and i said during [1:31:17] one of my conversations are you guys going to go to war two nuclear powers we are thinking about i said [1:31:23] here's the deal you go to war i'm going to put a 200 tariff i'm going to stop you from doing any [1:31:28] business in the united states i said it to both of them within 24 hours the war ended that would [1:31:34] have been a nuclear war and again the prime minister of pakistan who was here two weeks ago said that [1:31:40] that man saved many millions of lives in front of a whole group of people because he thought it was [1:31:46] going to be war but when it came to war or having to pay massive tariffs the tariffs overrode that's why [1:31:53] it's so important not only the money we're taking in trillions of dollars not only the money the power [1:31:59] to keep peace the power to be used for good is enormous but uh a lot of people didn't understand [1:32:07] tariffs it's also made us very rich we have a big case coming up in the supreme court and i will tell [1:32:13] you that's one of the most important cases in the history of our country because if we don't win that [1:32:19] case we will be a uh weakened troubled financial mess for many many years to come i don't even know [1:32:29] if survivable you know survivable is is a good term uh and if we do we're going to be the most powerful [1:32:36] economic country in the world and all we're doing is using them as a defense against what's what took [1:32:43] place for many years china would charge us tariffs it was incredible but we weren't allowed to charge [1:32:48] and we were so we're allowed to do whatever we want we just had presidents that didn't want to do [1:32:52] it for whatever reason and it was nothing but of the eight wars i was saying seven of the eight wars [1:32:59] i would say tariffs are respond directly responsible for me ending six of them five or six without the [1:33:08] tariffs you have wars raging all over the world with the tariffs other than russia we have no wars out [1:33:14] there and uh we've made a lot of good friends too tariffs are so important to our new our national [1:33:24] security if we don't have tariffs we don't have national security our country would would suffer [1:33:32] a level that because they use so strongly on us as an example european union they won't take our cars [1:33:40] they won't take our agriculture they won't take anything but they send their cars in mercedes bmw [1:33:46] volkswagen by the millions we don't send any cars they don't take them they were tariffing us out [1:33:52] uh agricultural products they don't take our agriculture they want their farmers to do it i [1:33:56] understand that but it was very unfair and they were tariffing our product they're keeping out by [1:34:02] using tariffs and we didn't use it but i used them and now we made one of the great deals with your [1:34:08] 650 billion dollars they pay us and uh we've evened it out it's really a good thing to see and [1:34:16] you have to understand they've all signed japan south korea i mean south korea 350 billion dollars [1:34:22] up front uh japan 650 billion dollars and they've all agreed to it they're all happy but before it [1:34:31] was a total ripoff and if we don't have the use of tariffs we have no national security this country [1:34:37] will have no financial security will not have national security and the people that brought the [1:34:42] lawsuit are people that are aligned with foreign nations that are now being treated fairly as [1:34:49] opposed to just ripping us off and ripping us asunder so if but if we don't if we are not allowed to use [1:34:56] what other people use against us there's no defense it would be a disaster for america that's why i think [1:35:02] i'm going to go to the supreme court to watch it i've not done that and i had some pretty big cases this [1:35:08] is i think it's i think it's one of the most important cases ever brought because uh we will [1:35:15] be defenseless against the world okay did you have one yes please thank you mr president um i want to [1:35:25] ask you about the georgia senate race i know it's very early but there's several republicans in that [1:35:29] field that are vying for your endorsement a lot of good people in that field yes no i know all of them [1:35:33] actually i haven't made a decision on that but you have some very good people in the georgia senate [1:35:39] race well governor has endorsed no no the governor has he's spoken to me about it a lot he likes [1:35:46] that candidate a lot and uh i understand that i haven't made a decision yet but i'm following that [1:35:53] race very carefully i think it's very important for georgia to get a real senator because the senator [1:35:57] they have now is a horrible senator he he allows all the crime all the borders you have open borders i mean [1:36:04] his whole philosophy is a disaster that's not representative of the people of georgia i know [1:36:08] the people of georgia i won georgia three times but they say twice okay i wanted very big the last [1:36:16] time and i wanted big the first time and i wanted big the second time but we had criminals that didn't [1:36:22] allow i mean they i hope they're going to go into that i hope they go into the votes which are being [1:36:27] stored in fulton county and take a look at a real look at those votes okay because i wanted the second [1:36:33] time too but i know georgia very well i love georgia those people are great and they deserve a good [1:36:38] senator because the man they have now is a weak ineffective person okay by the way you won georgia [1:36:50] three times just yeah i agree do you agree with me i do and he's the media for someone that he's [1:36:55] the media spends a lot of time in georgia i believe you won that uh i really have a question [1:36:59] but you know the word believe isn't strong enough right you know there you go it's true i know i want [1:37:05] to i oh we have the great newt gingrich newt you agree with us good otherwise i'd have him dismissed [1:37:11] immediately from you know his wife as you know is becoming an ambassador to a great country [1:37:16] calista so congratulations and we're going to take a picture and uh the only reason i'm doing he speaks [1:37:23] so well of me he said i'll go down as the greatest president in history and then he blew it he said i'm not [1:37:29] sure if i put him above washington or lincoln so i'm not that happy about that dude i've got a [1:37:37] question about the weaponization of the doj the media often says your department is weaponizing the [1:37:43] doj that's the opposite it's the opposite todd you represented president trump and probably the [1:37:48] greatest weaponization uh of the doj by alvin bragg you know firsthand if you can describe what you [1:37:55] saw under the biden administration and how they weaponized the doj well i mean i think it's hard to [1:38:02] describe what happened in the last four years after president trump alvin bragg a local prosecutor [1:38:10] his office staffed by some of the years jack smith picked as a special counsel staffs his entire office [1:38:17] of doj prosecutors and then there are countless things that happen all all in writing most of them on the [1:38:24] docket that require no explanation except a complete abomination of the place of the attorney [1:38:30] almighty now and the director itself so when people talk about this department weaponizing [1:38:36] it's embarrassing because there's no scenario to which you can look at what we're doing restoring [1:38:41] justice doing the right thing in every single case and say that that's weaponization and yet remain [1:38:49] eerily silent about what happened for the past three years and we read these articles and giggle because it [1:38:55] cannot be true that people really think that what they did to him not once not twice i'm still [1:39:02] counting three four times but we're the ones that are weaponizing so this man is not weaponizing the [1:39:08] department of justice we're not weaponizing the department of justice it's the opposite i mean and also [1:39:13] nobody questions what i'm saying because it's true because we all lived the past four years so listen [1:39:19] they never want to bring up the details but i i watch the fake news and oh he's weaponized and he [1:39:27] wants to send them to prison he wants all they they indicted me like five times i took a mug shot [1:39:36] who would have thought it turned out to my favor because it was a good shot but i had to take a mug [1:39:41] shot it's right out there in the door new york post front page of the every paper in the world [1:39:47] i had a mug shot they wanted to send me nobody says that they say he's acting very very tough he's [1:39:53] acting unfair let me tell you if they've been nice to anybody it's to those criminals because they [1:40:01] are so good having to do with all of the things we're talking about today with violent crime but [1:40:06] if anything i think this justice department has been so respectful of the law because the other justice [1:40:13] department with rita or lisa and all of that scum real scum what they did to the political opponent of [1:40:23] a guy that has a seriously low ikea now in his case it was it was low based on his career but it got real [1:40:33] low okay it was descending rapidly but what they did to go after his political opponent is legendary [1:40:44] worse than any third world country banana republic and what we're doing is nothing are you kidding [1:40:53] nothing they write stories why aren't they doing this this and we'll leave i don't have to leave it [1:41:01] up to them but i choose to at this moment at least but there's never been anybody treated in the history [1:41:08] of politics you know they say the two worst treated presidents by the media etc was that man right there [1:41:15] the late great abraham lincoln and this grant right there andrew jackson they say andrew jackson was treated [1:41:25] terribly they give him number one and number two but that was before i came along newt i say i have [1:41:30] number one times ten nobody's been uh and make better the white house and that's really what's [1:41:37] happened and we're getting tremendous reviews and we appreciate it but we're here for a different [1:41:43] reason it's called operation summer heat which is an appropriate term in light of what we're doing [1:41:49] and early yesterday morning i returned from the middle east where we celebrated a historic agreement [1:41:55] to end years of suffering and conflict amazing every country came together i mean even the enemies [1:42:02] came out and and totally endorsed it everybody i've never seen anything like it nobody's seen anything [1:42:06] like it and just as we are forging peace and stability abroad we're also restoring peace and [1:42:12] safety and stability at home and you see that in washington dc may be better than any place because we [1:42:19] got there and within 12 days it was it was very good and within 30 days it's been as safe as any [1:42:25] city in the country it's been great took out 1700 people got them out these are career criminals in [1:42:31] many cases and people that shouldn't have been allowed in by the biden administration historically [1:42:36] the summer months have been a time when violent crime soar as you know but not under president trump [1:42:43] today we're announcing the results of a sweeping law enforcement effort known as operation summer heat [1:42:49] we were in many cities that people didn't know about we kept it a little quiet and uh it had a big [1:42:55] impact and you'll hear that in a second but over the past few months fbi offices in all 50 states made [1:43:01] crushing violent crime a top enforcement priority that's what they did rounding up and arresting [1:43:08] thousands of the most violent and dangerous criminals and these are among the most dangerous and [1:43:13] violent people in the world they were allowed in many cases not in all cases but in many cases they were [1:43:19] allowed in by a very foolish actually stupid open border policy just anybody could have come in [1:43:26] they emptied out their jails their prisons their mental institutions they emptied them into our country [1:43:32] and the people behind me have done an incredible job because [1:43:34] uh if we didn't have that administration it would have been so much easier they allowed millions of [1:43:41] people in this country that shouldn't have been allowed including over 11 000 murderers half of whom [1:43:46] murdered more than one person and many of them are gone now or they're put in prison because we're [1:43:52] we don't want to have them come back so we literally put them in our prison which we don't want to do [1:43:57] but we bring them back to their countries working with state and local partners the fbi arrested [1:44:03] over 8 000 violent criminals during the course of this period in major cities like in new orleans nashville [1:44:09] we saw 250 percent increase in arrests we got uh and we really went after the bad ones these include [1:44:18] 725 individuals wanted for violent crimes against children and murderers these arrests are in addition [1:44:26] to the work of our historic federal task forces that uh make dc safe task force has been unbelievable i [1:44:34] mean the job they've done it's incredible and it's been so nice because so many people they're going [1:44:40] out to dinner and they're having dinners they wouldn't they didn't go out for four years and now [1:44:46] they're going out three times a week the restaurants are opening restaurants are full and usually that [1:44:53] means a lot of good things but restaurants that were closed are now opening up and everybody's happy [1:44:58] it's uh nobody's ever seen anything like it actually and everybody feels safe you can you can have a [1:45:03] child walk right through the middle of washington dc and nothing's going to happen we were losing more [1:45:08] than one person a week and why they're being killed on an average of over one a week the make dc safe task [1:45:17] force has been incredible and to make memphis safe task force is having very similar results it's much [1:45:25] earlier but we've been there for a week and a half but i'm hearing the results are pretty incredible and [1:45:29] you'll hear about that they're mobilizing more than 20 federal agencies for the largest law enforcement [1:45:35] operation targeting violent criminals in american history as a result of these efforts violent crime [1:45:41] declined nearly 20 percent nationwide compared to the same period last year and it was the safest [1:45:47] and most peaceful peaceful summer in two decades and honestly we haven't really even gotten going [1:45:52] yet if we didn't have to fight all of these radical left governors we could have had chicago taken care [1:45:57] of as an example they had in a short period of time 4 000 murders in chicago and we have to listen to [1:46:04] this man stand up and say that we're bad people and the people of chicago are walking around with mega hats you [1:46:10] have women beautiful black women walking around with mega hats please let the president in and we don't [1:46:17] care how he does it they're not interested in national guard or army navy bring them in marines bring in [1:46:25] the marines they just want the crime to stop and more so because of the success that we had in dc [1:46:31] i think if we didn't have that success nobody would even believe it so i want to congratulate all of the [1:46:37] incredible law enforcement professionals joining us today especially attorney general pam bondi is [1:46:43] terrific deputy attorney general todd blanche who is uh a fantastic legal talent he really is he's a [1:46:53] great guy too and of course fbi director cash patel they have worked so hard on this and other things [1:47:00] since the start of the administration the fbi has arrested over 23 000 violent criminals more than [1:47:05] double the number arrested in the final year of the biden disaster the fbi has also destroyed or [1:47:14] severely disrupted more than 170 organized criminal enterprises and gangs 1600 of the most violent gangs [1:47:23] and confiscated over 6 000 illegal firearms and they've tracked down and arrested four fugitives on the [1:47:30] most wanted list four of the most wanted actually two of them were the most wanted [1:47:36] fugitives in the world there's still much more work to be done which is why the fbi continues to work [1:47:42] alongside the department of justice the department of homeland security and the department of war [1:47:48] to defend and pete hegseth has been fantastic by the way on this too on other things but on this too [1:47:55] to defend law and order and combat violent crime arrest illegal aliens and make american cities the safest in [1:48:02] the world and when i campaigned i talked about crime but i never knew that we were going to get into it [1:48:08] like we did you know i mean i used to watch these cities with the murders chicago recently had one [1:48:15] deal where they had 11 murders in one weekend and they said well yeah but it was a holiday weekend they [1:48:20] actually told me that was the reason like it was okay because it was a holiday it was labor day [1:48:25] these people are the worst they are they really have to they better i tell you what the the people in [1:48:31] chicago and the people in places like that that could be fixed at some point it gets to where you [1:48:36] can't fix it anymore it's too far gone and we have some cities like that but these are great cities that [1:48:42] could be fixed i'm going to be strongly recommending at the request of government officials which is [1:48:48] always nice that you start looking at san francisco i think we can make san francisco there's one of our [1:48:55] great cities 10 years ago 15 years ago now it's a mess and we have great support in san francisco [1:49:01] so i'd like to recommend that for inclusion maybe in your next group you'll get great support every [1:49:07] american deserves to live in a community where they're not afraid of being mugged murdered robbed [1:49:12] raped assaulted or shot and that's exactly what our administration is working to deliver [1:49:18] i didn't realize i was going to make this such a big factor in the administration i didn't really [1:49:22] campaign i campaigned on crime but i never thought we'd go into every city and take a really safe [1:49:28] city that we've all been living with for years and make them safe and now it's like a passion for [1:49:34] me and it's a passion for the people behind me so i didn't get elected i did get elected for [1:49:40] crime but i didn't get elected for what we're doing this is many many steps above and i want to thank [1:49:46] steven miller who's right back in the audience right there i'd love to have him i love watching him [1:49:51] on television i'd love to have him come up and explain his true feelings but maybe not his truest [1:49:58] feelings that might be going a little bit too far but steven thank you for doing an unbelievable job [1:50:03] and the people of this country love you i'll tell you and they love what you say about crime and [1:50:07] stopping crime so now i'd like to ask director i'd like to ask director patel to say a few words and [1:50:15] then pam and todd also and i just want to congratulate them this is an amazing thing and we're just at the [1:50:22] start we're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely we're getting ready to go [1:50:27] in and when they go in like cash is an example told me that people didn't even know five months [1:50:32] ago they went into chicago and they started doing a lot of work in chicago and we brought the the [1:50:38] numbers down a little bit and uh but that really was just preparatory work for what we're going to [1:50:45] do with the surge we're going to have a surge of uh strong good people patriots and they're going to go [1:50:52] in they straighten it all out so uh a lot of these cities we're already working on but we don't do [1:50:58] it with a big a big flavor but in a little while you're going to see some numbers that you're not [1:51:02] going to believe and i think you'll probably start with memphis because i'm hearing the numbers are [1:51:07] much quicker than we even thought possible uh but uh again dc is it speaks for itself chicago is going to [1:51:14] be okay we're going to save chicago and i told you and i told them a very respected man the head of the [1:51:20] union pacific said sir save chicago it can be saved and the way he said it was like can you believe it [1:51:27] we're trying to save chicago but i understood exactly what he wants and that's what we're going [1:51:32] to do we're going to save all of our cities and we're going to make them essentially crime free [1:51:37] like other countries have crime free if you go all over the world you go to the world you hear [1:51:43] afghanistan and you hear all these different places uh our crime in certain cities is worse than [1:51:48] anything they can even imagine and we're not going to have that any longer it's going to stop and it [1:51:53] stops right here cash please thank you mr president what i'd like to do is just highlight some of the [1:51:58] outstanding work that the men and women of the fbi have been doing and thanks to your brave leadership [1:52:02] and the mandate you were given by the american people not only defend the homeland but crush violent [1:52:06] crime you tasked us with our great partners at the department of justice and the attorney general [1:52:10] and the deputy attorney general to start making arrests and bring prosecutions and safeguard our cities [1:52:15] and you said it this is just the beginning in just seven months i hope the media takes a look at [1:52:20] every one of these charts because these are the best numbers for fighting crime in u.s history and it's [1:52:26] only seven months in and to do that our vehicle to do it of choice was operation summer heat which the fbi [1:52:32] architected to go after violent criminals and in just a three month span you had 8 700 arrests of violent [1:52:39] criminals you had 2200 firearms seized off the streets permanently to safeguard our communities [1:52:46] you had 421 kilograms of fentanyl seized just to put that in perspective that's enough to kill 55 [1:52:53] million americans alone you had 45 000 kilograms of cocaine seized and thanks to our department of [1:53:00] justice partners you had 2100 indictments in three months from june to september alone mr president that [1:53:08] in and of itself would be historic for a four-year presidency you did that in seven months because [1:53:13] you let good cops be cops and you partnered us with the right people the department of justice [1:53:17] to put the handcuffs on and bring them to court and put them in prison and if that weren't enough [1:53:22] when you look at the year for the entire seven month period that we're talking about here if you look [1:53:26] at the past four years of the biden administration 16 000 17 000 15 000 15 000 that's the number of arrests [1:53:34] year over year of violent felons in this country for the biden administration mr president in seven [1:53:40] months you have 27 28 600 arrests of violent feminists in just seven months alone because of your [1:53:47] leadership and the dedication of the men and women at the fbi who want to go out there and do the job [1:53:52] they were prevented from doing because that department used to be weaponized and politicized [1:53:57] and this is what happens when you take out the fangs of weaponization this number is historic by every [1:54:02] metric 28 000 people have been arrested violent felons alone and then when you go over there [1:54:07] and look at some of these charts if you don't mind i'll just hop over here look at the metrics [1:54:14] for not just by the crime but the homeland mr president during your administration the sbi has found [1:54:20] and located 5 400 children that is a 30 increase year to date over the last administration violent [1:54:29] crimes against children arrest alone are up 10 percent gang arrests are up 210 in the last seven [1:54:36] months alone and transnational organized crime which stephen miller has been a great partner in [1:54:41] is up over 12 percent alone these numbers are historic just as a snapshot but just so people don't think [1:54:48] we're focusing on violent crime alone the national security mission mr president your leadership has [1:54:53] never been stronger we have gone after espionage activities against our main counterparts in china [1:54:59] russia and iran in china alone we've had over a 50 percent increase in espionage of arrests alone [1:55:06] in prosecution in iran we have had a 50 percent increase again in espionage cases and in russia we've had [1:55:14] a 33 increase in espionage cases alone when it comes to counterterrorism year to date we have 125 arrests [1:55:22] this year versus 100 last year year to date alone and when it comes to the cyber criminal activities which [1:55:27] are some of the largest enterprises plaguing everyday americans we at the fbi have put out a mission to go [1:55:34] after cyber criminals like never before last year they had in total 191 this year you already have 252 [1:55:42] arrests 52 arrests of violent cyber criminals who are stealing from senior citizens who are violating [1:55:48] our children's rights and freedoms and who are violating everyday americans these programs are record and [1:55:55] some of the two of the things i'll finish with that i'm most proud mr president this fbi fentanyl as [1:56:00] you know it's a scourge that's killing our youth 100 000 plus a year to date the fbi has seized [1:56:05] 1900 kilograms of fentanyl that's enough lethal doses to kill 127 million americans alone to date and if [1:56:14] that weren't enough mr president you said we have to go after the worst of the worst and you empowered our [1:56:20] department of justice our attorney general deputy attorney general and the deputy director at the fbi led the [1:56:25] charge not just on summer heat but he also led the charge to the fbi's 10 most wanted fugitives [1:56:30] these people have been on the run for years and in seven months you captured not one not two not [1:56:36] three but four of the fbi's most top ten fugitives four and just to put that in perspective mr [1:56:42] president the biden administration captured four in all four years you're on seven and we're going to [1:56:46] get to ten we're going to get the ten of ten this includes a lady who murdered her six-year-old [1:56:50] handicapped child and fled indian we got her in two months this includes a narco trafficker this [1:56:56] includes a sex trafficker this includes another first three murder and gangbang these people were [1:57:01] on the run because of the prior administration's reckless policies that destroyed our communities and [1:57:06] you came in and with mandates and go after the worst of the worst this is just the beginning this is [1:57:11] what happens when you let big cops and good cops at the fbi mr president i just want to thank you for [1:57:16] your incredible leadership our brave partnership with prosecutors who know how to bring cases and [1:57:22] make sure these arrests stick and that's what the attorney general and the deputy attorney general have [1:57:26] led the charge across this country because arrests without prosecutions are meaningless we are deterring [1:57:31] criminals from doing this activity we are preventing criminals from coming into america and we are [1:57:36] absolutely crushing violent crime that level before and defending this homeless sir and not to mention i almost [1:57:42] forgot this one it took you sir two weeks to get the aggregate bomber joe biden had four years to [1:57:47] look for him you got him in two weeks next to the interagency cia went to pakistan and found 13 brave warriors [1:57:54] who were sent to see murder because of the disaster they have justice their families have a peace of mind [1:57:59] and we're going to continue to find the others mr president on behalf of the fbi sir i just want to thank you [1:58:04] thank you very much great job very good very impressive [1:58:07] panel president trump the the men and women of law enforcement say two things to me repeatedly [1:58:15] first you have taken the handcuffs off them and let them do their jobs and you let cops be cops [1:58:23] that's why all this is happening the director the deputy director are working around the clock all of [1:58:30] these great men and women in the fbi they have think about they have families at home and they are [1:58:35] working during a government shutdown right now many of them have small children many of them i was [1:58:40] talking to an agent this morning many of them have babies at home and they are working around the clock [1:58:47] to not only keep our country but our world safe and that's what operation summer heat did thank you [1:58:53] director and to the deputy director for everything you did on behalf of the department of justice and [1:58:58] you're going to continue to keep doing and they set the stage for what we're doing in memphis you're [1:59:05] going to hear a lot more about that our joint task force next week but they set the stage for memphis [1:59:11] and last night alone in memphis there were almost 70 arrests there were 12 guns seized and there was a [1:59:18] 70 year old man arrested as a result of our operation in memphis who raped a child under the age of three [1:59:25] that one case makes everything we're doing worthwhile so thank you all for being here on [1:59:30] behalf of both of us thank you president trump thank you todd you want to say something sure thank you [1:59:35] thank you mr president so this is a great day and i think there's stats that the director talked about [1:59:41] which are important but i want to give two examples of what summer heat has done that that actually will [1:59:47] apply hopefully to everybody in this room the first is for over four years during the last administration [1:59:54] there was a hotel in a town the middle of a town in alaska that was being run as a drug den there [2:00:01] were over one thousand calls to 9-1-1 over four four and a half year period there were multiple violent [2:00:11] crimes drug dealers overdoses and murders at this one hotel ruining a community summer heat went in [2:00:19] there it's not only arrested all the participants that were controlling the hotel but seized the hotel and so [2:00:25] that's that's one example of what summer heat means to everyday americans that just want to live in [2:00:29] peace the second example is is a large narcotics trafficking group that was selling fentanyl in the [2:00:35] state of washington they were shipping fentanyl and using commercial aircraft putting fentanyl pills and powder [2:00:43] onto come in suitcases flying them from the southwest border mostly arizona all the way to washington it had [2:00:51] been going on for an extremely long time and the entire organization was arrested and i i say those [2:00:56] two examples because it's easy to look at the board and see a thousand arrests how much different is our [2:01:01] communities now compared to the past four years but there's actual life examples every one of these arrests [2:01:08] means that our streets are safer and that's that's because of the work of this administration of [2:01:13] president trump and and director patel so i will tell you attorney general bondi and i [2:01:17] um are together every day with with director patel uh figuring out ways that we can continue to do [2:01:23] this work and and it's it's not going to stop like like the attorney general said and like the [2:01:27] president said this is just the beginning or phase one or a start whatever you want to say [2:01:32] but it will continue on so so thank you mr president thank you very much director patel [2:01:37] mr president just one last thank you for the men and women at the fbi you found a way to get these [2:01:41] individuals paid during a government shutdown our 1811 agents on behalf of the fbi it's a great [2:01:47] debt that we owe you sir they're now allowed to pay for their families so thank you and the military [2:01:51] that's right thank you okay thank you very much any questions please brian first of all i know the [2:02:00] feedback i'm getting from the american people but they want to say thank you law and order is not an [2:02:04] option in this country it's a mandate so i know the american people thank you for that in terms of the [2:02:09] guns that have been taken off the street do you have a number of how many guns were taken away from [2:02:14] someone that had a prior felony or a previous crime that perhaps we can prosecute that because i know [2:02:20] that wasn't the case of a joe biden we don't take guns off the streets of people that are allowed to [2:02:25] have guns so every gun that we're taking off the street is because it belongs to somebody who is not [2:02:30] allowed to have it could be a felon could be somebody who hears illegally there's all sorts of [2:02:34] conditions but we if there's a gun taken off the streets by the fbi it's because the person who has [2:02:39] it is not allowed to it's not somebody who's lawfully allowed to have it so every single one of those guns [2:02:44] we're taking off of people that aren't all down and and not including the fbi all of the other [2:02:48] agencies atf alone since january 20th has removed over 25 000 illegal guns off our streets just since [2:02:57] president trump's been in office and mr president if i could follow up on that could there be any further [2:03:01] conversation to have uh national concealed carry applied to our actual dc uh like if you had a driver's [2:03:09] license in texas and you had a permit of course you could drive well they're talking as you know they've [2:03:13] been talking about that for a long time it's a it's an interesting question a lot of people feel [2:03:17] strongly both ways but we are talking about that brian thank you mr president on venezuelan's votes [2:03:24] i want to ask you why not have the coast guard stopped them which it is empowered by a lot to do [2:03:30] you know this way you can confirm who's on the boat and ensure that they're doing what they what you [2:03:35] suspect because we've been doing that for 30 years and it has been totally ineffective [2:03:39] uh they have faster boats some of these boats are seriously i mean they're world-class speed boats [2:03:47] and but they're not faster than missiles but we've been trying to do that for years and so much of the [2:03:53] drugs 25 30 percent would come in through the seas right now we have i would say none coming in through [2:03:59] the seas in fact i don't know about the fishing industry if you want to go fishing a lot of people [2:04:03] aren't deciding to even go fishing we've almost totally stopped it by sea now we'll stop it by [2:04:10] land but it never worked it never worked when when you know when you did it in a very politically [2:04:16] correct manner what's the next step in this war on cartels and are you considering options are you [2:04:21] considering strikes on land well i don't want to tell you exactly but we are certainly looking at land [2:04:26] now because we've got the sea very well under control uh we've had a couple of days where there isn't a [2:04:32] boat to be found then that i view that as a good thing not a bad thing but we had tremendous amounts [2:04:37] coming in by boats by very expensive boats you know they have a lot of money very fast very expensive [2:04:43] boats that were pretty big and the way you look at it is every boat that we knock out we save 25 000 [2:04:49] american lives so every time you see a boat and you feel badly you say wow that's rough it is rough but [2:04:56] if you lose three people and save 25 000 people these are people that are killing [2:05:01] our population every boat is saving 25 000 lives and you can see it the boats get hit and you see [2:05:07] that fentanyl all over the ocean it's like floating in bags it's all over the place and it's uh [2:05:15] it's a tremendous state we're saving tremendous amounts of lives [2:05:19] yeah i know you've talked about i have a question for you and then i also have a question for [2:05:23] director patel i know you talked about having some uh distaste for boston recently is this one of the [2:05:30] cities that you might be looking into and can you give us a hint about other cities that you might [2:05:33] be you're saying for where for where for boston yeah well boston has a a bad mayor who at least is a [2:05:41] reasonable iq person you know most of them are low iq but uh and they're so bad i mean what's going on [2:05:47] in chicago is just you'd think the guy would say hey look we have a problem mr president could you [2:05:53] come in and straighten it out i could have that we could have that done in a month if we had their [2:05:57] cooperation it's going to be done anyway but we could have it done in a month yeah boston she's [2:06:02] got four areas that are you know wrong and you know somebody said would we take would we think [2:06:08] about taking the world cup away from boston if they don't straighten it out the answer is yes we [2:06:13] have the right to do that with fifa so if we think that la is going to be bad or we think uh that applies [2:06:19] a little bit to the olympics too but we'll talk about fifa first you know fifa is very hot if we think [2:06:25] there's any reason that whether it's boston or anywhere else that they're not doing their job [2:06:30] we're going to take that those world cup games and move them someplace else thank you and then [2:06:35] director patel there's been so many conspiracy theories swirling around about the assassination [2:06:40] of charlie kirk do you have any updates for us especially in light of all the online content that [2:06:44] everyone's been talking about the only thing we deal with at the fbi and the department of justice is [2:06:48] facts and we delivered in record speed a manhunt to capture charlie kirk's alleged [2:06:52] assassination in 33 hours and if you put that in perspective to luigi mangione with a boston [2:06:57] bomber they took them five days and a police officer lost their life in their manhunt we are running out [2:07:01] absolutely every single lead and the best thing we can do to honor my friend charlie kirk's life [2:07:05] is to make sure that everyone involved is prosecuted to the full extent of the law and that's what we're [2:07:10] focused on investigating the facts not trading and conspiracy theories okay mr president thank you so much [2:07:16] thank you uh in light of china's export curbs on rare earths do you view india as a reliable partner [2:07:23] going forward and uh are you planning to meet prime minister modi in malaysia um are you open to talks [2:07:30] in terms of yeah sure he's a friend of mine we have a great relationship he just said that two days ago as [2:07:35] you know we have a great relationship no we were not happy with him buying oil from russia because that [2:07:42] lets russia continue on with this ridiculous war where they've lost a million and a half people by the [2:07:46] way russia has lost a million and a half people soldiers mostly this is a war that should have [2:07:52] never started but it's a war that russia should have won in the first week and they're going into [2:07:57] the fourth year and i want to see it stop so i was not happy that india was buying oil and he assured [2:08:04] me today that they will not be buying oil from russia that's a big stop now i got to get china to do the [2:08:11] same thing you know that that is relatively easy compared to what we just did over the last [2:08:17] week in the middle east middle east was three thousand years and we got it done this is three [2:08:23] years uh and i think we'll get it done i think that putin president putin i think is going to [2:08:29] i think he wants to get it done we'll see there's a great animosity between him and zielinski you [2:08:34] probably have noticed right and it's uh i think it's hurting the process yeah yeah please thank you [2:08:41] curious why did you authorize the cia to go into venezuela [2:08:45] and is there more information you can share about these strikes on the alleged well i can't do [2:08:50] that but i authorized for two reasons really number one they have emptied their prisons into the united [2:08:56] states of america they came in through the uh well they came in through the border they came in because [2:09:03] we had an open border policy and as soon as i heard that i said a lot of these countries they're not the [2:09:08] only country but they're the worst abuser and they've entered there they've they've allowed [2:09:14] thousands and thousands of prisoners mental institution people from mental institutions insane [2:09:20] asylums emptied out into the united states we're bringing them back but that's a really bad and they [2:09:26] did it at a level that probably not many many countries have done it but not like venezuela they [2:09:31] were down and dirty and the other thing are drugs we have a lot of drugs coming in from venezuela and a [2:09:36] lot of the venezuelan drugs coming through the sea so you get to see that but we're going to stop [2:09:41] them by land also does the cia have authority to take out maduro oh i don't want to answer a question [2:09:47] like that that's a ridiculous question for me to be given not really a ridiculous question but wouldn't [2:09:52] it be a ridiculous question for me to answer but i think venezuela is feeling heat but i think a lot of [2:09:58] other countries are feeling heat too we're not going to let this country our country be ruined because [2:10:04] other people want to drop as you say their worst they they have given us their worst they've loaded [2:10:10] up our country with prisoners with with mentally ill people that are seriously ill criminally ill and [2:10:18] we're not going to take it and so i mean it's just one of those things and i can tell you we've taken [2:10:23] care of the sea there's nobody and we're watching we're watching and if we see it we'll save it yeah please [2:10:29] on the ships though sir there are republicans and democrats up on the hill concerned that in [2:10:34] the briefings they've gotten about those attacks they're not necessarily getting information about [2:10:39] who was on them and what exactly was on those ships can you well but they are given information that [2:10:45] they were loaded up with drugs and that's the thing that matters when they're loaded up with drugs [2:10:49] they're fair game and every one of those ships were they're not ships they're they're boats they're [2:10:54] speed boats they're extremely fast record-setting type speed boats that cost a lot of money and they [2:11:00] have a lot of money because they're drug sellers but uh they know one thing and they all have the same [2:11:06] thing in common there's uh there's drug dust they call it drug dust they call it fentanyl dust [2:11:13] all over the boat after those bombs go off and you you can take a long [2:11:19] we know we know before we know when they go out we know we have uh much information about each [2:11:25] boat that goes out deep strong information yeah please sir you're gonna have one year's list here [2:11:32] this week what is your message at this stage of the war for him and shy of to who is that [2:11:38] before zelinski yeah shy of tom oxford ukraine are you considering other options and will [2:11:44] you speak with no we're looking at other options we are uh president zelinski is coming in i'm not a [2:11:52] fan of the war i'm not a fan of the way it started it should have never happened it wouldn't have started [2:11:57] if i were president the election was rigged and uh because of that we lost a lot of lives have been [2:12:03] lost because of that we're not american lives but if i can save a lot of lives that's why i'm in it [2:12:08] i want to save lives i've i've had uh eight wars the prime minister of pakistan got up the other [2:12:15] day said so beautifully says you saved millions of lives he told that to a group of people right [2:12:20] in this office he said the president saved millions of lives and i think what he's referring to is the [2:12:25] fact that that would have been with india nuclear war that was getting very close you know seven [2:12:30] planes they don't talk about it but seven aircraft were shot in fact we have the new ambassador to india [2:12:36] right here they're well represented you better represent us not them okay but sergio is going [2:12:44] to do a great job he's going to do a great job but no we'll be talking about the war with with him and [2:12:49] we'll be talking about i mean they they want to go offensive uh i'll make a determination on that but [2:12:57] they would like to go offensive you know that and we'll have to make a determination [2:13:01] can i follow the question given you have the fbi director and attorney general here today jim jordan [2:13:06] has asked jack smith to appear in front of the house judiciary you mean deranged jack he's a deranged [2:13:11] individual yeah he's asking well they should i'm surprised it takes so long you know we're talking [2:13:16] about violent crime what about the crime against a political opponent that's what we have to talk about [2:13:21] i think it was the worst weaponization of a political opponent in the history of the world [2:13:35] let alone this country and i hope that everybody's you know they're involved in it i'm not i i'm the [2:13:42] one that had to suffer through it and ultimately win but uh what they did was criminal deranged jack [2:13:48] smith in my opinion is a criminal and i noticed his his interviewer was i think that was weissman [2:13:56] and i hope they're going to look into weissman too weissman's a bad guy and he had somebody in lisa [2:14:02] who was his puppet worked in the office uh really as the top person and i think that she should be [2:14:11] looked at very strongly it there was tremendous criminal activity having to do if we don't have fair [2:14:16] elections in this country we're not going to have a country and i've said it from the beginning fair [2:14:20] elections and border borders and we need also fair press because if you don't have fair press it's very [2:14:27] tough and uh we've got the strongest border of anybody nobody has a border we have a border where [2:14:33] the numbers just came out again you saw zero people came in illegally now we do take people into our [2:14:39] country legally but zero people but you know you're talking about a different subject you're talking about [2:14:44] political crime they have committed massive political crime i hope they're looking at shifty [2:14:51] shift i hope they're looking at all these people and i'm allowed to find out i'm allowed to you know [2:14:56] i'm in theory the chief law enforcement officer but i have a very good talented group this is about [2:15:02] something else but i hope they're looking at political crime because there's never been so much [2:15:06] political crime against a political opponent they raided my house in florida it was an illegal raid [2:15:13] i have a lawsuit that was doing very well and when i became president i said i'm sort of suing myself [2:15:19] i don't know what he has settled the lawsuit i'll say give me x dollars right and i don't know what to [2:15:24] do with the lawsuit it's a great lawsuit and now i won it sort of looks bad i'm suing myself right [2:15:30] so i don't know but but that was a lawsuit that was very strong very powerful they raided illegally my [2:15:35] house in florida mar-a-lago they went through the drawers of my young son they went through all of [2:15:43] the cabinets and drawers of the first lady she walked in she said wow what happened because [2:15:49] she's very meticulous and this wasn't so meticulous as she looked into the drawers and she saw everything [2:15:55] a mess it's it's uh just what they did against a person that just got out of office and then you [2:16:02] look at these corrupt people you look at hunter biden you look at the signature as an example the [2:16:07] auto pen i just signed so many different things an admiral a four-star general that i'm signing [2:16:14] them left and right the commissions and by the way i want to compliment john thune and also mike [2:16:18] our great speaker but john thune all of a sudden i'm getting these things by the hundreds i was [2:16:24] getting one every two weeks it would have been four years before you got them and more you would [2:16:29] have had some that didn't even get in all because of democrat obstruction so john thune did a great job [2:16:35] i signed i must have signed 200 into the administration we're just about caught up it's [2:16:40] amazing and so compliments to john he had to do some things that were very tough to do that [2:16:45] he didn't want to do but he was forced to do it by the democrats and as far as the shutdown is concerned [2:16:51] this is a democrat schumer shutdown and he's trying to do it to get relevance back into the party because [2:16:57] he's a loser i've known him all his life he's always been sort of a loser but an intelligent one [2:17:02] but i think he's losing iq points with time i think that happens i hope it hasn't happened with [2:17:07] me i know if it did you guys will let me know about it very quickly sir uh here in dc a judge has given [2:17:16] the two teenagers that beat up uh ex-juge staffer big balls probation that's incredible in no jail time [2:17:25] janine pirro is doing a fantastic job and she is beside herself because you have these radical left [2:17:31] judges that they beat the hell out of this guy and it was many people against this one guy who was [2:17:38] really trying to protect his girlfriend he didn't want he's hooded over the door because but they [2:17:43] really beat him up badly that just happened right wow that's terrible i think the judge should be [2:17:50] ashamed of himself that's a big problem you know they can do their job and then they go into a court and [2:17:56] the people are protected by these i don't know where they come from where do these people come from [2:18:00] where did the judges come from i want to compliment on behalf of pam and todd and all of us because [2:18:06] cash i think that janine has done a fantastic job and the case i heard was like flawless it's a [2:18:12] flawless case they have them on tape they have everything and then a judge gives them a little [2:18:17] probation very these are these are rough guys and they're young and if that happens they're going to [2:18:24] grow up they're going to be real bad they're going to cause they're going to cause a lot of problems [2:18:28] yeah please go ahead what were the conversations like with prime minister modi and i think they [2:18:37] were great he reported to me that you're great the great he's a great man you know modi is a great man [2:18:45] that he he loves trump now i don't know if the word love i don't want you to take that any different i [2:18:51] don't want to destroy his political career okay but you have to understand i've watched india for years [2:18:56] it's an incredible country and every single year you'd have a new leader i mean some would be in [2:19:01] there for a few months and this was year after year after year and my friend has been there now for a [2:19:07] long time and he is and he's assured me there will be no oil purchased from russia i don't know maybe [2:19:12] that's a breaking story can i say that would you say there will be no oil he's not buying his oil from [2:19:17] russia it's it started you know you can't do it immediately it's a little bit of a process but the [2:19:22] process is going to be over with soon and all we want from president putin is stop this stop killing [2:19:29] ukraines and stop killing russians because he's killing a lot of russians again it doesn't make him [2:19:35] look good it's a war that he should have won in one week and he's now going into his fourth year [2:19:41] that does not look this make this big so-called war machine look good but he could make a settlement [2:19:49] we're willing to settle i thought we had a deal the hatred of the two leaders is very you know [2:19:55] it's an obstacle it's an obstacle there's no question about it but i thought we had a deal [2:20:00] two months ago who would think i created peace in the middle east and can't get the two guys [2:20:07] to settle but i think we'll get them but uh if india doesn't buy oil it makes it much easier [2:20:13] and they're not going to buy they they assured me they will within a short period of time they will [2:20:17] not be buying oil from russia and they'll go back to russia after the war is open over jennifer [2:20:22] uh on the shutdown sir are fbi officials being paid right now are all the fbi employees being paid [2:20:28] well that's what i understand i hope so thanks to you everybody thanks to your great part [2:20:32] mr president that the fbi are going to receive their paychecks got a lot of people paid actually [2:20:39] we got the people that we want paid okay and we want the fbi paid we want the military paid we got [2:20:45] the people that we want paid and i'll tell you the democrats they don't talk about this you know [2:20:51] we're getting rid of programs that we didn't like but that were negotiated in but we didn't like we're [2:20:57] terminating those programs and they're going to be terminated on a permanent basis and it's thousands [2:21:02] of people and it's it's you know billions of dollars we're getting rid of a lot of things that we [2:21:07] never wanted because of the fact that they made this stupid move and they don't want to talk about it [2:21:13] you know they have their day coming up i hear very few people going to be there by the way [2:21:17] but they have their day coming up and they want to have their day in the sun uh but they should really [2:21:23] make a deal so what we're doing i mean they call him darth vader but he's actually a very nice person [2:21:29] russell vote but russell vote is is really terminating tremendous numbers of democrat projects this is not [2:21:38] only jobs i mean the project in manhattan the project in new york it's billions and billions [2:21:44] of dollars that schumer has worked 20 years to get it's terminated tell him it's terminated jennifer [2:21:53] all right sir what is your understanding of the pace of returning the deceased hostages are you [2:22:01] well they're looking for absolutely they're looking so we have the living hostages all back [2:22:06] uh they return some more today it's a gruesome process i almost hate to talk about it so [2:22:13] but they're digging they're actually digging there are areas where they're digging and they're finding [2:22:17] a lot of bodies uh then they have to separate the bodies you wouldn't believe this this is [2:22:23] and some of those bodies have been in there a long time and some of them are under rubble they have to [2:22:28] remove rubble but uh there are graves and some are some are in tunnels that are that would that died in [2:22:35] tunnels that are way down under the earth and the tunnels are like three feet can you believe it three [2:22:42] feet high they lived like this for a long period of time it's a horrible it's a horrible atrocity [2:22:48] at the same time uh we meaning israel but i knew everything they were doing pretty much i knew most of [2:22:54] the things they were doing but they've killed probably 70 000 of these people hamas and i said it's time now [2:23:04] so we'll see what happens we'll also see what happens your next question is going to be the [2:23:07] weapons we want the weapons to be uh given up sacrificed and they've agreed to do it now they [2:23:13] have to do it and if they don't do it we'll do it today suggests that hamas needs to hurry up and [2:23:20] and disarm and follow your comprehensive plan that it was the head of centcom saying that is that not a [2:23:25] signal to hamas to the rest of the world that at some point the u.s military more made more directly [2:23:31] engaged we won't need the u.s military we won't need it because we're very much involved in it if [2:23:37] we weren't involved there wouldn't be peace if we didn't uh destroy the nuclear capability of iran [2:23:45] that deal would have never happened for two reasons the arab nations would not have felt bold enough to [2:23:50] do it because you have a very powerful at that time iran is not powerful anymore between what we [2:23:56] what israel and us did because you know the attack was was if you look at it we helped them very much [2:24:02] they will be the first to tell you including shooting down thousands of drones that were coming [2:24:07] into israel you know we shot them down we were shooting them down like uh it was target practice [2:24:13] but we shot down thousands of drones and missiles also going into israel but between what we did to [2:24:20] iran that way with the you know conventional we will call it and what that beautiful see that [2:24:26] beautiful plane that b2 i noticed it on the desk i always thought it was beautiful but i never [2:24:30] understood it now i understand it took in uh hundreds of thousands of bombs in the form of two but [2:24:38] hundreds of thousands of pounds of bombs and every single bomb hit perfectly then they sent tomahawks [2:24:44] and they sent 30 tomahawks on top of it and that was totally you know cnn said well maybe it wasn't as [2:24:51] bad as you know as trump said because i said obliterated uh obliterated is not a strong enough [2:24:57] word actually and you saw the atomic energy commission came out and said the word obliteration is very very [2:25:05] think of it they came in under potential fire they entered iran airspace late at night in the dark [2:25:14] no moon the moon was low for a reason was the one time we picked it couldn't see anything [2:25:19] and they hit every target and they weren't hit nobody saw that plane that plane is stealth [2:25:25] nobody said the problem with that is it may be stealth today but tomorrow it won't be and we just [2:25:31] ordered about 20 brand new b2 bombers it's unbelievable as a weapon i know putin when i was uh riding with [2:25:38] him in alaska we passed a lot of them and he said that really did the trick i said yeah it did it's amazing [2:25:44] the flying wing it's no reason for the u.s military to get involved in gaza no i don't see that no i [2:25:50] think we're going to handle it very well we'll be helping israel but we have other countries that are [2:25:55] now you know we signed many many countries signed and many of those countries relatively are very [2:26:00] strong military powers and hamas has no support see hamas had the support of iran and now iran says [2:26:08] don't get us involved the last time they got them involved didn't work out too well [2:26:13] so they used to have the support of iran today iran is they're trying to survive you know when i [2:26:20] heard the reports two weeks ago iran's looking to build a nuclear weapon i said don't worry about it [2:26:25] they got a lot of things they want to do before nuclear weapons i said the last thing they want [2:26:29] to do is a nuclear weapon it didn't work out and if they did a nuclear weapon before they got even close [2:26:35] that site would be attacked and it would be wiped out mr president you're meeting with president xi in [2:26:42] a few weeks yeah if you can't come to an agreement or a deal at that meeting are we in for a sustained [2:26:48] trade war with china well you're in one now look we have a hundred percent tariff if we didn't have [2:26:55] tariffs we would be exposed as being a nothing we would have no defense you know they've used tariffs on [2:27:03] us but we've never had anybody sitting in that chair that felt the need to do it and and they've [2:27:10] allowed us to be 37 trillion dollars in debt etc etc we uh tariffs are a very important tool [2:27:19] for our defense for our national security if we don't have tariffs we're not going to have national [2:27:23] security as an example uh if you look at pakistan and iran i told them i was in the midst of negotiating [2:27:30] a trade deal with actually with iran and pakistan was going to be in line and because of tariffs they [2:27:39] all want to negotiate much differently we're making a good deal and then i heard that they're shooting [2:27:44] at each other and i said during one of my conversations are you guys going to go to war [2:27:49] two nuclear powers we are thinking about i said here's the deal you go to war i'm going to put a 200 [2:27:55] percent tariff i'm going to stop you from doing any business in the united states i said it to both of [2:27:59] them within 24 hours the war ended that would have been a nuclear war and again the prime minister [2:28:07] of pakistan who was here two weeks ago said that that man saved many millions of lives in front of [2:28:13] a whole group of people because he thought it was going to be war but when it came to war or having to [2:28:19] pay massive tariffs the tariffs overrode that's why it's so important not only the money we're taking in [2:28:25] trillions of dollars not only the money the power to keep peace the power to be used for good is [2:28:32] enormous but uh a lot of people didn't understand tariffs it's also made us very rich we have a big [2:28:40] case coming up in the supreme court and i will tell you that's one of the most important cases in the [2:28:46] history of our country because if we don't win that case we will be a uh weakened troubled financial [2:28:55] mess for many many years to come i don't even know if survivable you know survivable is is a good [2:29:01] term uh and if we do we're going to be the most powerful economic country in the world and all we're [2:29:07] doing is using them as a defense against what's what took place for many years china would charge us [2:29:14] tariffs it was incredible but we weren't allowed to charge and we were so we're allowed to do whatever [2:29:19] we want we just had presidents that didn't want to do it for whatever reason [2:29:23] and it was nothing but of the eight wars i was saying seven of the eight wars i would say tariffs [2:29:29] are respond directly responsible for me ending six of them five or six without the tariffs you have wars [2:29:39] raging all over the world with the tariffs other than russia we have no wars out there and uh we've [2:29:46] made a lot of good friends too tariffs are so important to our new our national security if we [2:29:54] don't have tariffs we don't have national security our country would would suffer a level that [2:30:03] because they use so strongly on us as an example european union they won't take our cars they won't [2:30:09] take our agriculture they won't take anything but they send their cars in mercedes bmw volkswagen by the [2:30:16] millions we don't send any cars they don't take them they were tariffing us out uh agricultural [2:30:22] product they don't take our agriculture they want their farmers to do it i understand that [2:30:26] but it was very unfair and they were tariffing our product they're keeping out by using tariffs [2:30:32] and we didn't use it but i used them and now we made one of the great deals with your 650 billion [2:30:39] dollars they pay us and uh we've evened it out it's really a good thing to see and you have to [2:30:45] understand they've all signed japan south korea i mean south korea 350 billion dollars up front uh japan [2:30:53] 650 billion dollars and they've all agreed to it they're all happy but before it was a total ripoff [2:31:01] and if we don't have the use of tariffs we have no national security this country will have no [2:31:07] financial security will not have national security and the people that brought the lawsuit are people [2:31:12] that are aligned with foreign nations that are now being treated fairly as opposed to just ripping [2:31:19] us off and ripping us asunder so if but if we don't if we are not allowed to use what other people use [2:31:26] against us there's no defense it'll be a disaster for america that's why i think i'm going to go to the [2:31:32] supreme court to watch it i've not done that and i had some pretty big cases this is i think it's i think [2:31:38] it's one of the most important cases ever brought because uh we will be defenseless against the world [2:31:47] okay did you have one yes please thank you mr president um i want to ask you about the georgia [2:31:55] senate race i know it's very early but there's several republicans in that field that are vying [2:31:59] for your endorsement a lot of good people on that field yes no i know i haven't made a decision on that [2:32:05] but you have some very good people in the georgia senate race well governor has endorsed no i know [2:32:12] the governor has he's spoken to me about it a lot he likes that candidate a lot and i understand that [2:32:18] i haven't made a decision yet but i'm following that race very carefully i think it's very important [2:32:24] for georgia to get a real senator because the senator they have now is a horrible senator he he allows all [2:32:30] the crime all the borders you have open borders i mean his whole philosophy is a disaster that's not [2:32:35] representative of the people of georgia i know the people of georgia i won georgia three times but [2:32:41] they say twice okay i wanted very big the last time and i wanted big the first time and i wanted big [2:32:48] the second time but we had criminals that didn't allow i mean they i hope they're going to go into [2:32:53] that i hope they go into the votes which are being stored in fulton county and take a look at a real [2:32:59] look at those votes okay because i wanted the second time too but i know georgia very well i love georgia [2:33:05] those people are great and they deserve a good senator because the man they have now is a [2:33:11] weak ineffective person okay [2:33:18] by the way you won georgia three times yeah i agree do you agree with me [2:33:22] he's the media for someone that he's the media spends a lot of time in georgia i believe you won [2:33:27] that uh i really have a question you know the word believe isn't strong enough right you know [2:33:31] there you go it's true i know i want to i oh we have the great newt gingrich newt you agree with [2:33:38] us good otherwise i'd have him dismissed immediately from you know his wife as you know is becoming an [2:33:44] ambassador to a great country calista so congratulations and we're going to take a picture [2:33:49] and uh the only reason i'm doing he speaks so well of me he said i'll go down as the greatest [2:33:55] president in history and then he blew it he said i'm not sure if i put him above washington or lincoln [2:34:03] so i'm not that happy about that dude question about the weaponization of the doj the media [2:34:09] often says your department is weaponizing the doj that's the opposite it's the opposite todd you [2:34:15] represented president trump and probably the greatest weaponization uh of the doj by alvin bragg [2:34:21] you know firsthand if you can describe what you saw under the biden administration how they weaponized [2:34:27] the doj well i mean i think it's hard to describe what happened in the last four years [2:34:37] alvin bragg a local prosecutor his office staffed by some of the media jack smith [2:34:44] picked as a special counselor staffs his entire office of doj prosecutors and then there are countless [2:34:49] things that happen all all in writing most of them on the document that require no explanation except a [2:34:55] complete abomination of the place of the attorney on their own now and the director itself so when [2:35:01] people talk about this department weaponizing it's embarrassing because there's no scenario [2:35:08] where you can look at what we're doing restoring justice doing the right thing in every single case [2:35:14] and say that that's weaponization and yet remain eerily silent about what happened for the past three [2:35:21] years and we read these articles and giggle because it cannot be true that people really think that [2:35:27] what they did to him not once not twice i'm still counting three four times but we're the ones that are [2:35:35] weaponizing so this man is not weaponizing the department of justice we're not weaponizing the department [2:35:39] of justice it's the opposite i mean and also nobody questions what i'm saying because it's true [2:35:45] because we all lived the past four years so listen they never want to bring up the details but i i watch [2:35:51] the fake news and oh he's weaponized and he wants to send them to prison he wants all this they [2:35:59] indicted me like five times i took a mug shot who would have thought it turned out to my favor [2:36:07] because it was a good shot but i had to take a mug shot it's right out there in the door new york post [2:36:13] front page of the every paper in the world i had a mug shot they wanted to send me nobody says that [2:36:19] they say he's acting very very tough he's acting unfair let me tell you if they've been nice to [2:36:26] anybody it's to those criminals because they are so good having to do with all of the things we're [2:36:32] talking about today with violent crime but if anything i think this justice department has been [2:36:39] so respectful of the law because the other justice department with rita or lisa and all of that [2:36:47] scum real scum what they did to the political opponent of a guy that has a seriously low iq now [2:36:55] in his case it was it was low based on his career but it got real low okay it was descending rapidly [2:37:07] but what they did to go after his political opponent is legendary worst than any third world country banana [2:37:16] republic and what we're doing is nothing are you kidding nothing they write stories why aren't they [2:37:25] doing this this and we'll leave i don't have to leave it up to them but i choose to at this moment [2:37:33] at least but there's never been anybody treated in the history of politics you know they say the two [2:37:39] worst treated presidents by the media etc was that man right there the late great abraham lincoln [2:37:47] and this grant right there andrew jackson they say andrew jackson was treated terribly they give him [2:37:55] number one and number two but that was before i came along newt i say i have number one times ten nobody's [2:38:02] been uh and make better the white house and that's really what's happened and we're getting tremendous [2:38:08] reviews and we appreciate it but we're here for a different reason it's called operation summer heat [2:38:15] which is an appropriate term in light of what we're doing and early yesterday morning i returned from [2:38:20] the middle east where we celebrated a historic agreement to end years of suffering and conflict [2:38:26] amazing every country came together i mean even the enemies came out and and totally endorsed it [2:38:33] everybody i've never seen anything like it nobody's seen anything like it and just as we [2:38:37] are forging peace and stability abroad we're also restoring peace and safety and stability at home [2:38:43] and you see that in washington dc may be better than any place because we got there and within 12 [2:38:49] days it was it was very good and within 30 days it's been as safe as any city in the country it's [2:38:55] been great took out 1700 people got them out these are career criminals in many cases and people that [2:39:01] shouldn't have been allowed in by the biden administration historically the summer months have been [2:39:06] been a time when violent crime soar as you know but not under president trump today we're announcing the [2:39:14] results of a sweeping law enforcement effort known as operation summer heat we were in many cities that [2:39:19] people didn't know about we kept it a little quiet and uh it had a big impact and you'll hear that in a [2:39:25] second but over the past few months fbi offices in all 50 states made crushing violent crime [2:39:32] a top enforcement priority that's what they did rounding up and arresting thousands of the most [2:39:38] violent and dangerous criminals and these are among the most dangerous and violent people in the world [2:39:44] they were allowed in many cases not in all cases but in many cases they were allowed in by a very [2:39:50] foolish actually stupid open border policy just anybody could have come in they emptied out their jails [2:39:56] their prisons their mental institutions they emptied them into our country [2:40:01] and the people behind me have done an incredible job because uh if we didn't have that administration [2:40:06] it would have been so much easier they allowed millions of people in this country that shouldn't [2:40:11] have been allowed including over 11 000 murderers half of whom murdered more than one person and many [2:40:18] of them are gone now or they're put in prison because we're we don't want to have them come back so we [2:40:23] literally put them in our prison which we don't want to do but we bring them back to their countries [2:40:28] working with state and local partners the fbi arrested over 8 000 violent criminals during the [2:40:34] course of this period in major cities like in new orleans nashville we saw a 250 percent increase in [2:40:41] arrests we got and we really went after the bad ones these include 725 individuals wanted for violent crimes [2:40:50] against children and murderers these arrests are in addition to the work of our historic federal task [2:40:57] forces that uh make dc safe task force has been unbelievable i mean the job they've done [2:41:05] it's incredible and it's been so nice because so many people they're going out to dinner and they're [2:41:10] having dinners they they wouldn't they didn't go out for four years and now they're going out three times a [2:41:16] week the restaurants are opening restaurants are full and usually that means a lot of good things [2:41:23] but restaurants that were closed are now opening up and everybody's happy it's nobody's ever seen [2:41:29] anything like it actually and everybody feels safe you can you can have a child walk right through the [2:41:33] middle of washington dc and nothing's going to happen we were losing more than one person a week in [2:41:38] watch they're being killed on an average of over one a week the make dc safe task force has been [2:41:47] incredible and the make memphis safe task force is having very similar results it's much earlier but [2:41:55] we've been there for a week and a half but i'm hearing the results are pretty incredible and you'll hear [2:41:59] about that they're mobilizing more than 20 federal agencies for the largest law enforcement [2:42:04] operation targeting violent criminals in american history as a result of these efforts violent crime [2:42:11] declined nearly 20 percent nationwide compared to the same period last year and it was the safest and [2:42:16] most peace peaceful summer in two decades and honestly we haven't really even gotten going yet [2:42:22] if we didn't have to fight all of these radical left governors we could have had chicago taken care of [2:42:27] as an example they had in a short period of time four thousand murders in chicago and we have to [2:42:33] listen to this man stand up and say that we're bad people and the people of chicago are walking [2:42:38] around with mega hats you have women beautiful black women walking around with mega hats please let the [2:42:45] president in and we don't care how he does it they're not interested in national guard or army navy bring [2:42:52] them in marines bring in the marines they just want the crime to stop and more so because of the success [2:42:58] that we had in dc i think if we didn't have that success nobody would even believe it so i want to [2:43:05] congratulate all of the incredible law enforcement professionals joining us today especially attorney [2:43:11] general pam bondi is terrific deputy attorney general todd blanche who is uh a fantastic legal [2:43:20] talent he really is he's a great guy too and of course fbi director cash patel they have worked so hard [2:43:27] on this and other things since the start of the administration the fbi has arrested over 23 000 [2:43:33] violent criminals more than double the number arrested in the final year of the biden disaster [2:43:40] the fbi has also destroyed or severely disrupted more than 170 organized criminal enterprises and gangs [2:43:49] 1600 of the most violent gangs and confiscated over 6 000 illegal firearms and they've tracked down [2:43:57] and arrested four fugitives on the most wanted list four of the most wanted actually two of them were [2:44:04] the most wanted fugitives in the world there's still much more work to be done which is why the fbi [2:44:11] continues to work alongside the department of justice the department of homeland security [2:44:15] and the department of war to defend and pete hegseth has been fantastic by the way on this too on other [2:44:22] things but on this too uh to defend law and order and combat violent crime arrest illegal aliens and [2:44:29] make american cities the safest in the world and when i campaigned i talked about crime but i never knew [2:44:36] that we were going to get into it like we did you know i mean i used to watch these cities with the [2:44:40] murders chicago recently had one deal where they had 11 murders in one weekend and they said well yeah but [2:44:48] it was a holiday weekend they actually told me that was the reason like it was okay because it was [2:44:52] a holiday it was labor day these people are the worst they are they really have to they better [2:44:58] i tell you what the the people in chicago and the people in places like that that could be fixed [2:45:03] at some point it gets to where you can't fix it anymore it's too far gone and we have some cities [2:45:08] like that but these are great cities that could be fixed i'm going to be strongly recommending [2:45:14] at the request of government officials which is always nice that you start looking at san francisco [2:45:20] i think we can make san francisco there's one of our great cities 10 years ago 15 years ago now it's [2:45:27] a mess and we have great support in san francisco so i'd like to recommend that for inclusion maybe [2:45:33] in your next group you'll get great support every american deserves to live in a community where they're [2:45:39] not afraid of being mugged murdered robbed raped assaulted or shot and that's exactly what our [2:45:45] administration is working to deliver i didn't realize i was going to make this such a big factor [2:45:50] in the i didn't really campaign i campaigned on crime but i never thought we'd go into every city and [2:45:56] take a really safe city that we've all been living with for years and make them safe and now it's like [2:46:02] a passion for me and it's a passion for the people behind me so uh i didn't get elected i did get [2:46:08] elected for crime but i didn't get elected for what we're doing this is many many steps above and [2:46:14] i want to thank steven miller who's right back in the audience right there i'd love to have him i love [2:46:19] watching him on television i'd love to have him come up and explain his true feelings but maybe not his [2:46:26] truest feelings that might be going a little bit too far but steven thank you for doing an unbelievable [2:46:31] job and the people of this country love you i'll tell you and they love what you say about crime [2:46:36] and stopping crime so now i'd like to ask director i'd like to ask director patel to say a few words [2:46:44] and then pam and todd also and i just want to congratulate them this is an amazing thing and [2:46:50] we're just at the start we're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely [2:46:55] we're getting ready to go in and when they go in like cash is an example told me that people didn't [2:47:00] even know five months ago they went into chicago and they started doing a lot of work in chicago and [2:47:06] we brought the the numbers down a little bit and uh but that really was just preparatory work for [2:47:13] what we're going to do with the surge we're going to have a surge of uh strong good people patriots [2:47:21] and they're going to go in they straighten it all out so uh a lot of these cities we're already [2:47:26] working on but we don't do it with a big a big flavor but in a little while you're going to see some [2:47:31] numbers that you're not going to believe and i think you'll probably start with memphis because i'm [2:47:35] hearing the numbers are much quicker than we even thought possible uh but uh again dc is it speaks [2:47:42] for itself chicago is going to be okay we're going to save chicago and i told you and i told them a [2:47:48] very respected man the head of the union pacific said sir save chicago it can be saved and the way he [2:47:54] said it was like can you believe it we're trying to save chicago but i understood exactly what he wants [2:48:00] and that's what we're going to do we're going to save all of our cities and we're going to make them [2:48:04] essentially crime free like other countries have crime free if you go all over the world you go to [2:48:11] the world you hear afghanistan and you hear all these different places uh our crime in certain [2:48:16] cities is worse than anything they can even imagine and we're not going to have that any longer it's [2:48:21] going to stop and it stops right here cash please thank you mr president what i'd like to do is just [2:48:26] highlight some of the outstanding work that the men and women of the fbi have been doing and thanks to [2:48:30] your brave leadership and the mandate you were given by the american people not only defend the [2:48:34] homeland but crush violent crime you tasked us with our great partners at the department of justice and [2:48:38] the attorney general and the deputy attorney general to start making arrests and bring prosecutions and [2:48:43] safeguard our cities and you said it this is just the beginning in just seven months i hope the media [2:48:49] takes a look at every one of these charts because these are the best numbers for fighting crime in u.s [2:48:54] history and it's only seven months in and to do that our vehicle to do it of choice was operation [2:49:00] summer heat which the fbi architected to go after violent criminals and in just a three month span you [2:49:06] had 8 700 arrests of violent criminals you had 2200 firearms seized off the streets permanently to [2:49:14] safeguard our communities you had 421 kilograms of fentanyl seized just to put that in perspective [2:49:20] that's enough to kill 55 million americans alone you had 45 000 kilograms of cocaine seized [2:49:28] and thanks to our department of justice partners you had 2100 indictments in three months from june to [2:49:34] september alone mr president that in and of itself would be historic for a four-year presidency you did [2:49:40] that in seven months because you let good cops be cops and you partnered us with the right people [2:49:45] the department of justice to put the handcuffs on and bring them to court and put them in prison [2:49:50] and if that weren't enough when you look at the year for the entire seven month period that we're [2:49:54] talking about here if you look at the past four years of the biden administration 16 000 17 000 15 000 [2:50:02] that's the number of arrests year over year of violent felons in this country for the biden [2:50:06] administration mr president in seven months you have 27 28 600 arrests of violent feminists in just seven [2:50:14] months alone because of your leadership and the dedication of the men and women at the fbi [2:50:19] who want to go out there and do the job they were prevented from doing because that department [2:50:24] used to be weaponized and politicized and this is what happens when you take out the fangs of [2:50:28] weaponization this number is historic by every metric 28 000 people have been arrested violent [2:50:35] felons alone and then when you go over there and look at some of these charts if you don't mind [2:50:38] i'll just hop over here look at the metrics for not just by the crime but the homeland [2:50:45] mr president during your administration the fbi has found and located 5 400 children that is a 30 [2:50:54] percent increase year to date over the last administration violent crimes against children [2:50:59] arrests alone are up 10 gang arrests are up 210 in the last seven months alone and transnational [2:51:08] organized crime which stephen miller has been a great partner in is up over 12 percent alone these [2:51:13] numbers are historic just as a snapshot but just so people don't think we're focusing on violent crime [2:51:19] alone the national security mission mr president your leadership has never been stronger we have gone [2:51:24] after espionage activities against our main counterparts in china russia and iran in china alone we've had [2:51:31] over a 50 percent increase in espionage of arrests alone in prosecution in iran we have had a 50 percent [2:51:39] increase again in espionage cases and in russia we've had a 33 increase in espionage cases alone when [2:51:47] it comes to counterterrorism year to date we have 125 arrests this year versus 100 last year year to date [2:51:54] alone and when it comes to the cyber criminal activities which are some of the largest enterprises [2:51:58] plaguing everyday americans we at the fbi have put out a mission to go after cyber criminals like never [2:52:04] before last year they had in total 191 this year you already have 252 arrests 52 arrests of violent [2:52:13] cyber criminals who are stealing from senior citizens who are violating our children's rights and freedoms [2:52:19] and who are violating everyday americans these programs are a record and some of the two of the [2:52:24] things i'll finish with that i'm most proud of mr president this fbi fentanyl as you know it's a [2:52:29] scourge that's killing our youth 100 000 plus a year to date the fbi has seized 1900 kilograms of [2:52:36] fentanyl that's enough lethal doses to kill 127 million americans alone to date and if that weren't [2:52:43] enough mr president you said we have to go after the worst of the worst and you empowered our department [2:52:49] of justice our attorney general deputy attorney general and the deputy director at the fbi led the [2:52:54] charge not just on summer heat but he also led the charge to the fbi's 10 most wanted fugitives these [2:53:00] people have been on the run for years and in seven months you captured not one not two not three but [2:53:06] four of the fbi's most top 10 fugitives four and just to put that in perspective mr president the [2:53:11] biden administration captured four in all four years you're on seven and we're going to get to [2:53:16] ten we're going to get the ten of ten this includes a lady who murdered her six-year-old [2:53:20] handicapped child and fled indian we got her in two months this includes a narco trafficker this includes a [2:53:25] sex trafficker this includes another first three murder and gangbang these people were on the run [2:53:31] because of the prior administration's reckless policies that destroyed our communities and you [2:53:35] came in and with a mandate said go after