Trump LIVE — 'Move Out Immediately': Trump Delivers Bone-Chilling Speech; HUGE Announcement On Cam

[0:00] back to lots of not just venezuela they're going back to lots of countries venezuela would be one [0:05] however yeah please thank you mr president yeah a moment ago you said that if secretary hegseth [0:13] went to congress and briefed them on the operation no we will go you will go and we will go for them [0:19] to object i don't see any lawson going no reason not to you know they'll always complain oh we [0:24] should have gone so we're going to definitely i'd like to just tell you let's go we'll go [0:28] and we're going to tell them what we're going to do and i think they're going to probably like it [0:32] except for the radical left lunatics and mr president if you are declaring war against [0:37] these cartels and congress is likely to approve of that process why not just ask for a declaration of [0:43] war well i don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war i think we're just going [0:50] to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country okay we're going to kill them you know [0:55] they're going to be like dead okay yeah yes red hair beautiful red hair thank you i'll tell my [1:06] hairdresser that she'll she'll love it uh this is a question for both you and uh the secretary of war [1:12] uh mr hegseth uh who are you with i'm with the center square uh we're newswire service um with [1:19] everything that's going on um with between the narco terrorists and in the caribbean and then also [1:25] um with the ex with more uh chinese iranian russian ships also um taking part in venezuela do you are [1:32] you have any plans of expanding operations out of roosevelt roads and in pat in fact uh placing some [1:39] home porting some ships there yeah uh we're familiar with the location that you're referring to and we [1:46] will make sure that we're properly displaced in order to deal with the contingency we're dealing with [1:51] there and also any ways in which other countries would attempt to be involved also so we're we can [1:56] walk and chew gum we're definitely keeping our eyes on near peer adversaries at the same time [2:01] but we think sending a message on these cartels these narco terrorists uh is an important important [2:07] inside our hemisphere which for far too long other presidents as the president pointed out [2:10] they've ignored our own backyard and allowed other countries to increase their influence here which [2:14] only threatens the american people we're uh we're changing that one one big thing that has happened [2:20] though because you mentioned expansion and expand our efforts so uh when i was running for office [2:26] second term uh everybody was talking about uh the fact that nobody wanted to join the military nobody [2:33] wanted to join the great police forces you know they didn't want to join new york's finest or any of [2:37] our police forces uh they didn't want to join anything having to do almost like with the country with the [2:43] uniform uh we are setting records with the army navy air force marine space force coast guard we're [2:51] setting records we've never had anything like it and i'll tell you when it started november 5th we didn't [2:57] even have to wait till january 20th they saw a spirit and now we have people coming in that are [3:04] it's unbelievable and if we wanted to increase our military force if we wanted to increase any one of [3:09] these including police forces they can now get men people didn't want to be police men and women they [3:15] didn't want to be fire men and women they didn't want to go into the military we were having tremendous [3:20] recruiting problems and now we're setting records we literally last year at this time you were doing [3:27] stories that uh the recruitment was a disaster we couldn't get men and women to go into the military [3:34] now we have such an overabundance we've never had i mean it's as i understand it it's like record [3:41] setting recruitment this is in less than a year it's been amazing so this is a good time to expand [3:48] if we want to do it and i think we should i think we should and we probably will yeah please yeah blue blue [3:56] questions for you um first for you and um secretary hegseth is uh the administration supportive of [4:03] sending national guardsmen to cities for the express purpose of aiding deportation [4:07] and immigration enforcement efforts to expand deportation efforts to sending national guardsmen [4:16] to u.s cities for the express purpose of aiding deportation and immigration enforcement what we've [4:21] done so far is is stand alongside federal law enforcement in every way facilities and personnel [4:26] but also we have uh we have a great deal of lift inside the military we're able to move assets in a way that [4:31] no other aspect of the u.s government can and so where we can rapidly assist with mass deportations [4:36] we have been happy to do that um is the administration at all supportive of potential measures to crack [4:44] down or regulate or even ban apps that track ice agents locations what do you mean by that like [4:52] specific apps that are used to track the location of ice agents i guess we'll do that i'm not a big app [4:57] guy i'm not into that too much i think pam might be it let's go yes good answer there yes these [5:04] organizations president trump are coming in and they're apps to track our federal law enforcement [5:10] officers and it jeopardizes their lives where they're going to be their location and we've actually [5:15] been working really well with the tech companies who have been cooperating because they don't want our [5:20] law enforcement officers to to get injured so yes well i mean i see it with ice where they're having [5:26] you know what where they define where they live who they are and you know i wasn't i i didn't take [5:33] i didn't have a big view on the mass but i now understand why they should wear masks i think it's [5:38] very dangerous for them not to wear masks they can do whatever they want i noticed some do it and some [5:43] don't but it's pretty dangerous but when you look at you know you you talk about that question uh i think [5:49] it's very dangerous and i think you're coming down on that very hard right yeah please go ahead [5:57] thank you sir um when when you were running for re-election in 2024 you released a video statement [6:03] where you did this you made this exact promise to show no mercy on the cartels and employ every [6:09] military asset necessary to combat them in that same video you also said that you plan to expose [6:15] all the bribes and corruptions with politicians and the cartels we're doing that yeah we're trying to do [6:20] that looking into that and american politicians yeah where the money's coming from because you see it [6:26] like even that garbage deal they had this weekend which was embarrassing to them and the crowds were [6:31] much more the crowds were not big those crowds were not big at all but when you look at signs and they're [6:38] all made beautifully the yellow signs i saw the yellows the blues but they're all made professionally [6:45] in a printing shop looks like on madison avenue someplace some guy is paying for all that stuff [6:53] and we don't mind protests protest is a good thing i protest i'm always protesting right but [6:58] but when you see some of these people these people are going crazy they're going crazy because they're [7:04] getting paid because there's no reason for them to be going crazy but you watch some of them and [7:09] they're professional agitators and we are finding out who's paying them yeah we we have a lot of [7:14] information about who they are you're going to be very surprised when you find out [7:17] question for secretary heigseth um sir a memo circulating on social media uh details the [7:25] establishment of a national guard response force that's going to be trained in crowd control and [7:31] civil unrest and deployed in all 50 states by april of 2026 uh can you verify the authenticity of that [7:37] memo and do you have any more information on the operations i'm not going to answer particulars on [7:43] something that may be in the planning process but we definitely do have multiple layers of national [7:48] guard response forces whether it's in each state whether it's regionally whether whether it's title [7:53] 10 active duty whether it's uh washington dc we've got a lot of different ways that constitutionally and [7:59] legally we can employ title 10 and title 32 forces and we will do so when necessary president putin [8:13] basically said today that russia is immune from u.s sanctions he said that it would not [8:18] impact the russian economy in any serious way is good i'm glad i'm glad he feels that way that's [8:23] good i'll let you know about it in six months from now okay let's see let's see how it all works out [8:30] yeah go ahead please blue of course one about the shutdown i'm taylor poplar's with spectrum news [8:36] the same day you established this task force back on january 20th was the same day you pardoned the [8:41] january 6 defendants yeah just very proud of that just last weekend one of them was charged with [8:47] allegedly threatening to kill house minority leader hakim jeffries and a big theme of this task force [8:53] has been allowing law enforcement to do their job and holding accountable people who go after law [8:57] enforcement do you worry that your actions back on day one undermine what this task force is trying to [9:02] accomplish no you have thousands of people that we're dealing with and you know if one goes haywire [9:09] look at look at what this guy in virginia said where he wanted to kill his opponent he's going to kill his [9:14] opponent's children and i think wife and he continues to run and the democrats continues running for what [9:22] attorney general in virginia uh look what he said so now do you think all democrats should be prohibited [9:29] from living anymore i mean think of what he said he's going to kill his opponent and he's going to [9:35] kill the children of his opponent and i think the wife i said this guy's sick that is a sick guy [9:42] and how do you vote for somebody like that but i don't view that every democrat would say that because [9:48] not every democrat would say that so you can't you know you could have one person but i don't i don't [9:53] know of the incident i can say we're very proud of uh what we did we had the courage to do something [10:00] that should have been done the problem sometimes the republicans are too nice they're a very nice party [10:05] the democrats play a much dirtier fight uh you know it's amazing you go after dirty cops like [10:12] comey and you go after these are dirty cops uh leticia james is a dirty cop you go after these [10:18] people and they say how horrible you are and yet i got indicted five times and impeached twice [10:24] nobody says anything about that you know they say oh they actually said the other day oh he's trying [10:29] to indict somebody i got indicted four or five times todd maybe more than that yeah i think you could [10:37] you could say 87 times if you really think about it right with the 80 with the charges a bunch of [10:43] phony guys but nobody says anything about that but uh they mentioned it the other way no the democrats [10:50] play a very dirty game it's all they're good at they're good at a couple of things cheating on [10:55] elections and playing very dirty and they have one good trait they stick together they stick together [11:01] they stick together through the worst policies that anybody's ever seen it's unbelievable how they [11:07] stick together and i i respect them for sticking together but uh it's a dead party because their [11:12] policies are no good okay right we'll do a few more and we'll go home wonderful speak everybody's going [11:19] to go home i'm going back to the oval office however uh speaking of democrats uh there's a report that [11:25] there's a grand jury on adam schiff for apparent mortgage fraud if he is indicted should he step [11:32] down as a u.s senator well you know i'm not going to comment on that i would just say adam schiff is [11:39] one of the lowest forms of scum i've ever dealt with in politics he's a horrible human being very [11:46] dishonest person i have no idea what's going on you tell me that he's going to be indicted i don't know [11:51] you could ask pam i don't know if she's she could say it probably you are allowed to say it but uh i [11:57] would know about that i can only tell you he's a very he's a very bad i think he's actually a sick [12:03] person do you want to talk about that we're not going to comment on any grand jury that's open we [12:10] can't legally i don't know by the way i hope it's true but i don't know what to think about yeah [12:26] oh millions of dollars yeah well i also give you know i give a lot of money to the white house the [12:31] white house is uh as you know i give my salary and i usually like to steer to the white house [12:37] because this house was a little bit abandoned first of all for four years you had a guy walking [12:43] around that didn't know where the hell he was and this this house was not taken care of the way it was [12:48] supposed to be i take very good care of property i was very good at that and you'll notice the floors [12:55] downstairs i paid for them marble the most beautiful marble you've ever seen the white floors down in the [13:00] palm room which were they look like they came out of i don't want to lose because they're big [13:05] supporters of mine home depot so i'm not going to say bad but they did come out of a box from home [13:09] depot about 30 years ago they were all broken but now they have the most beautiful floors the most [13:14] beautiful lights and chandeliers i think most of you brian you've seen that right yes how beautiful is [13:20] that and i take care of it so uh i spend millions of dollars on this building taking care of it it was not [13:28] properly maintained and now it's starting to gleam like it should it should really gleam and you [13:33] should go down and visit the presidential walk of fame have you seen it it's quite quite good i'm sure [13:41] that a lot of people coming to the white house it's hot it's very hot but it's really a tribute to [13:46] the president's uh past presidents of our country yeah please mr president yeah behind you please yeah go [13:55] ahead thank you um so on monday a question for you as well as secretary noem on monday mayor karen [14:01] bass of la and representative robert garcia they held a press conference and they called for an [14:06] investigation into dhs accusing them of unlawfully arresting u.s citizens and racially profiling and [14:13] only arresting people because in robert garcia's words they look like me he's a hispanic individual do [14:19] do you have a response to that are you asking me that question you as well as uh secretary noem [14:25] they are arresting bad criminals and they're really good at it too uh i look at the numbers you know [14:31] they always like to say that oh you're arresting this and that then when you check it you find out [14:36] geez almost every single time and you know obviously every once in a while they may get one wrong but [14:42] they always correct it they're able to correct it but they are arresting really bad people they're [14:47] arresting people that kill people that would cut your throat and not even care about it these are [14:52] brave people and it's very dangerous and if they go even a little bit too far uh they get into trouble [15:00] you know which is a shame i protect them but they get into trouble but they're arresting very serious [15:06] criminals and they're getting them out of here okay one or two more don't doug do you have a question [15:14] i'd love to have doug have a question our great photographer because he's such a great guy [15:18] and he might be the most talented person over there i don't know go ahead let's see your question [15:24] this is this guy's a real beauty on the cartel strategy hearing you talk about his war hearing [15:29] secretary hegseth talk about defeating and destroying and the comparisons to isis and al-qaeda [15:34] those efforts took american troops being engaged in foreign countries do you think that's ultimately [15:39] where this is headed with the court the cartels having american troops in countries like the cartels are [15:44] very bad they a lot of bad people coming in they were interviewed uh recently and they were asking [15:50] people what their problem was and one guy said yes i was i'm up for murder didn't know what he was [15:56] saying obviously you know i'm sure his lawyer was not thrilled with his statement but uh no they're [16:03] rough people coming into those cartels those cartels are rough uh you look at what happens the trip up [16:08] the trip up is horrible especially for women they're being killed they're being raped at levels that [16:13] nobody thought even possible in my opening speech i mentioned that but in a very light way i mentioned [16:19] the word rape then i found out that you take a look at what happens in those cartels it's horrible [16:24] what's what's going on and we're doing uh the world a big service by just telling them you know they're [16:31] not you don't have too many cartels now because they know when they get up here they're going to be [16:35] stopped under biden they were just flowing into the country it didn't matter what you were where you [16:42] came from what you look like what your record they didn't check records millions of people came [16:47] into this country that should not be in our country right now we've gotten a lot of them out it's the [16:52] single biggest problem that we were given inflation i've already taken care of economically the country [16:59] is the strongest it's ever been thank god for tariffs if we didn't have tariffs we'd be a third world [17:04] nation but thank god for tariffs we're we're the richest nation in the world now because of tariffs [17:10] and we're able to economically protect ourselves and we're able to really protect ourselves from a [17:15] national security you know situation but uh we have cartels that you know i i somebody came up with [17:25] the word cartel i won't tell you who that person was but you got a lot of bad people in the cartels and [17:32] you could look at a country like mexico and i really respect the president i really respect a lot of the [17:37] people over there but a lot of the leadership but they are in fear in their own country because those [17:44] cartels are running those countries okay and that includes colombia colombia is a drug den it's a drug [17:51] den and it has been for a long time you got a lousy leader over there right now bad guy a thug but they [17:57] make cocaine at levels that we've never seen before and they sell it back into this and they're not going [18:03] to get away with it much longer we're not going to we're not going to put up with it much longer [18:07] colombia is very bad mexico is run by the cartels i have great respect for the president a woman that [18:14] i think is a tremendous woman she's a very brave woman but mexico is run by the cartels and we have [18:21] to defend ourselves from that go ahead let's let's go with you go ahead let's listen to this beauty [18:29] shut down by the time you return from your trip to asia do i expect to have it resolved by the time [18:35] i reserve i don't know uh i said long ago we shouldn't have been in this problem uh this was [18:42] september 28th they came due in biden's regime and before the election september 28th and they [18:49] pushed it off into the future and i was running when they did that and when you're running you know [18:54] but i did say what the hell are they doing that and debt ceiling you know they also pushed the debt [18:59] ceiling past the election date so that would mean the next president has it but i did say [19:05] that uh i think the democrats have gone totally crazy and you don't know what they're going to do [19:14] because they don't care about the people they don't i really think they have no leadership [19:20] they have a lot of very low iq people jasmine crockett is a low iq person a lot of them i don't want [19:26] to insult too many of them but a lot of them are they have no they have no rudder i don't think [19:32] they know what they're doing right now you know they've never done this before they always agreed [19:36] to go and you know called an extension let's do an extension and talk uh even today look at what [19:44] happened today they wouldn't even they don't want to pay the people that have worked and you know this [19:49] was supposed to be sort of this was a test and they wouldn't pay the people that have been working [19:54] they said no no we don't want to pay them this is all the democrats now all we need is five democrats [19:59] and i i know a lot of democrats that are saying they're more than five not probably not that many [20:05] more than five but there are more than five and all we need is like five democrat votes so we open [20:10] our country again sad though we have the greatest economy in our history we have the highest stock [20:15] market all these things are rocking we have we will have by the end of my first year more than 20 [20:21] trillion dollars of investment the all-time record is three three trillion i think it's china [20:27] we're going to have 20 or 21 trillion dollars we've never had anything like it coming in because [20:32] of tariffs the money pouring into our country the plants that are opening ai autobos everything [20:39] and the democrats want to close our country they're really you know they say deranged they are they [20:46] suffer i guess it's trump derangement syndrome which i think is going down now as an official condition by [20:52] the doctors i think they could pay an extra money if they handle it because it's more difficult to handle [20:57] than a normal mental disease but but you know what uh they they really should approve an extension [21:06] get the country back to work get the people paid and you know it's very simple you can't you just [21:14] don't know what's going on there's something wrong with them you know sad actually to fund your have [21:25] you raised the full 300 million needed to fund your ballroom and how much specifically are you donating [21:29] to this construction project i think 350 million dollars all all donor money and money that we put [21:35] up uh we've raised it's going to be uh it's going to cost right in the neighborhood of 300 million it's [21:42] been expanded and made absolutely it'll be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world i think [21:49] how much am i donating i won't be able to tell you until i finish but i'll donate whatever's needed i'll [21:56] tell you that do i have a name for the i won't get into that now yeah go ahead please without their [22:13] first full paychecks federal workers by the man a friend of mine talking about donors a friend of [22:19] mine a man that's great i'm not going to use his name unless he lets me do it uh susie can tell you [22:25] about this but he was uh he called us the other day and he said i'd like to contribute any shortfall you [22:30] have because of the democrat shutdown uh i'd like to contribute personally contribute any shortfall you [22:36] have with the military because i love the military and i love the country and any shortfall if there's [22:42] a shortfall i'll contribute it and today he sent us a check for 130 million dollars i would love to tell [22:53] you he deserves he doesn't really want the recognition if you want to know the truth but he gave us a check [22:59] for 130 million dollars which was sort of a shortfall yeah and that's going to go to the military yeah [23:07] is that the correct number 130 million dollars that's what i call a patriot okay thank you very much [23:15] everybody thank you thank you it's a great honor to have all my friends here it's it's like old home [23:22] week what a job you're doing and thank you very much for that we want to uh begin by thanking the [23:31] people that have done such a great job at the white house they have been doing really incredible work [23:36] during a shutdown uh i don't even know if they're supposed to be working but they wouldn't miss a [23:42] day so i just want to thank everybody for that very much and we're here today to discuss a sweeping [23:48] unprecedented and historically successful operation that my administration has carried out in recent [23:53] weeks to arrest prosecute and permanently remove members of foreign drug cartels from american soil and [24:01] the people gathered around this table are the ones that are doing it and in this room some of them [24:06] sitting a little bit behind some of them i'm surprised they're not actually at the table you [24:10] people should be very insulted by that but you've done a great job back there on my first day in office [24:18] earlier this year i signed an executive order to officially designate the drug cartels and savage [24:23] transnational gangs as foreign terrorist organizations it was my honor to do so [24:29] and on that same day i also signed an order directing the creation of the homeland security task force to [24:35] bring together all federal state and local partners to achieve the national policy goal of eliminating [24:42] the cartel presence in america once and for all and the results are and it's early and the results are [24:50] spectacular led by ice and the fbi this task force includes the department of justice the department of war [24:57] dhs the intelligence community atf the dea the u.s marshals and the state and local agencies in every [25:06] part of our country other than that we don't include too many people that's a hell of a group isn't it [25:11] huh when you think of it that's not a group you want against you certainly not at one time in addition [25:18] to the task force members we're pleased to be joined by representatives of law enforcement at [25:24] every level the highest level actually but every level including national president of the fraternal [25:29] order of police patrick yos where's patrick patrick thank you patrick thank you for the endorsement too [25:36] that really hit it off i would have gotten 98 anyway but it was still good to have your [25:43] thank you patrick i don't forget those things president of the national sheriff's association [25:49] chris west chris thank you chris very much great good job major cities chief association executive [25:58] director laura cooper laura thank you laura very much major county sheriffs of america executive [26:06] director megan noland megan thank you thank you very much and president of the national border patrol [26:14] council my friend and a very good speaker by the way whenever he gets up and speaks i say that guy can [26:19] really speak i don't know i don't want him to run for office i want him to stay where he is paul perez [26:25] paul thank you paul where is paul hi paul what are you doing over there paul good job good speaker [26:33] you are though paul i mean it too you've made some incredible speeches some and all from the heart too [26:39] right some great ones today you'll hear details from my national security and homeland security teams [26:45] about the extraordinary historic achievements of this new homeland security task force since it [26:51] became fully operational last month in all 50 states the job they're doing what we inherited from [26:58] this past administration is like disgraceful in a matter of weeks the task force has made the [27:04] largest number of arrests of cartel leaders operatives and gang members in american history more than [27:10] 3 000 and counting that includes members of the ultra violent new generation cartel the sinaloa cartel [27:18] the l n f m cartel ms 13 cartel and you know ms 13 the gang and trend de aragua another beauty [27:28] that's a group of real real garbage we have to deal with that we shouldn't have to deal with [27:34] these are in addition to the massive numbers of dangerous criminals my administration arrested [27:40] nationwide since january 20th numbering over 120 000 it's a record and 120 000 criminal arrests thank [27:49] you very much unfortunately for four long years before i took office the last administration allowed [27:56] the cartels and their operatives to frankly take over our country to freely infiltrate america and all [28:03] the communities nationwide along with transnational gangs these groups have unleashed more bloodshed and [28:10] killing on american soil than all other terrorist groups combined these are the worst of the worst [28:16] it should now be clear to the entire world that the cartels are the isis of the western hemisphere in [28:22] addition to their monstrous violence such as cutting off heads burning their enemies alive and burning [28:30] innocent people alive too by the way the cartels control large swaths of territory they maintain vast [28:37] arsenals of weapons and soldiers and they use extortion murder kidnapping to exercise political and [28:44] economic control thank you very much joe biden for allowing that to happen biden surrendered the [28:53] i mean he just surrendered our country to the cartels don't worry we're taking it gets better we're taking [28:58] it back it's uh really fast at at levels that nobody's ever seen before but what we had to put up with [29:07] what we inherited was just a disgrace and while biden was president if he was president i think the auto [29:13] pen was president not biden nearly 100 of those who infiltrated our southern border did so because they [29:20] were personally approved they admitted they were they were just what happened assisted by the most [29:27] dangerous and violent criminal organizations anywhere on the planet the worst people on the planet they [29:32] allowed into our beautiful country under the trump administration we're finally treating the cartels as [29:40] the core national security threat that they really are the cartels are waging war on america and just as [29:47] i promised in the campaign we're waging war on them like they've never seen before all you have to do is [29:52] turn on your television and you'll see what's happening to them past administrations have tried to [29:58] mitigate this threat and our objective is to eliminate it we're not mitigating we're eliminating [30:03] we're getting them out the bad ones we're putting in prison we hate to do that because that means we're [30:08] stuck with them for 50 years or more in recent weeks our homeland security task force has seized [30:14] more than 70 tons of deadly narcotics along with more than 1 000 illegal guns and that's just recently [30:21] this is already the most successful anti-cartel and anti-gang operation in american history and it's [30:28] just getting started we have incredible people a lot of them are in this room with us today and it's an [30:34] honor to have them but we're going to not stop until the threat has been fully and completely eradicated [30:41] i want to thank task force members with us today including a person who's doing a fantastic job attorney [30:48] general pam bondi thank you pam thank you secretary of war pete hagseth sounds so much better than [30:55] secretary of defense i don't know do you guys agree with that i don't have a sense you know we won the [31:00] first world war the second world war i would say everything before and everything in between and then [31:07] we got woke and we said well let's call it defense i don't think i think we like it this way better you [31:13] know it's funny that's uh that's something i thought it would be maybe controversial [31:17] and it's only controversial that we changed the name in the first place it's not controversial at [31:22] all it's been unbelievably well accepted uh pete hasn't it right it's been pretty amazing i thought [31:29] it would be controversial people want to have our country back people want to do exactly what we're [31:35] doing right now we're getting a lot of credit for it we should i want to thank though pete you're doing a [31:40] great job pete hexa secretary of homeland security christy noem christy thank you very much director of [31:48] national intelligence tulsi gabbard tulsi good job and the heads of all of the law enforcement agencies [31:57] all throughout the room you're really amazing the job you've done to provide additional details on our [32:02] mission i would like also to ask general bondi to say a few words followed by secretary noem secretary [32:09] hegseth director gabbard homeland security advisor steven miller steven you're such a superstar steven [32:20] they called steven the other day a very bad name and i said you should sue them steven i think he will i [32:25] hope he does fbi director cash patel and deputy attorney general todd blanche and i just want to say [32:32] it's an honor the job we're doing and and these people are doing uh absolutely incredible i just [32:40] add a couple of things in memphis as you know where the numbers are down in half already and it's only [32:46] been about two weeks doing a fantastic job there thank you uh incredible nobody thought it was possible [32:52] it was really a it was very sick city it was horrible what happened there people would go from [32:58] uh if you're on the board of fedex they would ride you one block to the hotel they said you couldn't [33:02] walk it because it was too dangerous and they're already feeling better about it but the best example [33:08] right now is washington dc we have we went from one of the most unsafe places uh in the planet i hate [33:16] to say but in this country to a totally safe city it's nothing's crime-free i guess but this is about as [33:24] close to crime-free as you're going to get and you guys have done an incredible job with that every one [33:29] of you have worked so hard on on this one and it's our nation's capital and people would go to the [33:36] nation they'd go from i always say iowa indiana they'd go from florida they'd come up they want to [33:43] see the monument i want to see the lincoln memorial i want to see one of the monuments any one of them and [33:49] they'd go home in a coffin but not anymore it's not happening anymore we haven't had that happen in [33:55] a long time was averaging more than one a week one person a week who would think that's possible [34:01] and it hasn't happened anymore and we have a safe city we have a city where the restaurants are booming [34:07] people are going out nobody's being mugged hit over the head with a baseball bat none of the stuff [34:12] is gone we took out 1700 criminals many of them career criminals many of them given to us by joe [34:20] biden and his ridiculous open borders policy they came in from jails from all over the world not just [34:26] south america from all over the world jails they came in from mental institutions and insane asylums [34:33] all over the world drug dealers and we got them the hell out of here they're either that or if they're so [34:39] bad as i said before we put them in jail because we can't take a chance that they come back but i [34:45] want to just say that washington dc is such an example of what could be done and now the same [34:54] things happening in memphis we're just halfway through the process and already the numbers are [34:59] far superior far far better than what we we would have thought at this time [35:03] uh and chicago uh i just saw the number last week it was last weekend four were murdered eleven were [35:14] shot and then i have this guy pritzker is a very weak governor let me be nice i'm going to be very [35:20] nice he's extremely weak he's pathetic i have pritzker get up and say how great they're doing in chicago [35:26] they're doing very poorly so four were murdered four eleven were shot i would say and that was not a bad week [35:34] for him okay that was not a bad week he's had somewhere 18 or 19 were murdered and you know what [35:41] his excuse was yeah but that was a long weekend okay can you believe it he said that was a long weekend [35:47] he's bad and then the mayor is worse i mean that mayor is worse low iq very low iq and we don't need [35:54] low iq people we need people that are going to take care and i love chicago and i love those beautiful [36:00] women black women beautiful women wearing mega hats and they're all over the place in chicago [36:07] they want protection they don't care if it's a national guard if it's the army navy coast guard marines [36:15] they'll take space force okay space force send them in they couldn't they just don't want to be [36:20] mugged killed raped shot in the head and we stop it so we're going to be given a very special [36:28] uh we're going to give chicago very special care uh as you probably know maybe you heard we were going [36:35] to do a big surge in san francisco but i call got a great call from some incredible people some friends [36:42] of my very successful people uh mark who's everybody knows him and jensen everybody knows jensen [36:51] nvidia and others called me from san francisco and they said we're working really really hard with [37:00] the mayor and we're making progress would it be possible for your hold off to for you to hold off [37:06] the surge and i had four or five calls and i think they're making progress of their own that would be [37:11] the greatest i mean if they could do that that'd be great and they have great competence in those [37:16] people i mean incredible competence some of the smartest business leaders and they're working very [37:21] well with the police department they're doing a good job so we are holding off that surge everybody [37:27] and we're going to let them see if they can do it i said i think we can do it much fast i know we can [37:32] do it faster i think we can do it better than anybody we can take criminals out that they're not going to [37:37] know about and probably they don't have the legal authority maybe to do what we can but i'm okay with it [37:43] and we're going to let san francisco has the potential to be it was a great great city has the potential [37:49] very quickly to be a great city again and these are the companies that are there that are all working [37:54] and those are the people that asked me could you uh do away with the surge and let's see how it works [38:00] and we'll do that if we need to we'll do it but it's possible that we won't need to and we will be [38:06] focusing on other places like chicago and we'll have chicago taken care of very quickly but just remember [38:12] 11 people shot four people murdered okay and that was this weekend and uh that was chicago and then [38:21] you'll see pritzker get up and talk about well we have it under control they don't have it under [38:25] control jesse up it's getting worse so we'll take care of as soon as we give the go-ahead which is all [38:33] i have to do is give the go-ahead we won the big court case the other day on the national guard that was a [38:38] good case uh same thing with portland speaking of that because that's what we want it but uh i mean [38:44] i looked at i looked the other night saturday night portland is like burning to the ground and these [38:50] people are saying it's just friendly stuff the whole place is burning to the ground so we'll uh take [38:59] care of that one that's like an insurrection more than it is anything else that's that's crazy portland's [39:04] crazy and then you listen to these radical left people talking about uh it's really okay you're [39:11] seeing things you you're really seeing things so we're going to take care of chicago we're going to [39:16] take care of portland we're going to take care of memphis uh we're proud of dc there's nothing to take [39:21] care of anymore but we're not going to let it ever go bad it's never going to happen again our nation's [39:26] capital and with that i'm just going to tell you that pam bondy has done a fantastic job and pam would [39:33] you say a few words please thank you president trump and thank you for for your leadership and [39:38] this is all about collaboration and around this table i'm looking around this table we all work [39:45] so well together i don't think another administration in our nation's history has worked so well together [39:50] we talk constantly secretary gnome tulsi pete constantly but also all of our agencies working hand [39:58] in hand and that's why this is so successful and these people around this table are working seven [40:05] days a week 24 hours a day even though the democrats have tried to shut down the government terry cole [40:10] i'm laughing because you're around the clock you're all over the world director patel you're unstoppable [40:16] what you're doing around this country gaudy soral to u.s marshal rob sakata and dan driscoll wearing your [40:22] atf hats what rob i was on the texting todd blanche and i were on texting you at 1 a.m on cases i mean [40:30] that's how committed all of these people are to just keeping all of our citizens safe and that's [40:37] what it's all about and this this project is the brainchild of stephen miller and you are doing so much [40:45] to keep our citizens safe our kids safe and get these drugs off our streets like the mayor of san [40:51] francisco and i are going to be meeting on fentanyl in a few weeks and working hand in hand on that [40:55] secretary gnome spoke to him but the results of this last month have been historic as the president [41:02] said in the last month think about this 3200 more than 3200 violent gangs and drug dealers have been [41:12] taken off the streets off the streets now director patel and all of these agencies have also been working [41:19] so hard on getting the leadership but we are getting all the gang members off the streets [41:25] and the drug dealers sinaloa cjng ms13 and more tda 91 tons of drugs have been seized as a result of [41:37] this task force we try to put this in perspective for you this would be filling four eighteen wheelers [41:44] four four all the drugs just in the last month that have been taken off the street 58 000 kilos of [41:53] cocaine think about a big backyard swimming pool that would fill one and a half swimming pools just the [42:01] powder cocaine that has been removed saving lives this last month thanks to all of these people around [42:07] the table 2300 kilos of fentanyl powder and 2.1 million fentanyl pills off the streets and as the [42:18] president said more than a thousand illegal guns the biden administration was for way too long all of [42:26] these great law enforcement officers surrounding the table were not able to do their jobs what they've said [42:32] is now they've been uncuffed they can do their jobs now we've been watching transnational gangs grow in [42:39] our country become organized set up infrastructure in all of our states but no longer under president trump [42:48] we are destroying the infrastructure and we're no longer on defense all of these great men and women [42:54] are on offense so they better get ready we're dismantling the cartels and we are taking the leaders [43:00] into custody and all of the gangs we are going to supercharge this work this is not a pilot program [43:07] this is permanent we are here to stay and secretary hegseth we couldn't do this without you and the [43:13] department of war thank you all so much for everything you're doing around this table working tirelessly [43:19] and president trump thank you for giving them the ability to do it thank you very much thank you [43:28] mr president since the year 2000 we have lost over 1 million americans to drugs to overdoses to these [43:36] cartels that have proliferated that kind of a disease on our our people and have gone to war with our [43:43] next generation of americans when you signed the executive order that was protecting the american [43:48] people from invasion what you did is that you took these cartels and gangs that we've known for decades [43:54] and you declared them to be what they really are and that's terrorists you declared war on them and [43:59] you didn't say we were just going to fight them you said we are going to destroy them and everybody around [44:05] this table uh is so honored to be here to to work with you to destroy these terrorists that have been [44:11] killing americans for years and getting rich off of it i'm so proud of the work that was done just in the [44:17] september surge you referenced that earlier we had over 400 operations that went down in those forced [44:24] first 43 days of the homeland security task force in operations that brought as pam referenced 3200 [44:31] terrorists to justice got them off the streets sir we also have had over precursors and chemicals that [44:38] were brought in we've had the work at the southern border we've got border patrol here at the table with [44:43] you oh fentanyl has been cut down by 50 percent coming into this country over our borders uh we've [44:50] continued to work not just nationally but internationally and on our maritime borders as [44:54] well the ice agents that have so much violence against them and threats against them sir they get [44:59] up every day ready to work with this task force to be able to keep people safe and then we've got coast [45:04] guard who's been doing uh just a ton of our incredible interdictions out on the seas and the [45:09] waters in cooperation with operations that you've targeted in the caribbean with the department of [45:14] war and sir i just want to thank you for the leadership you put at this table for your cabinet [45:19] members for stephen miller for putting this in place to make sure that what you did when you [45:24] consolidated the homeland security task force you took a thousand other task forces that were already [45:30] established in the federal government and you streamlined them into this room into this group right [45:36] here so that we can look at each other in the face every day and say what's our problem how do we [45:41] address it how do we fix it and then we go to work together with our arms linked to do exactly what [45:46] you told us to do and that's not just protect the american people from invasion but to kill these [45:51] terrorists you gave us the task to eliminate them destroy them so that they can't destroy the next [45:56] generation of americans so thank you sir thank you for the people you put around thank you very much [46:01] that's a great job thank you pete yes sir well thank you mr president for your leadership uh chief [46:08] likewise tulsi and todd and dan and pam and christy and stephen and cash i mean i could go around the [46:14] table from the department of war we are thankful and grateful for the incredible effort that your [46:19] agencies put in and we could not be more proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with you not superficially [46:25] not kind of over here but front and center on the homeland security task force right there with you [46:30] because our department has spent over two decades defending other homelands and we're very proud to [46:36] be defending our own and if you talk to the troops down say on the southwest border mr president morale [46:40] is sky high and continues to be because they're proud to be defending their own communities their own state [46:46] and their own country so when that executive order was signed the mission was clear protecting the american [46:51] people against invasion and so the department of war went straight to the southwest border we still have [46:56] 10 000 troops there we have national defense areas we're standing alongside the border patrol and we've [47:02] locked that border down 100 control of the southwest border you stop the invasion and then we're proud to [47:08] be going on the offense counter cartel operations and it's not counter cartel as was mentioned these are [47:13] designated terrorist organizations foreign terrorist organizations our generation spent the better part of [47:20] two decades hunting al qaeda hunting isis well as the president said this is the isis this is the al qaeda [47:27] of the western hemisphere they intimidate they terrorize they extort they poison the american people the [47:34] president's right every boat we strike is 25 000 americans whose lives are saved because of the drugs that [47:40] were headed in our direction so our message to these foreign terrorist organizations is we will treat you like we have [47:47] treated al qaeda we will find you we will map your networks we will hunt you down and we will kill you [47:55] and you've seen that evidence in the maritime domain whether it's in the caribbean or in the pacific with [48:00] the last two strikes we know exactly who these people are we know what networks they work with what foreign [48:06] terrorist organizations they're a part of we know where they're going where they originated from what [48:10] they're carrying and they know we know and that will soon start to change the calculus of these boats so [48:17] the critic the critique of this is of course as often is the case wrong uh we know our authorities [48:22] it's locked tight and we're going to treat them like foreign terrorist organizations on the offense [48:28] so the department of war is not going to degrade uh or just simply arrest we're going to defeat and [48:33] destroy these terrorist organizations to defend the homeland on behalf of the american people making the [48:38] jobs of law enforcement safer in the process making the communities of americans safer in the process we [48:43] think it's a very core mission uh of the department of war and we're proud to be here mr president [48:48] thank you very much pete thank you tulsi please yes thank you mr president the key reason that you [48:55] are hearing about these incredible effects uh is number one the team that you've assembled here and the [49:00] leadership and the tone that you have set first and foremost about keeping the american people safe [49:06] the intelligence community plays a critical role in being able to support our law enforcement at the federal state and local level [49:11] local level to make sure that they are armed with actionable intelligence to be able to actually go [49:17] after those who threaten the safety and security of the american people mr president under your leadership [49:23] for the first time there is a newly created national intelligence fusion cell at the office of the director [49:30] of national intelligence national counterterrorism that has a very simple purpose to make sure that we have [49:35] two-way intelligence sharing of actionable information between the intelligence community [49:39] and law enforcement i want to talk briefly about three successes that we've had just here in the last few [49:47] weeks mr president through the success of this interagency fusion cell just this last week our national [49:53] counterterrorism center supported through actionable intelligence to both u.s law enforcement as well as mexican [50:00] law enforcement the arrest of a sinaloa cartel boss el plato in juarez mexico as well as his top three money [50:08] launderers in a separate and recent successful interagency operation nctc worked closely with the u.s [50:14] marshal service that led to the arrest of another dangerous sinaloa cartel member responsible for [50:20] tracking a huge amounts of cocaine and uh hundreds of thousands of dollars in this single incident with [50:27] drug proceeds through his network i'll say the last example i'll share is is probably the most insidious [50:33] case was providing intelligence to the mexican law enforcement that led to the arrest of a cjng cartel [50:41] affiliated baby trafficker called la diablo her whole money-making operation was centered around [50:46] luring pregnant women performing illegal c-sections harvesting organs and selling newborn babies mr [50:55] president it's your leadership that has made all of this possible i can tell you in the midst of this [51:00] government shutdown our folks like everyone around this table are working 24 7 without pay [51:06] and eager to get after this because they believe in your leadership and the mission that you have [51:11] presented to them thank you mr president i'll hand this off to uh homeland security advisor steven miller [51:17] the leader of this passports let me just say mr president that this country was going to die without [51:25] you this country was going to actually die without you that's what we were facing in 2024 we've been [51:31] invaded for four years our communities were sinking our public safety had gone to zero cartels were [51:38] running entire communities sex trafficking child trafficking labor trafficking was out of control [51:43] overdoses were out of control the cartels were claiming more and more territory city services were [51:49] buckling this was the country on the verge of dying and you alone saved it and when you stepped forward [51:55] originally in 2016 you started the movement to make america great again and that means make america great [52:03] again in every way and that means safety and prosperity and peace and freedom from cartels and crime and gangs [52:10] and your vision and your leadership in declaring war in the drug cartels is the single most successful [52:16] public safety initiative in american history and i need the media to understand what president trump has done [52:21] people have been talking about drug cartels for longer than i've been alive and everyone has just [52:27] taken for granted that they can't be touched or stopped they're too big they're too powerful they're [52:32] too evil they're too murderous they can operate with impunity and just nine months president trump is [52:38] the only american leader not just in our lifetimes but ever to actually take the fight to the drug cartels [52:45] to actually seek the eradication and it is happening and so while the democrats are shutting the [52:51] government down and fighting for free healthcare for illegal aliens look at what president trump has [52:56] assembled here he's assembled the team under his vision direction and leadership that is saving [53:01] hundreds of thousands of lives hundreds of thousands of lives and only president trump could have done [53:07] this and i will say one last thing which is that his courage has been an inspiration to everyone [53:12] else in this room there there are people in this room you know looking at for example at todd lions [53:18] who have been relentlessly doxed and harassed and threatened but when when they see president [53:23] trump's courage what he's been through for 10 years to save america when they came after his family his [53:29] businesses his safety his freedom everyone at this table knows we can give whatever it takes to get [53:35] the mission done so president trump thank you for your leadership your boldness your courage and your [53:40] vision we're honored to serve underneath you well i want to thank you steven and and i have to say that [53:46] you know i've been making the rounds i'm leaving tomorrow for some very big meetings including with [53:52] the president of china where i think we're going to come out very well and everyone's going to be very [53:58] happy but everybody said the same thing a year ago we had a dead country we were a dead country we [54:06] really were in a lot of ways not just this we were dead as doornails on this but we were a country that [54:13] was in serious trouble and beyond that and we have the hottest country anywhere in the world right now [54:20] the whole world is talking about it we have the hottest country anywhere in the world we're going [54:24] to clear up this crime in our cities we can do it quickly too they showed how quickly we could do it in [54:30] dc it was a real bad place it was a real mess dirty filthy disgusting graffiti all over the place [54:37] tents on every ounce of parks that we had uh just disgusting and i rode around last weekend i rode [54:45] around the city i felt very safe in that car but you know i would have done it without it i i wouldn't [54:51] need that car so much anymore i will tell you but uh the place was clean uh we we've started that also not [54:59] only uh law and order but we you know the cleanliness is important i think cleanliness is almost a part of [55:05] law and order if you see dirty disgusting streets and potholes all over the place and railings falling [55:11] down and graffiti all over the marble beautiful statuary marble columns those gorgeous columns where [55:18] they had graffiti it's all gone and i think it's a part of it i really do i think it's a big part of it [55:24] but we have a city that we can be proud of it's good we're going to be that way with every city we have [55:28] that's why with san francisco i wish him luck but we could do it so much faster i told the mayor i love [55:33] what you're doing i respect it and i respect the people that are doing it they're the biggest [55:38] people in the country they're the biggest people in the world a lot of the high tech some people like [55:43] them some people don't but they're smart and they want to do it and i said i am so honored to let you [55:49] do it and if it doesn't work out we'll do it for you very quickly but uh i just want to thank the people [55:54] around this table are amazing uh cash please go ahead mr president i'll just keep it short but i think what [56:02] the media should realize is the amount of courage it takes to do this and you led that mission you [56:08] led it during your campaign and you brought it to the american people i think the media should focus [56:12] on some of these numbers the attorney general just riled off those aren't numbers those are lives [56:16] lives saved by the millions the millions enough excuse me enough fentanyl to kill over 200 million [56:22] americans gone evaporated off our streets permanently your vision to safeguard american freedoms and our [56:28] children and our future is the most courageous thing i've ever seen a president of the united [56:32] states ever do and your ability to marshal it out in eight months in eight months these statistics [56:39] would have taken other administrations decades decades and the partnership that you see around [56:44] the table i just want to you know sum it up with the following when i call these folks around the table [56:48] when i call our state and local law enforcement partners who have been absolutely critical to this [56:52] mission when stephen miller called me and said we're going to create the homeland security task force [56:56] the fbi and dhs are going to co-lead it i said absolutely the country's been yearning for this [57:01] and needing it and the one thing i see different than any other administration is when i call these [57:05] people they pick up i don't get a voicemail when i make an ass they answer and the same is true and [57:11] so the fbi is playing a pivotal role in your administration in helping lead out this mission [57:16] and stephen's vision has finally come to life and instead of attacking the people at this table [57:21] maybe the media should go out there and talk to the lives that have been saved forever and the [57:26] communities that have been safeguarded because it takes courage to do that it takes courage to [57:30] implement that plan and it takes a president and president trump to put a leadership team like this [57:35] together we are actual friends and i know the media doesn't want to call us that but we do do that [57:40] we do hang out we do work together it's a 24 7 365 mission that doesn't turn off mr president [57:45] and as stephen said we're inspired by our leadership and this country's thankful for these eight months [57:50] and i can't wait to see what the next four years looks like thank you very much thanks [57:55] great job todd please thank you mr president the number that i think matters um the three over 3 000 [58:05] 3 266 terrorists have been taken off the streets in two months and for each of those arrests there's [58:11] anywhere anywhere from between four to 20 law enforcement agents federal state and local executing [58:17] those arrests and that that means every one of them are putting their lives on the line to make these [58:22] arrests to make our communities safer and so what i will say to them is thank you but also what i will [58:27] say to them is that the extent that there are politicians as recently as today suggesting they [58:33] are doing something wrong we have governors district attorneys mayors and even congresswomen [58:39] suggesting that our federal law enforcement and the state and local law enforcement that are helping [58:44] them are doing something wrong that is that is disgusting and something that we will not tolerate [58:51] that that every day attorney john bondi and i talk with all of our partners making sure that they know [58:56] that if any one of our federal agents our state or local agents working under the hstf banner [59:02] are even touched by any of these terrorists or rioters they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of [59:08] the law when politicians aid these terrorists by trying to give them comfort or protection [59:16] or suggesting that somehow our men and women are doing the wrong thing same problem we will not [59:21] tolerate it mr president so thank you to all of our state and local um men and women that are helping us [59:27] and our federal law enforcement officers that are literally putting their lives on the line [59:32] every single day we will always protect you thank you mr president thank you very much um a really good [59:39] job you're doing too thank you uh any questions uh maybe pertaining uh how about pertaining to this for [59:46] a little while and well would you have any questions of these incredible people yeah go ahead please go [59:55] ahead thank you mr president thank you good to see you um if i could just ask both of you including [1:00:01] secretary hexath um there's reporting the u.s just sent b1 bombers near venezuela to ramp up some military [1:00:08] pressure there is that accurate and can you tell us more about that no it's not accurate no it's false [1:00:13] but we're we're not happy with venezuela for a lot of reasons drugs being one of them but also [1:00:20] they've been sending their prisoners into our country for years under the biden administration [1:00:27] not anymore we have a closed border we had actually nobody for the last four months i guess five months [1:00:32] they say they report nothing they report zero i don't know if that can be possible but that's [1:00:38] we'll accept it right fellas but uh we have closed borders we have people coming into our country but [1:00:44] they only come in legally we have the strongest borders we've ever had we might have the strongest [1:00:49] borders of almost any nation right now and that's a big difference from what it was two years ago when [1:00:54] everybody was pouring in but we're very unhappy with venezuela uh because of what they've done they've [1:01:00] emptied their prisons into our country nobody can do that only a stupid person would have accepted it [1:01:08] and that's what we had running our country very stupid people uh so we're not happy with that as [1:01:13] well i will tell you yeah mr president thank you um you okay yes uh on fentanyl okay we're gonna lose [1:01:25] we have some good medical help right over there that's all right on fentanyl uh according to the cdc [1:01:32] data uh nearly 330 000 americans died over the past five years from fentanyl that's one in every [1:01:39] 1 000 americans who died it's more more than that but it's all right yes i know you think it's even [1:01:45] more i'll be discussing that with president yes so that's actually my question i figured i was [1:01:49] wondering um since it mostly comes from china and has caused such carnage in the u.s yeah what are you [1:01:54] going to say to convey the seriousness and also a second question for you or secretary hegseth is [1:01:58] there any evidence that china is now smuggling fentanyl through venezuela to bypass u.s and mexican [1:02:03] port controls they are doing that yes but they are paying right now a 20 percent tariff because of [1:02:11] fentanyl that's billions and billions of dollars that they're paying uh we're actually on november 1st [1:02:18] the tariff on china goes to 157 percent which is record-setting territory and we don't want that [1:02:25] because it's not sustainable for them they can't sustain that we don't want them to have to go [1:02:30] through that so i'm meeting with president xi and i would say the first we have some big issues like [1:02:37] with the farmers and various other things but the first question i'm going to be asking him about is [1:02:42] fentanyl and if you think about it they make a hundred million dollars think of this [1:02:48] they make a hundred million dollars selling fentanyl into our country 100 million [1:02:54] they lose a hundred billion dollars with the 20 percent tariff so it's not a good business proposition [1:03:01] it's a hundred billion dollars approximately that they have to pay it's a big penalty to make a [1:03:06] hundred million so i think they want to do something they want to put it on the list it's on the list [1:03:11] it's one of the things we're talking about and i'm putting it right at the front of the list so [1:03:16] they pay a very big penalty for doing that and i don't think they want to be doing it and we'll [1:03:21] see what happens at the end of next week because i'll be meeting next week as you know along with [1:03:26] we're stopping in malaysia we're stopping in south korea we're stopping in japan [1:03:31] i'm meeting with president xi actually in south korea so it'll be the first thing on the list yeah please [1:03:36] the drug boats on the drug boats sir has there been any any discussion about capturing one so that [1:03:44] you can show the amount of narcotics about them yeah yeah jennifer we know everything about them [1:03:50] we know where they're coming from who they're coming with generally who's in the boat i'll let pete [1:03:56] discuss it a little bit but they have incredible intelligence and you know usually when you see five [1:04:02] engines i've never even seen that before but when you see five engines on a boat going about 65 miles [1:04:09] an hour loaded up with white powder in silver cases generally speaking that's not a good sign they're [1:04:17] not going fishing right and you don't see any fishing rods right so uh pete i'll let you discuss [1:04:23] that a little bit please well yes sir likewise generally you don't see uh fishing in submarines [1:04:28] uh either sir so this the u.s military as i mentioned nobody better in the world at mapping [1:04:37] networks identifying who's connected to who inside terrorist organizations it's just the media is [1:04:43] used to hearing that when it pertains to afghanistan and iraq and isis and al-qaeda but if you reframe how [1:04:48] you understand the world in our own hemisphere that's exactly what these foreign terrorist organizations [1:04:53] are and so we will track them we will map them we will network them and we will hunt them [1:04:58] and kill them because they're trying to and they are killing and poisoning the american people [1:05:04] and inside that we have all the license necessary all the authorities necessary to take these kinetic [1:05:08] strikes and we'll continue to take them and we've been you know just to add because i think it's [1:05:13] important we've been capturing them for years you know it's not like gee let's capture one we've been [1:05:18] doing that for years for 25 years we've been doing it not at a level like we're doing it now i mean [1:05:24] just with the hits we're hitting but we have much more intensity than any administration's ever had [1:05:30] but we've been capturing these boats for years and they get back into the system and they do it again [1:05:36] and again and again and they don't fear that they have no fear the thing i can tell you right now it's [1:05:40] very hard to find any floating vessel right now on the pacific or on the in the gulf and i friend i would [1:05:49] like to call it by its official name the gulf of america another little triumph of of the trump [1:05:56] administration i said for years i said why are we call it why do we call it the gulf of mexico [1:06:02] it's 93 percent the shoreline is 93 percent so i never understood that so i made that change i never [1:06:09] realized how easy that was going to be other than i guess ap ap fought us in court and the judge said [1:06:16] uh but that's the name and actually they were sort of semi-prohibited from even covering us after [1:06:23] that it was pretty amazing but we have the gulf of america and there are very few boats very very few [1:06:30] boats uh not even fishing boats to be honest i don't want to do that to the fishing industry but [1:06:35] it's been so effective and our uh our sea drugs as they call them they use the term sea drugs the drugs [1:06:42] coming in by sea are are like five percent of what they were a year ago less than five percent so now [1:06:51] they're coming in by land and even the land is concerned because i told them that's going to be [1:06:55] next you know the land is going to be next and we may go to the senate we may go to the you know [1:07:00] congress and uh tell them about it but i can't imagine they'd have any problem with it i think in [1:07:06] fact while we're here i think it's a good idea pete you go to congress you tell them about it what are [1:07:10] they going to do say gee we don't want to stop drugs pouring in they're killing 300 000 people a [1:07:16] year i think that's the real number 300 000 people a year so between that and my discussion with [1:07:21] president xi i think we're we have never made progress like we've made the the sea drugs are [1:07:27] almost dead and they can't come in that fast from the land and the land drugs are much more [1:07:33] dangerous for them it's going to be much more dangerous you'll be seeing that soon so that's the [1:07:38] way it is yeah go ahead yeah go ahead please with the glasses go ahead thank you mr president i [1:07:46] want to ask what's your reaction to representative dan goldman calling on nypd to arrest ice agents who [1:07:52] he says are acting illegally he says they are illegally assaulting people and illegally detaining people at [1:07:57] immigration courts in new york well you know i know dan and dan's a loser you understand he's he's a [1:08:03] guy that doesn't have what it takes he's been trying so hard and they're exhausted i mean it's [1:08:09] so ridiculous right a suggestion like that so uh you know they're just trying so hard and it's not [1:08:17] working they've even now started imitating me of all people they want to imitate me and they start [1:08:23] using foul language but they use too much of it you know you can't use the f word seven times in one [1:08:28] sentence it doesn't work it might work once every seven news conferences but you can't do it [1:08:35] you can't do it seven times in one sentence so i don't know they're they're uh they're really uh [1:08:40] they're in big trouble that party go ahead some alleged smugglers have survived some of these recent [1:08:48] strikes and been sent back to their home country if they're terrorists why not just arrest and detain [1:08:52] them go ahead uh two points on that first uh when i served in iraq in 2005 and 2006 we used to [1:09:01] in sort of a gallows humor way talk about the iraqi catch and release program the reality that we [1:09:05] would catch a lot of people hand them over uh and then they would be recycled back through we'd have [1:09:09] to recapture them or attack them again and that's why changing the dynamic and actually taking kinetic [1:09:14] strikes on these boats ought change the psychology of these foreign terrorist organizations uh to those [1:09:20] two that were that that survived the shot on the semi-submersible uh it's think again compared to [1:09:25] iraq and afghanistan the vast majority of people that we captured on the battlefield we handed over to the [1:09:30] home country did we always like how it shaped out sometimes we did sometimes we did not but 99 [1:09:36] would go to the afghan authorities or the iraqi authorities so in this case those two they were [1:09:40] treated by american medics and handed immediately over to their countries where they came from hopefully [1:09:45] to face prosecution which is a very standard way of handling something like this we've got protocol of [1:09:52] how we'll handle it [1:09:58] he's so hopeless go ahead go ahead yesterday there was a vote at the gneset on annexing the west bank [1:10:05] do you see it as a challenge to your peace efforts could you say that louder please yes yesterday there [1:10:12] was a vote at the gneset in israel on annexing the west bank do you see it as a challenge to your peace [1:10:18] efforts will you answer that please because i cannot understand the words you're saying where are [1:10:23] you where are you from where are you from you're from france beautiful accent but we can't understand [1:10:30] what you're saying the west bank is don't worry about the west bank israel's not going to do anything [1:10:44] with the west bank okay don't worry about it is that your question they're not going to do anything [1:10:49] with the west bank don't worry about it israel is doing very well they're not going to do anything [1:10:53] with it yeah please thank you president trump are there any safeguards in place to protect americans [1:10:59] from fentanyl and cartels when you leave office in 2028 any protocols that could be put in place in [1:11:05] case a future administration comes in that wants open borders and i also have a question for the [1:11:11] secretary of war as well after your answer well the biggest thing we can do is make sure they don't come in [1:11:15] because open borders it's they would destroy it's amazing that our country is even surviving with [1:11:23] what we went through coming in by the billions and coming in from the wrong places you know i know all [1:11:29] these people that run these countries and they're smart they're very street smart and they're not sending [1:11:35] their best you know they're not sending they're taking them out of their prisons and their mental [1:11:39] institutions as i say over and over again they're the drug dealers they're the drug addicts they're [1:11:47] people that don't work i mean the best of them are people that don't work they don't work they're on [1:11:52] welfare their form of welfare which is tiny you know what their form of welfare they give you a piece [1:11:57] of paper they give you nothing but they want people that work they don't let those people come out [1:12:02] because they want those people you know they cherish those people those are the people that make their [1:12:05] country run they give us all of the people that don't work and and are murderers 11 843 murderers came [1:12:15] in 11 000 many of them committed more than 50 committed more than one word murder now why do we want them [1:12:23] why would biden and that group of thugs that he had working for him why would they accept these people [1:12:29] why would he accept nobody understands it you know they say maybe they wanted the vote but i did great [1:12:34] with the hispanic vote but these are people from all over the world why would they do it so one question [1:12:40] no matter what i do i can't you always like to know the opponent you have an opponent what are they [1:12:47] getting at and usually you can why would they allow 20 million maybe 25 million people into this country [1:12:54] almost all of which but most of which should not have been allowed into our country [1:12:59] it's uh one of the great enigmas what they've done to this country should never be forgotten in history [1:13:06] should never ever be forgotten and now it looks like we're going to have a communist mayor in new [1:13:10] york that'll be a lot of fun but remember this they have to go through the white house yeah please go [1:13:15] ahead the founder of binance uh can you explain why you chose to pardon him and did it have anything [1:13:22] to do with his involvement in which one who is that the founder of binance he has a involvement in your [1:13:27] own family's crypto business the uh i believe we're talking about the same because i do partner [1:13:32] a lot of people i don't know he was recommended by a lot of people a lot of people say that are you [1:13:39] talking about the crypto person a lot of people say that he wasn't guilty of anything he served four [1:13:44] months in jail and they say that uh he was not guilty of anything that what he did well you don't [1:13:50] know much about crypto you know nothing about you know nothing about nothing you fake news but let me just [1:13:56] tell you that he was uh somebody that as i was told i don't know him i don't believe i've ever met him [1:14:02] but uh i've been told by a lot of support he had a lot of support and they said that what he did [1:14:09] is not even a crime it wasn't a crime that he was persecuted by the biden administration [1:14:15] uh and so i gave him a partner at the request of a lot of very good people yeah please yes thank you so [1:14:24] much this is the kind of question i like yeah the the numbers from this task force are draw dropping [1:14:31] i wanted to know this is a question for you and both stephen since it was said this is your brain [1:14:35] child what what are the lessons to be learned from the success of the task force and what are your [1:14:40] continued goals with this task force now that you have about three years left well the best thing we [1:14:45] have going is we have such talent around this tab i could go over every one of these men and women [1:14:49] and we have unbelievable talent they've got the naturals you know like somebody that hits a [1:14:56] baseball or a golf ball or a you know that you see more it's more evident it's beautiful because it's [1:15:01] sports you can tell somebody right away are they good or they're not these people the most talented [1:15:06] people at what they do and when we started talking about this stephen and all of us [1:15:13] it was it seems so easy what what is surprising to me is how quickly we can straighten out a large [1:15:21] city a big city a mean city a city that's sick that got very sick with guns all over the place with [1:15:27] bullets shooting all over where you i mean you you take your life in your hands if you go out and buy [1:15:32] a loaf of bread that's not america that's not our country and those people don't care how you do it [1:15:38] they just want it done they really do you know when you go to the people in the street they're not [1:15:43] they don't know is it national guard they just want it done they want to be safe and we've gained a [1:15:50] great following of americans real americans people that want to be safe but i think the biggest thing [1:15:56] we we say is we have tremendous talent we were able to recognize like a football team like a baseball [1:16:01] team we were able to recognize the talent and the talent is largely in this room for the whole country [1:16:08] it's largely in this room there's really nothing like it and that's why in i think we had dc done [1:16:16] not perfectly but pretty much done at least normalized in 12 days when you say 12 would you say 12 days [1:16:24] on the 12th day it felt different and then and you know we took a lot of bad people out never to never [1:16:31] to come back again then most of them never to come back again but there's great talent and there's a [1:16:39] also great courage it's you know it's i've been watching what goes on and then you have the radical [1:16:44] left lunatics and what's that all about i mean they're fighting us because we want to stop crime [1:16:52] where do these people come from they're paid money i guess they paid a lot of money but like i saw that [1:17:01] ridiculous march the other day i say these people are not representative of our country [1:17:07] and not all of them of course but many of them are total lowlifes these are lowlifes these are [1:17:13] people that are paid agitators and they're not representative of our country so i don't know i [1:17:19] can just tell you that our country has tremendous spirit right now you know that better than anybody [1:17:23] because you cover it well but we have a lot of people that are very happy right now with the direction [1:17:29] they did a poll the other day the direction of our country is better than it's been in 37 years [1:17:34] and i'm upset because i think it's it should be better than that i actually said we should be [1:17:39] better than that so you know thank you very much for your question uh brian brian mr president yes [1:17:45] thank you mr president you guys have done an amazing job and some of those numbers are staggering [1:17:50] and we've gotten message on social media wanting to thank you for that but i think can you talk about [1:17:55] the number of missing children you guys have discovered in memphis that's amazing [1:17:59] well it's uh hundreds of thousands were lost through biden and the biden administration and we [1:18:06] are getting a lot of them back but they're either dead they're slaves they're captured in some form [1:18:15] but think of it hundreds of thousands we're talking about not even believable and they came [1:18:20] in through the border they were sold they were bargained for and this was all biden meaning biden and obama [1:18:28] the same you know the same mentality frankly i think it's the same mentality let me tell you barack [1:18:35] hussein obama was a lousy president a lot of bad things happen remember when they used to talk about [1:18:40] trump with the jail cells well he built the jail cells for the children he built those jail cells [1:18:45] remember that came out but sir they were built in 2014 you remember when that came out after me going [1:18:52] through that stuff for about two weeks and then they found out it was barack obama that built those jail [1:18:57] cells no these people are they were bad leaders i hope i hope we don't have it again i hope we don't [1:19:03] have it again because you know our country's come back a long way but it can only withstand so much [1:19:10] and we don't want to ever go through that again we never want to have open borders again we don't want [1:19:15] to have we don't want to have men playing in women's sports we don't want to have transgender for [1:19:21] everybody we don't want that we want to have a great country with low interest rates nice housing [1:19:29] great education a strong military the basics yes please last night's new york city mayoral debate [1:19:39] uh so ron mamdani said he would close rikers island if elected uh what kind of impact would [1:19:44] that have on public safety well it's not good i i guess it's not a very nice place but uh [1:19:49] uh you need it you know you need you need something you have a lot of additional people [1:19:55] in new york city that should not have been here they came here through the open border through biden's [1:20:00] you know i don't know how they even do it new york city has always been tight for money [1:20:05] and then they spend you know eight billion dollars and nobody complains about it on people that [1:20:11] just showed up and they just came out of nowhere where did they get the money all of a sudden they have [1:20:16] money uh i'll tell you what uh we have to keep our prisons very fair and very safe but you get a [1:20:25] lot of criminals we have a lot of additional criminals i used to talk about it they used to [1:20:30] say well only good people come in from foreign countries i said that's not right i didn't know [1:20:35] that for a fact but it had just started right the open borders and people flowing in by the millions [1:20:42] they make our criminals look like the nicest people on earth that's the only good thing they make [1:20:47] our criminals look like nice people they are the meanest the most vicious trend de aragua [1:20:53] you don't get any sicker they cut people's fingers off because they call the cop did you call [1:20:58] the cop yes they cut off his finger so he can't call the cop anymore and then they say next time we're [1:21:05] going to cut off your hand if you cut because they took over his apartment in colorado you know [1:21:10] colorado they took over a town then they took over another town and you have a weak governor over [1:21:15] there he doesn't know what the hell he's doing so he lets it go on but we're getting them out of [1:21:20] here we're getting them all out they're going back to lots of not just venezuela they're going back to [1:21:25] lots of countries venezuela would be one however yeah please thank you mr president yeah a moment ago [1:21:33] you said that if secretary hegseth went to congress and briefed them on the operation no we will go you [1:21:40] you will go and it would be difficult for them to object i don't see any lawson going no reason not [1:21:45] to you know they'll always complain oh we should have gone so we're going to definitely i'd like [1:21:48] to just tell you let's go we'll go we're going to tell them what we're going to do and i think they're [1:21:53] going to probably like it except for the radical left lunatics and mr president if you are declaring war [1:21:59] against these cartels and congress is likely to approve of that process why not just ask for a declaration of [1:22:06] war well i don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war i think we're just [1:22:12] going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country okay we're going to kill them you [1:22:18] know they're going to be like dead okay yeah yes red hair beautiful red hair thank you i'll tell my [1:22:28] hairdresser that she'll she'll love it uh this is a question for both you and uh the secretary of war [1:22:35] uh mr hegseth uh who are you with i'm with the center square uh we're newswire service um with [1:22:42] everything that's going on um with between the narco terrorists and in the caribbean and then also [1:22:47] um with the with more uh chinese iranian russian ships also um taking part in venezuela do you are you [1:22:55] have any plans of expanding operations out of roosevelt roads and in pat in fact uh placing some home [1:23:01] porting some ships there yeah uh we're familiar with the location that you're referring to and we [1:23:09] will make sure that we're properly displaced in order to deal with the contingency we're dealing [1:23:13] with there and also any ways in which other countries would attempt to be involved also so [1:23:18] we can walk and chew gum we're definitely keeping our eyes on near peer adversaries at the same time [1:23:24] but we think sending a message on these cartels these narco terrorists uh is an important important [1:23:29] inside our hemisphere which for far too long other presidents as the president pointed out [1:23:32] they've ignored our own backyard and allowed other countries to increase their influence here which [1:23:36] only threatens the american people were uh we're changing that one one big thing that has happened [1:23:43] though because you mentioned expansion and expand our efforts so uh when i was running for office [1:23:49] second term uh everybody was talking about uh the fact that nobody wanted to join the military nobody [1:23:55] wanted to join the great police forces you know they didn't want to join new york's finest or [1:23:59] any of our police forces uh they didn't want to join anything having to do almost like with the [1:24:04] country with the uniform we are setting records with the army navy air force marine space force [1:24:12] coast guard we're setting records we've never had anything like it and i'll tell you when it started [1:24:18] november 5th we didn't even have to wait till january 20th they saw spirit and now we have people [1:24:25] coming in that are it's unbelievable and if we wanted to increase our military force if we wanted to [1:24:30] increase any one of these including police forces they can now get men people didn't want to be [1:24:36] police men and women they didn't want to be fire men and women they didn't want to go into the military [1:24:41] we were having tremendous recruiting problems and now we're setting records we literally last year at [1:24:47] this time you were doing stories that uh the recruitment was a disaster we couldn't get men and women to go [1:24:54] into the military now we have such an overabundance we've never had i mean it's as i understand it it's [1:25:03] like record-setting recruitment this is in less than a year it's been amazing so this is a good time to [1:25:10] expand if we want to do it and i think we should i think we should and uh we probably will yeah please [1:25:15] yeah blue blue questions for you um first for you and um secretary hegseth is uh the administration [1:25:24] supportive of sending national guardsmen to cities for the express purpose of aiding deportation [1:25:30] and immigration enforcement efforts to expand deportation efforts [1:25:36] sending uh national guardsmen to u.s cities for the express purpose of aiding deportation [1:25:41] and immigration enforcement what we've done so far is is stand alongside federal law enforcement in [1:25:47] every way facilities and personnel but also we have uh we have a great deal of lift inside the military [1:25:52] we're able to move assets in a way that no other aspect of the u.s government can and so where we [1:25:56] can rapidly assist with mass deportations we have been happy to do that um is the administration at [1:26:04] all supportive of potential measures to crack down or regulate or even ban apps that track ice agents [1:26:10] locations what do you mean by that like specific apps that are used to track the location of ice [1:26:17] i guess we'll do that i'm not a big app guy i'm not into that too much i think pam might be it let's go [1:26:23] yes good answer there yes these organizations president trump are coming in and they're [1:26:29] apps to track our federal law enforcement officers and it jeopardizes their lives where they're going to [1:26:35] be their location and we've actually been working really well with the tech companies who have been [1:26:40] cooperating because they don't want our law enforcement officers to to get injured so yes well i mean i see it [1:26:46] with ice where they're having you know what where they define where they live who they are and you [1:26:53] know i wasn't i i didn't take i didn't have a big view on the mass but i now understand why they should [1:26:59] wear masks i think it's very dangerous for them not to wear masks they can do whatever they want i noticed [1:27:04] some do it and some don't but it's pretty dangerous but when you look at you know you you talk about that [1:27:10] question uh i think it's very dangerous and i think you're coming down on that very hard right [1:27:18] mr president go ahead thank you sir um when when you were running for re-election in 2024 you released [1:27:25] a video statement where you did this you made this exact promise to show no mercy on the cartels and [1:27:30] employ every military asset necessary to combat them in that same video you also said that you plan to [1:27:37] expose all the bribes and corruptions with politicians and the cartels we're doing that [1:27:41] yeah we're trying to do that looking into that and american politicians yeah where the money's coming [1:27:46] from because you see it like even that garbage deal they had this weekend which was embarrassing to them [1:27:53] and the crowds were much more the crowds were not big those crowds were not big at all but when you [1:27:59] look at signs and they're all made beautifully the yellow signs i saw the yellows the blues [1:28:05] but they're all made professionally in a printing shop looks like on madison avenue someplace some [1:28:13] guy is paying for all that stuff and we don't mind protest protest is a good thing i protest i'm always [1:28:19] protesting right but but when you see some of these people these people are going crazy they're going [1:28:26] crazy because they're getting paid because there's no reason for them to be going crazy but you watch some [1:28:31] of them and they're professional agitators and we are finding out who's paying them yeah we we have a [1:28:36] lot of information about who they are you're going to be very surprised when you find out question for [1:28:41] secretary hegseth um sir a memo circulating on social media uh details the establishment of a national [1:28:49] guard response force that's going to be trained in crowd control and civil unrest and deployed in all 50 [1:28:55] states by april of 2026 uh can you verify the authenticity of that memo and do you have any [1:29:01] more information on the operations i'm not going to answer particulars on something that may be in [1:29:06] the planning process but we definitely do have multiple layers of national guard response forces [1:29:11] whether it's in each state whether it's regionally whether it's title 10 active duty whether it's [1:29:18] washington dc we've got a lot of different ways that constitutionally and legally we can employ [1:29:23] title 10 and title 32 forces and we will do so when necessary president putin basically said today [1:29:36] that russia is immune from u.s sanctions he said that it would not impact the russian economy in any [1:29:42] serious way is good i'm glad i'm glad he feels that way that's good i'll let you know about it in six [1:29:48] months from now okay let's see let's see how it all works out yeah go ahead please blue of course one [1:29:56] about the shutdown i'm taylor poplar's with spectrum news the same day you established this task force [1:30:01] back on january 20th was the same day you pardoned the january 6 defendants yeah just very proud of [1:30:06] that just last weekend one of them was charged with allegedly threatening to kill house minority [1:30:12] leader hakeem jeffries and a big theme of this task force has been allowing law enforcement to do their [1:30:17] job and holding accountable people who go after law enforcement do you worry that your actions back on [1:30:22] day one undermine what this task force is trying to accomplish no you have thousands of people that [1:30:28] we're dealing with and you know if if one goes haywire look at look at what this guy in virginia [1:30:33] said where he wanted to kill his opponent he's going to kill his opponent he's going to kill his [1:30:38] opponent's children and i think wife and he continues to run and the democrats continues running for what [1:30:44] attorney general in virginia uh look what he said so now do you think all democrats should be prohibited [1:30:51] from living anymore i mean think of what he said he's going to kill his opponent and he's going to [1:30:57] kill the children of his opponent and i think the wife i said this guy's sick that is a sick guy [1:31:05] and how do you vote for somebody like that but i don't view that every democrat would say that because [1:31:11] not every democrat would say that so you can't you know you could have one person but i don't i don't [1:31:16] know of the incident i can say we're very proud of uh what we did we had the courage to do something [1:31:22] that should have been done the problem sometimes the republicans are too nice they're a very nice [1:31:27] party the democrats play a much dirtier fight uh you know it's amazing you go after dirty cops like [1:31:34] comey and you go after these are dirty cops uh leticia james is a dirty cop you go after these people [1:31:41] and they say how horrible you are and yet i got indicted five times and impeached twice nobody says [1:31:47] anything about that you know they say oh they actually said the other day oh he's trying [1:31:52] to indict somebody i got indicted four or five times todd maybe more than that yeah i think you [1:31:59] could you could say 87 times if you really think about it right with the 80 with the charges a bunch [1:32:05] of phony guys but nobody says anything about that but uh they mentioned it the other way no the democrats [1:32:13] play a very dirty game it's all they're good at they're good at a couple of things cheating on [1:32:17] elections and playing very dirty and they have one good trait they stick together they stick together [1:32:23] they stick together through the worst policies that anybody's ever seen it's unbelievable how they [1:32:29] stick together and i i respect them for sticking together but uh it's a dead party because their [1:32:35] policies are no good okay right we'll do a few more and we'll go home wonderful speak everybody's going [1:32:41] to go home i'm going back to the oval office however uh speaking of democrats uh there's report [1:32:47] that there's a grand jury on adam schiff for apparent mortgage fraud if he is indicted should he step down [1:32:54] as a u.s senator well you know i'm not going to comment on that i would just say adam schiff is one of [1:33:01] the lowest forms of scum i've ever dealt with in politics he's a horrible human being very dishonest [1:33:09] person i have no idea what's going on you tell me that he's going to be indicted i don't know you [1:33:13] could ask pam i don't know if she's she could say it probably you are allowed to say it but uh i [1:33:19] wouldn't know about that i can only tell you he's a very he's a very bad i think he's actually a sick [1:33:25] person do you want to talk about that we're not going to comment on any grand jury that's open we can't [1:33:33] legally i don't know by the way i hope it's true but i don't know anything about yeah oh millions of [1:33:49] dollars yeah well i also give you know i give a lot of money to the white house the white house is [1:33:55] uh as you know i give my salary and i usually like to steer to the white house because this house was [1:34:02] a little bit abandoned first of all for four years you had a guy walking around that didn't know where [1:34:06] the hell he was and this this house was not taken care of the way it was supposed to be i take very [1:34:11] good care of property i was very good at that and you'll notice the floors downstairs i paid for them [1:34:19] marble the most beautiful marble you've ever seen the white floors down in the palm room [1:34:23] which were they look like they came out of i i don't want to lose because they're big supporters of [1:34:28] mine home depot so i'm not going to say bad but they did come out of a box from home depot about 30 [1:34:33] years ago they were all broken but now they have the most beautiful floors the most beautiful lights [1:34:37] and chandeliers i think most of you brian you've seen that right yes how beautiful is that and i take care [1:34:43] of it so uh i spend millions of dollars on this building taking care of it it was not properly [1:34:51] maintained and now it's starting to gleam like it should it should really gleam and you should go down [1:34:56] and visit the presidential walk of fame have you seen it it's quite quite good i'm sure that a lot of [1:35:04] people coming to the white house it's hot it's very hot but it's really a tribute to the president's uh [1:35:10] past presidents of our country yeah please mr president yeah behind you please yeah go ahead [1:35:18] um so on monday a question for you as well as secretary noem on monday mayor karen bass of la [1:35:24] and representative robert garcia they held a press conference and they called for an investigation into [1:35:29] dhs accusing them of unlawfully arresting u.s citizens and racially profiling and only arresting [1:35:37] people because in robert garcia's words they look like me he's a hispanic individual do you have a [1:35:42] response to that are you asking me that question you as well as uh secretary they are arresting bad [1:35:48] criminals and they're really good at it too uh i look at the numbers you know they always like to say [1:35:54] that oh you're arresting this and that then when you check it you find out jeez almost every single [1:36:00] time and you know obviously every once in a while they may get one wrong but they always correct it [1:36:05] they're able to correct it but they are arresting really bad people they're arresting people that kill [1:36:11] people that would cut your throat and not even care about it these are brave people and it's very [1:36:16] dangerous and if they go even a little bit too far uh they get into trouble you know which is a shame [1:36:24] i protect them but they get into trouble but they're arresting very serious criminals and they're [1:36:29] getting them out of here okay one or two more don't doug do you have a question i'd love to have doug [1:36:37] have a question our great photographer because he's such a great guy and he might be the most talented [1:36:42] person over there i don't know go ahead let's hear your question this is this guy's a real beauty [1:36:49] on the cartel strategy hearing you talk about his war hearing secretary hegseth talk about defeating [1:36:53] and destroying and the comparisons to isis and al-qaeda those efforts took american troops being engaged in [1:36:59] foreign countries do you think that's ultimately where this is headed with the court the cartels having [1:37:04] american troops in countries like the cartels are very bad they a lot of bad people coming in they were [1:37:09] interviewed uh recently and they were asking people what their problem was and one guy said yes [1:37:15] i was i'm up for murder didn't know what he was saying obviously you know i'm sure his lawyer was not [1:37:21] thrilled with his statement but uh no they're rough people coming into those cartels those cartels are rough [1:37:29] you look at what happens the trip up the trip up is horrible especially for women they're being killed [1:37:34] they're being raped at levels that nobody thought even possible in my opening speech i mentioned that [1:37:40] but in a very light way i mentioned the word rape then i found out that you take a look at what happens [1:37:45] in those cartels it's horrible what's what's going on and we're doing uh the world a big service by [1:37:52] just telling them you know they're not you don't have too many cartels now because they know when they [1:37:56] get up here they're going to be stopped under biden they were just flowing into the country [1:38:02] it didn't matter what you were where you came from what you look like what your record they didn't [1:38:06] check records millions of people came into this country that should not be in our country right [1:38:12] now we've gotten a lot of them out it's the single biggest problem that we were given inflation i've [1:38:18] already taken care of economically the country is the strongest it's ever been thank god for tariffs [1:38:24] if we didn't have tariffs we'd be a third world nation but thank god for tariffs we're we're the richest [1:38:30] nation in the world now because of tariffs and we're able to economically protect ourselves and [1:38:35] we're able to really protect ourselves from a national security you know situation but uh we have [1:38:43] cartels that you know i somebody came up with the word cartel i won't tell you who that person was [1:38:51] but you got a lot of bad people in the cartels and you could look at a country like mexico and i [1:38:56] really respect the president i really respect a lot of the people over there but a lot of the [1:39:01] leadership but they are in fear in their own country because those cartels are running those countries [1:39:08] okay and that includes colombia colombia is a drug den it's a drug den and it has been for a long time [1:39:15] you got a lousy leader over there right now bad guy a thug but they make cocaine at levels that we've [1:39:21] never seen before and they sell it back into this and they're not going to get away with it much [1:39:26] longer we're not going to we're not going to put up with it much longer colombia is very bad mexico is [1:39:32] run by the cartels i have great respect for the president a woman that i think is a tremendous woman [1:39:39] she's a very brave woman but mexico is run by the cartels and we have to defend ourselves from that [1:39:48] go ahead let's let's go with you go ahead let's listen to this beauty [1:39:52] the government shut down by the time you return from your trip to asia do i expect to have it [1:39:56] resolved by the time i reserve i don't know uh i said long ago we shouldn't have been in this problem [1:40:03] this was september 28th they came doing biden's regime and before the election september 28th and [1:40:11] they pushed it off into the future and i was running when they did that and when you're running you know [1:40:16] but i did say what the hell are they doing that and debt ceiling you know they also pushed the debt [1:40:21] ceiling past the election date so that would mean the next president has it but i did say that [1:40:30] i think the democrats have gone totally crazy and you don't know what they're going to do because [1:40:37] they don't care about the people they don't i really think they have no leadership they have a [1:40:43] lot of very low iq people jasmine crockett is a low iq person a lot of them i don't want to insult too many [1:40:49] of them but a lot of them are they have no they have no rudder i don't think they know what they're [1:40:55] doing right now you know they've never done this before they always agreed to go and you know called [1:41:00] an extension let's do an extension and talk uh even today look at what happened today they wouldn't [1:41:08] even they don't want to pay the people that have worked and you know this was supposed to be sort of [1:41:12] this was a test and they wouldn't pay the people that have been working they said no no we don't want [1:41:17] to pay them this is all the democrats now all we need is five democrats and i i know a lot of [1:41:23] democrats that are saying they're more than five not probably not that many more than five but there [1:41:28] are more than five and all we need is like five democrat votes so we're we open our country again [1:41:33] sad though we have the greatest economy in our history we have the highest stock market all these [1:41:38] things are rocking we have we will have by the end of my first year more than 20 trillion dollars of [1:41:44] investment the all-time record is three three trillion i think it's china we're going to have [1:41:51] 20 or 21 trillion dollars we've never had anything like it coming in because of tariffs the money pouring [1:41:56] into our country the plants that are opening ai autobos everything and the democrats want to close our [1:42:03] country they're really you know they say deranged they are they suffer i guess it's trump derangement [1:42:10] syndrome which i think is going down now as an official condition by the doctors i think [1:42:15] they could pay an extra money if they handle it because it's more difficult to handle than a normal [1:42:20] mental disease but but you know what uh they they really should approve an extension get the country [1:42:29] back to work get the people paid and you know it's very simple you can't you just don't know what's [1:42:37] going on there's something wrong with them you know sad actually to fund your have you raised the [1:42:47] full 300 million needed to fund your ballroom and how much specifically are you donating to this [1:42:52] construction project i think 350 million dollars all all donor money and money that we put up [1:42:58] we've raised it's going to be uh it's going to cost right in the neighborhood of 300 million it's [1:43:05] been expanded and made absolutely it'll be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world i think [1:43:11] how much am i donating i won't be able to tell you until i finish but i'll donate whatever's needed i'll [1:43:19] tell you that do i have a name for the i won't get into that now yeah go ahead please without their [1:43:36] first full paychecks federal workers by the man a friend of mine talking about donors a friend of [1:43:41] mine a man that's great i'm not going to use his name unless he lets me do it uh susie can tell you [1:43:47] about this but he was uh he called us the other day and he said i'd like to contribute any shortfall you [1:43:53] have because of the democrat shutdown i'd like to contribute personally contribute any shortfall you [1:43:59] have with the military because i love the military and i love the country and any shortfall if there's [1:44:04] a shortfall i'll contribute it and today he sent us a check for 130 million dollars i would love to [1:44:15] tell you he deserves he doesn't really want the recognition if you want to know the truth but he gave [1:44:20] us a check for 130 million dollars which was sort of a shortfall yeah and that's going to go to the [1:44:27] military yeah is that the correct number 130 million dollars that's what i call a patriot okay thank you [1:44:37] very much everybody thank you thank you it's a great honor to have all my friends here it's like old home [1:44:44] week what a job you're doing and thank you very much for that we want to uh begin by thanking the people [1:44:54] that have done such a great job at the white house they have been doing really incredible work during [1:44:59] a shutdown i don't even know if they're supposed to be working but they wouldn't miss a day so i just [1:45:05] want to thank everybody for that very much and we're here today to discuss a sweeping unprecedented [1:45:11] and historically successful operation that my administration has carried out in recent weeks [1:45:17] to arrest prosecute and permanently remove members of foreign drug cartels from american soil and the [1:45:23] people gathered around this table are the ones that are doing it and in this room some of them [1:45:29] sitting a little bit behind some of them i'm surprised they're not actually at the table you [1:45:33] people should be very insulted by that but you've done a great job back there on my first day in [1:45:40] office earlier this year i signed an executive order to officially designate the drug cartels and [1:45:45] savage transnational gangs as foreign terrorist organizations it was my honor to do so [1:45:52] and on that same day i also signed an order directing the creation of the homeland security task force to [1:45:58] bring together all federal state and local partners to achieve the national policy goal of eliminating [1:46:04] the cartel presence in america once and for all and the results are and it's early and the results are [1:46:12] spectacular led by ice and the fbi this task force includes the department of justice the department of war [1:46:21] dhs the intelligence community atf the dea the u.s marshals and the state and local agencies in every [1:46:29] part of our country other than that we don't include too many people that's a hell of a group isn't it huh [1:46:34] when you think of it that's not a group you want against you certainly not at one time [1:46:40] in addition to the task force members we're pleased to be joined by representatives of law enforcement at [1:46:45] every level the highest level actually but every level including national president of the fraternal [1:46:52] order of police patrick yos where's patrick patrick thank you patrick thank you for the endorsement too [1:46:59] that really hit it off i would have gotten 98 anyway but it was still good to have your [1:47:04] address thank you patrick i don't forget those things president of the national sheriff's association [1:47:10] chris west chris thank you chris very much great good job major cities chief association executive [1:47:21] director laura cooper laura thank you laura very much major county sheriffs of america executive [1:47:29] director megan noland megan thank you thank you very much and president of the national border patrol [1:47:37] council council my friend and a very good speaker by the way whenever he gets up and speaks i say that [1:47:41] guy can really speak i don't know i don't want him to run for office i want him to stay where he is [1:47:46] paul perez paul thank you paul where is paul hi paul what are you doing over there paul good job good [1:47:55] speaker you are though paul i mean you've made some incredible speeches some and all from the heart too [1:48:01] right some great ones today you'll hear details from my national security and homeland security teams [1:48:08] about the extraordinary historic achievements of this new homeland security task force since it [1:48:13] became fully operational last month in all 50 states the job they're doing what we inherited from this [1:48:20] past administration is like disgraceful in a matter of weeks the task force has made the largest number [1:48:27] of arrests of cartel leaders operatives and gang members in american history more than 3 000 and [1:48:33] counting that includes members of the ultra violent new generation cartel the sinaloa cartel the lnfm cartel [1:48:43] ms-13 cartel and you know ms-13 the gang and trend de aragua another beauty that's a group of real [1:48:52] real garbage we have to deal with that we shouldn't have to deal with these are in addition to the [1:48:59] massive numbers of dangerous criminals my administration arrested nationwide since january [1:49:03] 20th numbering over 120 000 it's a record and 120 000 criminal arrests thank you very much [1:49:12] unfortunately for four long years before i took office the last administration allowed the cartels [1:49:19] and their operatives to frankly take over our country to freely infiltrate america and all the [1:49:26] communities nationwide along with transnational gangs these groups have unleashed more bloodshed and [1:49:32] killing on american soil than all other terrorist groups combined these are the worst of the worst [1:49:38] it should now be clear to the entire world that the cartels are the isis of the western hemisphere in [1:49:44] addition to their monstrous violence such as cutting off heads burning their enemies alive and burning [1:49:53] innocent people alive too by the way the cartels control large swaths of territory they maintain vast [1:50:00] arsenals of weapons and soldiers and they use extortion murder kidnapping to exercise political and [1:50:07] economic control thank you very much joe biden for allowing that to happen biden surrendered the [1:50:15] i mean he just surrendered our country to the cartels don't worry we're taking it gets better we're taking [1:50:20] it back it's uh really fast at at levels that nobody's ever seen before but what we had to put up with [1:50:29] what we inherited was just a disgrace and while biden was president if he was president i think the auto [1:50:35] pen was president not biden nearly 100 of those who infiltrated our southern border did so because they [1:50:42] were personally approved they admitted they were they were just what happened assisted by the most [1:50:49] dangerous and violent criminal organizations anywhere on the planet the worst people on the planet they [1:50:55] allowed into our beautiful country under the trump administration we're finally treating the cartels as [1:51:02] the core national security threat that they really are the cartels are waging war on america and just as [1:51:09] i promised in the campaign we're waging war on them like they've never seen before all you have to [1:51:14] do is turn on your television you'll see what's happening to them past administrations have tried to [1:51:20] mitigate this threat and our objective is to eliminate it we're not mitigating we're eliminating [1:51:26] we're getting them out the bad ones we're putting in prison we hate to do that because that means we're [1:51:31] stuck with them for 50 years or more in recent weeks our homeland security task force has seized more [1:51:37] than 70 tons of deadly narcotics along with more than 1 000 illegal guns and that's just recently this [1:51:44] is already the most successful anti-cartel and anti-gang operation in american history and it's just [1:51:51] getting started we have incredible people a lot of them are in this room with us today and it's an honor [1:51:57] to have them but we're going to not stop until the threat has been fully and completely eradicated i want [1:52:04] to thank task force members with us today including a person who's doing a fantastic job attorney general pam [1:52:11] bondi thank you pam thank you secretary of war pete hagseth sounds so much better than secretary of [1:52:18] defense i don't know do you guys agree with that i don't know it sounds you know we won the first world [1:52:23] war the second world war i would say everything before and everything in between and then we got woke [1:52:30] and we said well let's call it defense i don't think i think we like it this way better you know it's funny [1:52:36] that's uh that's something i thought it would be maybe controversial and it's only controversial [1:52:41] that we changed the name in the first place it's not controversial at all it's been unbelievably [1:52:47] well accepted uh pete hasn't it right it's been pretty amazing i thought it would be controversial [1:52:53] people want to have our country back people want to do exactly what we're doing right now we're getting [1:52:59] a lot of credit for it we should i want to thank though pete you're doing a great job pete hexa [1:53:05] secretary of homeland security christy noem christy thank you very much [1:53:10] director of national intelligence tulsi gabbard tulsi good job and the heads of all of the law [1:53:18] enforcement agencies all throughout the room you're really amazing the job you've done [1:53:23] to provide additional details on our mission i would like also to ask general bondi to say a [1:53:29] few words followed by secretary noem secretary hexa director gabbard homeland security advisor steven miller [1:53:37] steven you're such a superstar steven they called steven the other day a very bad name and i said you [1:53:45] should sue them steven i think he will i hope he does fbi director cash patel and deputy attorney [1:53:51] general todd blanche and i just want to say it's an honor the job we're doing and and these people [1:53:58] are doing uh absolutely incredible i'll just add a couple of things in memphis as you know where the [1:54:06] numbers are down in half already and it's only been about two weeks doing a fantastic job there thank [1:54:11] you uh incredible nobody thought it was possible it was really a it was very sick city it was horrible what [1:54:18] happened there people would go from if you're on the board of fedex they would ride you one block to [1:54:23] the hotel they said you couldn't walk it because it was too dangerous and they're already feeling [1:54:28] better about it but the best example right now is washington dc we have we went from one of the most [1:54:35] unsafe places uh in the planet i hate to say but in this country to a totally safe city it's nothing's [1:54:45] crime free i guess but this is about as close to crime free as you're going to get and you guys have [1:54:49] done an incredible job with that every one of you have worked so hard on this one and it's our nation's [1:54:56] capital and people would go to the nation they'd go from i always say iowa indiana they'd go from [1:55:04] florida they'd come up they want to see the monument i want to see the lincoln memorial i want to see one [1:55:10] of the monuments any one of them and they'd go home in a coffin but not anymore it's not happening [1:55:16] anymore we haven't had that happen in a long time was averaging more than one a week one person a week [1:55:22] who would think that's possible and it hasn't happened anymore and we have a safe city we have [1:55:27] a city where the restaurants are booming people are going out nobody's being mugged hit over the [1:55:32] head with a baseball bat none of the stuff is gone we took out 1700 criminals many of them career [1:55:40] criminals many of them given to us by joe biden and his ridiculous open borders policy they came [1:55:46] in from jails from all over the world not just south america from all over the world jails they [1:55:52] came in from mental institutions and insane asylums all over the world drug dealers and we got them the [1:55:59] hell out of here they're either that or if they're so bad as i said before we put them in jail because we [1:56:04] can't take a chance that they come back but i want to just say that washington dc is such an example of [1:56:14] what could be done and now the same thing's happening in memphis we're just halfway through the process and [1:56:20] already the numbers are far superior far far better than what we would have thought at this time [1:56:26] uh and chicago uh i just saw the number last week it was last weekend four were murdered 11 were shot [1:56:37] and then i have this guy pritzker is a very weak governor let me be nice i'm going to be very nice [1:56:43] he's extremely weak he's pathetic i have pritzker get up and say how great they're doing in chicago [1:56:49] they're doing very poorly so four were murdered four 11 were shot i would say and that was not a bad [1:56:56] week for him okay that was not a bad week he's had somewhere 18 or 19 were murdered and you know [1:57:03] what his excuse was yeah but that was a long weekend okay can you believe it he said that was [1:57:08] a long weekend he's bad and then the mayor is worse i mean that mayor is worse low iq very low iq [1:57:16] and we don't need low iq people we need people that are going to take care and i love chicago and [1:57:21] i love those beautiful women black women beautiful women wearing mega hats and they're all over the [1:57:28] place in chicago they want protection they don't care if it's a national guard if it's the army navy [1:57:36] coast guard marines they'll take space force okay space force send them in they couldn't they just [1:57:42] don't want to be mugged killed raped shot in the head and we stop it so we're going to be given a very [1:57:50] special uh we're going to give chicago very special care uh as you probably know maybe you heard we [1:57:57] were going to do a big surge in san francisco but i call got a great call from some incredible people [1:58:04] some friends of my very successful people uh mark who's everybody knows him and jensen everybody knows [1:58:13] jensen nvidia and others called me from san francisco and they said we're working really really hard with [1:58:23] the mayor and we're making progress would it be possible for your hold off to for you to hold off [1:58:28] the surge and i had four or five calls and i think they're making progress of their own that would be [1:58:33] the greatest i mean if they could do that that'd be great and they have great competence in those [1:58:38] people i mean incredible competence some of the smartest business leaders and they're working [1:58:44] very well with the police department they're doing a good job so we are holding off that surge everybody [1:58:49] and we're going to let them see if they can do it i said i think we can do it much fast i know we can do [1:58:54] it faster i think we can do it better than anybody we can take criminals out that they're not going to [1:58:59] know about and probably they don't have the legal authority maybe to do what we can but i'm okay with it [1:59:05] and we're going to let san francisco has the potential to be it was a great great city has [1:59:11] the potential very quickly to be a great city again and these are the companies that are there [1:59:16] that are all working and those are the people that asked me could you do away with the surge and let's [1:59:21] see how it works and we'll do that if we need to we'll do it but it's possible that we won't need [1:59:27] to and we will be focusing on other places like chicago and we'll have chicago taken care of very [1:59:33] quickly but just remember 11 people shot four people murdered okay and that was this weekend and [1:59:41] that was chicago and then you'll see pritzker get up and talk about well we have it under control they [1:59:47] don't have it under control jesse up it's getting worse so we'll take care of as soon as we give the [1:59:53] go-ahead which is all i have to do is give the go-ahead we won the big court case the other day on the [1:59:59] national guard that was a good case uh same thing with portland speaking of that because [2:00:04] that's where we won it but uh i mean i looked at i looked the other night saturday night portland [2:00:10] is like burning to the ground and these people are saying it's just friendly stuff the whole place [2:00:17] is burning to the ground so we'll uh take care of that one that's like an insurrection more than it [2:00:24] is that anything else that's that's crazy portland's crazy and then you listen to these radical left [2:00:30] people talking about uh it's really okay you're seeing things you you're really seeing things so [2:00:36] we're going to take care of chicago we're going to take care of portland we're going to take care of [2:00:40] memphis uh we're proud of dc there's nothing to take care of anymore but we're not going to let it [2:00:45] ever go bad it's never going to happen again our nation's capital and with that i'm just going to [2:00:51] uh tell you that pam bondy has done a fantastic job and pam would you say a few words please thank [2:00:57] you president trump and thank you for for your leadership and this is all about collaboration [2:01:03] and around this table i'm looking around this table we all work so well together i don't think [2:01:09] another administration in our nation's history has worked so well together we talk constantly secretary [2:01:15] gnome tulsi pete constantly but also all of our agencies working hand in hand and that's why this [2:01:22] is so successful and these people around this table are working seven days a week 24 hours a day even [2:01:29] though the democrats have tried to shut down the government terry cole i'm laughing because you're [2:01:34] around the clock you're all over the world director patel you're unstoppable what you're doing around [2:01:40] this country gaudy sorolta u.s marshal rob sakata and dan driscoll wearing your atf hats what rob i [2:01:47] was on the texting todd blanche and i were on texting you at 1am on cases i mean that's how committed [2:01:54] all of these people are to just keeping all of our citizens safe and that's what it's all about and [2:02:01] this this project is the brainchild of stephen miller and you are doing so much to keep our citizens [2:02:08] safe our kids safe and get these drugs off our streets like the mayor of san francisco and i are [2:02:14] going to be meeting on fentanyl in a few weeks and working hand in hand on that secretary gnome spoke to [2:02:19] him but the results of this last month have been historic as the president said in the last month [2:02:26] think about this 3200 more than 3200 violent gangs and drug dealers have been taken off the streets [2:02:37] off the streets now director patel and all of these agencies have also been working so hard on getting [2:02:43] the leadership but we are getting all the gang members off the streets and the drug dealers sinaloa [2:02:49] cjng ms13 and more tda 91 tons of drugs have been seized as a result of this task force we try to put [2:03:01] this in perspective for you this would be filling four 18 wheelers for all the drugs just in the last [2:03:10] month that have been taken off the street 58 000 kilos of cocaine think about a big backyard swimming [2:03:19] pool that would fill one and a half swimming pools just the powder cocaine that has been removed saving [2:03:26] lives this last month thanks to all of these people around the table 2300 kilos of fentanyl powder and 2.1 [2:03:36] million fentanyl pills off the streets and as the president said more than a thousand illegal guns [2:03:44] the biden administration was for way too long all of these great law enforcement officers surrounding [2:03:51] the table were not able to do their jobs what they've said is now they've been [2:03:56] uncuffed they can do their jobs now we've been watching transnational gangs grow in our country [2:04:02] become organized set up infrastructure in all of our states but no longer under president trump [2:04:10] we are destroying the infrastructure and we're no longer on defense all of these great men and women [2:04:16] are on offense so they better get ready we're dismantling the cartels and we are taking the [2:04:22] leaders into custody and all of the gangs we are going to supercharge this work this is not a pilot [2:04:29] program this is permanent we are here to stay and secretary hegseth we couldn't do this without [2:04:35] you and the department of war thank you all so much for everything you're doing around this table [2:04:40] working tirelessly and president trump thank you for giving them the ability to do it thank you very [2:04:46] very much thank you mr president since the year 2000 we have lost over 1 million americans to drugs [2:04:57] to overdoses to these cartels that have proliferated that kind of a disease on our [2:05:04] our people and have gone to war with our next generation of americans when you signed the executive [2:05:09] order that was protecting the american people from invasion what you did is that you took these cartels and [2:05:14] gangs that we've known for decades and you declared them to be what they really are and that's terrorists [2:05:20] you declared war on them and you didn't say we were just going to fight them you said we are going to [2:05:25] destroy them and everybody around this table is so honored to be here to to work with you to destroy [2:05:32] these terrorists that have been killing americans for years and getting rich off of it i'm so proud of [2:05:38] the work that was done just in the september surge you referenced that earlier we had over 400 operations [2:05:45] that went down in those first 43 days of the homeland security task force in operations that brought [2:05:51] as pam referenced 3 200 terrorists to justice got them off the streets sir we also have had over [2:05:59] precursors and chemicals that were brought in we've had the work at the southern border we've got border [2:06:04] patrol here at the table with you oh fentanyl has been cut down by 50 percent coming into this country [2:06:10] over our borders we've continued to work not just nationally but internationally and on our maritime [2:06:16] borders as well the ice agents that have so much violence against them and threats against them sir they [2:06:21] get up every day ready to work with this task force to be able to keep people safe and then we've got [2:06:26] coast guard who's been doing just a ton of our incredible interdictions out on the seas and the [2:06:31] waters and cooperation with operations that you've targeted in the caribbean with the department [2:06:37] of war and sir i just want to thank you for the leadership you put at this table for your cabinet [2:06:41] members for stephen miller for putting this in place to make sure that what you did when you [2:06:46] consolidated the homeland security task force you took a thousand other task forces that were already [2:06:52] established in the federal government and you streamlined them into this room into this group right [2:06:58] here so that we can look at each other in the face every day and say what's our problem how do we [2:07:03] address it how do we fix it and then we go to work together with our arms link to do exactly what you [2:07:09] told us to do and that's not just protect the american people from invasion but to kill these terrorists [2:07:14] you gave us the task to eliminate them destroy them so that they can't destroy the next generation of [2:07:19] americans so thank you sir thank you for the people you put around thank you very much that's great [2:07:24] job thank you pete yes sir well thank you mr president for your leadership uh chief likewise tulsi and todd and [2:07:32] dan and pam and christy and stephen and cash i mean i could go around the table from the department of [2:07:37] war we are thankful and grateful for the incredible effort that your agencies put in and we could not [2:07:43] be more proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with you not superficially not kind of over here but front [2:07:49] and center on the homeland security task force right there with you because our department has spent over [2:07:54] two decades defending other homelands and we're very proud to be defending our own and if you talk to [2:08:00] the troops down say on the southwest border mr president morale is sky high and continues to be [2:08:05] because they're proud to be defending their own communities their own state and their own country [2:08:09] so when that executive order was signed the mission was clear protecting the american people against [2:08:15] invasion and so the department of war went straight to the southwest border we still have 10 000 troops [2:08:20] there we have national defense areas we're standing alongside the border patrol and we've locked that [2:08:25] border down 100 control of the southwest border you stop the invasion and then we're proud to be going [2:08:30] on the offense counter cartel operations and it's not counter cartel as was mentioned these are [2:08:35] designated terrorist organizations foreign terrorist organizations our generation spent the better part [2:08:42] of two decades hunting al-qaeda hunting isis well as the president said this is the isis this is the al-qaeda [2:08:50] of the western hemisphere they intimidate they terrorize they extort they poison the american [2:08:56] people the president's right every boat we strike is 25 000 americans whose lives are saved because of [2:09:02] the drugs that were headed in our direction so our message to these foreign terrorist organizations is we [2:09:08] will treat you like we have treated al-qaeda we will find you we will map your networks we will hunt you [2:09:15] down and we will kill you and you've seen that evidence in the maritime domain whether it's in [2:09:21] the caribbean or in the pacific with the last two strikes we know exactly who these people are we know [2:09:27] what networks they work with what foreign terrorist organizations they're a part of we know where they're [2:09:31] going where they originated from what they're carrying and they know we know and that will soon [2:09:36] start to change the calculus of these boats so the critic the critique of this is of course as often [2:09:42] is the case wrong we know our authorities it's locked tight and we're going to treat them like [2:09:47] foreign terrorist organizations on the offense so the department of war is not going to degrade [2:09:53] or just simply arrest we're going to defeat and destroy these terrorist organizations to defend the [2:09:58] homeland on behalf of the american people making the jobs of law enforcement safer in the process [2:10:03] making the communities of americans safer in the process we think it's a very core mission [2:10:08] of the department of war and we're proud to be here mr president thank you very much thank you [2:10:13] telsey please yes thank you mr president the key reason that you are hearing about these incredible [2:10:19] effects uh is number one the team that you've assembled here and the leadership and the tone [2:10:24] that you have set first and foremost about keeping the american people safe the intelligence community [2:10:30] plays a critical role in being able to support our law enforcement at the federal state and local level [2:10:35] to make sure that they are armed with actionable intelligence to be able to actually go after [2:10:39] those who threaten the safety and security of the american people mr president under your leadership [2:10:45] for the first time there is a newly created national intelligence fusion cell at the office of the [2:10:52] director of national intelligence national counterterrorism that has a very simple purpose to make sure [2:10:57] that we have two-way intelligence sharing of actionable information between the intelligence community [2:11:02] and law enforcement i want to talk briefly about three successes that we've had just here in the last [2:11:09] few weeks mr president through the success of this interagency fusion cell just this last week our [2:11:15] national counterterrorism center supported through actionable intelligence to both u.s law enforcement as well [2:11:22] as mexican law enforcement the arrest of a sinaloa cartel boss el plato in juarez mexico as well as his top three [2:11:30] money launderers in a separate and recent successful interagency operation nctc worked closely with the [2:11:36] u.s marshal service that led to the arrest of another dangerous sinaloa cartel member responsible for [2:11:43] tracking a huge amounts of cocaine and uh hundreds of thousands of dollars in this single incident with [2:11:49] drug proceeds through his network i'll say the last example i'll share is is probably the most insidious [2:11:56] was providing intelligence to the mexican law enforcement that led to the arrest of a cjng cartel [2:12:03] affiliated baby trafficker called la diablo her whole money-making operation was centered around luring [2:12:09] pregnant women performing illegal c-sections harvesting organs and selling newborn babies [2:12:17] mr president it's your leadership that has made all of this possible i can tell you in the midst of this [2:12:22] government shutdown our folks like everyone around this table are working 24 7 without pay [2:12:29] and eager to get after this because they believe in your leadership and the mission that you have [2:12:33] presented to them thank you mr president i'll hand this off to uh home on security advisor steven miller [2:12:39] the leader of this task force let me just say mr president that this country was going to die [2:12:47] without you this country was going to actually die without you that's what we were facing in 2024 [2:12:53] we've been invaded for four years our communities were sinking our public safety had gone to zero [2:12:59] cartels are running entire communities sex trafficking child trafficking labor trafficking was out of [2:13:05] control overdoses were out of control the cartels were claiming more and more territory city services [2:13:11] were buckling this was the country on the verge of dying and you alone saved it and when you stepped [2:13:17] forward originally in 2016 you started the movement to make america great again and that means make america great again [2:13:26] in every way and that means safety and prosperity and peace and freedom from cartels and crime and gangs [2:13:32] and your vision and your leadership in declaring war in the drug cartels is the single most successful [2:13:38] public safety initiative in american history and i need the media to understand what president trump has done [2:13:44] people have been talking about drug cartels for longer than i've been alive and everyone has just [2:13:49] taken for granted that they can't be touched or stopped they're too big they're too powerful they're [2:13:55] too evil they're too murderous they can operate with impunity and just nine months president trump is [2:14:01] the only american leader not just in our lifetimes but ever to actually take the fight to the drug cartels [2:14:07] to actually seek the eradication and it is happening and so while the democrats are shutting the [2:14:14] government down and fighting for free health care for illegal aliens look at what president trump [2:14:18] has assembled here he's assembled the team under his vision direction and leadership that is saving [2:14:24] hundreds of thousands of lives hundreds of thousands of lives and only president trump could have done [2:14:29] this and i will say one last thing which is that his courage has been an inspiration to everyone [2:14:35] else in this room there there are people in this room you know looking for example at todd lions [2:14:40] who have been relentlessly doxed and harassed and threatened but when when they see president [2:14:45] trump's courage what he's been through for 10 years to save america when they came after his family his [2:14:52] businesses his safety his freedom everyone at this table knows we can give whatever it takes to get [2:14:58] the mission done so president trump thank you for your leadership your boldness your courage and your [2:15:03] vision we're honored to serve underneath you well i want to thank you steven and and i have to say that [2:15:08] you know i've been making the rounds i'm leaving tomorrow for some very big meetings including with [2:15:14] the president of china where i think we're going to come out very well and everyone's going to be very [2:15:20] happy but everybody said the same thing a year ago we had a dead country we were a dead country we [2:15:28] really were in a lot of ways not just this we were dead as doornails on this but we were a country that [2:15:35] was in serious trouble and beyond that and we have the hottest country anywhere in the world right now [2:15:42] the whole world is talking about it we have the hottest country anywhere in the world we're going [2:15:47] to clear up this crime in our cities we can do it quickly too they showed how quickly we could do it in [2:15:53] dc it was a real bad place it was a real mess dirty filthy disgusting graffiti all over the place [2:15:59] tents on every ounce of parks that we had uh just disgusting and i rode around last weekend i rode [2:16:07] around the city i felt very safe in that car but you know i would have done it without it i i wouldn't [2:16:14] need that car so much anymore i will tell you but uh the place was clean uh we we've started that also not [2:16:21] only uh law and order but we you know the cleanliness is important i think cleanliness is almost a part of [2:16:27] law and order if you see dirty disgusting streets and potholes all over the place and railings falling [2:16:34] down and graffiti all over the marble beautiful statuary marble columns those gorgeous columns where [2:16:40] they had graffiti it's all gone and i think it's a part of it i really do i think it's a big part of it [2:16:46] but we have a city that we can be proud of it's good we're going to be that way with every city we [2:16:50] have that's why with san francisco i wish him luck but we could do it so much faster i told the mayor i [2:16:56] love what you're doing i respect it and i respect the people that are doing it they're the biggest [2:17:00] people in the country they're the biggest people in the world a lot of the high tech some people like [2:17:06] them some people don't but they're smart and they want to do it and i said i am so honored to let you [2:17:11] do it and if it doesn't work out we'll do it for you very quickly but uh i just want to thank the people [2:17:17] around this table are amazing uh cash please go ahead mr president i'll just keep it short but i think what [2:17:24] the media should realize is the amount of courage it takes to do this and you led that mission you [2:17:30] led it during your campaign and you brought it to the american people i think the media should focus [2:17:35] on some of these numbers the attorney general just riled off those aren't numbers those are lives [2:17:39] lives saved by the millions the millions enough excuse me enough fentanyl to kill over 200 million [2:17:44] americans gone evaporated off our streets permanently your vision to safeguard american freedoms and our [2:17:51] children and our future is the most courageous thing i've ever seen a president of the united [2:17:54] states ever do and your ability to marshal it out in eight months in eight months these statistics [2:18:01] would have taken other administrations decades decades and the partnership that you see around [2:18:06] the table i just want to you know sum it up with the following when i call these folks around the [2:18:10] table when i call our state and local law enforcement partners who have been absolutely critical to this [2:18:14] mission when stephen miller called me and said we're going to create the homeland security task force [2:18:18] and the fbi and dhs are going to co-lead it i said absolutely the country's been yearning for this and [2:18:23] needing it and the one thing i see different than any other administration is when i call these people [2:18:28] they pick up i don't get a voicemail when i make an ask they answer and the same is true and so the fbi [2:18:34] is playing a pivotal role in your administration in helping lead out this mission and stephen's vision [2:18:39] has finally come to life and instead of attacking the people at this table maybe the media should go out [2:18:45] there and talk to the lives that have been saved forever and the communities that have been [2:18:49] safeguarded because it takes courage to do that it takes courage to implement that plan and it takes [2:18:54] a president and president trump to put a leadership team like this together we are actual friends and [2:18:59] i know the media doesn't want to call us that but we do do that we do hang out we do work together [2:19:04] it's a 24 7 365 mission that doesn't turn off mr president and as stephen said we're inspired by our [2:19:10] leadership and this country's thankful for these eight months and i can't wait to see what the next four [2:19:14] years looks like thank you very much thanks great job todd please thank you mr president the number [2:19:23] that i think matters um the three over 3 000 3 266 terrorists have been taken off the streets in two [2:19:31] months and for each of those arrests there's any anywhere from between four to 20 law enforcement [2:19:38] agents federal state and local executing those arrests and that that means every one of them are putting [2:19:43] their lives on the line to make these arrests to make our communities safer and so what i will say [2:19:47] to them is thank you but also what i will say to them is that to the extent that there are politicians [2:19:53] as recently as today suggesting they are doing something wrong we have governors district attorneys mayors