Trump Speech LIVE — Trump Declares War? America on High Alert — Major Announcement LIVE

[0:00] Todd and all of us, because Cash, I think that [0:03] Janine has done a fantastic job. [0:05] And the case I heard was, like, flawless. [0:07] It's a flawless case. [0:08] They have them on tape. [0:09] They have everything. [0:10] And then a judge gives them a little probation. [0:14] These are rough guys. [0:16] And they're young. [0:18] And if that happens, they're going to grow up. [0:19] They're going to be real bad. [0:21] They're going to cause a lot of problems. [0:23] Yeah, please. [0:24] Go ahead. [0:26] The Pressure Board has just gotten back from India. [0:28] What were the conversations like with Prime Minister Modi [0:31] and the other countries? [0:32] The President I think they were great. [0:33] He reported to me that you're great. [0:36] He's a great man, you know. [0:39] Modi is a great man, that he loves Trump. [0:42] Now, I don't know if the word love, I don't want you [0:44] to take that any different. [0:46] I don't want to destroy his political career, okay? [0:49] But you have to understand, I've watched India for years. [0:51] It's an incredible country. [0:53] And every single year, you'd have a new leader. [0:56] I mean, some would be in there for a few months. [0:58] And this was year after year after year. [1:00] And my friend has been there now for a long time. [1:03] And he's assured me there will be no oil purchased from Russia. [1:07] I don't know. Maybe that's a breaking story. [1:08] Can I say that? Would you say? [1:10] There will be no oil. [1:11] He's not buying his oil from Russia. [1:13] It started. [1:14] You know, you can't do it immediately. [1:15] It's a little bit of a process. [1:17] But the process is going to be over with soon. [1:20] And all we want from President Putin is stop this. [1:22] Stop killing Ukrainians and stop killing Russians, [1:26] because he's killing a lot of Russians. [1:28] Again, it doesn't make him look good. [1:31] It's a war that he should have won in one week, [1:33] and he's now going into his fourth year. [1:36] That does not look this — make this big so-called war machine look good. [1:42] But he could make a settlement. [1:44] We're willing to settle. [1:45] I thought we had a deal. [1:47] The hatred of the two leaders is very — it's an obstacle. [1:51] It's an obstacle. There's no question about it. [1:53] But I thought we had a deal two months ago. [1:57] Who would think I created peace in the Middle East [2:00] and can't get the two guys to settle? [2:03] But I think we'll get them. [2:04] But if India doesn't buy oil, it makes it much easier. [2:09] And they're not going to buy it. [2:10] They assured me they will — within a short period of time, [2:12] they will not be buying oil from Russia. [2:14] And they'll go back to Russia after the war is over. [2:17] Jennifer. [2:18] On the shutdown, sir, are FBI officials being paid right now? [2:21] Are all the FBI employees being paid and are all — [2:23] Well, that's what I understand. I hope so. [2:26] Thanks to you, everybody. [2:27] Thanks to your great work, Mr. President. [2:28] The 18-11 is that the FBI are going to receive their paychecks. [2:32] We've got a lot of people paid, actually. [2:33] We've got the people that we want paid paid. [2:37] Okay. And we want the FBI paid. [2:38] We want the military paid. [2:40] We've got the people that we want paid. [2:41] And I'll tell you, the Democrats, they don't talk about this. [2:46] You know, we're getting rid of programs that we didn't like, [2:49] but that were negotiated in, but that we didn't like. [2:52] We're terminating those programs, [2:53] and they're going to be terminated on a permanent basis. [2:56] And it's thousands of people, and it's, you know, billions of dollars. [3:01] We're getting rid of a lot of things that we never wanted [3:04] because of the fact that they made this stupid move. [3:07] And they don't want to talk about it. [3:08] You know, they have their day coming up. [3:10] I hear very few people are going to be there, by the way. [3:12] But they have their day coming up, [3:14] and they want to have their day in the sun. [3:17] But they should really make a deal. [3:19] So what we're doing, I mean, they call him Darth Vader, [3:22] but he's actually a very nice person, Russell Vogt. [3:26] But Russell Vogt is really terminating tremendous numbers [3:30] of Democrat projects. [3:33] This is not only jobs. [3:35] I mean, the project in Manhattan, the project in New York. [3:38] It's billions and billions of dollars that Schumer has worked 20 years to get. [3:44] It's terminated. [3:46] Tell him it's terminated, Jennifer. [3:48] All right. [3:49] Mr. President, what is your understanding of the pace of returning the deceased hostages? [3:56] Are you pleased with that? [3:57] Well, they're looking for them. [3:58] Absolutely. [3:59] They're looking. [4:00] So we have the living hostages all back. [4:02] They returned some more today. [4:05] It's a gruesome process. [4:06] I almost hate to talk about it. [4:08] But they're digging. [4:09] They're actually digging. [4:10] There are areas where they're digging and they're finding a lot of bodies. [4:15] Then they have to separate the bodies. [4:16] You wouldn't believe this. [4:17] This is — and some of those bodies have been in there a long time. [4:21] And some of them are under rubble. [4:23] They have to remove rubble. [4:25] But there are graves and some are — some are in tunnels that are — that died in tunnels [4:31] that are way down under the earth. [4:34] And the tunnels are like three feet — can you believe it? [4:37] Three feet high. [4:38] They lived like this for a long period of time. [4:40] It's a horrible — it's a horrible atrocity. [4:43] At the same time, we — meaning Israel — but I knew everything they were doing, pretty [4:48] much. [4:49] I knew most of the things they were doing. [4:51] But they've killed probably 70,000 of these people, Hamas. [4:58] And I said, it's time now. [4:59] So we'll see what happens. [5:00] We'll also see what happens. [5:01] Your next question is going to be the weapons. [5:03] We want the weapons to be given up, sacrificed. [5:07] And they've agreed to do it. [5:08] Now they have to do it. [5:09] And if they don't do it, we'll do it. [5:10] The Press Press that we had the head of CENTCOM today suggest that Hamas needs to hurry [5:15] up and disarm and follow your comprehensive plan. [5:18] That it was the head of CENTCOM saying that. [5:20] Is that not a signal to Hamas and to the rest of the world that at some point the U.S. [5:24] military may be more directly engaged? [5:26] The President of the United States — we won't need the U.S. [5:27] military. [5:29] We won't need it. [5:30] We're going to have to help because we're very much involved in it. [5:32] If we weren't involved, there wouldn't be peace. [5:35] If we didn't destroy the nuclear capability of Iran, that deal would have never happened [5:42] for two reasons. [5:43] The Arab nations would not have felt bold enough to do it, because you have a very powerful [5:48] at that time Iran is not powerful anymore between what we what Israel and us did because you know [5:54] the attack was was if you look at it we helped them very much they will be the first to tell you [5:59] including shooting down thousands of drones that were coming into Israel you know we shot them down [6:04] we were shooting them down like it was target practice but we shot down thousands of drones [6:10] and missiles also going into Israel but between what we did to Iran that way with the you know [6:17] conventional we will call it and what that beautiful see that beautiful plane that B-2 I [6:22] noticed it on the desk I always thought it was beautiful but I never understood it now I [6:26] understand it took in hundreds of thousands of bombs in the form of two but hundreds of thousands [6:34] of pounds of bombs and every single bomb hit perfectly then they sent tomahawks and they [6:40] sent 30 tomahawks on top of it and that was totally you know CNN said well maybe it wasn't as bad as [6:46] you know as Trump said because I said obliterated obliterated is not a strong enough word actually [6:53] and you saw the atomic energy commission came out and said the word obliteration is very very they [7:00] think of it they came in under potential fire they entered Iran airspace late at night in the dark [7:09] no moon the moon was low for a reason was the one time we picked it couldn't see anything [7:13] and they hit every target and they weren't hit nobody saw that plane that plane of stealth [7:19] nobody said the problem with that is it may be stealth today but tomorrow it won't be and we just [7:26] ordered about 20 brand new B-2 bombers it's unbelievable as a weapon I know Putin when I was [7:32] riding with him in Alaska we passed a lot of them and he said that really did the trick I said yeah it [7:38] it's amazing the flying wing it's no reason for the US military to get involved in Gaza [7:44] no I don't see that no I think we're going to handle it very well we'll be helping Israel but we have [7:49] other countries that are now you know we signed many many countries signed and many of those countries [7:54] relatively are very strong military powers and Hamas has no support see Hamas had the support [8:00] of Iran and now Iran says don't get us involved the last time they got them involved didn't work out too [8:07] well so they used to have the support of Iran today Iran is they're trying to survive you know [8:15] when I heard the reports two weeks ago Iran's looking to build a nuclear weapon I said don't [8:19] worry about it they got a lot of things they want to do before nuclear weapons I said the last thing [8:24] they want to do is a nuclear weapon it didn't work out and if they did a nuclear weapon before they got [8:30] even close that site would be attacked and it would be wiped out [8:33] Mr. President you're meeting with President Xi in a few weeks [8:38] yeah if you can't come to an agreement or a deal at that meeting are we in for a sustained trade war [8:43] with China well you're in one now look we have a hundred percent tariff if we didn't have tariffs [8:50] we would be exposed as being a nothing we would have no defense you know they've used tariffs on us [8:59] but we've never had anybody sitting in that chair that felt the need to do it and and they've allowed [9:05] us to be 37 trillion dollars in debt etc etc we tariffs are a very important tool for our defense [9:15] for our national security if we don't have tariffs we're not going to have national security [9:18] as an example if you look at Pakistan and Iran I told them I was in the midst of negotiating a trade [9:26] deal with actually with Iran and Pakistan was going to be in line and because of tariffs they all want [9:34] to negotiate much differently we would make it a good deal and then I heard that they're shooting at [9:39] each other and I said during one of my conversations are you guys going to go to war two nuclear powers [9:45] we are thinking about I said here's the deal you go to war I'm going to put a 200% tariff I'm going [9:51] to stop you from doing any business in the United States I said it to both of them within 24 hours the [9:57] war ended that would have been a nuclear war and again the prime minister of Pakistan who was here [10:03] two weeks ago said that that man saved many millions of lives in front of a whole group of people because [10:09] he thought it was going to be war but when it came to war or having to pay massive tariffs the tariffs [10:16] overrode that's why it's so important not only the money we're taking in trillions of dollars not [10:22] only the money the power to keep peace the power to be used for good is enormous but a lot of people [10:30] didn't understand tariffs it's also made us very rich we have a big case coming up in the Supreme Court [10:37] and I will tell you that's one of the most important cases in the history of our country because if we [10:43] don't win that case we will be a weakened troubled financial mess for many many years to come I don't [10:53] even know if survivable you know survivable is is a good term and if we do we're going to be the most [10:59] powerful economic country in the world and all we're doing is using them as a defense against [11:06] what's what took place for many years China would charge us tariffs it was incredible but we weren't [11:11] allowed to charge and we were so we're allowed to do whatever we want we just had presidents that [11:16] didn't want to do it for whatever reason and it was nothing but of the eight wars I was saying seven [11:22] of the eight wars I would say tariffs are respon directly responsible for me ending six of them [11:30] five or six without the tariffs you have wars raging all over the world with the tariffs other than [11:37] Russia we have no wars out there and we've made a lot of good friends too tariffs are so important to [11:46] our new our national security if we don't have tariffs we don't have national security our country [11:55] would would suffer a level that because they use so strongly on us as an example European Union they [12:03] won't take our cars they won't take our agriculture they won't take anything but they send their cars in [12:08] Mercedes BMW Volkswagen by the millions we don't send any cars they don't take them they were tariffing [12:15] us out agricultural products they don't take our agriculture they want their farmers to do it I [12:20] understand that but it was very unfair and they were tariffing our product they're keeping out by [12:26] using tariffs and we didn't use it but I used them and now we made one of the great deals with your [12:32] $650 billion they pay us and we've evened it out it's really a good thing to see and you have to [12:40] understand they've all signed Japan South Korea I mean South Korea $350 billion up front Japan $650 [12:49] billion and they've all agreed to it they're all happy but before it was a total ripoff and if we [12:57] don't have the use of tariffs we have no national security this country will have no financial security [13:03] will not have national security and the people that brought the lawsuit are people that are [13:08] aligned with foreign nations that are now being treated fairly as opposed to just ripping us off [13:15] and ripping us asunder so if but if we don't if we are not allowed to use what other people use against [13:21] us there's no defense it'll be a disaster for America that's why I think I'm going to go to the [13:27] Supreme Court to watch it I've not done that and I had some pretty big cases this is I think it's I think [13:33] it's one of the most important cases ever brought because we will be defenseless against the world okay [13:42] did you have one yes please thank you mr. president I want to ask you about the Georgia Senate race I [13:51] know it's very early but there's several Republicans in that field that are vying for your endorsement a [13:55] lot of good people in that field no I know I haven't made a decision on that but you have some very good [14:02] people in the Georgia Senate race but I'm following that race very carefully I think it's very important [14:19] for Georgia to get a real senator because the senator they have now is a horrible senator he he allows all [14:26] the crime all the border you have open borders I mean his whole philosophy is a disaster that's not [14:31] representative of the people of Georgia I know the people of Georgia I won Georgia three times but [14:37] they say twice okay I wanted very big the last time and I wanted big the first time and I wanted big the [14:43] second time but we had criminals that didn't allow I mean they I hope they're going to go into that I [14:49] hope they go into the votes which are being stored in Fulton County and take a look at a real look at those [14:55] votes okay because I wanted the second time too but I know Georgia very well I love Georgia those people are [15:01] great and they deserve a good senator because the man they have now is a weak ineffective person okay [15:08] by the way you won Georgia three times do you agree with me for someone that he's a lot of time in [15:21] Georgia I believe you won that I really have a question you know the word believe isn't strong [15:26] enough right you know I know I want to I know we have the great Newt Gingrich Newt you agree with [15:33] us good otherwise I'd have him dismissed immediately from you know his wife as you know is becoming an [15:39] ambassador to a great country Calista so congratulations and we're going to take a picture [15:43] and the only reason I'm doing he speaks so well of me he said I'll go down as the greatest president in [15:51] history and then he blew it he said I'm not sure if I put him above Washington or Lincoln so I'm not [15:59] that happy about that dude question about the weaponization of the DOJ the media often says your [16:05] department is weaponizing the DOJ that's the opposite it's the opposite Todd you represented [16:11] President Trump and probably the greatest weaponization of the DOJ by Alvin Bragg you know [16:17] firsthand if you can describe what you saw under the Biden administration how they weaponized [16:22] the DOJ well I mean I think it's hard to describe what happened in the last four years [16:31] Alvin Bragg a local prosecutor his office staffed by some of the DOJs Jack Smith picked as a special [16:40] counselor staffs his entire office with DOJ prosecutors and then there are countless things that [16:45] happen all all in writing most of them on the docket that require no explanation except a complete [16:51] abomination of the place of the attorney on my own now and the director itself so when people talk [16:57] about this department weaponizing it's embarrassing because there's no scenario to look at what we're [17:04] doing restoring justice doing the right thing in every single case and say that that's weaponization [17:11] and yet remain eerily silent about what happened for the past three years I mean you read these articles [17:18] and giggle because it cannot be true that people really think that what they did to him not once [17:24] not twice I'm still counting three four times but we're the ones that are weaponizing this man is not [17:31] weaponizing the Department of Justice we're not weaponizing the Department of Justice it's the opposite I mean [17:36] and also nobody questions what I'm saying because it's true because we all lived the past four years so listen [17:43] they never want to bring up the details but I watch the fake news and oh he's weaponized and he wants [17:52] to send them to prison he wants all this they indicted me like five times I took a mug shot who would have [18:01] thought it turned out to my favor because it was a good shot but I had to take a mug shot it's right out [18:06] there in the door New York Post front page of the every paper in the world I had a mug shot they wanted to [18:13] send me nobody says that they say he's acting very very tough he's acting unfair let me tell you [18:19] if they've been nice to anybody it's to those criminals because they are so good having to do [18:26] with all of the things we're talking about today with violent crime but if anything I think this [18:32] Justice Department has been so respectful of the law because the other Justice Department with Rita or [18:40] Lisa and all of that scum real scum what they did to the political opponent of a guy that has a [18:49] seriously low IQ now in his case it was it was low based on his career but it got real low okay it was [19:00] descending rapidly but what they did to go after his political opponent is legendary worse than any third [19:09] world country banana republic and what we're doing is nothing are you kidding nothing they write stories [19:19] why aren't they doing this this and we'll leave I don't have to leave it up to them but I choose to [19:27] at this moment at least but there's never been anybody treated in the history of politics you know [19:33] they say the two worst treated presidents by the media etc was that man right there the late great [19:41] Abraham Lincoln and this grant right there Andrew Jackson they say Andrew Jackson was treated [19:49] terribly they give him number one and number two but that was before I came along newt I say I have [19:54] number one times ten nobody's been uh and make better the White House and that's really what's [20:02] happened and we're getting tremendous reviews and we appreciate it but we're here for a different [20:07] reason it's called operation summer heat which is an appropriate term in light of what we're doing [20:13] and early yesterday morning I returned from the Middle East where we celebrated a historic agreement [20:19] to end years of suffering and conflict amazing every country came together I mean even the enemies [20:26] came out and and totally endorsed it everybody I've never seen anything like it nobody's seen anything [20:31] like it and just as we are forging peace and stability abroad we're also restoring peace and [20:37] safety and stability at home and you see that in Washington DC may be better than any place because [20:43] we got there and within 12 days it was it was very good and within 30 days it's been as safe as any city [20:50] in the country it's been great took out 1700 people got them out these are career criminals in many cases [20:56] and people that shouldn't have been allowed in by the Biden administration historically the summer months [21:01] have been a time when violent crime soar as you know but not under President Trump today we're [21:08] announcing the results of a sweeping law enforcement effort known as operation summer heat we were in [21:13] many cities that people didn't know about we kept it a little quiet and it had a big impact and you'll [21:20] hear that in a second but over the past few months FBI offices in all 50 states made crushing violent crime [21:27] a top enforcement priority that's what they did rounding up and arresting thousands of the most [21:33] violent and dangerous criminals and these are among the most dangerous and violent people in the world [21:39] they were allowed in many cases not in all cases but in many cases they were allowed in by a very [21:45] foolish actually stupid open border policy just anybody could have come in they emptied out their jails their [21:52] prisons their mental institutions they emptied them into our country [21:56] and the people behind me have done an incredible job because uh if we didn't have that administration [22:02] it would have been so much easier they allowed millions of people in this country that shouldn't [22:06] have been allowed including over 11 000 murderers half of whom murdered more than one person and many of [22:14] them are gone now or they're put in prison because we're we don't want to have them come back so we [22:18] literally put them in our prison which we don't want to do but we bring them back to their countries [22:23] working with state and local partners the fbi arrested over 8 000 violent criminals during the [22:29] course of this period in major cities like in new orleans nashville we saw 250 percent increase in [22:37] arrests we got and we really went after the bad ones these include 725 individuals wanted for violent crimes [22:45] against children and murderers these arrests are in addition to the work of our historic federal task [22:52] forces that uh make dc safe task force has been unbelievable i mean the job they've done [23:00] it's incredible and it's been so nice because so many people they're going out to dinner and they're [23:05] having dinners they they wouldn't they didn't go out for four years and now they're going out three [23:11] times a week the restaurants are opening restaurants are full and usually that means a lot of good [23:18] things but restaurants that were closed are now opening up and everybody's happy it's nobody's ever [23:24] seen anything like it actually and everybody feels safe you can you can have a child walk right through [23:28] the middle of washington dc and nothing's going to happen we were losing more than one person a week [23:33] and why they're being killed on an average of over one a week the make dc safe task force has been [23:42] incredible and the make memphis safe task force is having very similar results it's much earlier but [23:50] we've been there for a week and a half but i'm hearing the results are pretty incredible and you'll [23:54] hear about that they're mobilizing more than 20 federal agencies for the largest law enforcement [24:00] operation targeting violent criminals in american history as a result of these efforts violent crime [24:06] declined nearly 20 percent nationwide compared to the same period last year and it was the safest and [24:11] most peaceful peaceful summer in two decades and honestly we haven't really even gotten going yet [24:17] if we didn't have to fight all of these radical left governors we could have had chicago taken care of [24:22] as an example they had in a short period of time four thousand murders in chicago and we have to [24:28] listen to this man stand up and say that we're bad people and the people of chicago are walking around [24:34] with mega hats you have women beautiful black women walking around with mega hats please let the [24:40] president in and we don't care how he does it they're not interested in national guard or army navy bring [24:47] them in marines bring in the marines they just want the crime to stop and more so because of the success [24:54] that we had in dc i think if we didn't have that success nobody would even believe it so i want to [25:00] congratulate all of the incredible law enforcement professionals joining us today especially attorney [25:06] general pam bondi's terrific deputy attorney general todd blanche who is uh a fantastic legal [25:15] talent he really is he's a great guy too and of course fbi director cash patel they have worked so hard [25:22] on this and other things since the start of the administration the fbi has arrested over 23 000 [25:28] violent criminals more than double the number arrested in the final year of the biden disaster [25:35] the fbi has also destroyed or severely disrupted more than 170 organized criminal enterprises and gangs [25:44] 1600 of the most violent gangs and confiscated over 6 000 illegal firearms and they've tracked down [25:52] and arrested four fugitives on the most wanted list for the most wanted actually two of them were [25:59] the most wanted fugitives in the world there's still much more work to be done which is why the fbi [26:06] continues to work alongside the department of justice the department of homeland security [26:10] and the department of war to defend and pete hegseth has been fantastic by the way on this too on [26:17] other things but on this too to defend law and order and combat violent crime arrest illegal aliens and [26:25] make american cities the safest in the world and when i campaigned i talked about crime but i never knew [26:31] that we were going to get into it like we did you know i mean i used to watch these cities with the [26:35] murders chicago recently had one deal where they had 11 murders in one weekend and they said well yeah [26:43] but it was a holiday weekend they actually told me that was the reason like it was okay because it was a [26:47] holiday it was labor day these people are the worst they are they really have to they better [26:53] i tell you what the the people in chicago and the people in places like that that could be fixed [26:58] at some point it gets to where you can't fix it anymore it's too far gone and we have some cities [27:04] like that but these are great cities that could be fixed i'm going to be strongly recommending [27:09] at the request of government officials which is always nice that you start looking at san francisco [27:16] i think we can make san francisco there's one of our great cities 10 years ago 15 years ago now it's [27:22] a mess and we have great support in san francisco so i'd like to recommend that for inclusion maybe [27:29] in your next group you'll get great support every american deserves to live in a community where they're [27:34] not afraid of being mugged murdered robbed raped assaulted or shot and that's exactly what our [27:40] administration is working to deliver i didn't realize i was going to make this such a big factor in the [27:45] administration i didn't really campaign i campaigned on crime but i never thought we'd go into [27:50] every city and take a really safe city that we've all been living with for years and make them safe [27:56] and now it's like a passion for me and it's a passion for the people behind me so uh i didn't get [28:03] elected i did get elected for crime but i didn't get elected for what we're doing this is many many [28:08] steps above and i want to thank steven miller who's right back in the audience right there [28:13] i'd love to have him i love watching him on television i'd love to have him come up and [28:18] explain his true feelings but maybe not his truest feelings that might be going a little bit too far [28:24] but steven thank you for doing an unbelievable job and the people of this country love you i'll tell you [28:29] and they love what you say about crime and stopping crime so now i'd like to ask director i'd like to ask [28:36] director patel to say a few words and then pam and todd also and i just want to congratulate them [28:43] this is an amazing thing and we're just at the start we're going to go into other cities that we're [28:49] not talking about purposely we're getting ready to go in and when they go in like cash is an example [28:54] told me that people didn't even know five months ago they went into chicago and they started doing a [28:59] lot of work in chicago and we brought the the numbers down a little bit and uh but that really [29:06] was just preparatory work for what we're going to do with the surge we're going to have a surge of [29:12] strong good people patriots and they're going to go in they straighten it all out so [29:19] a lot of these cities we're already working on but we don't do it with a big a big flavor but in a [29:25] little while you're going to see some numbers that you're not going to believe and i think you'll [29:28] probably start with memphis because i'm hearing the numbers are much quicker than we even thought [29:33] possible uh but uh again dc is it speaks for itself chicago is going to be okay we're going to save [29:40] chicago and i told you and i told them a very respected man the head of the union pacific said sir [29:47] save chicago it can be saved and the way he said it was like can you believe it we're trying to save [29:52] chicago but i understood exactly what he wants and that's what we're going to do we're going to save all [29:57] of our cities and we're going to make them essentially crime free like other countries [30:03] have crime free if you go all over the world you go to the world you hear afghanistan and you hear all [30:08] these different places uh our crime in certain cities is worse than anything they can even imagine [30:14] and we're not going to have that any longer it's going to stop and it stops right here cash please [30:19] thank you mr president what i'd like to do is just highlight some of the outstanding work that the men [30:23] and women of the fbi have been doing and thanks to your brave leadership and the mandate you were [30:27] given by the american people not only defend the homeland but crush violent crime you tasked us with [30:32] our great partners at the department of justice and the attorney general and the deputy attorney general [30:36] to start making arrests and bring prosecutions and safeguard our cities and you said it this is just [30:41] the beginning in just seven months i hope the media takes a look at every one of these charts [30:46] because these are the best numbers for fighting crime in u.s history and it's only seven months in [30:52] and to do that our vehicle to do it of choice was operation summer heat which the fbi architected to [30:58] go after violent criminals and in just a three month span you had 8 700 arrests of violent criminals [31:04] you had 2200 firearms seized off the streets permanently to safeguard our communities you had 421 [31:12] kilograms of fentanyl seized just to put that in perspective that's enough to kill 55 million americans [31:18] alone you had 45 000 kilograms of cocaine seized and thanks to our department of justice partners [31:25] you had 2100 indictments in three months from june to september alone mr president that in and of [31:32] itself would be historic for a four-year presidency you did that in seven months because you let good [31:37] cops be cops and you partnered us with the right people the department of justice to put the handcuffs on [31:43] and bring them to court and put them in prison and if that weren't enough when you look at the year [31:47] for the entire seven month period that we're talking about here if you look at the past four [31:51] years of the biden administration 16 000 17 000 15 000 15 000 that's the number of arrests year [31:58] over year of violent felons in this country for the biden administration mr president in seven months [32:04] you have 27 28 600 arrests of violent feminists in just seven months alone because of your leadership [32:12] and the dedication of the men and women at the fbi who want to go out there and do the job they were [32:17] prevented from doing because that department used to be weaponized and politicized and this is what [32:21] happens when you take out the fangs of weaponization this number is historic by every metric 28 000 [32:28] people have been arrested violent felons alone and then when you go over there and look at some of [32:32] these charts if you don't mind i'll just hop over here look at the metrics for not just by the crime [32:39] but the homeland mr president during your administration the sbi has found and located 5400 [32:47] children that is a 30 percent increase year to date over the last administration violent crimes against [32:54] children arrests alone are up 10 percent gang arrests are up 210 in the last seven months alone and [33:02] transnational organized crime which stephen miller has been a great partner in is up over 12 percent [33:07] alone these numbers are historic just as a snapshot but just so people don't think we're focusing on [33:13] violent crime alone the national security mission mr president your leadership has never been stronger [33:19] we have gone after espionage activities against our main counterparts in china russia and iran in china [33:26] alone we've had over a 50 percent increase in espionage arrests alone prosecution in iran we have had a [33:33] 50 percent increase again in espionage cases and in russia we've had a 33 increase in espionage cases [33:41] alone when it comes to counterterrorism year to date we have 125 arrests this year versus 100 last year year [33:48] to date alone and when it comes to the cyber criminal activities which are some of the largest enterprises [33:54] plaguing everyday americans we at the fbi have put out a mission to go after cyber criminals like [33:59] never before last year they had in total 191 this year you already have 252 arrests 52 arrests of [34:08] violent cyber criminals who are stealing from senior citizens who are violating our children's rights and [34:13] freedoms and who are violating everyday americans these programs are record and some of the two of the [34:20] things i'll finish with that i'm most proud of mr president this fbi fentanyl as you know it's a [34:24] scourge that's killing our youth 100 000 plus a year to date the fbi has seized 1900 kilograms of fentanyl [34:32] that's enough lethal doses to kill 127 million americans alone to date and if that weren't enough [34:39] mr president you said we have to go after the worst of the worst and you empowered our department of [34:44] justice our attorney general deputy attorney general and the deputy director of the fbi led the charge not [34:49] just on summer heat but he also led the charge to the fbi's ten most wanted fugitives these people [34:55] have been on the run for years and in seven months you've captured not one not two not three but four [35:01] of the fbi's most top ten fugitives four and just to put that in perspective mr president the biden [35:07] administration captured four in all four years you're on seven and we're going to get to ten we're [35:11] going to get the ten of ten this includes a lady who murdered her six-year-old handicapped child and [35:16] fled indian we got her in two months this includes a narco trafficker this includes a sex trafficker [35:21] this includes another first three murder and gangbang these people were on the run because of the prior [35:27] administration's reckless policies that destroyed our communities and you came in and the mandate said [35:32] go after the worst of the worst this is just the beginning this is what happens when you let [35:36] big cops and good cops at the fbi mr president i just want to thank you for your incredible leadership [35:41] a brave partnership with prosecutors who know how to bring cases and make sure these arrests stick [35:47] and that's what the attorney general and the deputy attorney general have led the charge across this [35:51] country because arrests without prosecutions are meaningless we are deterring criminals from [35:56] doing this activity we are preventing criminals from coming into america and we are absolutely crushing [36:01] violent crime at level before and defending this homeland sir and not to mention i almost forgot this one [36:07] it took you sir two weeks to get the abbey gate bomber joe biden had four years to look for him [36:12] you got under two weeks next to the interrogation step by the fbi and the cia went to pakistan and [36:16] now 13 brave warriors who were sent to see murder because of the disaster they have justice their families [36:23] have a peace of mind and we're going to continue to find the others mr president on behalf of the fbi [36:27] sir i just want to thank you thank you very much great job very good very impressive [36:31] pam president trump the the men and women of law enforcement say two things to me repeatedly [36:40] first you have taken the handcuffs off them and let them do their jobs and you let cops be cops [36:48] that's why all this is happening wasn't the case of a joe biden we don't take guns off the streets of [36:53] people that are allowed to have guns so every gun that we're taking off the street is because it [36:57] belongs to somebody who is not allowed to have it could be a felon could be somebody who hears illegally [37:02] there's all sorts of conditions but we if there's a gun taken off the streets by the fbi it's because [37:07] the person who has it is not allowed to it's not somebody who's lawfully allowed to have it so [37:11] every single one of those guns were taken off of people that aren't allowed to have it and not [37:15] including the fbi all of the other agencies atf alone since january 20th has removed over 25 000 [37:23] illegal guns off our streets just since president trump's been in office and mr president if i could [37:28] follow up on that could there be any further conversation to have uh national concealed carry [37:34] applied to our actual dc uh like if you had a driver's license in texas and you had a permit [37:39] of course you could drive well as you know they've been talking about that for a long time it's uh [37:44] it's an interesting question a lot of people feel strongly both ways but we are talking about that [37:49] brian thank you mr president on venezuelans votes um i want to ask you why not have the coast guard [37:56] stop them which it is empowered by law to do you know this way you can um confirm who's on the boat [38:02] and ensure that they're doing what they would suspect because we've been doing that for 30 years [38:06] and it has been totally ineffective they have faster boats some of these boats are seriously i mean [38:14] they're world-class speed boats and but they're not faster than missiles but we've been trying to do [38:19] that for years and so much of the drugs 25 30 percent would come in through the seas right now [38:26] we have i would say none coming in through the seas in fact i don't know about the fishing industry if [38:31] you want to go fishing a lot of people aren't deciding to even go fishing we've almost totally [38:36] stopped it by sea now we'll stop it by land what's the next but it never worked it never worked when [38:42] when you know when you did it in a very politically correct manner what's the next step in this war [38:48] on cartels and are you considering options are you considering strikes on land well i don't want to tell [38:53] you exactly but we are certainly looking at land now because we've got the sea very well under control [38:59] we've had a couple of days where there isn't a boat to be found and that i view that as a good thing [39:04] not a bad thing but we had tremendous amounts coming in by boats by very expensive boats you know they [39:08] have a lot of money very fast very expensive boats that were pretty big and the way you look at it is [39:15] every boat that we knock out we save 25 000 american lives so every time you see a boat and you feel [39:22] badly you say wow that's rough it is rough but if you lose three people and save 25 000 people these [39:28] are people that are killing our population every boat is saving 25 000 lives and you can see it [39:35] the boats get hit and you see that fentanyl all over the ocean it's like floating in bags it's all over the [39:40] place and it's uh it's a tremendous say we're saving tremendous amounts of lives [39:47] yeah mr president on that issue i know you've talked about i have a question for you and then [39:51] i also have a question for director patel i know you talked about having some uh distaste for boston [39:57] recently is this one of the cities that you might be looking into and can you give us a hint about [40:01] other cities that you might be you're saying for where for where for boston yeah well boston has a [40:07] a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable iq person you know most of them are low iq [40:13] but uh and they're so bad i mean what's going on in chicago is just you'd think the guy would say hey [40:18] look we have a problem mr president could you come in and straighten it out i could have that we could [40:24] have that done in a month if we had their cooperation it's going to be done anyway but we could have it [40:29] done in a month yeah boston she's got four areas that are you know wrong and uh you know somebody said [40:36] would we take would we think about taking the world cup away from boston if they don't straighten it out [40:41] the answer is yes we have the right to do that with fifa so if we think that la is going to be [40:46] bad or we think uh that applies a little bit to the olympics too but we'll talk about fifa first you [40:51] know fifa is very hot if we think there's any reason that whether it's boston or anywhere else that [40:58] they're not doing their job we're going to take that those world cup games and move them someplace else [41:03] thank you and then director patel there's been so many conspiracy theories swirling around about the [41:08] assassination of charlie kirk do you have any updates for us especially in light of all the [41:12] online content that everyone's been talking about the only thing we deal with at the fbi and the [41:16] department of justice is facts and we delivered in record speed a manhunt to capture charlie [41:20] kirk's alleged session in 33 hours and if you put that in perspective to luigi mangione with a boston [41:26] bomber they took them five days and a police officer lost their life in their manhunt we are running [41:30] out absolutely every single lead and the best thing we can do to honor my friend charlie kirk's life [41:34] is to make sure that everyone involved is prosecuted to the full extent of the law and that's what [41:38] we're focused on investigating the facts not trading and conspiracy theories okay mr president thank you [41:44] so much thank you uh in light of china's export curbs on rare earths do you view india as a reliable [41:51] partner uh going forward and uh are you planning to meet prime minister modi in malaysia um are you open to [41:58] talks in terms of yeah sure he's a friend of mine we have a great relationship he just said that two days [42:03] ago as you know we have a great relationship no we were not happy with him buying oil from russia [42:10] because that lets russia continue on with this ridiculous war where they've lost a million and [42:14] a half people by the way russia has lost a million and a half people soldiers mostly [42:19] this is a war that should have never started but it's a war that russia should have won in the first [42:24] week and they're going into the fourth year and i want to see it stop so i was not happy that india was [42:31] buying oil and he assured me today that they will not be buying oil from russia that's a big stop [42:37] now i got to get china to do the same thing you know that that is relatively easy compared to what [42:44] we just did over the last week in the middle east middle east was 3 000 years and we got it done this [42:51] is three years uh and i think we'll get it done i think that putin president putin i think is going [42:57] to i think he wants to get it done we'll see there's a great animosity between him and zielinski you [43:03] probably have noticed right and it's uh i think it's hurting the process yeah yeah please thank [43:09] you um curious why did you authorize the cia to go into venezuela and is there more information you [43:16] can share about these strikes on the alleged well i can't do that but i authorized for two reasons [43:21] really number one they have emptied their prisons into the united states of america they came in through [43:28] the uh well they came in through the border they came in because we had an open [43:33] border policy and as soon as i heard that i said a lot of these countries they're not the only [43:37] country but they're the worst abuser and they've entered there they've they've allowed thousands [43:43] and thousands of prisoners mental institution people from mental institutions insane asylums [43:50] emptied out into the united states we're bringing them back but that's a really bad and they did it at [43:56] a level that probably not many many countries have done it but not like venezuela they were down and dirty [44:01] and the other thing are drugs we have a lot of drugs coming in from venezuela and a lot of the [44:05] venezuelan drugs come in through the sea so you get to see that but we're going to stop them by land [44:10] also does the cia have authority to take out maduro oh i don't want to answer a question like that that's [44:16] a ridiculous question for me to be given not really a ridiculous question but wouldn't it be a ridiculous [44:22] question for me to answer but i think venezuela is feeling heat but i think a lot of other countries are [44:28] feeling heat too we're not going to let this country our country be ruined because other people [44:34] want to drop as you say their worst they they have given us their worst they've loaded up our country [44:40] with prisoners with with mentally ill people that are seriously ill criminally ill and we're not going [44:47] to take it and so i mean it's just one of those things and i can tell you we've taken care of the sea [44:53] there's nobody and we're watching we're watching and if we see it we'll save it yeah please on the [44:58] ships though sir there are republicans and democrats up on the hill concerned that in the briefings [45:04] they've gotten about those attacks they're not necessarily getting information about who was on [45:08] them and what exactly was on those ships can you well but they are given information that they were [45:14] loaded up with drugs and that's the thing that matters when they're loaded up with drugs they're fair [45:19] game and every one of those ships were they're not ships they're boats they're speed boats they're [45:24] extremely fast record-setting type speed boats that cost a lot of money and they have a lot of money [45:30] because they're drug sellers but uh they know one thing and they all have the same thing in common [45:36] there's uh there's drug dust they call it drug dust they call it fentanyl dust all over the boat after [45:44] those bombs go off and you you can take a long [45:46] attack them though that that that they're that they're we know we know before we know when they [45:50] go out we know we have uh much information about each boat that goes out deep strong information yeah [45:58] please sir you're going to have one year's list here this week what is your message at this stage [46:04] of the war for him and shy of to who is it before zelensky yeah shy of tongs for ukraine [46:11] are you considering other options and will you speak with [46:14] flaggers no we're looking at other options we are uh president zelensky is coming in [46:20] i'm not a fan of the war i'm not a fan of the way it started it should have never happened it wouldn't [46:25] have started if i were president the election was rigged and because of that we lost a lot of lives [46:31] have been lost because of that we're not american lives but if i can save a lot of lives that's why i'm [46:37] in it i want to save lives i've i've had uh eight wars the prime minister of pakistan got up the [46:44] other day said so beautifully says you saved millions of lives he told that to a group of [46:48] people right in this office he said the president saved millions of lives and i think what he's [46:53] referring to is the fact that that would have been with india nuclear war that was getting very close [46:58] you know seven planes they don't talk about it but seven aircraft were shot in fact we have the new [47:04] ambassador to india right here they're well represented you better represent us not them okay [47:10] yeah but sergio is going to do a great job he's going to do a great job but no we'll be talking [47:16] about the war with with him and we'll be talking about i mean they they want to go offensive uh [47:23] i'll make a determination on that but they would like to go offensive you know that and we'll have [47:29] to make a determination the question given you have the fbi director and attorney general here today [47:34] dude jordan has asked jack smith to appear in front of the house judiciary you mean deranged jack [47:38] he's a deranged individual well they should i'm surprised it takes so long you know we're talking [47:44] about violent crime what about the crime against a political opponent that's what we have to talk [47:49] about too would like to understand the full extent to which the biden harris justice department [47:55] weaponized federal law enforcement uh what do you think the committee will find out i think it was [48:00] the worst weaponization of a political opponent in the history of the world let alone this country [48:06] and i hope that everybody's you know they're involved in it i'm not i i'm the one that had to [48:11] suffer through it and ultimately win but uh what they did was criminal uh deranged jack smith in my [48:18] opinion is a criminal and i noticed his his interviewer was i think that was weissman and i hope they're [48:25] going to look into weissman too weissman's a bad guy and he had somebody in lisa who was his puppet [48:32] worked in the office uh really is the top person and i think that she should be looked at very [48:40] strongly it there was tremendous criminal activity having to do if we don't have fair elections in [48:46] this country we're not going to have a country and i've said it from the beginning fair elections and [48:50] border borders and we need also fair press because if you don't have fair press it's very tough [48:57] and uh we've got the strongest border of anybody nobody has a border we have a border where the [49:02] numbers just came out again you saw zero people came in illegally now we do take people into our [49:08] country legally but zero people but you know you're talking about a different subject you're talking [49:13] about political crime they have committed massive political crime i hope they're looking at shifty [49:20] shift i hope they're looking at all these people and i'm allowed to find out i'm allowed to you know i'm [49:25] in theory the chief law enforcement officer but i have a very good talented group this is about [49:31] something else but i hope they're looking at political crime because there's never been so much [49:35] political crime against a political opponent as what i had to go through they raided my house [49:42] in florida it was an illegal raid i have a lawsuit that was doing very well and when i became president [49:48] i said i'm sort of suing myself i don't know what he has settled the lawsuit i'll say give me x dollars [49:54] right and i don't know what to do with the lawsuit it's a great lawsuit and now i won it sort of [49:58] looks bad i'm suing myself right so i don't know but but that was a lawsuit that was very strong very [50:04] powerful they raided illegally my house in florida mar-a-lago they went through the drawers of my young [50:12] son they went through all of the cabinets and drawers of the first lady she walked in she said wow [50:19] what happened because she's very meticulous and this wasn't so meticulous as she looked into the [50:25] drawers and she saw everything a mess it's it's uh just what they did against a person that just got [50:31] out of office and then you look at these corrupt people you look at hunter biden you look at the [50:36] signature as an example the auto pen i just signed so many different things an admiral a four-star [50:43] general that i'm signing them left and right the commissions and by the way i want to compliment john [50:47] thun and also mike our great speaker but john thun all of a sudden i'm getting these things by the [50:54] hundreds i was getting one every two weeks it would have been four years before you got them in wars [50:59] you would have had some that didn't even get in all because of democrat obstruction so john [51:05] thun did a great job i signed i must have signed 200 into the administration we're just about caught up [51:11] it's amazing and so compliments to john he had to do some things that were very tough to do that [51:16] he didn't want to do but he was forced to do it by the democrats and as far as the shutdown is [51:21] concerned this is a democrat schumer shutdown and he's trying to do it to get relevance back into [51:28] the party because he's a loser i've known him all his life he's always been sort of a loser but an [51:32] intelligent one but i think he's losing iq points with time i think that happens i hope it hasn't [51:38] happened with me i know if it did you guys will let me know about it very quickly [51:43] one question of violent crime sir uh here in dc a judge has given the two teenagers that beat up [51:49] uh ex-juge staffer big balls probation that's incredible in no jail time is this justice [51:56] janine piero is doing a fantastic job and she is beside herself because you have these radical left judges [52:02] that they beat the hell out of this guy and it was many people against this one guy who was really [52:09] trying to protect his girlfriend he didn't want he's hooded over the door because but they really [52:14] beat him up badly that just happened right wow that's terrible i think the judge should be ashamed [52:21] of himself that's a big problem you know they can do their job and then they go into a court and the [52:27] people are protected by these i don't know where they come from where do these people come from where [52:31] these the judges come from i want to compliment on behalf of pam and todd and all of us because [52:37] cash i think that janine has done a fantastic job and the case i heard was like flawless it's a [52:43] flawless case they have them on tape they have everything and then a judge gives them a little [52:48] probation very these are these are rough guys and they're young and if that happens they're going to [52:55] grow up they're going to be real bad they're going to cause they're going to cause a lot of problems [52:59] yeah please go ahead what were the conversations like with prime minister modi and i think they [53:08] were great he reported to me that you're great the great he's a great man you know modi is a great man [53:16] that he he loves trump now i don't know if the word love i don't want you to take that any different i [53:22] don't want to destroy his political career okay but you have to understand i've watched india for years [53:27] it's an incredible country and every single year you'd have a new leader i mean some would be in [53:32] there for a few months and this was year after year after year and my friend has been there now for a [53:38] long time and he is and he's assured me there will be no oil purchased from russia i don't know maybe [53:43] that's a breaking story can i say that would you say there will be no oil he's not buying his oil from [53:48] russia it's it started you know you can't do it immediately it's a little bit of a process but the [53:53] process is going to be over with soon and all we want from president putin is stop this stop killing [53:59] ukraines and stop killing russians because he's killing a lot of russians again it doesn't make him [54:06] look good it's a war that he should have won in one week and he's now going into his fourth year that [54:12] does not look this make this big so-called war machine look good but he could make a settlement we're [54:20] willing to settle i thought we had a deal the hatred of the two leaders is very it's an obstacle [54:27] it's an obstacle there's no question about it but i thought we had a deal two months ago uh who would [54:33] think i created peace in the middle east and can't get the two guys to settle but i i think we'll get [54:39] them but uh if india doesn't buy oil it makes it much easier and they're not going to buy they they [54:46] assured me they will within a short period of time they will not be buying oil from russia and they'll go [54:50] back to russia after the war is open over jennifer on the shutdown sir are fbi officials being paid [54:57] right now are all the fbi employees being paid well that's what i understand i hope so thank you [55:02] everybody thanks you're a great person that the fbi are going to receive their paychecks got a lot of [55:08] people paid actually we got the people that we want paid paid okay and we want the fbi paid we want the [55:14] military paid we got the people that we want paid and i'll tell you the democrats [55:20] they don't talk about this you know we're getting rid of programs that we didn't like but that were [55:26] negotiated in but we didn't like we're terminating those programs and they're going to be terminated [55:30] on a permanent basis and it's thousands of people and it's it's you know billions of dollars we're [55:37] getting rid of a lot of things that we never wanted because of the fact that they made this stupid move [55:42] and they don't want to talk about it you know they have their day coming up i hear very few people [55:46] going to be there by the way but they have their day coming up and they want to have their day in [55:51] the sun uh but they should really make a deal so what we're doing i mean they call him darth vader [55:58] but he's actually a very nice person russell vote but russell vote is is really terminating tremendous [56:06] numbers of democrat projects this is not only jobs i mean the project in manhattan the project in new york [56:13] it's billions and billions of dollars that schumer has worked 20 years to get it's terminated tell him [56:22] it's terminated jennifer all right sir uh what is your understanding of the pace of returning [56:30] the deceased hostages are you pleased well they're looking for absolutely they're looking so we have the [56:35] living hostages all back they returned some more today it's a gruesome process i almost hate to talk [56:43] about it so but they're digging they're actually digging there are areas where they're digging and [56:48] they're finding a lot of bodies uh then they have to separate the bodies you wouldn't believe this this [56:53] is and some of those bodies have been in there a long time and some of them are under rubble they [56:58] have to remove rubble but uh there are graves and some are some are in tunnels that are that [57:05] would that died in tunnels that are way down under the earth and the tunnels are like three feet can [57:12] you believe it three feet high they lived like this for a long period of time it's a horrible it's a [57:17] horrible atrocity at the same time uh we meaning israel but i knew everything they were doing pretty much [57:24] i knew most of the things they were doing but they've killed probably 70 000 of these people [57:32] hamas and i said it's time now so we'll see what happens we'll also see what happens your next [57:37] question is going to be the weapons we want the weapons to be uh given up sacrificed and they've agreed [57:43] to do it now they have to do it and if they don't do it we'll do it the head of centcom today [57:48] suggests that hamas needs to hurry up and and disarm and follow your country that was the head of [57:55] centcom saying that is that not a signal to hamas to the rest of the world that at some point the [57:59] u.s military more made more directly engaged we won't need the u.s military we won't need it [58:06] because we're very much involved and if we weren't involved there wouldn't be peace if we didn't [58:13] destroy the nuclear capability of iran that deal would have never happened for two reasons the arab [58:19] nations would not have felt bold enough to do it because you have a very powerful at that time [58:25] iran it's not powerful anymore between what we what israel and us did because you know the attack was [58:31] was if you look at it we helped them very much they will be the first to tell you including shooting [58:35] down thousands of drones that were coming into israel you know we shot them down we were shooting [58:40] them down like uh it was target practice but we shot down thousands of drones and missiles also going [58:47] into israel but between what we did to iran that way with the you know conventional we will call it [58:55] and what that beauty see that beautiful plane that b2 i noticed it on the desk i always thought it was [59:00] beautiful but i never understood it now i understand it took in uh hundreds of thousands of bombs [59:07] in the form of two but hundreds of thousands of pounds of bombs and every single bomb hit perfectly [59:14] then they sent tomahawks and they sent 30 tomahawks on top of it and that was totally you know cnn said [59:21] well maybe it wasn't as bad as you know as trump said because i said obliterated uh obliterated is not [59:27] a strong enough word actually and you saw the atomic energy commission came out and said the word [59:33] obliteration is very very they think of it they came in under potential fire they entered iran airspace [59:42] late at night in the dark no moon the moon was low for a reason was the one time we picked it couldn't [59:49] see anything and they hit every target and they weren't hit nobody saw that plane that plane of [59:55] stealth nobody said the problem with that is it may be stealth today but tomorrow it won't be and we just [1:00:01] ordered about 20 brand new b2 bombers it's unbelievable as a weapon i know putin when i was uh riding with him [1:00:09] in alaska we passed a lot of them and he said that really did the trick i said yeah it did it's amazing [1:00:15] the flying wing it's no reason for the u.s military to get involved in gaza no i don't see that no i [1:00:21] think we're going to handle it very well we'll be helping israel but we have other countries that are [1:00:26] now you know we signed many many countries signed and many of those countries relatively are very strong [1:00:31] military powers and hamas has no support see hamas had the support of iran and now iran says don't [1:00:39] get us involved the last time they got them involved didn't work out too well so they used [1:00:44] to have the support of iran today iran is they're trying to survive you know when i heard the reports [1:00:52] two weeks ago iran's looking to build a nuclear weapon i said don't worry about it they got a lot of [1:00:57] things they want to do before nuclear weapons i said the last thing they want to do is a nuclear [1:01:01] weapon it didn't work out and if they did a nuclear weapon before they got even close [1:01:07] that site would be attacked and it would be wiped out mr president you're meeting with president chi [1:01:13] in a few weeks if you can't come to an agreement or a deal at that meeting are we in for a sustained [1:01:19] trade war with china well you're in one now look we have a hundred percent tariff if we didn't have [1:01:25] tariffs we would be exposed as being a nothing we would have no defense you know they've used [1:01:33] tariffs on us but we've never had anybody sitting in that chair that felt the need to do it and and [1:01:40] they've allowed us to be 37 trillion dollars in debt etc etc we uh tariffs are a very important tool [1:01:50] for our defense for our national security if we don't have tariffs we're not going to have national [1:01:53] security as an example uh if you look at pakistan and iran i told them i was in the midst of [1:02:01] negotiating a trade deal with actually with iran and pakistan was going to be in line and because [1:02:09] of tariffs they all want to negotiate much differently we'll make it a good deal and then [1:02:14] i heard that they're shooting at each other and i said during one of my conversations are you guys [1:02:19] going to go to war two nuclear powers we are thinking about i said here's the deal you go to war i'm [1:02:24] going to put a 200 tariff i'm going to stop you from doing any business in the united states i said [1:02:30] it to both of them within 24 hours the war ended that would have been a nuclear war and again the [1:02:37] prime minister of pakistan who was here two weeks ago said that that man saved many millions of lives [1:02:43] in front of a whole group of people because he thought it was going to be war but when it came to [1:02:48] war or having to pay massive tariffs the tariffs overrode that's why it's so important not only the [1:02:55] money we're taking in trillions of dollars not only the money the power to keep peace the power to be [1:03:01] used for good is enormous but a lot of people didn't understand tariffs it's also made us very rich [1:03:10] we have a big case coming up in the supreme court and i will tell you that's one of the most important [1:03:16] cases in the history of our country because if we don't win that case we will be a [1:03:20] uh weakened troubled financial mess for many many years to come i don't even know if survivable [1:03:30] you know survivable is is a good term uh and if we do we're going to be the most powerful economic [1:03:36] country in the world and all we're doing is using them as a defense against what's what took place for [1:03:43] many years china would charge us tariffs it was incredible but we weren't allowed to charge and we [1:03:48] were so we're allowed to do whatever we want we just had presidents that didn't want to do it for [1:03:53] whatever reason and it was nothing but of the eight wars i was saying seven of the eight wars i would say [1:04:00] tariffs are response directly responsible for me ending six of them five or six without the tariffs [1:04:09] you have wars raging all over the world with the tariffs other than russia we have no wars out there [1:04:15] and uh we've made a lot of good friends too tariffs are so important to our new our national [1:04:23] security if we don't have tariffs we don't have national security our country would would suffer [1:04:32] a level that because they use so strongly on us as an example european union they won't take our cars [1:04:40] they won't take our agriculture they won't take anything but they send their cars in mercedes bmw [1:04:46] volkswagen by the millions we don't send any cars they don't take them they were tariffing us out [1:04:52] uh agricultural products they don't take our agriculture they want their farmers to do it i [1:04:56] understand that but it was very unfair and they were tariffing our product they're keeping out by using [1:05:02] tariffs and we didn't use it but i used them and now we made one of the great deals with your 650 billion [1:05:10] dollars they pay us and uh we've evened it out it's really a good thing to see and you have to [1:05:16] understand they've all signed japan south korea i mean south korea 350 billion dollars up front uh [1:05:23] japan 650 billion dollars and they've all agreed to it they're all happy but before it was a total rip [1:05:32] off and if we don't have the use of tariffs we have no national security this country will have no [1:05:38] financial security will not have national security and the people that brought the lawsuit are people [1:05:43] that are aligned with foreign nations that are now being treated fairly as opposed to just ripping us [1:05:50] off and ripping us asunder so but if we don't if we are not allowed to use what other people use against [1:05:57] us there's no defense it'll be a disaster for america that's why i think i'm going to go to the [1:06:03] supreme court to watch it i've not done that and i had some pretty big cases this is i think it's [1:06:09] i think it's one of the most important cases ever brought because uh we will be defenseless against [1:06:16] the world okay did you have one yes please thank you mr president um i want to ask you about the [1:06:25] georgia senate race i know it's very early but there's several republicans in that field that are [1:06:29] vying for your endorsement a lot of good people on that field no i know all of them actually i haven't [1:06:35] made a decision on that but you have some very good people in the georgia senate race well governor [1:06:41] has endorsed no i know the governor has he's spoken to me about it a lot he likes that candidate a lot [1:06:48] and i understand that i haven't made a decision yet but i'm following that race very carefully i think [1:06:54] it's very important for georgia to get a real senator because the senator they have now is a horrible [1:06:59] senator he he allows all the crime all the borders you have open borders i mean his whole philosophy is a [1:07:05] disaster that's not representative of the people of georgia i know the people of georgia i won georgia [1:07:11] three times but they say twice okay i wanted very big the last time and i wanted big the first time [1:07:18] and i wanted big the second time but we had criminals that didn't allow i mean they i hope they're going [1:07:24] to go into that i hope they go into the votes which are being stored in fulton county and take a look [1:07:29] at a real look at those votes okay because i wanted the second time too but i know georgia very well i [1:07:35] love georgia those people are great and they deserve a good senator because the man they have now is a [1:07:41] weak ineffective person okay mr president by the way you won georgia three times yeah i agree do you agree [1:07:52] with me he's the media for someone that he's the means a lot of time in georgia i believe you won [1:07:57] that uh i really have a question you know the word believe isn't strong enough right you know [1:08:03] there you go it's true i know i want to oh we have the great newt gingrich newt you agree with us [1:08:09] good otherwise i'd have him dismissed immediately from you know his wife as you know is becoming an [1:08:14] ambassador to a great country calista so congratulations and we're going to take a picture [1:08:19] and uh the only reason i'm doing he speaks so well of me he said i'll go down as the greatest [1:08:26] president in history and then he blew it he said i'm not sure if i put him above washington or lincoln [1:08:34] so i'm not that happy about that dude i've got a question about the weaponization of the doj the [1:08:39] media often says your department is weaponizing the doj that's the opposite it's the opposite todd you [1:08:46] represented president trump and probably the greatest weaponization uh of the doj by alvin bragg [1:08:52] you know firsthand if you can describe what you saw under the biden administration and how they [1:08:57] weaponized the doj well i mean i think it's hard to describe what happened in the last four years [1:09:08] alvin bragg a local prosecutor his office staffed by some of the media jack smith [1:09:15] picked as a special counsel staffs his entire office of doj prosecutor and then there are countless [1:09:20] things that happen all all in writing most of them on the docket that require no explanation except [1:09:26] a complete abomination of the place of the attorney all night long now and the director itself so when [1:09:32] people talk about this department weaponizing it's embarrassing because there's no scenario where [1:09:39] you look at what we're doing restoring justice doing the right thing in every single case [1:09:45] and say that that's weaponization and yet remain eerily silent about what happened for the past three [1:09:52] years and we read these articles and giggle because it cannot be true that people really think that what [1:09:58] they did to him not once not twice i'm still counting three four times but we're the ones that are weaponized [1:10:06] so this man is not weaponizing the department of justice we're not weaponizing the department of justice it's [1:10:11] the opposite i mean and also nobody questions what i'm saying because it's true because we all lived [1:10:16] the past four years so listen they never want to bring up the details but i i watch the fake news [1:10:24] and oh he's weaponized and he wants to send them to prison he wants all this they indicted me like five [1:10:32] times i took a mug shot who would have thought it turned out to my favor because it was a good shot [1:10:39] but i had to take a mug shot it's right out there in the door new york post front page of the every [1:10:45] paper in the world i had a mug shot they wanted to send me nobody says that they say he's acting very [1:10:53] very tough he's acting unfair let me tell you uh if they've been nice to anybody it's to those criminals [1:11:00] because they are so good having to do with all of the things we're talking about today with violent crime [1:11:05] but if anything i think this justice department has been so respectful of the law because the other [1:11:13] justice department with rita or lisa and all of that scum real scum what they did to the political [1:11:22] opponent of a guy that has a seriously low iq now in his case it was it was low based on [1:11:31] his career but it got real low okay it was descending rapidly but what they did [1:11:40] to go after his political opponent is legendary worse than any third world country banana republic [1:11:48] and what we're doing is nothing are you kidding nothing they write stories why aren't they doing this [1:11:56] this and we'll leave i don't have to leave it up to them but i choose to at this moment at least [1:12:05] but there's never been anybody treated in the history of politics you know they say the two [1:12:10] worst treated presidents by the media etc was that man right there the late great abraham lincoln [1:12:18] and this grant right there andrew jackson they say andrew jackson was treated terribly they give him [1:12:26] number one and number two but that was before i came along newt i say i have number one times ten [1:12:33] nobody's been uh and make better the white house and that's really what's happened and we're getting [1:12:39] tremendous reviews and we appreciate it but we're here for a different reason it's called operation [1:12:45] summer heat which is an appropriate term in light of what we're doing and early yesterday morning i [1:12:50] returned from the middle east where we celebrated a historic agreement to end years of suffering and [1:12:56] conflict amazing every country came together and even the enemies came out and and totally endorsed [1:13:04] it everybody i've never seen anything like it nobody's seen anything like it and just as we [1:13:08] are forging peace and stability abroad we're also restoring peace and safety and stability at home [1:13:15] and you see that in washington dc may be better than any place because we got there and within 12 days [1:13:20] it was it was very good and within 30 days it's been as safe as any city in the country it's been [1:13:26] great took out 1700 people got them out these are career criminals in many cases and people that [1:13:32] shouldn't have been allowed in by the biden administration historically the summer months have [1:13:37] been a time when violent crime soar as you know but not under president trump today we're announcing [1:13:45] the results of a sweeping law enforcement effort known as operation summer heat we were in many cities [1:13:50] that people didn't know about we kept it a little quiet and uh it had a big impact and you'll hear that [1:13:56] in a second but over the past few months fbi offices in all 50 states made crushing violent crime [1:14:03] a top enforcement priority that's what they did rounding up and arresting thousands of the most [1:14:09] violent and dangerous criminals and these are among the most dangerous and violent people in the world [1:14:15] they were allowed in many cases not in all cases but in many cases they were allowed in by a very [1:14:21] foolish actually stupid open border policy just anybody could have come in they emptied out their [1:14:27] jails their prisons their mental institutions they emptied them into our country and the people behind [1:14:32] me have done an incredible job because uh if we didn't have that administration it would have been so [1:14:38] much easier they allowed millions of people in this country that shouldn't have been allowed including over [1:14:43] 11 000 murderers half of whom murdered more than one person and many of them are gone now or they're [1:14:51] put in prison because we're we don't want to have them come back so we literally put them in our prison [1:14:55] which we don't want to do but we bring them back to their countries working with state and local [1:15:00] partners the fbi arrested over 8 000 violent criminals during the course of this period in major cities like [1:15:07] in new orleans nashville we saw 250 percent increase in arrests we got uh and we really went after the [1:15:16] bad ones these include 725 individuals wanted for violent crimes against children and murderers these [1:15:24] arrests are in addition to the work of our historic federal task forces that uh make dc safe task force has [1:15:33] been unbelievable i mean the job they've done it's incredible and it's been [1:15:38] so nice because so many people they're going out to dinner and they're having dinners they [1:15:42] they wouldn't they didn't go out for four years and now they're going out three times a week [1:15:48] the restaurants are opening restaurants are full and usually that means a lot of good things but [1:15:54] restaurants that were closed are now opening up and everybody's happy it's nobody's ever seen [1:16:00] anything like it actually and everybody feels safe you can you can have a child walk right through [1:16:04] the middle of washington dc and nothing's going to happen we were losing more than [1:16:08] one person a week and why they're being killed on an average of over one a week the make dc safe [1:16:16] task force has been incredible and the make memphis safe task force is having very similar results [1:16:24] it's much earlier but we've been there for a week and a half but i'm hearing the results are [1:16:29] pretty incredible and you'll hear about that they're mobilizing more than 20 federal agencies for the [1:16:34] largest law enforcement operation targeting violent criminals in american history as a result of these [1:16:40] efforts violent crime declined nearly 20 percent nationwide compared to the same period last year [1:16:46] and it was the safest and most peaceful summer in two decades and honestly we haven't really even [1:16:52] gotten going yet if we didn't have to fight all of these radical left governors we could have had [1:16:56] chicago taken care of as an example they had in a short period of time four thousand murders in [1:17:02] chicago and we have to listen to this man stand up and say that we're bad people and the people of [1:17:08] chicago are walking around with mega hats you have women beautiful black women walking around with mega [1:17:14] hats please let the president in and we don't care how he does it they're not interested in national guard or [1:17:22] army navy bring them in marines bring in the marines they just want the crime to stop and more so [1:17:28] because of the success that we had in dc i think if we didn't have that success nobody would even [1:17:34] believe it so i want to congratulate all of the incredible law enforcement professionals joining us [1:17:40] today especially attorney general pam bondi who's terrific deputy attorney general todd blanche who is [1:17:48] uh a fantastic legal talent he really is he's a great guy too and of course fbi director cash patel they [1:17:57] have worked so hard on this and other things since the start of the administration the fbi has arrested [1:18:03] over 23 000 violent criminals more than double the number arrested in the final year of the biden [1:18:09] disaster the fbi has also destroyed or severely disrupted more than 170 organized criminal enterprises [1:18:18] and gangs sixteen hundred of the most violent gangs and confiscated over 6 000 illegal firearms and [1:18:27] they've tracked down and arrested four fugitives on the most wanted list four of the most wanted [1:18:33] actually two of them were the most wanted fugitives in the world there's still much more work to be [1:18:40] done which is why the fbi continues to work alongside the department of justice the department of homeland [1:18:45] security and the department of war to defend and pete hegseth has been fantastic by the way on this too [1:18:52] on other things but on this too uh to defend law and order and combat violent crime arrest illegal [1:19:00] aliens and make american cities the safest in the world and when i campaigned i talked about crime but [1:19:06] i never knew that we were going to get into it like we did you know i mean i used to watch these cities with [1:19:11] the murders chicago recently had one deal where they had 11 murders in one weekend and they said [1:19:18] well yeah but it was a holiday weekend they actually told me that was the reason like it was okay because [1:19:22] it was a holiday it was labor day these people are the worst they are they really have to they better [1:19:29] i tell you what the the people in chicago and the people in places like that that could be fixed [1:19:34] at some point it gets to where you can't fix it anymore it's too far gone and we have some cities like [1:19:40] that but these are great cities that could be fixed i'm going to be strongly recommending [1:19:45] at the request of government officials which is always nice that you start looking at san francisco [1:19:51] i think we can make san francisco there's one of our great cities 10 years ago 15 years ago now it's a [1:19:58] mess and we have great support in san francisco so i'd like to recommend that for inclusion maybe [1:20:04] in your next group you'll get great support every american deserves to live in a community where [1:20:09] they're not afraid of being mugged murdered robbed raped assaulted or shot and that's exactly what our [1:20:16] administration is working to deliver i didn't realize i was going to make this such a big factor [1:20:21] in the i didn't really campaign i campaigned on crime but i never thought we'd go into every city and [1:20:27] take a really safe city that we've all been living with for years and make them safe and now it's like a [1:20:33] passion for me and it's a passion for the people behind me so i didn't get elected i did get [1:20:39] elected for crime but i didn't get elected for what we're doing this is many many steps above and [1:20:45] i want to thank steven miller who's right back in the audience right there i'd love to have him i love [1:20:50] watching him on television i'd love to have him come up and explain his true feelings but maybe not his [1:20:57] truest feelings that might be going a little bit too far but steven thank you for doing an unbelievable [1:21:02] job and the people of this country love you i'll tell you and they love what you say about crime [1:21:07] and stopping crime so now i'd like to ask director i'd like to ask director patel to say a few words [1:21:15] and then pam and todd also and i just want to congratulate them this is an amazing thing and [1:21:21] we're just at the start we're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely [1:21:26] we're getting ready to go in and when they go in like cash is an example told me that people didn't [1:21:31] even know five months ago they went into chicago and they started doing a lot of work in chicago and [1:21:37] we brought the the numbers down a little bit and uh but that really was just preparatory work for [1:21:44] what we're going to do with the surge we're going to have a surge of uh strong good people patriots [1:21:51] and they're going to go in they straighten it all out so uh a lot of these cities we're already [1:21:57] working on but we don't do it with a big a big flavor but in a little while you're going to see some [1:22:02] numbers that you're not going to believe and i think you'll probably start with memphis because i'm [1:22:06] hearing the numbers are much quicker than we even thought possible uh but uh again dc is it speaks [1:22:13] for itself chicago is going to be okay we're going to save chicago and i told you and i told them a [1:22:19] very respected man the head of the union pacific said sir save chicago it can be saved and the way he [1:22:25] said it was like can you believe it we're trying to save chicago but i understood exactly what he wants [1:22:31] and that's what we're going to do we're going to save all of our cities and we're going to make them [1:22:35] essentially crime free like other countries have crime free if you go all over the world you go to [1:22:42] the world you hear afghanistan and you hear all these different places uh our crime in certain [1:22:47] cities is worse than anything they can even imagine and we're not going to have that any longer it's [1:22:52] going to stop and it stops right here cash please thank you mr president what i'd like to do is just [1:22:57] highlight some of the outstanding work that the men and women of the fbi have been doing and thanks to [1:23:01] your brave leadership and the mandate you were given by the american people not only defend the homeland [1:23:05] but crush violent crime you tasked us with our great partners at the department of justice and [1:23:09] the attorney general and the deputy attorney general to start making arrests and bring prosecutions and [1:23:14] safeguard our cities and you said it this is just the beginning in just seven months i hope the media [1:23:20] takes a look at every one of these charts because these are the best numbers for fighting crime in u.s [1:23:25] history and it's only seven months in and to do that our vehicle to do it of choice was operation summer [1:23:31] heat which the fbi architected to go after violent criminals and in just a three month span you had [1:23:37] 8 700 arrests of violent criminals you had 2200 firearms seized off the streets permanently to safeguard [1:23:45] our communities you had 421 kilograms of fentanyl seized just to put that in perspective that's enough [1:23:52] to kill 55 million americans alone you had 45 000 kilograms of cocaine seized and thanks to our [1:23:59] department of justice partners you had 2100 indictments in three months from june to september [1:24:06] alone mr president that in and of itself would be historic for a four-year presidency you did that [1:24:12] in seven months because you let good cops be cops and you partnered us with the right people the [1:24:16] department of justice to put the handcuffs on and bring them to court and put them in prison and if [1:24:21] that weren't enough when you look at the year for the entire seven month period that we're talking about [1:24:25] here if you look at the past four years of the biden administration 16 000 17 000 15 000 15 000 [1:24:33] that's the number of arrests year over year of violent felons in this country for the biden [1:24:37] administration mr president in seven months you have 27 28 600 arrests of violent feminists in just [1:24:45] seven months alone because of your leadership and the dedication of the men and women at the fbi [1:24:50] who want to go out there and do the job they were prevented from doing because that department used [1:24:55] to be weaponized and politicized and this is what happens when you take out the fangs of weaponization [1:25:00] this number is historic by every metric 28 000 people have been arrested violent felons alone [1:25:06] and then when you go over there and look at some of these charts if you don't mind i'll just hop over [1:25:10] here look at the metrics for not just by the crime but the homeland mr president during your administration [1:25:19] the sbi has found and located 5 400 children that is a 30 percent increase year to date over the last [1:25:28] administration violent crimes against children arrest alone are up 10 percent gang arrests are up 210 [1:25:35] in the last seven months alone and transnational organized crime which stephen miller has been a [1:25:40] great partner in is up over 12 percent alone these numbers are historic just as a snapshot but just so [1:25:48] people don't think we're focusing on violent crime alone the national security mission mr president [1:25:53] your leadership has never been stronger we have gone after espionage activities against our main [1:25:58] counterparts in china russia and iran in china alone we've had over a 50 percent increase in espionage [1:26:05] arrests alone in prosecution in iran we have had a 50 percent increase again in espionage cases and in [1:26:13] russia we've had a 33 percent increase in espionage cases alone when it comes to counterterrorism year [1:26:20] to date we have 125 arrests this year versus 100 last year year to date alone and when it comes to the [1:26:26] cyber criminal activities which are some of the largest enterprises plaguing everyday americans we at the [1:26:32] fbi have put out a mission to go after cyber criminals like never before last year they had in total 191 [1:26:39] this year you already have 252 arrests 52 arrests of violent cyber criminals who are stealing from [1:26:46] senior citizens who are violating our children's rights and freedoms and who are violating everyday [1:26:51] americans these programs are record and some of the two of the things i'll finish with that i'm most proud [1:26:57] of mr president this fbi fentanyl as you know it's a scourge that's killing our youth 100 000 plus a year [1:27:03] to date the fbi has seized 1900 kilograms of fentanyl that's enough lethal doses to kill 127 million [1:27:11] americans alone to date and if that weren't enough mr president you said we have to go after the worst [1:27:18] of the worst and you empowered our department of justice our attorney general deputy attorney general [1:27:22] and the deputy director of the fbi led the charge not just on summer heat but he also led the charge to [1:27:28] the fbi's 10 most wanted fugitives these people have been on the run for years and in seven [1:27:33] months you captured not one not two not three but four of the fbs most top ten fugitives four and [1:27:40] just to put that in perspective mr president the biden administration captured four in all four years [1:27:45] you're on seven and we're going to get to ten we're going to get to ten of ten this includes a lady who [1:27:49] murdered her six-year-old handicapped child and fled to india we got her in two months this includes [1:27:54] a narco trafficker this includes a sex trafficker this includes another first three murder and gangbang [1:28:00] these people were on the run because of the prior administration's reckless policies that destroyed [1:28:05] our communities and you came in and the mandate said go after the worst of the worst this is just [1:28:10] the beginning this is what happens when you let good cops be good cops at the fbi mr president i just want [1:28:15] to thank you for your incredible leadership our brave partnership with prosecutors who know how to bring [1:28:21] cases and make sure these arrests stick and that's what the attorney general and the deputy attorney [1:28:25] general led the charge across this country because arrests without prosecutions are meaningless we are [1:28:30] deterring criminals from doing this activity we are preventing criminals from coming into america [1:28:35] and we are absolutely crushing violent crime at level before and defending this homeland sir and not to [1:28:41] mention i almost forgot this one it took you sir two weeks to get the aggregate bomber joe biden had four [1:28:46] warriors to look for him you got him in two weeks next to the interagency of the cia went to pakistan [1:28:52] and now 13 brave warriors who were sent to see murder because of disasters they have justice their [1:28:58] families have a peace of mind and we're going to continue to find the elders mr president on behalf of [1:29:02] the fbi sir i just want to thank you thank you very much great job very good very impressive [1:29:10] president trump the the men and women of law enforcement say two things to me repeatedly [1:29:15] first you have taken the handcuffs off them and let them do their jobs and you let cops be cops [1:29:23] that's why all this is happening the director the deputy director are working around the clock all of [1:29:30] these great men and women in the fbi they have think about they have families at home and they are [1:29:35] working during a government shutdown right now many of them have small children many of them i was talking [1:29:41] to an agent this morning many of them have babies at home and they are working [1:29:46] around the clock to not only keep our country but our world safe and that's what operation summer [1:29:52] heat did thank you director and to the deputy director for everything you did on behalf of the [1:29:57] department of justice and you're going to continue to keep doing and they set the stage for what we're [1:30:04] doing in memphis you're going to hear a lot more about that our joint task force next week but they set the [1:30:10] stage for memphis and last night alone in memphis there were almost 70 arrests there were 12 guns [1:30:16] seized and there was a 70 year old man arrested as a result of our operation in memphis who raped a child [1:30:23] under the age of three that one case makes everything we're doing worthwhile so thank you all for being [1:30:29] here on behalf of both of us thank you president trump thank you thank you mr president so this is a great day [1:30:38] and i think there's stats that the director talked about which are important but i want to give two [1:30:43] examples of what summer heat has done that that actually will apply hopefully to everybody in this [1:30:49] room the first is for over four years during the last administration there was a hotel in a town the [1:30:57] middle of a town in alaska that was being run as a drug den there were over one thousand calls [1:31:04] to 911 over four four and a half year period there were multiple violent crimes drug dealers overdoses [1:31:13] and murders at this one hotel ruining a community summer heat went in there it's not only arrested [1:31:20] all the participants that were controlling the hotel but seized the hotel and so that's that's one [1:31:25] example of what summer heat means to everyday americans that just want to live in peace the second [1:31:30] example is a large narcotics trafficking group that was selling fentanyl in the state of washington they [1:31:36] were shipping fentanyl and using commercial aircraft putting fentanyl pills and powder onto come in [1:31:45] suitcases flying them from the southwest border mostly arizona all the way to washington it had been going [1:31:51] on for an extremely long time and the entire organization was arrested and i say those two examples because [1:31:57] it's easy to look at the board and see a thousand arrests how much different is our communities now [1:32:03] compared to the past four years but there's actual life examples every one of these arrests means that [1:32:09] our streets are safer and that's that's because of the work of this administration of president trump [1:32:14] and and director patel so i will tell you attorney general bondi and i are together every day with [1:32:19] with director patel figuring out ways that we can continue to do this work and and it's it's not going to [1:32:25] stop like like the attorney general said and like the president said this is just the beginning or [1:32:29] phase one or a start whatever you want to say but it will continue on so so thank you mr president [1:32:35] and thank you very much director patel mr president just one last thank you for the men and women at [1:32:39] the fbi you found a way to get these individuals paid during a government shutdown our 1811 agents [1:32:45] on behalf of the fbi it's a great debt that we owe you sir they're now allowed to pay for their families [1:32:50] so thank you and the military that's right thank you okay thank you very much any questions please [1:32:58] brian go ahead first of all i know the feedback i'm getting from the american people but they want [1:33:02] to say thank you law and order is not an option in this country it's a mandate so i know the american [1:33:07] people thank you for that in terms of the guns that have been taken off the street do you have a [1:33:12] number of how many guns were taken away from someone that had a prior felony or a previous crime that [1:33:18] perhaps we can prosecute that because i know that wasn't the case of a joe biden we don't take guns [1:33:23] off the streets of people that are allowed to have guns so every gun that we're taking off the street [1:33:28] is because it belongs to somebody who is not allowed to have it could be a felon could be somebody who [1:33:33] hears illegally there's all sorts of conditions but we if there's a gun taken off the streets by the fbi [1:33:38] it's because the person who has it is not allowed to it's not somebody who's lawfully allowed to have [1:33:42] it so every single one of those guns were taken off of people that aren't allowed to have it and not [1:33:47] including the fbi all of the other agencies atf alone since january 20th has removed over 25 000 [1:33:54] illegal guns off our streets just since president trump's been in office mr president if i could [1:33:59] follow up on that could there be any further conversation to have uh national concealed carry [1:34:05] applied to our actual dc uh like if you had a driver's license in texas and you had a permit of course [1:34:11] you could drive well they're talking as you know they've been talking about that for a long time it's [1:34:15] uh it's an interesting question a lot of people feel strongly both ways but we are talking about [1:34:20] that brian thank you mr president on venezuelan's boats um i want to ask you why not have the coast [1:34:26] guard stopped them which it is empowered by law to do you know this way you can confirm who's on the [1:34:33] boat and ensure that they're doing what they would suspect because we've been doing that for 30 years [1:34:37] and it has been totally ineffective they have faster boats some of these boats are seriously i [1:34:45] mean they're world-class speed boats and but they're not faster than missiles but we've been trying to [1:34:50] do that for years and so much of the drugs 25 30 percent would come in through the seas right now we [1:34:57] have i would say none coming in through the seas in fact i don't know about the fishing industry if you [1:35:02] want to go fishing a lot of people aren't deciding to even go fishing we've almost totally stopped it [1:35:08] by sea now we'll stop it by land but it never worked it never worked when when you know when you did it [1:35:15] in a very politically correct manner what's the next step in this war on cartels and are you considering [1:35:20] options are you considering strikes on land well i don't want to tell you exactly but we are certainly [1:35:25] looking at land now because we've got the sea very well under control uh we've had a couple of days where [1:35:31] there isn't a boat to be found then that i view that as a good thing not a bad thing but we had [1:35:36] tremendous amounts coming in by boats by very expensive boats you know they have a lot of money [1:35:41] very fast very expensive boats that were pretty big and the way you look at it is every boat that [1:35:47] we knock out we save 25 000 american lives so every time you see a boat and you feel badly you say wow that's [1:35:54] rough it is rough but if you lose three people and save 25 000 people these are people that are killing [1:36:01] our population every boat is saving 25 000 lives and you can see it the boats get hit and you see [1:36:07] that fentanyl all over the ocean it's like floating in bags it's all over the place and it's uh it's a [1:36:15] tremendous we're saving tremendous amounts of lives yeah i know you've talked about i have a question for [1:36:22] you and then i also have a question for director patel i know you talked about having some uh distaste for [1:36:28] boston recently is this one of the cities that you might be looking into and can you give us a hint [1:36:32] about other studies that you might be you're saying for where for where for boston yeah well boston has a [1:36:38] a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable iq person you know most of them are low iq [1:36:44] but uh and they're so bad i mean what's going on in chicago is just you'd think the guy would say hey look [1:36:50] we have a problem mr president could you come in and straighten it out i could have that we could have that [1:36:56] done in a month if we had their cooperation it's going to be done anyway but we could have it done [1:37:01] in a month yeah boston she's got four areas that are you know wrong and you know somebody said would [1:37:07] we take would we think about taking the world cup away from boston if they don't straighten it out the [1:37:12] answer is yes we have the right to do that with fifa so if we think that la is going to be bad or we [1:37:18] think uh that applies a little bit to the olympics too but we'll talk about fifa first you know fifa [1:37:24] is very hot if we think there's any reason that whether it's boston or anywhere else that [1:37:29] they're not doing their job we're going to take that those world cup games and move them someplace [1:37:34] else thank you and then director patel there's been so many conspiracy theories swirling around about [1:37:39] the assassination of charlie kirk do you have any updates for us especially in light of all the [1:37:43] online content that everyone's been talking about the only thing we deal with at the fbi and the [1:37:47] department of justice is facts and we delivered in record speed a manhunt to capture charlie [1:37:52] kirke's alleged session in 33 hours and if you put that in perspective to luigi mangione [1:37:56] with a boston bomber they took them five days and a police officer lost their life in their manhunt [1:38:00] we are running out absolutely every single lead and the best thing we can do to honor my friend charlie [1:38:05] kirke's life is to make sure that everyone involved is prosecuted to the full extent of the law and [1:38:09] that's what we're focused on investigating the facts not trading and conspiracy theories okay mr president [1:38:15] thank you so much thank you uh in light of china's export curbs on rare earths do you view [1:38:20] india as a reliable partner uh going forward and uh are you planning to meet prime minister [1:38:27] modi in malaysia um are you open to talks in terms of yeah sure he's a friend of mine we have a [1:38:32] great relationship he just said that two days ago as you know we have a great relationship no we [1:38:38] were not happy with him buying oil from russia because that lets russia continue on with this [1:38:44] ridiculous war where they've lost a million and a half people by the way russia has lost a million [1:38:48] and a half people soldiers mostly this is a war that should have never started but it's a war that [1:38:53] russia should have won in the first week and they're going into the fourth year and i want to see it stop [1:39:00] so i was not happy that india was buying oil and he assured me today that they will not be buying oil [1:39:06] from russia that's a big stop now i got to get china to do the same thing you know that that is [1:39:13] relatively easy compared to what we just did over the last week in the middle east middle east was [1:39:20] 3 000 years and we got it done this is three years uh and i think we'll get it done i think that putin [1:39:27] president putin i think is going to i think he wants to get it done we'll see there's a great [1:39:31] animosity between him and zielinski you probably have noticed right and it's uh i think it's hurting [1:39:38] the process yeah yeah please thank you um curious why did you authorize the cia to go into [1:39:44] venezuela and is there more information you can share about these strikes on the alleged well i [1:39:49] can't do that but i authorized for two reasons really number one they have emptied their prisons [1:39:56] into the united states of america they came in through the uh well they came in through the border [1:40:02] they came in because we had an open border policy and as soon as i heard that i said a lot of these [1:40:07] countries they're not the only country but they're the worst abuser and they've entered there they've [1:40:12] they've allowed thousands and thousands of prisoners mental institution people from mental [1:40:19] institutions insane asylums emptied out into the united states we're bringing them back [1:40:25] but that's a really bad and they did it at a level that probably not many many countries have done it [1:40:30] but not like venezuela they were down and dirty and the other thing are drugs we have a lot of drugs [1:40:34] coming in from venezuela and a lot of the venezuelan drugs come in through the sea so you get to see that [1:40:40] but we're going to stop them by land also does the cia have authority to take out maduro oh i don't [1:40:46] want to answer a question like that that's a ridiculous question for me to be given not really [1:40:51] a ridiculous question but wouldn't it be a ridiculous question for me to answer but i think venezuela is [1:40:57] feeling heat but i think a lot of other countries are feeling heat too we're not going to let this [1:41:01] country our country be ruined because other people want to drop as you say their worst they they have given [1:41:08] us their worst they've loaded up our country with prisoners with with mentally ill people that are [1:41:15] seriously ill criminally ill and we're not going to take it and so i mean it's just one of those [1:41:21] things and i can tell you we've taken care of the sea there's nobody and we're watching we're watching [1:41:27] and if we see it we'll save it yeah please on the ships though sir there are republicans and democrats [1:41:33] up on the hill concerned that in the briefings they've gotten about those attacks they're not [1:41:37] necessarily getting information about who was on them and what exactly was on those ships can you [1:41:42] well but they are given information that they were loaded up with drugs and that's the thing that [1:41:47] matters when they're loaded up with drugs they're fair game and every one of those ships were they're [1:41:52] not ships they're they're boats they're speed boats they're extremely fast record-setting type speed [1:41:59] boats that cost a lot of money and they have a lot of money because they're drug sellers [1:42:02] uh but uh they know one thing and they all have the same thing in common there's uh there's drug [1:42:10] dust they call it drug dust they call it fentanyl dust all over the boat after those bombs go off and [1:42:16] you you can take a long we know we know before we know when they go out we know we have uh much [1:42:24] information about each boat that goes out deep strong information yeah please [1:42:30] so you're going to have one years here this week what is your message at this stage of the war for [1:42:36] him and shy of to who is it for zelensky yeah shy of talks for ukraine are you considering other options [1:42:44] and will you speak with no we're looking at other options we are uh president zelinski's coming in [1:42:52] i'm not a fan of the war i'm not a fan of the way it started it should have never happened it wouldn't [1:42:56] have started if i were president the election was rigged and because of that we lost a lot of [1:43:02] lives have been lost because of that we're not american lives but if i can save a lot of lives [1:43:07] that's why i'm in it i want to save lives i've i've had uh eight wars the prime minister of pakistan [1:43:15] got up the other day said so beautifully says you saved millions of lives he told that to a group of [1:43:20] people right in this office he said the president saved millions of lives and i think what he's referring [1:43:25] to is the fact that that would have been with india nuclear war that was getting very close you [1:43:29] know seven planes they don't talk about it but seven aircraft were shot in fact we have the new [1:43:35] ambassador to india right here they're well represented you better represent us not them okay [1:43:43] but sergio is going to do a great job he's going to do a great job but no we'll be talking about the [1:43:47] war with with him and we'll be talking about i mean they they want to go offensive uh i'll make a [1:43:55] determination on that but they would like to go offensive you know that and we'll have to make [1:44:00] a determination the question given you have the fbi director and attorney general here today dude [1:44:05] jordan has asked jack smith to appear in front of the house judiciary you mean deranged jack he's [1:44:10] a deranged individual yeah well they should i'm surprised it takes so long you know we're talking [1:44:16] about violent crime what about the crime against a political opponent that's what we have to talk about [1:44:21] too i think it was the worst weaponization of a political opponent in the history of the world [1:44:35] let alone this country and i hope that everybody's you know they're involved in it i'm not i i'm the [1:44:42] one that had to suffer through it and ultimately win but uh what they did was criminal deranged jack [1:44:48] smith in my opinion is a criminal and i noticed his his interviewer was i think that was weissman [1:44:56] and i hope they're going to look into weissman too weissman's a bad guy and he had somebody in lisa [1:45:02] who was his puppet worked in the office really as the top person and i think that she should be [1:45:11] looked at very strongly it there was tremendous criminal activity having to do if we don't have fair [1:45:16] elections in this country we're not going to have a country and i've said it from the beginning fair [1:45:20] elections and border borders and we need also fair press because if you don't have fair press it's very [1:45:27] tough and uh we've got the strongest border of anybody nobody has a border we have a border where [1:45:33] the numbers just came out again you saw zero people came in illegally now we do take people into our [1:45:39] country legally but zero people but you know you're talking about a different subject you're talking about [1:45:44] political crime they have committed massive political crime i hope they're looking at shifty [1:45:51] shift i hope they're looking at all these people and i'm allowed to find out i'm allowed to you know [1:45:56] i'm in theory the chief law enforcement officer but i have a very good talented group this is about [1:46:02] something else but i hope they're looking at political crime because there's never been so much [1:46:06] political crime against a political opponent as what i had to go through they raided my house in [1:46:13] florida it was an illegal raid i have a lawsuit that was doing very well and when i became president [1:46:19] i said i'm sort of suing myself i don't know what he has settled the lawsuit i'll say give me x dollars [1:46:25] right and i don't know what to do with the lawsuit it's a great lawsuit and now i won it sort of looks [1:46:30] bad i'm suing myself right so i don't know but but that was a lawsuit that was very strong very [1:46:35] powerful they raided illegally my house in florida mar-a-lago they went through the draws of my young [1:46:43] son they went through all of the cabinets and drawers of the first lady she walked in she said [1:46:49] wow what happened because she's very meticulous and this wasn't so meticulous as she looked into [1:46:55] the drawers and she saw everything a mess it's it's uh just what they did against a person that just got [1:47:02] out of office and then you look at these corrupt people you look at hunter biden you look at the [1:47:07] signature as an example the auto pen i just signed so many different things an admiral a forced [1:47:14] star general that i'm signing them left and right the commissions and by the way i want to compliment [1:47:18] john thune and also mike our great speaker but john thune all of a sudden i'm getting these things by [1:47:25] the hundreds i was getting one every two weeks it would have been four years before you got them in [1:47:30] wars you would have had some that didn't even get in all because of democrat obstruction so john [1:47:36] thune did a great job i signed i must have signed 200 into the administration we're just about [1:47:41] caught up it's amazing and so compliments to john he had to do some things that were very tough to do [1:47:47] that he didn't want to do but he was forced to do it by the democrats and as far as the shutdown is [1:47:52] concerned this is a democrat schumer shutdown and he's trying to do it to get relevance back into the [1:47:59] party because he's a loser i've known him all his life he's always been sort of a loser but an [1:48:03] intelligent one but i think he's losing iq points with time i think that happens i hope it hasn't [1:48:09] happened with me i know if it did you guys will let me know about it very quickly [1:48:15] violent crime sir uh here in dc a judge has given the two teenagers that beat up [1:48:20] uh ex-juge staffer big balls probation that's incredible in no jail time is this justice janine [1:48:27] pirro is doing a fantastic job and she is beside herself because you have these radical left judges [1:48:33] that they beat the hell out of this guy and it was many people against this one guy who was really [1:48:40] trying to protect his girlfriend he didn't want he's hooded over the door because but they really [1:48:45] beat him up badly that just happened right wow that's terrible i think the judge should be ashamed of [1:48:52] himself that's a big problem you know they can do their job and then they go into a court and the [1:48:58] people are protected by these i don't know where they come from where do these people come from where [1:49:02] these the judges come from i want to compliment on behalf of pam and todd and all of us because [1:49:08] cash i think that janine has done a fantastic job and the case i heard was like flawless it's a [1:49:14] flawless case they have them on tape they have everything and then a judge gives them a little [1:49:19] probation very these are these are rough guys and they're young and if that happens they're going to [1:49:26] grow up they're going to be real bad they're going to cause they're going to cause a lot of problems [1:49:30] yeah please go ahead so uh surgery has just gotten back from india uh what were the conversations like [1:49:36] with uh prime minister modi and i think they were great he reported to me that you're great [1:49:43] you're the great he's a great man you know modi is a great man that he he loves trump now i don't [1:49:49] know if the word love i don't want you to take that any different i don't want to destroy his political [1:49:54] career okay but you have to understand i've watched india for years it's an incredible country [1:49:59] and every single year you'd have a new leader i mean some would be in there for a few months and [1:50:04] this was year after year after year and my friend has been there now for a long time and he is and [1:50:10] he's assured me there will be no oil purchased from russia i don't know maybe that's a breaking [1:50:15] story can i say that would you say there will be no oil he's not buying his oil from russia it's [1:50:19] it started you know you can't do it immediately it's a little bit of a process but the process is going to [1:50:24] be over with soon and all we want from president putin is stop this stop killing ukraines and stop [1:50:32] killing russians because he's killing a lot of russians again it doesn't make him look good it's a [1:50:38] war that he should have won in one week and he's now going into his fourth year that does not look [1:50:44] this make this big so-called war machine look good but he could make a settlement we're willing to [1:50:51] settle i thought we had a deal the hatred of the two leaders is very it's an obstacle it's an [1:50:58] obstacle there's no question about it but i thought we had a deal two months ago uh who would [1:51:04] think i created peace in the middle east and can't get the two guys to settle but i think we'll get [1:51:10] them but uh if india doesn't buy oil it makes it much easier and they're not going to buy they [1:51:16] they assured me they will within a short period of time they will not be buying oil from russia [1:51:20] and they'll go back to russia after the war is open over jennifer on the shutdown sir are fbi [1:51:26] officials being paid right now are all the fbi employees being paid well that's what i understand [1:51:31] i hope so thanks to you everybody thanks to your great work mr president that the fbi are going [1:51:37] to receive their paychecks got a lot of people paid actually we got the people that we want paid [1:51:43] okay and we want the fbi paid we want the military paid we got the people that we want paid and i'll [1:51:48] tell you the democrats they don't talk about this you know we're getting rid of programs that we [1:51:55] didn't like but that were negotiated in but we didn't like we're terminating those programs and [1:52:00] they're going to be terminated on a permanent basis and it's thousands of people and it's it's you know [1:52:06] billions of dollars we're getting rid of a lot of things that we never wanted because of the fact [1:52:11] that they made this stupid move and they don't want to talk about it you know they have their day [1:52:16] coming up i hear very few people going to be there by the way but they have their day coming up and [1:52:21] they want to have their day in the sun uh but they should really make a deal so what we're doing i mean [1:52:27] they call him darth vader but he's actually a very nice person russell vote but russell vote is [1:52:35] is really terminating tremendous numbers of democrat projects this is not only jobs i mean the project in [1:52:42] manhattan the project in new york it's billions and billions of dollars that schumer has worked 20 [1:52:49] years to get it's terminated tell him it's terminated jennifer all right [1:52:56] sir uh what is your understanding of the pace of returning the deceased hostages are you [1:53:03] pleased well they're looking for absolutely they're looking so we have the living hostages all back [1:53:09] they returned some more today it's a gruesome process i almost hate to talk about it so [1:53:15] but they're digging they're actually digging there are areas where they're digging and they're finding [1:53:19] a lot of bodies uh then they have to separate the bodies you wouldn't believe this this is and some [1:53:25] of those bodies have been in there a long time and some of them are under rubble they have to remove rubble [1:53:31] but uh there are graves and some are some are in tunnels that are that that died in tunnels that [1:53:38] are way down under the earth and the tunnels are like three feet can you believe it three feet high [1:53:44] they lived like this for a long period of time it's a horrible it's a horrible atrocity [1:53:49] at the same time uh we meaning israel but i knew everything they were doing pretty much i knew most of [1:53:56] the things they were doing but they've killed probably 70 000 of these people hamas and i said [1:54:05] it's time now so we'll see what happens we'll also see what happens your next question is going [1:54:09] to be the weapons we want the weapons to be uh given up sacrificed and they've agreed to do it now [1:54:15] they have to do it if they don't do it we'll do it the head of centcom today suggests that hamas needs to [1:54:21] hurry up and and disarm and follow your conference plan that it was the head of centcom saying that [1:54:27] is that not a signal to hamas to the rest of the world that at some point the u.s military more [1:54:32] made more directly engaged we won't need the u.s military we won't need it because we're very [1:54:37] much involved in it if we weren't involved there wouldn't be peace if we didn't uh destroy the [1:54:44] nuclear capability of iran that deal would have never happened for two reasons the arab nations would not [1:54:50] have felt bold enough to do it because you have a very powerful at that time iran is not powerful [1:54:57] anymore between what we what israel and us did because you know the attack was was if you look [1:55:02] at it we helped them very much they will be the first to tell you including shooting down thousands [1:55:07] of drones that were coming into israel you know we shot them down we were shooting them down like [1:55:13] it was target practice but we shot down thousands of drones and missiles also going into israel [1:55:20] but between what we did to iran that way with the you know conventional we will call it [1:55:26] and what that beauty see that beautiful plane that b2 i noticed it on the desk i always thought it was [1:55:31] beautiful but i never understood it now i understand it took in uh hundreds of thousands of bombs [1:55:38] in the form of two but hundreds of thousands of pounds of bombs and every single bomb hit perfectly then [1:55:45] they sent tomahawks and they sent 30 tomahawks on top of it and that was totally you know cnn said [1:55:51] well maybe it wasn't as bad as you know as trump said because i said obliterated uh obliterated is not [1:55:58] a strong enough word actually and you saw the atomic energy commission came out and said the word [1:56:04] obliteration is very very they think of it they came in under potential fire they entered iran airspace [1:56:13] late at night in the dark no moon the moon was low for a reason was the one time we picked it couldn't [1:56:20] see anything and they hit every target and they weren't hit nobody saw that plane that plane of [1:56:26] stealth nobody said the problem with that is it may be stealth today but tomorrow it won't be and we just [1:56:32] ordered about 20 brand new b2 bombers it's unbelievable as a weapon i know putin when i was uh riding with him [1:56:40] in alaska we passed a lot of them and he said that really did the trick i said yeah it did it's amazing [1:56:46] the flying wing it's no reason for the u.s military to get involved in gaza no i don't see that no i [1:56:52] think we're going to handle it very well we'll be helping israel but we have other countries that are [1:56:57] now you know we signed many many countries signed and many of those countries relatively are very strong [1:57:02] military powers and hamas has no support see hamas had the support of iran and now iran says don't [1:57:10] get us involved the last time they got them involved didn't work out too well so they used [1:57:15] to have the support of iran today iran is they're trying to survive you know when i heard the reports [1:57:23] two weeks ago iran's looking to build a nuclear weapon i said don't worry about it they got a lot of [1:57:27] things they want to do before nuclear weapons i said the last thing they want to do is a nuclear [1:57:32] weapon it didn't work out and if they did a nuclear weapon before they got even close [1:57:38] that site would be attacked and it would be wiped out mr president you're meeting with president chi in [1:57:44] a few weeks yeah if you can't come to an agreement or a deal at that meeting are we in for a sustained [1:57:49] trade war with china well you're in one now look we have a hundred percent tariff if we didn't have [1:57:56] tariffs we would be exposed as being a nothing we would have no defense you know they've used tariffs [1:58:05] on us but we've never had anybody sitting in that chair that felt the need to do it and and they've [1:58:12] allowed us to be 37 trillion dollars in debt et cetera et cetera we tariffs are a very important tool [1:58:21] for our defense for our national security if we don't have tariffs we're not going to have national [1:58:24] security as an example uh if you look at pakistan and iran i told them i was in the midst of [1:58:31] negotiating a trade deal with actually with iran and pakistan was going to be in line and because [1:58:40] of tariffs they all want to negotiate much differently we're making a good deal and then [1:58:44] i heard that they're shooting at each other and i said during one of my conversations [1:58:50] are you guys going to go to war two nuclear powers we are thinking about i said here's the deal [1:58:55] you go to war i'm going to put a 200 tariff i'm going to stop you from doing any business in the [1:58:59] united states i said it to both of them within 24 hours the war ended that would have been a nuclear [1:59:05] war and again the prime minister of pakistan who was here two weeks ago said that that man saved many [1:59:13] millions of lives in front of a whole group of people because he thought it was going to be war [1:59:18] but when it came to war or having to pay massive tariffs the tariffs overrored that's why it's so [1:59:24] important not only the money we're taking in trillions of dollars not only the money the power to keep [1:59:31] peace the power to be used for good is enormous but uh a lot of people didn't understand tariffs [1:59:39] it's also made us very rich we have a big case coming up in the supreme court and i will tell you [1:59:45] that's one of the most important cases in the history of our country because if we don't win that [1:59:50] case we will be a uh weakened troubled financial mess for many many years to come i don't even know [2:00:00] if survivable you know survivable is is a good term uh and if we do we're going to be the most powerful [2:00:07] economic country in the world and all we're doing is using them as a defense against what's what took [2:00:14] place for many years china would charge us tariffs it was incredible but we weren't allowed to charge [2:00:19] and we were so we're allowed to do whatever we want we just had presidents that didn't want to do [2:00:23] it for whatever reason and it was nothing but of the eight wars i was saying seven of the eight wars [2:00:30] i would say tariffs are respond directly responsible for me ending six of them five or six without the [2:00:39] tariffs you have wars raging all over the world with the tariffs other than russia we have no wars out [2:00:45] there and uh we've made a lot of good friends too tariffs are so important to our new our national [2:00:54] security if we don't have tariffs we don't have national security our country would would suffer [2:01:03] a level that because they use so strongly on us as an example european union they won't take our cars [2:01:11] they won't take our agriculture they won't take anything but they send their cars in mercedes bmw [2:01:17] volkswagen by the millions we don't send any cars they don't take them they were tariffing us out [2:01:24] agricultural product they don't take our agriculture they want their farmers to do it i understand that [2:01:28] but it was very unfair and they were tariffing our product they're keeping out by using tariffs [2:01:34] and we didn't use it but i used them and now we made one of the great deals with your 650 billion [2:01:41] dollars they pay us and uh we've evened it out it's really a good thing to see and you have to [2:01:47] understand they've all signed japan south korea i mean south korea 350 billion dollars up front [2:01:54] uh japan 650 billion dollars and they've all agreed to it they're all happy but before it was a total [2:02:02] ripoff and if we don't have the use of tariffs we have no national security this country will have no [2:02:09] financial security will not have national security and the people that brought the lawsuit are people [2:02:14] that are aligned with foreign nations that are now being treated fairly as opposed to just ripping [2:02:21] us off and ripping us asunder so if but if we don't if we are not allowed to use what other people use [2:02:28] against us there's no defense it'll be a disaster for america that's why i think i'm going to go to the [2:02:34] supreme court to watch it i've not done that and i had some pretty big cases this is i think it's [2:02:40] i think it's one of the most important cases ever brought because uh we will be defenseless against [2:02:47] the world okay did you have one yes please thank you mr president um i want to ask you about the [2:02:56] georgia senate race i know it's very early but there's several republicans in that field that are [2:03:00] vying for your endorsement a lot of good people on that field yes no i know all actually i haven't made a [2:03:06] decision on that but you have some very good people in the georgia senate race well governor [2:03:12] has endorsed no i know the governor has he's spoken to me about it a lot he likes that candidate a lot [2:03:19] and i understand that i haven't made a decision yet but i'm following that race very carefully i think [2:03:25] it's very important for georgia to get a real senator because the senator they have now is a horrible [2:03:30] senator he he allows all the crime all the borders you have open borders i mean his whole philosophy [2:03:36] is a disaster that's not representative of the people of georgia i know the people of georgia i [2:03:40] won georgia three times but they say twice okay i wanted very big the last time and i won it big the [2:03:48] first time and i won it big the second time but we had criminals that didn't allow i mean they i hope [2:03:54] they're going to go into that i hope they go into the votes which are being stored in fulton county [2:03:59] and take a look at a real look at those votes okay because i won it the second time too [2:04:05] but i know georgia very well i love georgia those people are great and they deserve a good senator [2:04:10] because the man they have now is a weak ineffective person okay [2:04:15] by the way you won georgia three times yeah i agree do you agree with me he's the media for [2:04:25] someone that he spends a lot of time in georgia i believe you won that uh i really have a question [2:04:30] about you know the word believe isn't strong enough right you know there you go it's true i know i won [2:04:36] too oh we have the great newt gingrich newt you agree with us good otherwise i'd have him dismissed [2:04:42] immediately from you know his wife as you know is becoming an ambassador to a great country [2:04:47] calista so congratulations and we're going to take a picture and uh the only reason i'm doing [2:04:53] he speaks so well of me he said i'll go down as the greatest president in history and then he blew it [2:05:00] he said i'm not sure if i put him above washington or lincoln so i'm not that happy about that dude [2:05:07] i have a question about the weaponization of the doj the media often says your department is [2:05:13] weaponizing the doj that's the opposite it's the opposite todd you represented president trump and [2:05:18] probably the greatest weaponization uh of the doj by alvin bragg you know firsthand if you can [2:05:25] describe what you saw under the biden administration and how they weaponized the doj well i mean i think [2:05:32] it's hard to describe what happened in the last four years after president trump alvin bragg a local [2:05:40] prosecutor his office staff by some of the media jack smith picked as a special counselor staffs his [2:05:47] entire office of the doj prosecutor and then there are countless things that happen all all in writing [2:05:54] most of them on the document that require no explanation except a complete abomination of the [2:06:00] place of the attorney on their own now and the director itself so when people talk about this [2:06:04] department weaponizing it's embarrassing because there's no scenario where you can look at what [2:06:10] we're doing restoring justice doing the right thing in every single case and say that that's [2:06:17] weaponization and yet remain eerily silent about what happened for the past three years i mean you read [2:06:24] these articles and giggle because it cannot be true that people really think that what they did to him [2:06:30] not once not twice i'm still counting three four times but we're the ones that are weaponized so [2:06:37] this guy is not weaponizing the department of justice we're not weaponizing the department of justice it's [2:06:41] the opposite i mean and also nobody questions what i'm saying because it's true because we all lived the [2:06:47] past four years so listen they never want to bring up the details but i i watch the fake news and oh he's [2:06:56] weaponized and he wants to send them to prison he wants all these they indicted me like five times [2:07:04] i took a mug shot who would have thought it turned out to my favor because it was a good shot but i had [2:07:11] to take a mug shot it's right out there in the door new york post front page of the every paper in the [2:07:17] world i had a mug shot they wanted to send me nobody says that they say he's acting very very tough he's [2:07:24] acting unfair let me tell you uh if they've been nice to anybody it's to those criminals because [2:07:31] they are so good having to do with all of the things we're talking about today with violent crime [2:07:37] but if anything i think this justice department has been so respectful of the law because the other [2:07:44] justice department with rita or lisa and all of that scum real scum what they did to the political [2:07:53] opponent of a guy that has a seriously low iq now in his case it was it was low based on his career but [2:08:03] it got real low okay it was descending rapidly but what they did to go after his political opponent is [2:08:14] legendary worse than any third world country banana republic and what we're doing is nothing are you [2:08:23] kidding nothing they write stories why aren't they doing this this and we'll leave i don't have to [2:08:31] leave it up to them but i choose to at this moment at least but there's never been anybody treated in [2:08:38] the history of politics you know they say the two worst treated presidents by the media etc was that man [2:08:45] right there the late great abraham lincoln and this grant right there andrew jackson they say andrew jackson [2:08:54] was treated terribly they give him number one and number two but that was before i came along newt [2:09:00] i say i have number one times ten nobody's been uh and make better the white house and that's really [2:09:08] what's happened and we're getting tremendous reviews and we appreciate it but we're here for a different [2:09:13] reason it's called operation summer heat which is an appropriate term in light of what we're doing and [2:09:20] early yesterday morning i returned from the middle east where we celebrated a historic agreement [2:09:26] to end years of suffering and conflict amazing every country came together i mean even the enemies [2:09:33] came out and and totally endorsed it everybody i've never seen anything like it nobody's seen anything [2:09:37] like it and just as we are forging peace and stability abroad we're also restoring peace and [2:09:43] safety and stability at home and you see that in washington dc may be better than any place because [2:09:49] we got there and within 12 days it was it was very good and within 30 days it's been as safe as any [2:09:56] city in the country it's been great took out 1700 people got them out these are career criminals in [2:10:02] many cases and people that shouldn't have been allowed in by the biden administration historically the [2:10:07] summer months have been a time when violent crime soar as you know but not under president trump today we're [2:10:15] announcing the results of a sweeping law enforcement effort known as operation summer heat we were [2:10:20] in many cities that people didn't know about we kept it a little quiet and uh it had a big impact and [2:10:26] you'll hear that in a second but over the past few months fbi offices in all 50 states made crushing [2:10:33] violent crime a top enforcement priority that's what they did rounding up and arresting thousands of the [2:10:39] most violent and dangerous criminals and these are among the most dangerous and violent people in [2:10:45] the world they were allowed in many cases not in all cases but in many cases they were allowed in by a [2:10:51] very foolish actually stupid open border policy just anybody could have come in they emptied out their [2:10:58] jails their prisons their mental institutions they emptied them into our country and the people behind [2:11:03] me have done an incredible job because uh if we didn't have that administration it would have been so [2:11:09] much easier they allowed millions of people in this country that shouldn't have been allowed [2:11:14] including over 11 000 murderers half of whom murdered more than one person and many of them are gone now [2:11:21] or they're put in prison because we're we don't want to have them come back so we literally put them [2:11:25] in our prison which we don't want to do but we bring them back to their countries working with state and [2:11:31] local partners the fbi arrested over 8 000 violent criminals during the course of this period [2:11:37] in major cities like in new orleans nashville we saw 250 percent increase in arrests we got [2:11:45] and we really went after the bad ones these include 725 individuals wanted for violent crimes against [2:11:53] children and murderers these arrests are in addition to the work of our historic federal task forces that [2:12:01] uh make dc safe task force has been unbelievable i mean the job they've done it's incredible and it's [2:12:09] been so nice because so many people they're going out to dinner and they're having dinners they wouldn't [2:12:13] they didn't go out for four years and now they're going out three times a week the restaurants are opening [2:12:21] restaurants are full and usually that means a lot of good things but restaurants that were closed are now [2:12:26] opening up and everybody's happy it's uh nobody's ever seen anything like it actually and everybody [2:12:32] feels safe you can you can have a child walk right through the middle of washington dc and nothing's [2:12:37] going to happen we were losing more than one person a week in one they're being killed on an average of [2:12:43] over one a week the make dc safe task force has been incredible and the make memphis safe task force [2:12:53] is having very similar results it's much earlier but we've been there for a week and a half but i'm [2:12:58] hearing the results are pretty incredible and you'll hear about that they're mobilizing more than 20 [2:13:03] federal agencies for the largest law enforcement operation targeting violent criminals in american [2:13:09] history as a result of these efforts violent crime declined nearly 20 percent nationwide compared to [2:13:15] the same period last year and it was the safest and most peaceful summer in two decades and honestly [2:13:22] we haven't really even gotten going yet if we didn't have to fight all of these radical left [2:13:26] governors we could have had chicago taken care of as an example they had in a short period of time [2:13:32] 4 000 murders in chicago and we have to listen to this man stand up and say that we're bad people [2:13:39] and the people of chicago are walking around with mega hats you have women beautiful black women walking [2:13:44] around with mega hats please let the president in and we don't care how he does it they're not [2:13:50] interested in national guard or army navy bring them in marines bring in the marines they just want the [2:13:57] crime to stop and more so because of the success that we had in dc i think if we didn't have that [2:14:03] success nobody would even believe it so i want to congratulate all of the incredible law enforcement [2:14:10] professionals joining us today especially attorney general pam bondi is terrific deputy attorney [2:14:16] general todd blanche who is uh a fantastic legal talent he really is he's a great guy too and of [2:14:25] course fbi director cash patel they have worked so hard on this and other things since the start of [2:14:32] the administration the fbi has arrested over 23 000 violent criminals more than double the number [2:14:37] arrested in the final year of the biden disaster the fbi has also destroyed or severely disrupted more [2:14:46] than 170 organized criminal enterprises and gangs 1 600 of the most violent gangs and confiscated over [2:14:55] 6 000 illegal firearms and they've tracked down and arrested four fugitives on the most wanted list [2:15:02] four of the most wanted actually two of them were the most wanted fugitives in the world there's still [2:15:10] much more work to be done which is why the fbi continues to work alongside the department of justice [2:15:15] the department of homeland security and the department of war to defend and pete hegseth has been fantastic [2:15:22] by the way on this too on other things but on this too uh to defend law and order and combat violent crime [2:15:30] arrest illegal aliens and make american cities the safest in the world and when i campaigned [2:15:35] i talked about crime but i never knew that we were going to get into it like we did you know i [2:15:40] mean i used to watch these cities with the murders chicago recently had one deal where they had 11 [2:15:47] murders in one weekend and they said well yeah but it was a holiday weekend they actually told me [2:15:51] that was the reason like it was okay because it was a holiday it was labor day these people are the [2:15:56] worst they are they really have to they better i tell you what the the people in chicago and the [2:16:03] people in places like that that could be fixed at some point it gets to where you can't fix it [2:16:08] anymore it's too far gone and we have some cities like that but these are great cities that could be [2:16:13] fixed i'm going to be strongly recommending at the request of government officials which is always nice [2:16:20] that you start looking at san francisco i think we can make san francisco [2:16:24] there's one of our great cities 10 years ago 15 years ago now it's a mess and we have great support [2:16:31] in san francisco so i'd like to recommend that for inclusion maybe in your next group you'll get [2:16:37] great support every american deserves to live in a community where they're not afraid of being mugged [2:16:42] murdered robbed raped assaulted or shot and that's exactly what our administration is working to [2:16:48] deliver i didn't realize i was going to make this such a big factor in the administration i didn't [2:16:52] really campaign i campaigned on crime but i never thought we'd go into every city and take a really [2:16:58] safe city that we've all been living with for years and make them safe and now it's like a passion for me [2:17:05] and it's a passion for the people behind me so i didn't get elected i did get elected for crime but [2:17:12] i didn't get elected for what we're doing this is many many steps above and i want to thank steven miller [2:17:17] who's right back in the audience right there i'd love to have him i love watching him on television [2:17:23] i'd love to have him come up and explain his true feelings but maybe not his truest feelings that [2:17:29] might be going a little bit too far but steven thank you for doing an unbelievable job and the people of [2:17:34] this country love you i'll tell you and they love what you say about crime and stopping crime so now i'd like [2:17:40] to ask director i'd like to ask uh director patel to say a few words and then pam and todd also and i [2:17:48] just want to congratulate them this is an amazing thing and we're just at the start we're gonna go [2:17:54] into other cities that we're not talking about purposely we're getting ready to go in and when [2:17:59] they go in like cash is an example told me that people didn't even know five months ago they went into [2:18:04] chicago and they started doing a lot of work in chicago and we brought the the numbers down a little [2:18:10] bit and uh but that really was just preparatory work for what we're going to do with the surge [2:18:17] we're going to have a surge of uh strong good people patriots and they're going to go in they [2:18:23] straighten it all out so uh a lot of these cities we're already working on but we don't do it with [2:18:29] a big a big flavor but in a little while you're going to see some numbers that you're not going to [2:18:33] believe and i think you'll probably start with memphis because i'm hearing the numbers are [2:18:38] much quicker than we even thought possible uh but uh again dc is it speaks for itself chicago is going [2:18:45] to be okay we're going to save chicago and i told you and i told them a very respected man the head [2:18:51] of the union pacific said sir save chicago it can be saved and the way he said it was like can you [2:18:58] believe it we're trying to save chicago but i understood exactly what he wants and that's what [2:19:02] we're going to do we're going to save all of our cities and we're going to make them essentially [2:19:07] crime free like other countries have crime free if you go all over the world you go to the word you [2:19:13] hear afghanistan and you hear all these different places uh our crime in certain cities is worse than [2:19:19] anything they can even imagine and we're not going to have that any longer it's going to stop and it [2:19:24] stops right here cash please thank you mr president what i'd like to do is just highlight some of the [2:19:29] outstanding work that the men and women of the fbi have been doing and thanks to your brave leadership [2:19:33] and the mandate you were given by the american people not only defend the homeland but crush [2:19:37] violent crime you tasked us with our great partners at the department of justice and the attorney general [2:19:41] and the deputy attorney general to start making arrests and bring prosecutions and safeguard our cities [2:19:46] and you said it this is just the beginning in just seven months i hope the media takes a look at [2:19:51] every one of these charts because these are the best numbers for fighting crime in u.s history and it's only [2:19:57] seven months in and to do that our vehicle to do it of choice was operation summer heat which the fbi [2:20:03] architected to go after violent criminals and in just a three month span you had 8 700 arrests of [2:20:10] violent criminals you had 2200 firearms seized off the streets permanently to safeguard our communities [2:20:17] you had 421 kilograms of fentanyl seized just to put that in perspective that's enough to kill 55 [2:20:24] million americans alone you had 45 000 kilograms of cocaine seized and thanks to our department of [2:20:31] justice partners you had 2100 indictments in three months from june to september alone mr president that [2:20:39] in and of itself would be historic for a four-year presidency you did that in seven months because you [2:20:44] let good cops be cops and you partnered us with the right people the department of justice to put the [2:20:48] handcuffs on and bring them to court and put them in prison and if that weren't enough when you look at the [2:20:54] year for the entire seven month period that we're talking about here if you look at the past four [2:20:58] years of the biden administration 16 000 17 000 15 000 15 000 that's the number of arrests year over [2:21:05] year of violent felons in this country for the biden administration mr president in seven months you have [2:21:11] 27 28 600 arrests of violent feminists in just seven months alone because of your leadership and the [2:21:19] dedication of the men and women at the fbi who want to go out there and do the job they were [2:21:23] prevented from doing because that department used to be weaponized and politicized and this is what [2:21:28] happens when you take out the fangs of weaponization this number is historic by every metric 28 000 [2:21:34] people have been arrested violent felons alone and then when you go over there and look at some of [2:21:39] these charts if you don't mind i'll just hop over here look at the metrics for not just violent crime [2:21:46] but the homeland mr president during your administration the sbi has found and located 5400 [2:21:53] children that is a 30 increase year to date over the last administration violent crimes against children [2:22:01] arrests alone are up 10 gang arrests are up 210 in the last seven months alone and transnational organized [2:22:10] crime which stephen miller has been a great partner in is up over 12 percent alone these numbers are [2:22:16] historic just as a snapshot but just so people don't think we're focusing on violent crime alone the [2:22:22] national security mission mr president your leadership has never been stronger we have gone after [2:22:27] espionage activities against our main counterparts in china russia and iran in china alone we've had over a [2:22:34] 50 percent increase in espionage of arrests alone prosecution in iran we have had a 50 percent increase [2:22:41] again in espionage cases and in russia we've had a 33 increase in espionage cases alone when it comes to [2:22:49] counterterrorism year to date we have 125 arrests this year versus 100 last year year to date alone and when [2:22:56] it comes to the cyber criminal activities which are some of the largest enterprises plaguing everyday americans [2:23:02] we at the fbi put out a mission to go after cyber criminals like never before last year they had in [2:23:08] total 191. this year you already have 252 arrests 52 arrests of violent cyber criminals who are stealing [2:23:17] from senior citizens who are violating our children's rights and freedoms and who are violating everyday [2:23:22] americans these programs are record and some of the two of the things i'll finish with that i'm most proud [2:23:28] of mr president this fbi fentanyl as you know it's a scourge that it's killing our youth 100 000 plus a [2:23:33] year to date the fbi has seized 1900 kilograms of fentanyl that's enough lethal doses to kill 127 [2:23:42] million americans alone to date and if that weren't enough mr president you said we have to go after [2:23:49] the worst of the worst and you empowered our department of justice our attorney general deputy attorney general [2:23:53] the deputy director of the fbi led the charge not just on summer heat but he also led the charge to [2:23:59] the fbi's ten most wanted fugitives these people have been on the run for years and in seven months [2:24:05] you've captured not one not two not three but four of the fbi's most top ten fugitives four and just to [2:24:12] put that in perspective mr president the biden administration captured four in all four years [2:24:16] you're on seven and we're going to get to ten we're going to get the ten of ten this includes [2:24:20] a lady who murdered her six-year-old handicapped child and fled to india we got her in two months [2:24:24] this includes a narco trafficker this includes a sex trafficker this includes another first three [2:24:30] murder and gangbang these people were on the run because of the prior administration's reckless [2:24:35] policies that destroyed our communities and you came in and the mandate said go after the worst of [2:24:40] the worst this is just the beginning this is what happens when you let good cops be good cops at the [2:24:44] fbi mr president i just want to thank you for your incredible leadership our brave partnership [2:24:49] with prosecutors who know how to bring cases and make sure these arrests stick and that's what [2:24:55] the attorney general and the deputy attorney general have led the charge across this country [2:24:58] because arrests without prosecutions are meaningless we are deterring criminals from doing [2:25:03] this activity we are preventing criminals from coming into america and we are absolutely crushing [2:25:08] violent crime that level before and defending his homeland sir and not to mention i almost forgot this [2:25:13] one it took you sir two weeks to get the aggregate bomber joe biden had four years to look for [2:25:18] you got them in two weeks next to the interagency step by the fbi and cia went to pakistan and now [2:25:23] 13 brave warriors who were sent to see murder because of disasters that can't stand up draw they have [2:25:28] justice their families have a peace of mind and we're going to continue to find the others mr president [2:25:33] on behalf of the fbi sir i just want to thank you thank you very much very good very good very impressive [2:25:38] pan with dr seven please president trump the the men and women of law enforcement say two things to me [2:25:45] repeatedly first you have taken the handcuffs off them and let them do their jobs and you let cops be [2:25:53] cops that's why all this is happening the director the deputy director are working around the clock [2:26:00] all of these great men and women in the fbi they have think about they have families at home and they [2:26:05] are working during a government shutdown right now many of them have small children many of them i was [2:26:11] talking to an agent this morning many of them have babies at home and they are working around the [2:26:17] clock to not only keep our country but our world safe and that's what operation summer heat did thank [2:26:24] you director and to the deputy director for everything you did on behalf of the department of justice and [2:26:29] you're going to continue to keep doing and they set the stage for what we're doing in memphis you're [2:26:36] going to hear a lot more about that our joint task force next week but they set the stage for memphis [2:26:42] and last night alone in memphis there were almost 70 arrests there were 12 guns seized and there was a [2:26:49] 70 year old man arrested as a result of our operation in memphis who raped a child under the age of three that [2:26:56] one case makes everything we're doing worthwhile so thank you all for being here on behalf of both of us [2:27:03] thank you president trump thank you todd you want to say something sure thank you thank you mr [2:27:07] president so this is a great day and i think there's stats that the director talked about which are [2:27:12] important but i want to give two examples of what summer heat has done that that actually will apply [2:27:19] hopefully to everybody in this room the first is for over four years during the last administration [2:27:25] there was a hotel in a town the middle of the town in alaska that was being run as a drug den there were [2:27:32] over one thousand calls to nine one one over four four and a half year period there were multiple [2:27:42] violent crimes drug dealers overdoses and murders at this one hotel ruining a community summer heat [2:27:49] went in there it's not only arrested all the participants that were controlling the hotel but [2:27:54] seized the hotel and so that's that's one example of what summer heat means to everyday americans that just [2:28:00] want to live in peace the second example is a large narcotics trafficking group that was selling [2:28:05] fentanyl in the state of washington they were shipping fentanyl and using commercial aircraft [2:28:12] putting fentanyl pills and powder onto in suitcases flying them from the southwest border mostly arizona [2:28:20] all the way to washington it had been going on for an extremely long time and the entire organization [2:28:25] was arrested and i say those two examples because it's easy to look at the board and see a thousand [2:28:30] arrests how much different is our communities now compared to the past four years but there's actual [2:28:37] life examples every one of these arrests means that our streets are safer and that's that's because [2:28:42] of the work of this administration of president trump and and director patel so i will tell you attorney [2:28:47] general bondi and i are together every day with with director patel figuring out ways that we can [2:28:53] continue to do this work and and it's it's not going to stop like like the attorney general said and [2:28:58] like the president said this is just the beginning or phase one or a start whatever you want to say [2:29:03] but it will continue on so so thank you mr president thank you very much director patel mr president just [2:29:08] one last thank you for the men and women at the fbi you found a way to get these individuals paid [2:29:13] during a government shutdown our 1811 agents on behalf of the fbi it's a great debt that we owe you sir [2:29:20] they're now allowed to pay for their families and the military that's right thank you okay thank [2:29:25] you very much any questions please brian go ahead first of all i know the feedback i'm getting from [2:29:32] the american people but they want to say thank you law and order is not an option in this country [2:29:36] it's a mandate so i know the american people thank you for that in terms of the guns that have been [2:29:41] taken off the street do you have a number of how many guns were taken away from someone that had a [2:29:46] a prior felony or a previous crime that perhaps we can prosecute that because i know that wasn't [2:29:52] the case of a joe biden we don't take guns off the streets of people that are allowed to have guns [2:29:57] so every gun that we're taking off the street is because it belongs to somebody who is not allowed [2:30:01] to have it could be a felon could be somebody who hears illegally there's all sorts of conditions but [2:30:06] we if there's a gun taken off the streets by the fbi it's because the person who has it is not allowed [2:30:11] to it's not somebody who's lawfully allowed to have it so every single one of those guns [2:30:15] we're taking off of people that aren't all down and not including the fbi all of the other agencies [2:30:20] atf alone since january 20th has removed over 25 000 illegal guns off our streets just since [2:30:28] president trump's been in office and mr president if i could follow up on that could there be any [2:30:32] further conversation to have uh national concealed carry applied to our actual dc uh like if you had a [2:30:40] driver's license in texas and you had a permit of course you could drive well they're talking as you [2:30:44] know they've been talking about that for a long time it's a it's an interesting question a lot [2:30:48] of people feel strongly both ways but we are talking about that brian thank you mr president [2:30:52] mr president on venezuelan's votes um i want to ask you why not have the coast guard stopped them [2:30:58] which it is empowered by a lot to do you know this way you can confirm who's on the boat and ensure [2:31:04] that they're doing what they would suspect because we've been doing that for 30 years and it has been [2:31:09] totally ineffective uh they have faster boats some of these boats are seriously i mean they're [2:31:16] world-class speed boats and but they're not faster than missiles but we've been trying to do that for [2:31:22] years and so much of the drugs 25 30 percent would come in through the seas right now we have i would [2:31:28] say none coming in through the seas in fact i don't know about the fishing industry if you want to go [2:31:33] fishing a lot of people aren't deciding to even go fishing we've almost totally stopped it by [2:31:39] sea now we'll stop it by land but it never worked it never worked when when you know when you did it [2:31:46] in a very politically correct manner what's the next step in this war on cartels and are you [2:31:51] considering options are you considering strikes on land well i don't want to tell you exactly but we [2:31:56] are certainly looking at land now because we've got the sea very well under control uh we've had a [2:32:02] couple of days where there isn't a boat to be found and that i view that as a good thing not a bad thing [2:32:07] but we had tremendous amounts coming in by boats by very expensive boats you know they have a lot of [2:32:11] money very fast very expensive boats that were pretty big and the way you look at it is every boat that [2:32:18] we knock out we save 25 000 american lives so every time you see a boat and you feel badly you say wow [2:32:25] that's rough it is rough but if you lose three people and save 25 000 people these are people that are [2:32:31] killing our population every boat is saving 25 000 lives and you can see it the boats get hit and you [2:32:38] see that fentanyl all over the ocean it's like floating in bags it's all over the place and it's uh [2:32:46] it's a tremendous state we're saving tremendous amounts of lives [2:32:50] mr president i know you've talked about i have a question for you and then i also have a question for [2:32:54] director patel i know you talked about having some uh distaste for boston recently is this one of the [2:33:01] cities that you might be looking into and can you give us a hint about other cities that you might be [2:33:05] you're saying for where for where for boston yeah well boston has a a bad mayor who at least is a [2:33:12] reasonable iq person you know most of them are low iq but uh and they're so bad i mean what's going on [2:33:18] in chicago is just you'd think the guy would say hey look we have a problem mr president could you come [2:33:24] in and straighten it out i could have that we could have that done in a month if we had their [2:33:28] cooperation it's going to be done anyway but we could have it done in a month yeah boston she's got [2:33:33] four areas that are you know wrong and uh you know somebody said would we take would we think about [2:33:40] taking the world cup away from boston if they don't straighten it out the answer is yes we have the [2:33:44] right to do that with fifa so if we think that la is going to be bad or we think uh that applies a [2:33:50] little bit to the olympics too but we'll talk about fifa first you know fifa is very hot if we [2:33:56] think there's any reason that whether it's boston or anywhere else that they're not doing their job [2:34:01] we're going to take that those world cup games and move them someplace else thank you and then [2:34:06] director patel there's been so many conspiracy theories swirling around about the assassination [2:34:11] of charlie kirk do you have any updates for us especially in light of all the online content that [2:34:15] everyone's been talking about the only thing we deal with at the fbi and the department of justice is facts [2:34:19] and we delivered in record speed a manhunt to capture charlie kirk's alleged session in 33 hours [2:34:25] and if you put that in perspective to luigi mangione with a boston bomber they took them five days and a [2:34:29] police officer lost their life in their manhunt we are running out absolutely every single lead and the [2:34:34] best thing we can do to honor my friend charlie kirk's life is to make sure that everyone involved is [2:34:38] prosecuted to the full extent of the law and that's what we're focused on investigating the facts [2:34:43] not trading and conspiracy theories okay mr president thank you so much thank you uh in light of china's [2:34:49] export curbs on rare earths do you view india as a reliable partner uh going forward and uh are you [2:34:56] planning to meet prime minister modi in malaysia um are you open to talks in terms of yeah sure he's [2:35:02] a friend of mine we have a great relationship he just said that two days ago as you know we have a [2:35:07] great relationship no we were not happy with him buying oil from russia because that lets russia continue [2:35:14] on with this ridiculous war where they've lost a million and a half people by the way russia has lost a million [2:35:19] and a half people soldiers mostly uh this is a war that should have never started but it's a war that [2:35:24] russia should have won in the first week and they're going into the fourth year and i want to see it stop [2:35:31] so i was not happy that india was buying oil and he assured me today that they will not be buying oil [2:35:37] from russia that's a big stop now i got to get china to do the same thing you know that that is [2:35:44] relatively easy compared to what we just did over the last week in the middle east middle east was [2:35:51] three thousand years and we got it done this is three years uh and i think we'll get it done i think [2:35:57] that putin president putin i think is going to i think he wants to get it done we'll see there's a [2:36:02] great animosity between him and zielinski you probably have noticed right and it's uh i think it's hurting the [2:36:09] process yeah yeah please thank you um curious why did you authorize the cia to go into venezuela [2:36:16] and is there more information you can share about these strikes on the alleged well i can't do that [2:36:21] but i authorized for two reasons really number one they have emptied their prisons into the united [2:36:27] states of america they came in through the uh well they came in through the border they came in because [2:36:34] we had an open border policy and as soon as i heard that i said a lot of these countries they're not the [2:36:39] only country but they're the worst abuser and they've entered there they've they've allowed [2:36:45] thousands and thousands of prisoners mental institution people from mental institutions [2:36:51] insane asylums emptied out into the united states we're bringing them back but that's a really bad [2:36:57] and they did it at a level that probably not many many countries have done it but not like venezuela they [2:37:02] were down and dirty and the other thing are drugs we have a lot of drugs coming in from venezuela and a lot of the [2:37:08] venezuelan drugs coming through the sea so you get to see that but we're going to stop them by land [2:37:13] also does the cia have authority to take out maduro oh i don't want to answer a question like that that's [2:37:19] a ridiculous question for me to be given not really a ridiculous question but wouldn't it be a ridiculous [2:37:24] question for me to answer but i think venezuela is feeling heat but i think a lot of other countries [2:37:30] are feeling heat too we're not going to let this country our country be ruined because other people [2:37:36] want to drop as you say their worst they they have given us their worst they've loaded up our country [2:37:42] with prisoners with with mentally ill people that are seriously ill criminally ill and we're not going [2:37:49] to take it and so i mean it's just one of those things and i can tell you we've taken care of the [2:37:55] sea there's nobody and we're watching we're watching and if we see it we'll save it yeah please [2:38:00] on the ships though sir there are republicans and democrats up on the hill concerned that in the [2:38:06] briefings they've gotten about those attacks they're not necessarily getting information about who was [2:38:10] on them and what exactly was on those ships can you well but they are given information that they [2:38:16] were loaded up with drugs and that's the thing that matters when they're loaded up with drugs they're [2:38:21] fair game and every one of those ships were they're not ships they're they're boats they're speed boats [2:38:26] they're extremely fast record-setting type speed boats that cost a lot of money and they have a lot [2:38:32] of money because they're drug sellers but uh they know one thing and they all have the same thing in [2:38:37] common there's uh there's drug dust they call it drug dust they call it fentanyl dust all over the boat [2:38:45] after those bombs go off and you you can take a long we know we know before [2:38:51] we know when they go out we know we have uh much information about each boat that goes out deep [2:38:58] strong information yeah please sir you're going to have lamir zelinski here this week what is your [2:39:05] message at this stage of the war for him and shy of tomahawk to to who is it for zelinski yeah shy of tomahawk [2:39:12] for ukraine are you considering other options and will you speak with later no we're looking at other [2:39:18] options we are uh president zelinski is coming in i'm not a fan of the war i'm not a fan of the way [2:39:25] it started it should have never happened it wouldn't have started if i were president the election was [2:39:30] rigged and because of that we lost a lot of lives have been lost because of that we're not american [2:39:36] lives but if i can save a lot of lives that's why i'm in it i want to save lives i've i've had uh eight [2:39:43] wars the prime minister of pakistan got up the other day said so beautifully says you saved millions [2:39:49] of lives he told that to a group of people right in this office he said the president saved millions [2:39:54] of lives and i think what he's referring to is the fact that that would have been with india nuclear war [2:39:59] that was getting very close you know seven planes they don't talk about it but seven aircraft [2:40:04] were shot in fact we have the new ambassador to india right here they're well represented [2:40:10] you better represent us not them okay but sergio is going to do a great job he's going to do a [2:40:16] great job but no we'll be talking about the war with with him and we'll be talking about i mean they [2:40:22] they want to go offensive uh i'll make a determination on that but they would like to go offensive you know [2:40:30] that and we'll have to make a determination a question given you have the fbi director and attorney [2:40:35] general here today jordan has asked jack smith to appear in front of the house judiciary you [2:40:40] mean deranged jack he's a deranged individual well they should i'm surprised it takes so long you [2:40:46] know we're talking about violent crime what about the crime against a political opponent that's what [2:40:51] we have to talk about too would like to understand the full extent to which the biden harris justice [2:40:56] department weaponized federal law enforcement uh what do you think the committee will find out i think [2:41:02] it was the worst weaponization of a political opponent in the history of the world let alone [2:41:07] this country and i hope that everybody's you know they're involved in it i'm not i i'm the one that [2:41:13] had to suffer through it and ultimately win but uh what they did was criminal uh deranged jack smith [2:41:20] in my opinion is a criminal and i noticed his his interviewer was i think that was weissman [2:41:26] and i hope they're going to look into weissman too weissman's a bad guy and he had somebody in lisa [2:41:33] who was his puppet worked in the office really as the top person and i think that she should be [2:41:42] looked at very strongly it there was tremendous criminal activity having to do if we don't have [2:41:47] fair elections in this country we're not going to have a country and i've said it from the beginning [2:41:51] fair elections and border borders and we need also fair press because if you don't have fair press [2:41:57] it's very tough and uh we've got the strongest border of anybody nobody has a border we have a [2:42:04] border where the numbers just came out again you saw zero people came in illegally now we do take [2:42:09] people into our country legally but zero people but you know you're talking about a different subject [2:42:14] you're talking about political crime they have committed massive political crime i hope they're [2:42:21] looking at shifty schiff i hope they're looking at all these people and i'm allowed to find out i'm [2:42:26] allowed to you know i'm in theory the chief law enforcement officer but i have a very good talented [2:42:32] group this is about something else but i hope they're looking at political crime because there's [2:42:35] never been so much political crime against a political opponent as what i had to go through [2:42:42] they raided my house in florida it was an illegal raid i have a lawsuit that was doing very well [2:42:48] and when i became president i said i'm sort of suing myself i don't know what he has settled the [2:42:53] lawsuit i'll say give me x dollars right and i don't know what to do with the lawsuit it's a great [2:42:58] lawsuit and now i won it sort of looks bad i'm suing myself right so i don't know but but that was a [2:43:04] lawsuit that was a very strong very powerful they raided illegally my house in florida mar-a-lago they [2:43:11] went through the drawers of my young son they went through all of the cabinets and drawers of the first [2:43:19] lady she walked in she said wow what happened because she's very meticulous and this wasn't so [2:43:24] meticulous as she looked into the drawers and she saw everything a mess it's it's uh what they did [2:43:32] against the person that just got out of office and then you look at these corrupt people you look at [2:43:37] hunter biden you look at the signature as an example the auto pen i just signed so many different [2:43:42] things an admiral a four-star general that i'm signing them left and right the commissions and by the [2:43:48] way i want to compliment john thune and also mike our great speaker but john thune all of a sudden [2:43:55] i'm getting these things by the hundreds i was getting one every two weeks it would have been four [2:43:59] years before you got them and more you would have had some that didn't even get in all because of [2:44:04] democrat obstruction so john thune did a great job i signed i must have signed 200 into the [2:44:11] administration we're just about caught up it's amazing and so compliments to john he had to do some [2:44:16] things that were very tough to do that he didn't want to do but he was forced to do it by the [2:44:21] democrats and as far as the shutdown is concerned this is a democrat schumer shutdown and he's trying [2:44:28] to do it to get relevance back into the party because he's a loser i've known him all his life he's [2:44:32] always been sort of a loser but an intelligent one but i think he's losing iq points with time [2:44:38] i think that happens i hope it hasn't happened with me i know if it did you guys will let me know about [2:44:43] it very quickly sir uh here in dc a judge has given the two teenagers that beat up uh ex-juge staffer [2:44:52] big balls probation that's incredible in no jail time is this justice janine pierro is doing a [2:44:59] fantastic job and she is beside herself because you have these radical left judges that they beat the [2:45:06] hell out of this guy and it was many people against this one guy who was really trying to protect his [2:45:12] girlfriend he didn't want his hooded over the door because but they really beat him up badly [2:45:17] that just happened right wow that's terrible i think the judge should be ashamed of himself [2:45:25] that's a big problem you know they can do their job and then they go into a court and the people are [2:45:29] protected by these i don't know where they come from where do these people come from where did the [2:45:34] judges come from i want to compliment on behalf of pam and todd and all of us because [2:45:38] uh cash i think that janine has done a fantastic job and the case i heard was like flawless it's [2:45:44] a flawless case they have them on tape they have everything and then a judge gives them a little [2:45:50] probation it's very these are these are rough guys and they're young and if that happens they're going [2:45:56] to grow up they're going to be real bad they're going to cause they're going to cause a lot of problems [2:46:01] yeah please go ahead what were the conversations like with prime minister modi and i think they [2:46:10] were great he reported to me that you're great the great he's a great man you know modi is a great man [2:46:18] that he he loves trump now i don't know if the word love i don't want you to take that any different i [2:46:24] don't want to destroy his political career okay but you have to understand i've watched india for years [2:46:29] it's an incredible country and every single year you'd have a new leader i mean some would be in [2:46:34] there for a few months and this was year after year after year and my friend has been there now for a [2:46:40] long time and he is and he's assured me there will be no oil purchased from russia i don't know maybe [2:46:45] that's a breaking story can i say that would you say there will be no oil he's not buying his oil from [2:46:50] russia it's it started you know you can't do it immediately it's a little bit of a process but the [2:46:55] process is going to be over with soon and all we want from president putin is stop this stop killing [2:47:01] ukraines and stop killing russians because he's killing a lot of russians again it doesn't make him [2:47:08] look good it's a war that he should have won in one week and he's now going into his fourth year that [2:47:14] does not look this make this big so-called war machine look good but he could make a settlement we're [2:47:22] willing to settle i thought we had a deal the hatred of the two leaders is very it's an obstacle [2:47:28] it's an obstacle there's no question about it but i thought we had a deal two months ago uh who would [2:47:35] think i created peace in the middle east and can't get the two guys to settle but i i think we'll get [2:47:41] them but uh if india doesn't buy oil it makes it much easier and they're not going to buy they they [2:47:48] assured me they will within a short period of time they will not be buying oil from russia and they'll go [2:47:52] back to russia after the war is open over jennifer on the shutdown sir are fbi officials being paid [2:47:58] right now are all the fbi employees being paid well that's what i understand i hope so thank you [2:48:04] everybody thanks to your great part mr president the 1811 special agents at the fbi are going to [2:48:08] receive their paychecks got a lot of people paid actually we got the people that we want paid paid [2:48:14] okay and we want the fbi paid we want the military paid we got the people that we want paid and i'll tell [2:48:19] you the democrats they don't talk about this you know we're getting rid of programs that we didn't [2:48:26] like but that were negotiated in but we didn't like we're terminating those programs and they're [2:48:31] going to be terminated on a permanent basis and it's thousands of people and it's it's you know [2:48:37] billions of dollars we're getting rid of a lot of things that we never wanted because of the fact [2:48:42] that they made this stupid move and they don't want to talk about it you know they have their day [2:48:47] coming up i hear very few people going to be there by the way but they have their day coming up [2:48:51] and they want to have their day in the sun uh but they should really make a deal so what we're doing [2:48:58] i mean they call him darth vader but he's actually a very nice person russell vote but russell vote is [2:49:06] is really terminating tremendous numbers of democrat projects this is not only jobs i mean the project in [2:49:13] manhattan the project in new york it's billions and billions of dollars that schumer has worked 20 [2:49:20] years to get it's terminated tell them it's terminated jennifer all right [2:49:27] what is your understanding of the pace of returning the deceased hostages are you [2:49:34] well they're looking for absolutely they're looking so we have the living hostages all back [2:49:39] uh they returned some more today it's a gruesome process i almost hate to talk about it so [2:49:46] but they're digging they're actually digging there are areas where they're digging and they're [2:49:50] finding a lot of bodies uh then they have to separate the bodies you wouldn't believe this this [2:49:55] is and some of those bodies have been in there a long time and some of them are under rubble they [2:50:00] have to remove rubble but uh there are graves and some are some are in tunnels that are that would [2:50:07] that died in tunnels that are way down under the earth and the tunnels are like three feet can you [2:50:14] believe it three feet high they lived like this for a long period of time it's a horrible it's a horrible [2:50:19] atrocity at the same time uh we meaning israel but i knew everything they were doing pretty much [2:50:26] i knew most of the things they were doing but they've killed probably 70 000 of these people hamas [2:50:34] and i said it's time now so we'll see what happens we'll also see what happens your next question is [2:50:40] going to be the weapons we want the weapons to be uh given up sacrificed and they've agreed to do [2:50:45] it now they have to do it and if they don't do it we'll do it the head of centcom today [2:50:50] suggests that hamas needs to hurry up and and disarm and follow your comprehensive plan that it was [2:50:56] the head of centcom saying that is that not a signal to hamas to the rest of the world that at [2:51:01] some point the u.s military more made more directly engaged we won't need the u.s military [2:51:06] we won't need it because we're very much involved in it if we weren't involved there wouldn't be peace [2:51:13] if we didn't uh destroy the nuclear capability of iran that deal would have never happened for two [2:51:20] reasons the arab nations would not have felt bold enough to do it because you have a very powerful [2:51:26] at that time iran is not powerful anymore between what we what israel and us did you know the [2:51:31] attack was was if you look at it we helped them very much they will be the first to tell you [2:51:36] including shooting down thousands of drones that were coming into israel you know we shot them down [2:51:42] we were shooting them down like uh it was target practice but we shut down thousands of drones and [2:51:48] missiles also going into israel but between what we did to iran that way with the you know conventional [2:51:56] we will call it and what that beauty see that beautiful plane that beat till i notice it on the desk [2:52:01] i always thought it was beautiful but i never understood it now i understand it took in uh [2:52:07] hundreds of thousands of bombs in the form of two but hundreds of thousands of pounds of bombs [2:52:13] and every single bomb hit perfectly then they sent tomahawks and they sent 30 tomahawks on top of it [2:52:20] and that was totally you know cnn said well maybe it wasn't as bad as you know as trump said because i [2:52:26] said obliterated uh obliterated is not a strong enough word actually and you saw the atomic energy [2:52:33] commission came out and said the word obliteration is very very they think of it they came in under [2:52:40] potential fire they entered iran airspace late at night in the dark no moon the moon was low for a [2:52:48] reason was the what time we picked it couldn't see anything and they hit every target and they weren't hit [2:52:55] nobody saw that plane that plane is stealth nobody said the problem with that is it may be stealth [2:53:00] today but tomorrow it won't be and we just ordered about 20 brand new b2 bombers it's unbelievable as a [2:53:08] weapon i know putin when i was uh riding with him in alaska we passed a lot of them and he said that [2:53:14] really did the trick i said yeah it did it's amazing the flying wing it's no reason for the u.s military [2:53:21] to get involved in gaza no i don't see that no i think we're going to handle it very well we'll be [2:53:25] helping israel but we have other countries that are now you know we signed many many countries signed [2:53:30] and many of those countries relatively are very strong military powers and hamas has no support [2:53:36] see hamas had the support of iran and now iran says don't get us involved the last time they got [2:53:43] them involved didn't work out too well so they used to have the support of iran today iran is [2:53:49] they're trying to survive you know when i heard the reports two weeks ago iran's looking to build [2:53:56] a nuclear weapon i said don't worry about it they got a lot of things they want to do before nuclear [2:54:00] weapons i said the last thing they want to do is a nuclear weapon it didn't work out and if they [2:54:06] did a nuclear weapon before they got even close that site would be attacked and it would be wiped out [2:54:13] mr president you're meeting with president chi in a few weeks [2:54:15] yeah if you can't come to an agreement or a deal at that meeting are we in for a sustained [2:54:20] trade war with china well you're in one now look we have a hundred percent tariff if we didn't have [2:54:27] tariffs we would be exposed as being a nothing we would have no defense you know they've used tariffs on [2:54:36] us but we've never had anybody sitting in that chair that felt the need to do it and and they've [2:54:43] allowed us to be 37 trillion dollars in debt etc etc we uh tariffs are a very important tool [2:54:51] for our defense for our national security if we don't have tariffs we're not going to have national [2:54:55] security as an example uh if you look at pakistan and iran i told them i was in the midst of [2:55:02] negotiating a trade deal with actually with iran and pakistan was going to be in line [2:55:10] and because of tariffs they all want to negotiate much differently we would make it a good deal and [2:55:14] then i heard that they're shooting at each other and i said during one of my conversations are you [2:55:21] guys going to go to war two nuclear powers we are thinking about i said here's the deal you go to war [2:55:26] i'm going to put a 200 tariff i'm going to stop you from doing any business in the united states [2:55:31] i said it to both of them within 24 hours the war ended that would have been a nuclear war and again [2:55:38] the prime minister of pakistan who was here two weeks ago said that that man saved many millions [2:55:44] of lives in front of a whole group of people because he thought it was going to be war but when it [2:55:49] came to war or having to pay massive tariffs the tariffs overrode that's why it's so important not [2:55:56] only the money we're taking in trillions of dollars not only the money the power to keep peace the power to [2:56:03] be used for good is enormous but a lot of people didn't understand tariffs it's also made us very [2:56:11] rich we have a big case coming up in the supreme court and i will tell you that's one of the most [2:56:17] important cases in the history of our country because if we don't win that case we will be a [2:56:24] weakened troubled financial mess for many many years to come i don't even know if survivable [2:56:32] survivable you know survivable is is a good term uh and if we do we're going to be the most powerful [2:56:37] economic country in the world and all we're doing is using them as a defense against what's what took [2:56:45] place for many years china would charge us tariffs it was incredible but we weren't allowed to charge [2:56:50] we were so we're allowed to do whatever we want we just had presidents that didn't want to do it for [2:56:54] whatever reason and it was nothing but of the eight wars i was saying seven of the eight wars i would [2:57:01] say tariffs are respond directly responsible for me ending six of them five or six without the tariffs [2:57:11] you have wars raging all over the world with the tariffs other than russia we have no wars out there [2:57:17] and uh we've made a lot of good friends too tariffs are so important to our new our national security [2:57:26] if we don't have tariffs we don't have national security our country would would suffer a level [2:57:34] that because they use so strongly on us as an example european union they won't take our cars they [2:57:42] won't take our agriculture they won't take anything but they send their cars in mercedes bmw volkswagen by [2:57:48] the millions we don't send any cars they don't take them they were tariffing us out uh agricultural [2:57:55] products they don't take our agriculture they want their farmers to do it i understand that [2:57:59] but it was very unfair and they were tariffing our product they're keeping out by using tariffs [2:58:05] and we didn't use it but i used them and now we made one of the great deals with your 650 billion [2:58:12] dollars they pay us and uh we've evened it out it's really a good thing to see and you have to [2:58:18] understand they've all signed japan south korea i mean south korea 350 billion dollars up front uh [2:58:25] japan 650 billion dollars and they've all agreed to it they're all happy but before it was a total [2:58:33] ripoff and if we don't have the use of tariffs we have no national security this country will have no [2:58:40] financial security will not have national security and the people that brought the lawsuit are people [2:58:45] that are aligned with foreign nations that are now being treated fairly as opposed to just ripping us [2:58:52] off and ripping us asunder so if but if we don't if we are not allowed to use what other people use [2:58:59] against us there's no defense it'll be a disaster for america that's why i think i'm going to go to the [2:59:05] supreme court to watch it i've not done that and i had some pretty big cases this is i think it's i think [2:59:11] it's one of the most important cases ever brought because uh we will be defenseless against the [2:59:18] world okay did you have one yes please thank you mr president um i want to ask you about the georgia [2:59:28] senate race i know it's very early but there's several republicans in that field that are vying for your [2:59:32] endorsement a lot of good people on that field yes no i know all of them actually i haven't made a [2:59:37] decision on that but you have some very good people in the georgia senate race well governor [2:59:43] has endorsed no i know the governor hasn't he's spoken to me about it a lot he likes [2:59:47] that candidate a lot and i understand that i haven't made a decision yet but i'm following [2:59:55] that race very carefully i think it's very important for georgia to get a real senator because the [2:59:59] senator they have now is a horrible senator he he allows all the crime all the borders you have open [3:00:05] borders i mean his whole philosophy is a disaster that's not representative of the people of georgia i [3:00:10] know the people of georgia i won georgia three times but they say twice okay i wanted very big the [3:00:17] last time and i wanted big the first time and i wanted big the second time but we had criminals [3:00:23] that didn't allow i mean they i hope they're going to go into that i hope they go into the votes which [3:00:29] are being stored in fulton county and take a look at a real look at those votes okay because i won it the [3:00:34] second time too but i know georgia very well i love georgia those people are great and they deserve [3:00:40] a good senator because the man they have now is a weak ineffective person okay [3:00:46] mr president by the way you won georgia three times yeah i agree do you agree with me i do [3:00:55] the media for someone that he spends a lot of time in georgia i believe you won that uh i really have [3:01:01] a question you know the word believe isn't strong enough right you know there you go it's true i know [3:01:07] i want to oh we have the great newt gingrich newt you agree with us good otherwise i'd have him [3:01:12] dismissed immediately from you know his wife as you know is becoming an ambassador to a great country [3:01:18] calista so congratulations and we're going to take a picture and uh the only reason i'm doing [3:01:24] he speaks so well of me he said i'll go down as the greatest president in history and then he blew it [3:01:31] he said i'm not sure if i put him above washington or lincoln so i'm not that happy about that dude [3:01:38] i've got a question about the weaponization of the doj the media often says your department [3:01:43] is weaponizing the doj that's the opposite it's the opposite todd you represented president trump [3:01:49] and probably the greatest weaponization uh of the doj by alvin bragg you know firsthand if you can [3:01:56] describe what you saw under the biden administration how they weaponized the doj well i mean i think it's [3:02:03] hard to describe what happened in the last 40 years after president trump alvin bragg a local prosecutor [3:02:12] his office staff by some jack smith picked as a special counsel staffs his entire office of doj [3:02:20] prosecutors and then there are countless things that happen all all in writing most of them on the [3:02:26] docket that require no explanation except a complete abomination of the place of the attorney [3:02:31] on everyone now and the director itself so when people talk about this department weaponizing [3:02:38] it's embarrassing because there's no scenario where you can look at what we're doing restoring justice [3:02:44] doing the right thing in every single case and say that that's weaponization and yet remain eerily [3:02:51] silent about what happened for the past three years i mean you read these articles and give them because it [3:02:57] cannot be true that people really think that what they did to him not once not twice i'm still counting [3:03:05] three four times but we're the ones that are weaponized so this man is not weaponizing the department of [3:03:10] justice we're not weaponizing the department of justice it's the opposite i mean and also nobody [3:03:15] questions what i'm saying because it's true because we all lived the past four years so listen they never [3:03:21] want to bring up the details but i i watch the fake news and oh he's weaponized and he [3:03:29] wants to send them to prison he wants all this they indicted me like five times i took a mug shot [3:03:38] who would have thought it turned out to my favor because it was a good shot but i had to take a mug [3:03:43] shot it's right out there in the door new york post front page of the every paper in the world [3:03:48] i had a mug shot they wanted to send me nobody says that they say he's acting very very tough he's [3:03:55] acting unfair let me tell you if they've been nice to anybody it's to those criminals [3:04:01] because they are so good having to do with all of the things we're talking about today with [3:04:06] violent crime but if anything i think this justice department has been so respectful of the law [3:04:14] because the other justice department with rita or lisa and all of that scum real scum what they did to [3:04:23] the political opponent of a guy that has a seriously low iq now in his case it was it was low based on [3:04:32] his career but it got real low okay it was descending rapidly but what they did to go after his political [3:04:43] opponent is legendary worse than any third world country banana republic and what we're doing is [3:04:53] nothing are you kidding nothing they write stories why aren't they doing this this and we'll leave i don't [3:05:02] have to leave it up to them but i choose to at this moment at least but there's never been anybody [3:05:09] treated in the history of politics you know they say the two worst treated presidents by the media etc [3:05:15] was that man right there the late great abraham lincoln and this grant right there andrew jackson [3:05:23] they say andrew jackson was treated terribly they give him number one and number two but that was before [3:05:30] i came along newt i say i have number one times ten nobody's been uh and make better the white house [3:05:38] and that's really what's happened and we're getting tremendous reviews and we appreciate it [3:05:42] but we're here for a different reason it's called operation summer heat which is an appropriate term [3:05:49] in light of what we're doing and early yesterday morning i returned from the middle east where we [3:05:54] celebrated a historic agreement to end years of suffering and conflict amazing every country came [3:06:01] together i mean even the enemies came out and and totally endorsed it everybody i've never seen [3:06:07] anything like it nobody's seen anything like it and just as we are forging peace and stability abroad [3:06:12] we're also restoring peace and safety and stability at home and you see that in washington d.c may be better [3:06:19] than any place because we got there and within 12 days it was it was very good and within 30 days it's [3:06:26] been as safe as any city in the country it's been great took out 1700 people got them out these are [3:06:32] career criminals in many cases and people that shouldn't have been allowed in by the biden administration [3:06:36] historically the summer months have been a time when violent crime soar as you know [3:06:43] but not under president trump today we're announcing the results of a sweeping law enforcement effort known as [3:06:49] operation summer heat we were in many cities that people didn't know about [3:06:53] we kept it a little quiet and uh it had a big impact and you'll hear that in a second [3:06:59] but over the past few months fbi offices in all 50 states made crushing violent crime [3:07:04] a top enforcement priority that's what they did rounding up and arresting thousands of the most [3:07:11] violent and dangerous criminals and these are among the most dangerous and violent people in the world [3:07:17] they were allowed in many cases not in all cases but in many cases they were allowed in by a very [3:07:22] foolish actually stupid open border policy just anybody could have come in they emptied out their [3:07:29] jails their prisons their mental institutions they emptied them into our country and the people behind [3:07:34] me have done an incredible job because uh if we didn't have that administration it would have been so [3:07:40] much easier they allowed millions of people in this country that shouldn't have been allowed including [3:07:45] over 11 000 murderers half of whom murdered more than one person and many of them are gone now [3:07:52] or they're put in prison because we're we don't want to have them come back so we literally put them [3:07:56] in our prison which we don't want to do but we bring them back to their countries working with state [3:08:02] and local partners the fbi arrested over 8 000 violent criminals during the course of this period [3:08:08] in major cities like in new orleans nashville we saw 250 increase in arrests we got uh and we really [3:08:17] went after the bad ones these include 725 individuals wanted for violent crimes against children [3:08:24] and murderers these arrests are in addition to the work of our historic federal task forces [3:08:31] that uh make dc safe task force has been unbelievable i mean the job they've done [3:08:37] it's incredible and it's been so nice because so many people they're going out to dinner and they're [3:08:43] having dinners they they wouldn't they didn't go out for four years and now they're going out three [3:08:49] times a week restaurants are opening restaurants are full and usually that means a lot of good things [3:08:56] but restaurants that were closed are now opening up and everybody's happy it's uh nobody's ever seen [3:09:02] anything like it actually and everybody feels safe you can you can have a child walk right through the [3:09:06] middle of washington dc and nothing's going to happen we were losing more than one person a week in [3:09:11] why they're being killed on an average of over one a week the make dc safe task force has been incredible [3:09:20] and to make memphis safe task force is having very similar results it's much earlier but [3:09:27] we've been there for a week and a half but i'm hearing the results are pretty incredible and you'll [3:09:32] hear about that they're mobilizing more than 20 federal agencies for the largest law enforcement [3:09:37] operation targeting violent criminals in american history as a result of these efforts violent crime [3:09:43] declined nearly 20 percent nationwide compared to the same period last year and it was the safest and [3:09:49] most peaceful peaceful summer in two decades and honestly we haven't really even gotten going yet [3:09:55] if we didn't have to fight all of these radical left governors we could have had chicago taken care of as an [3:10:00] example they had in a short period of time 4 000 murders in chicago and we have to listen to this [3:10:06] man stand up and say that we're bad people and the people of chicago are walking around with mega hats you [3:10:12] have women beautiful black women walking around with mega hats please let the president in [3:10:19] and we don't care how he does it they're not interested in national guard or army navy bring them in [3:10:26] marines bring in the marines they just want the crime to stop and more so because of the success that [3:10:32] we had in dc i think if we didn't have that success nobody would even believe it so i want to [3:10:38] congratulate all of the incredible law enforcement professionals joining us today especially attorney [3:10:43] general pam bondi who's terrific deputy attorney general todd blanche who is uh a fantastic legal [3:10:52] talent he really is he's a great guy too and of course fbi director cash patel they have worked so [3:10:59] hard on this and other things since the start of the administration the fbi has arrested over 23 000 [3:11:06] violent criminals more than double the number arrested in the final year of the biden disaster [3:11:12] the fbi has also destroyed or severely disrupted more than 170 organized criminal enterprises and [3:11:20] gangs 1600 of the most violent gangs and confiscated over 6 000 illegal firearms and they've tracked down [3:11:30] and arrested four fugitives on the most wanted list four of the most wanted actually two of them were [3:11:36] the most wanted fugitives in the world there's still much more work to be done which is why the fbi [3:11:43] continues to work alongside the department of justice the department of homeland security [3:11:48] and the department of war to defend and pete hegseth has been fantastic by the way on this too on other [3:11:55] things but on this too to defend law and order and combat violent crime arrest illegal aliens and make [3:12:03] american cities the safest in the world and when i campaigned i talked about crime but i never knew [3:12:09] that we were going to get into it like we did you know i mean i used to watch these cities with the [3:12:13] murders chicago recently had one deal where they had 11 murders in one weekend and they said well yeah [3:12:20] but it was a holiday weekend they actually told me that was the reason like it was okay because it was a [3:12:25] holiday it was labor day these people are the worst they are they really have to they better i tell you [3:12:31] what the the people in chicago and the people in places like that that could be fixed at some point [3:12:37] it gets to where you can't fix it anymore it's too far gone and we have some cities like that [3:12:42] but these are great cities that could be fixed i'm going to be strongly recommending at the request of [3:12:48] government officials which is always nice that you start looking at san francisco i think we can make [3:12:54] san francisco there's one of our great cities 10 years ago 15 years ago now it's a mess [3:13:00] and we have great support in san francisco so i'd like to recommend that for [3:13:04] inclusion maybe in your next group you'll get great support every american deserves to live in a [3:13:11] community where they're not afraid of being mugged murdered robbed raped assaulted or shot [3:13:16] and that's exactly what our administration is working to deliver i didn't realize i was going to [3:13:21] make this such a big factor in the i didn't really campaign i campaigned on crime but i never thought [3:13:27] we'd go into every city and take a really safe city that we've all been living with for years [3:13:32] and make them safe and now it's like a passion for me and it's a passion for the people behind me so [3:13:39] i didn't get elected i did get elected for crime but i didn't get elected for what we're doing this [3:13:45] is many many steps above and i want to thank stephen miller who's right back in the audience right there [3:13:50] i'd love to have him i love watching him on television i'd love to have him come up and [3:13:55] explain his true feelings but maybe not his truest feelings that might be going a little bit too far [3:14:02] but stephen thank you for doing an unbelievable job and the people of this country love you i'll tell [3:14:07] you and they love what you say about crime and stopping crime so now i'd like to ask director i'd like [3:14:13] to ask director patel to say a few words and then pam and todd also and i just want to congratulate [3:14:20] them this is an amazing thing and we're just at the start we're going to go into other cities that [3:14:26] we're not talking about purposely we're getting ready to go in and when they go in like cash is an [3:14:31] example told me that people didn't even know five months ago they went into chicago and they started [3:14:37] doing a lot of work in chicago and we brought the the numbers down a little bit and uh but that really [3:14:44] was just preparatory work for what we're going to do with the surge we're going to have a surge of [3:14:49] uh strong good people patriots and they're going to go in they straighten it all out so [3:14:56] uh a lot of these cities we're already working on but we don't do it with a big [3:15:00] a big flavor but in a little while you're going to see some numbers that you're not going to believe [3:15:05] and i think you'll probably start with memphis because i'm hearing the numbers are [3:15:09] much quicker than we even thought possible uh but uh again dc is it speaks for itself [3:15:15] chicago is going to be okay we're going to save chicago and i told you and i told them [3:15:20] a very respected man the head of the union pacific said sir save chicago it can be saved [3:15:26] and the way he said it was like can you believe it we're trying to save chicago [3:15:30] but i understood exactly what he wants and that's what we're going to do we're going to save all of our [3:15:35] cities and we're going to make them essentially crime free like other countries have crime free [3:15:41] if you go all over the world you go to the world you hear afghanistan and you hear all these different [3:15:46] places uh our crime in certain cities is worse than anything they can even imagine and we're not [3:15:52] going to have that any longer it's going to stop and it stops right here kesh please thank you mr [3:15:57] president what i'd like to do is just highlight some of the outstanding work that the men and women [3:16:01] of the fbi have been doing and thanks to your brave leadership and the mandate you were given by the [3:16:06] american people not only defend the homeland but crush violent crime you tasked us with our great [3:16:10] partners at the department of justice and the attorney general and the deputy attorney general to start [3:16:14] making arrests and bring prosecutions and safeguard our cities and you said it this is just the beginning [3:16:19] in just seven months i hope the media takes a look at every one of these charts because these are the [3:16:24] best numbers for fighting crime in u.s history and it's only seven months in and to do that our vehicle [3:16:31] to do it of choice was operation summer heat which the fbi architected to go after violent criminals [3:16:37] and in just a three month span you had 8700 arrests of violent criminals you had 2200 firearms seized off [3:16:45] the streets permanently to safeguard our communities you had 421 kilograms of fentanyl seized just to put that [3:16:52] in perspective that's enough to kill 55 million americans alone you had 45 000 kilograms of cocaine seized and [3:17:01] thanks to our department of justice partners who had 2100 indictments in three months from june [3:17:07] to september alone mr president that in and of itself would be historic for a four-year presidency [3:17:13] you did that in seven months because you let good cops be cops and you partnered us with the right people [3:17:18] the department of justice to put the handcuffs on and bring them to court and put them in prison [3:17:23] and if that weren't enough when you look at the year for the entire seven month period that we're talking about here [3:17:28] if you look at the past four years of the biden administration 16 000 17 000 15 000 15 000 that's [3:17:35] the number of arrests year over year of violent felons in this country for the biden administration [3:17:39] mr president in seven months you have 27 28 600 arrests of violent feminists in just seven months alone [3:17:48] because of your leadership and the dedication of the men and women at the fbi who want to go out there and [3:17:53] do the job they were prevented from doing because that department used to be weaponized and politicized [3:17:59] and this is what happens when you take out the fangs of weaponization this number is historic by every [3:18:04] metric 28 000 people have been arrested violent felons alone and then when you go over there and look at [3:18:10] some of these charts if you don't mind i'll just hop over here look at the metrics for not just by the [3:18:16] crime homeland mr president during your administration the sbi has found and located 5400 children that is [3:18:26] a 30 percent increase year to date over the last administration violent crimes against children [3:18:32] arrests alone are up 10 percent gang arrests are up 210 in the last seven months alone and transnational [3:18:40] organized crime which steven miller has been a great partner in is up over 12 percent alone these numbers [3:18:46] are historic just as a snapshot but just so people don't think we're focusing on violent crime alone [3:18:52] the national security mission mr president