00:53:50.960that we're going to end that in chicago we're going to change the statute i spoke with
00:53:56.000uh... pam and todd and everybody we're going to change the statue and i'm going to have to get the republicans to vote because the democrats are weak on crime
00:54:32.180got that done and that's one of the greatest things that's ever happened to people in this country
00:54:37.140so many things but we'll be able to get that done so Todd if you and Pam can
00:54:42.480drop things working with the people we will I'll get it passed we'll get it
00:54:48.360passed with Republicans probably won't get think of this probably won't get
00:54:53.280one Democrat vote because they have no idea what they're doing that's why they
00:54:57.440want men playing in women's sports that's what they why they want transgender
00:55:01.700for everybody everybody transgender and they they've just got walloped in an
00:55:09.080election in a landslide and they haven't changed one thing I saw the other day the
00:55:13.640certain gentleman who were very well-known politician Democrat was
00:55:18.080fighting like hell that men should be allowed to play in women's sport they
00:55:22.040just don't get it they said it's an 80 20 issue and I think it's a 97 to 3 issue
00:55:27.380and I don't know who the three are I've never heard anybody come nobody's ever
00:55:31.680come up to me sir you have to let men play in women's sports you have to do
00:55:36.840it sir nobody's ever approached me I don't know where this issue even comes
00:55:39.780from never seen anything like it but they turned our nation's capital into a
00:55:45.660sanctuary jurisdiction that's the other thing we have to get rid of sanctuary
00:55:48.960cities as quickly as possible we're going to do it too we have to because it's
00:55:53.100sanctuary for criminals releasing illegal alien gang members onto the streets in
00:55:58.0202022 nearly 70% of criminals arrested in Washington went unprosecuted that's not
00:56:06.120going to happen with the group we have standing aside and standing behind me and
00:56:11.340at the Metropolitan Police Department it's now reached a small number
00:56:17.820relatively compared to what it was but it's thousands of people you know we have
00:56:21.900thousands of police I was told today sir they want more police I heard a number
00:56:27.3603,500 police that's a lot of police 3,500 I thought they're gonna say we only have 30
00:56:35.340policemen or women he said we have 3,500 we need more you don't need more that's so
00:56:42.600many I never heard that's like an army how could you need more than 3,000 it just happened two
00:56:48.240minutes ago sir they've requested more police oh what do they have about 3,500 I said 3,500 this
00:57:00.240is not a big area it's ridiculous what you need is rules and regulations and you need the right
00:57:07.200people to implement them and we have the right people here that I can tell you look at the border
00:57:11.880border czar Biden said there's nothing you can do Kamala was the border czar she never called
00:57:17.340one of the border patrol agents who are great ice is great never spoke to anybody never went there
00:57:22.440but she was the border czar and everybody said it was impossible to fix I fixed it in three months
00:57:28.920no really I fixed it the first week but really fixed it over the last couple of months and I mean
00:57:37.400literally to a point where as I said zero illegals entering our country in the last 90 days pretty
00:57:46.580amazing it's time for dramatic action we're gonna do the same thing over here it's gonna be a very safe
00:57:52.220city very soon we're not looking just take years because a lot of people die in years and we we've got
00:57:58.700incredible people in this country except we have to allow them to do their job and that we will deliver
00:58:07.280like nobody's ever delivered before I actually think it's easy you know if you're competent it's easy if
00:58:15.200you're incompetent it's impossible but I'm very competent last week my administration search search 500 federal
00:58:24.120agents into the district including from the FBI ATF DEA Park Police the US Marshal Service the Secret
00:58:34.560Service and the Department of Homeland Security you know a lot of nations they don't have anything like
00:58:40.980that they got some some police and they're rough police they don't have DEA ATF FBI Park Police the US
00:58:51.480Marshal Service Secret Service Department of Homeland Security they got some police but they're rough
00:58:59.520police and they do their job they don't have crime we're not gonna have crime either they made dozens of
00:59:06.900arrests and that's what it's what starts to happen again cashless bail watch what we do with that today
00:59:17.340we're formally declaring a public safety emergency this is an emergency this is a tragic emergency and
00:59:25.680it's embarrassing for me to be up here you know I'm gonna see Putin I'm going to Russia on Friday I don't
00:59:31.920like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was
00:59:38.940with graffiti all over the walls it's another part of it by the way because we're talking about safety we're
00:59:45.540also talking about beautification we're the most beautiful potentially capital in the world we always
00:59:50.520had but people come from Iowa they come from Indiana they come and then they get mugged not gonna happen
00:59:57.300keep coming because within by the time you get your trip set it's gonna be safe again and it's gonna be
01:00:03.120clean very quickly we're gonna replace the medians that are falling down all over the roads we're gonna
01:00:07.920replace the potholes we're gonna put a nice new coat of asphalt over the top no we don't have to rip the road
01:00:14.100out and spend seven years building a new road because they cut everything they because some
01:00:19.500designers said well we need a quarter of an inch more turn for safety reasons no we're gonna do it
01:00:26.220right we're gonna get it done quickly so today we're declaring public safety emergency in the District of
01:00:34.500Columbia and Attorney General Pam Bondi who's fantastic is taking command of the Metropolitan Police Department as of
01:00:43.080this moment and I'll be making the appropriate notifications to Congress and to the mayor our
01:00:49.800new DEA administrator who's one of the top in the country he better be Terry if you're not I'm gonna
01:00:55.440get rid of you so fast Terry Cole Terry thanks very good we just just got him high most highly recommended
01:01:03.480person and you'll be designated as the interim federal commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Department
01:01:11.360okay and you run them tough they're good you have a lot of good people you have people that shouldn't
01:01:16.220be there you also have people that shouldn't be there they got in there because of woke but you have a lot of
01:01:21.680great police and those people are the ones that want to help you this city will no longer be a sanctuary
01:01:28.520for illegal alien criminals we will have full seamless integrated cooperation at all levels of law
01:01:35.420enforcement and we'll deploy officers across the district with an overwhelming presence you'll have more police
01:01:42.020and you'll be so happy because you'll be safe when you walk down the street you're going to see police or you're
01:01:50.060going to see FBI agents could have a lot of agents on the streets you're going to have a lot of
01:01:55.460essentially military and we will bring in the military if it's needed by the way we're gonna have National Guard
01:02:02.420National Guard but Pete Hankseth will tell you about it we will bring in the military if needed people say
01:02:07.880oh that's so terrible he's going to bring in it's been it's been used many times over the years I don't
01:02:15.500think we'll need it I think we've got so many great people including the people that are in the police
01:02:20.900department with proper leadership they'll immediately begin massive enforcement operations targeting known
01:02:27.220gangs drug dealers and criminal networks to get them the hell off the street maybe get them out of the
01:02:32.160country because a lot of them came into our country illegally they shouldn't have been allowed in
01:02:36.360they come from Venezuela they come from all over the world we're going to get them the hell out they
01:02:40.500won't be here long but some of these people a lot of them are homegrown criminals and these are bad
01:02:48.480people these are rough people and this is just a list of some of the people that were given to me today
01:02:53.940that were criminals removed from the DC streets this weekend they were rough rough and tough but we're
01:03:02.340rougher and tougher look at these people here nothing you know they're not going to be your local school
01:03:10.140teacher look at this guy he's killed people numerous times they're not going to be an asset they will
01:03:17.980never be an asset to society I don't care I know we all want to say oh they're going to be rehabbed it's
01:03:22.680not going to be rehabbed I'm going to ask Doug Burgum to come up and say a couple of words because he's in
01:03:29.100charge as you know he's interior but he's in charge of the US Park Police and I have heard so many great
01:03:35.640things about the Park Police they're proud of it they've been there for a long time their families
01:03:41.280oftentimes grow into the roles they love the country they love this area so Doug could you say a few words please
01:03:49.160thank you Mr. President on behalf of the US Park Police this is the oldest federal police force in the nation they
01:03:55.380were formed in 1791 by none other than than President George Washington they've got the awesome
01:04:01.920responsibility of protecting our nation's most sacred monuments in the National Mall Washington Monument Jefferson Memorial
01:04:09.060Lincoln Memorial Statue of Liberty and out west the Presidio and the Golden Gate area these folks in have tens of
01:04:17.400millions of visitors a year the kind of people that President Trump's talking about that come from around the country and
01:04:22.080around the world to see our see our sacred and learn about our history and our sacred monuments they've been doing a
01:04:29.320fantastic job but they are so pleased the rank and file that President Trump is now allowing them to enforce the law as
01:04:35.800those of you that live in the city may know that the the circles in the triangle parks that are spread throughout DC are
01:04:42.140actually federal park property so the US Park Police also have responsibility for that these became littered with
01:04:49.400homeless camps that are the Biden administration all of you saw that since President Trump's executive order on March 27th making
01:04:56.740a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of people in DC safe and beautiful again the US Park Police have
01:05:03.220removed over 70 homeless camps and President Trump also talked about beautification they're stopping in enforcing the laws against
01:05:08.420graffiti on our monuments they've removed over 80 specific attacks against our history with graffiti on our monuments so they continue to do a great job whether it's in their vehicles on foot or on the mounted police that you see around the National Mall and President Trump they thank you the rank and file is so
01:05:24.340happy to be enforcing the law again thank you for your leadership and they're they're excited about the announcement you're making today thank you very
01:05:30.820good great job you're doing thank you very much could you say something about the military well mr. president it's an honor to be here and at your
01:05:40.820direction this morning we've mobilized the DC National Guard it'll be operationalized by the Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll through the DC Guard you will see them flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming week at your direction as well sir
01:05:54.340there are other units we are prepared to bring in other national guard units other specialized units
01:05:59.540they will be strong they will be tough and they will stand with their law enforcement partners this is nothing new for DOD
01:06:06.580as the president noted at the border we've got 10,000 troops down there who've been operating in defense
01:06:13.380cooperation areas defense zones where there's zero zero illegal crossings because of troops on strikers scanning the
01:06:21.460border we've been protecting other people's borders for 20 years it's about time we protect our own and
01:06:26.500we're working with ICE and CBP in Los Angeles we did the same thing working with the California National Guard working
01:06:33.140with ICE officers ICE officers deserve to do their job and not be attacked we will work alongside all DC police and federal law
01:06:42.740enforcement to ensure this city is safe this city is beautiful and as I always say about President Trump to the troops he has
01:06:50.660their back and my message to the National Guard and federal law enforcement in Washington is we have
01:06:55.860your back as well be tough be strong we're right behind you thank you Mr. President I'm going to ask
01:07:02.100Pam because she's now as you heard me say she's really in charge of a lot of what we're talking about
01:07:07.940she's done an incredible job people are going to start to see the fruits of her labor and Pam maybe you
01:07:13.540could say a few words about what we're talking about here sure let me be crystal clear crime in DC is
01:07:22.900ending and ending today we are going to use every power we have to fight criminals here president thank
01:07:29.700you for caring about our capital families come here every summer our museums are free we have the national
01:07:37.540zoo we have the national gallery DC should be a place where everyone can come and feel safe behind me and
01:07:46.180to my side we have some of the best career law enforcement and prosecutors in the country who are ready to take
01:07:53.540this on as the president said Terry Cole is going to be supervising the metro police department
01:08:01.780Gatti Sirata our U.S. Marshal is going to be supervising command and control the entire operation
01:08:12.020our Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and I will be working with them closely along with our great FBI
01:08:18.660Director Cash Patel Cash is going to talk to you in a minute about what we did in Virginia recently
01:08:24.420with Governor Youngkin many of you covered that and it was tremendously successful not only that our
01:08:30.580secret weapon here in DC is U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro one of the toughest prosecutors and a former
01:08:36.980judge and she is going to be talking about juvenile crime how it's out of control here and what she's going
01:08:43.380to do to fight back no more no more crime rampant in our beautiful capital no more teenage girls beating
01:08:53.940a disabled man to death no more drive-bys we're going to do everything we can and working with the ATF
01:09:04.340ATF Director Driscoll and Commander of the Army we're going to all work together that's what we all do in
01:09:11.380this room we work together we fight do not underestimate one person in this room we're going to make DC
01:09:18.500beautiful we're going to make DC safe again one other thing just at the wharf a few days ago the area of
01:09:25.220the wharf Terry Cole reached out to me not even nightfall on the weekend where so many families in
01:09:31.540tourists go a guy's overdosing from fentanyl on a park bench in the middle of families around they
01:09:39.300administer Narcan and saved his life no more of that the President of the United States is going to clean
01:09:45.700up DC and we're going to be there to help him and we're going to be successful thank you thank you
01:09:51.860can I talk about Northern Virginia if you want Northern Virginia we had a big success
01:09:57.140thank you Mr. President thank you Attorney General Blondie for your leadership
01:10:00.020Deputy Attorney General rest of our interagency partners uh Mr. President the following is what
01:10:04.900what happens when you let good cops be cops and I just want to highlight that before I get into
01:10:08.420Northern Virginia this year alone under President Trump's administration we've had over
01:10:12.8204,000 child victims identified and found that's a 33% increase from the same time period last year 33%
01:10:20.820increase we've had a seizure of 1,500 kilograms of fentanyl this up to this date that is a 25%
01:10:29.380increase since the same time period last year and just to put it in perspective 1,500 kilograms of
01:10:35.300fentanyl is enough to kill 115 million Americans 115 million Americans cops are getting after it
01:10:42.660the FBI has arrested 19,000 people this year alone thanks to President Trump's administrations that's
01:10:49.780double than where we were this time last year and we have also arrested 1,600 people who have committed
01:10:56.820violent acts against children children 270 of them are human traffickers of children Mr. President this is
01:11:06.020what happens when you have great leadership at the Attorney General with Pam Bondi your administration's
01:11:10.900priority of protecting the homeland and protecting American citizens and protecting our children and
01:11:15.780the murder rates are plummeting we are now able to report that the murder rate is on track to be the
01:11:21.460lowest in U.S. history in modern recorded U.S. history thanks to this team behind me and President
01:11:26.820Trump's priorities and how do we do it and what are we going to bring to D.C. what we did in Northern
01:11:31.540Virginia thanks to Terry Cole and Governor Youngkin and the team we stood up a task force out in my Northern
01:11:36.580Virginia field office and we said let's let good cops be cops let's get them the intelligence and
01:11:41.220what they need and let's get the red tape out of their way and let's get DOJ partnered up with us to
01:11:45.780bring great prosecutions and that's exactly what we did in one month we arrested 545 violent felons 545
01:11:54.180in the state of Virginia thanks to Governor Youngkin's partnership and that simplicity in law enforcement
01:11:59.940is what's coming to Washington D.C. when you let good cops be cops when you give them the intel they need when
01:12:05.540you work with our homeland security task force when you work with Terry and Gaddy and I go way back
01:12:09.940to Miami these guys are great leaders of the respective departments and law enforcement capacities
01:12:14.820and when you have the DOJ and President Trump driving behind this mission we are going to clean up
01:12:20.500Washington D.C. and we're going to do it the right way the lawful way and we're going to make sure
01:12:25.140Washington D.C. is safe again thank you Mr. President thank you attorney general thank you very much
01:12:29.460thank you so the process begins right now it actually started over the weekend and we confronted
01:12:39.780a lot of very bad people but it's uh it's going to be something that will be pretty amazing to you
01:12:46.420as you watch it and I think most of you say it'll it's a beautiful thing to do it right we're going to
01:12:53.060be removing homeless encampments from all over our parks our beautiful beautiful parks which now a
01:12:59.620lot of people can't walk on they've been very very dirty very uh we've got a lot of problems
01:13:08.180but we've already started that we're moving the encampments away trying to take care of people
01:13:14.820some of those people we don't know how they even got there some of those people are from different
01:13:20.340countries different parts of the world nobody knows who they are they have no idea but they're there
01:13:25.700getting rid of the people from underpasses and public spaces from all over the city there are
01:13:31.300many places that they can go and we're going to help them as much as you can help but they'll
01:13:36.820not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland for the world to see the metropolitan police
01:13:44.020department and the federal authorities will be supported in the effort a really big effort
01:13:50.980the 800 dc national guardsmen that we'll put on and much more if necessary much more
01:13:58.900it's uh you remember i said i offered 10 000 once remember i said to a certain person
01:14:04.740a person who i thought always was highly overrated not very competent but i said if you need them we'll
01:14:11.860give you 10 000 of the military or the national guard they turned me down but if necessary we're going to
01:14:19.140move uh service members directly to joining the guardsmen and that'll take place very rapidly and
01:14:26.820that'll be done in conjunction with pam and with pete and everybody else washington dc should be one of
01:14:32.900the safest cleanest and most beautiful cities anywhere in the world and uh we're going to make it that
01:14:37.940we're going to make it safe we're going to make it smart we're going to make it beautiful so beautiful
01:14:42.900some of the buildings uh we're going to add to it you see what we've
01:14:45.780done at the white house is white house is a whole different building i do that in my part time
01:14:50.340because it's a natural instinct as a real estate person i was very good at that and i was very good
01:14:55.300at fixing things up i like fixing things up uh you see what's happening the marble floors are being
01:15:01.940reinstalled renovated fixed the whole place is becoming very beautiful we're going to be adding a
01:15:07.140magnificent ballroom most beautiful ballroom i think anywhere we need it i would have certainly
01:15:12.740loved to have had it today i think we would have filled it up a lot of you are standing outside
01:15:17.940can't get in this room i have never seen the room like this which tells me that you want to talk about
01:15:23.460i mean this was a dc news conference it tells me that you want to talk about crime in dc and
01:15:29.220and beautification of dc but i'm going to put that that's easy
01:15:33.780and i think frankly fixing the crime with the pros fixing the crime is easy too
01:15:38.020a person who i've known for a long time and uh she's been incredible she was a fantastic one of
01:15:45.060the best ever district attorneys in new york she was in westchester and she became a judge very
01:15:51.060successful judge and then she went into show business because she was such a good d.a and
01:15:56.900such a good judge tough judge but fair always fair nobody ever complained about that but she was tough
01:16:03.140and uh because of that and her reputation she went into showbiz so a lot of people don't you know they
01:16:08.260think of janine as showbiz actually showbiz was not her thing it was and she did great she was on along
01:16:15.380with a couple of other of my friends on the number one show and uh she did great but this is what she
01:16:22.500she loves doing this is really her her baby what she's going to do is going to be incredible
01:16:28.100and i'd like to introduce to speak for just a few seconds on uh what she has in mind what
01:16:35.140she wants to do we're going to be appointing some judges you know we have some open spots and
01:16:39.380we're going to take people because the judges are letting killers out they just say go that's okay
01:16:46.500don't worry about it uh so we're putting some pam recommended todd recommended some uh judges that
01:16:54.100a great janine recommended janine's given me three great candidates already we've got 10 open spots
01:16:59.460and we could probably create some more we need them uh janine would you say a few words please
01:17:07.060thank you very much mr president and thank you madam attorney general and to all my partners here
01:17:12.740we all want the same thing we all want a safe city we want a safe capital we want to be able to bring our
01:17:20.180families here we want to be able to come and enjoy the history that makes this place great and
01:17:27.380unfortunately we are not in that position right now and mr president i want to thank you for taking the
01:17:33.940step that we need right now to make criminals understand that they are not going to get away with it anymore
01:17:41.460and i'm not going to stand here and go over and over the cases but what i can tell you is this
01:17:47.540i see too much violent crime being committed by young punks who think that they can get together
01:17:54.420in gangs and crews and beat the hell out of you or anyone else they don't care where they are
01:18:00.900they can be in dupont circle but they know that we can't touch them why because the laws are weak
01:18:08.260i can't touch you if you're 14 15 16 17 years old and you have a gun i convict someone of shooting
01:18:16.420another person with an illegal gun on a public bus in the chest intent to kill i convict him and you
01:18:24.820know what the judge gives him probation says you should go to college we need to go after the dc council
01:18:33.060and their absurd laws we need to get rid of this concept of you know a no cash fail we need to recognize
01:18:40.660that the people who matter are the law abiding citizens and it starts today but it's not going
01:18:47.060to end today because the president is going to do everything we need to do to make sure that these
01:18:52.980emboldened criminals understand we see you we're watching you and we're going to change the law to
01:19:00.020catch you and my final note is this these kids understand that the jurisdiction is through the state
01:19:07.780attorney general brian schwab i did a poster of the young man from doge who was beaten bloody with a
01:19:14.740severe concussion a broken nose and then i did a poster of what happens to those kids because i can't
01:19:21.540arrest them i can't prosecute them they go to family court and they get to do yoga and arts and crafts
01:19:29.060enough it changes today thank you mr president thank you great job thank you if i could uh i just signed
01:19:41.380some executive orders i'd like to have will please come up and uh we'll let the people know what we
01:19:48.340signed you want to put them down yes sir go ahead a short while ago in the oval office president trump
01:19:54.340signed two crucial executive actions to deal with the emergency crime conditions we currently face
01:20:00.420in the district of columbia the first of these was an executive order as president trump said before
01:20:05.940invoking his powers under section 40 of the home rule act to take federal control of the dc metropolitan
01:20:12.580police department along with that executive order president trump signed the statutorily required
01:20:18.500notification letters to mayor bowser and to the relevant house and senate committee leaders the
01:20:25.060second major executive action that president trump signed was a presidential memorandum directing the
01:20:30.820secretary of defense to utilize the national guard to address the conditions we see on on our streets
01:20:37.860here in dc it also authorized the secretary of defense to work with state governors to utilize their
01:20:44.100national guard uh units if necessary as well these are bold decisive steps intended to combat the out
01:20:52.020of control crime conditions we've seen on dc streets for far too long and i for one am deeply proud to be
01:20:58.500part of an administration that's finally coming to terms with these issues sir thank you very much sir thank you