Bannon's War Room - Episode 4731： Trump Signs Executive Orders Regarding Crime

00:00:00.000 Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

00:00:05.300 We're going to toss right now to the White House, the President of the United States,

00:00:08.940 signing executive orders. Let's go there.

00:00:10.640 The very incompetent mayor from Chicago said, well, what do they know?

00:00:14.720 They only arrested nine people. I said, nine people? We didn't arrest nine people.

00:00:19.020 We actually arrested a total of well over 1,000 people.

00:00:23.620 We took hundreds of guns away from young kids that were throwing them around like it was candy.

00:00:28.800 We apprehended scores of illegal aliens. We seized dozens of illegal firearms.

00:00:33.620 There have been zero murders. It sounds sort of terrible to say. It's embarrassing.

00:00:37.840 I did this over the weekend. I'm making a speech, and I acted like I was so proud.

00:00:42.620 As I said, we've had zero murders in the last week, and some of these people were from foreign countries.

00:00:48.620 They said, that doesn't sound so good. And I said, well, it doesn't sound good,

00:00:53.020 but Washington was the most dangerous place in this country, and now, you know what?

00:00:58.360 It's probably the safest place in our country. Everyone's starting to come here.

00:01:02.320 The restaurants now, you can't get in. Many of them closed because they couldn't open with crime.

00:01:07.820 Everybody before me is happy what I'm doing. Most of you won't say that because you're radical left.

00:01:13.100 The newspapers are so dishonest. The press is totally dishonest, but that's all right.

00:01:16.920 We've gotten used to it, and we won in a landslide. So they obviously lost their power.

00:01:21.020 I mean, it's impossible to imagine that when you get 97 percent negative stories, purposely negative stories,

00:01:27.860 even though you've done 97 percent positive things, that they could, that you could win an election in a landslide,

00:01:35.260 winning all seven. Think of it. All seven swing states winning by the popular vote,

00:01:41.060 by millions of votes. We had a fantastic, the best is your districts out of 3,000 districts.

00:01:49.520 I guess we won 3,500. We won 2,750, and they won 500. And that's, to me, the best of all.

00:01:59.960 And we had tremendous in every way, the election. And it's hard to believe you can do that when you

00:02:03.880 have a corrupt media. But you are. Many of you are corrupt. And it's nothing we can do about it.

00:02:09.560 But we keep winning, and we're going to keep winning. And this whole story on crime is incredible

00:02:14.880 that the Democrats wouldn't be with us. So the mayor of Chicago, I watched him this morning. He said,

00:02:20.780 Trump doesn't know what he's talking about. He only apprehended nine people. Well, number one,

00:02:26.380 that's false. It's literally, it's thousands who get into that. But more importantly than anything,

00:02:32.020 we took guns away. We have some of the worst career professionals out of the country already.

00:02:38.380 They've been taken out of the country. And some are in solid confinement because these were killers.

00:02:43.260 We arrested some very bad people. And in the last 11 days, again, I hate to say it because it sounds

00:02:49.140 so ridiculous, but in the last 11 days, we've had no murders. And that's the first time that's taken

00:02:55.540 place in years, actually years. We always have a murder a week. They call it a murder a week. You

00:03:02.100 come here from Iowa. You come here from Indiana. You come here from Idaho because you're so proud

00:03:07.720 of your country. You love your country. And then you get murdered. Your son gets murdered. Your daughter

00:03:11.480 gets murdered. You get murdered. See the media. You get murdered. Many of you have been mugged in

00:03:16.180 Washington. You just don't want to talk about it. And I know that every time I do this with you,

00:03:21.940 you almost everything. But every time I do this with you, people are saying to yourselves,

00:03:27.260 he's right, he's right. And then you write a negative story. But we are doing an incredible

00:03:31.720 job. The people behind me are amazing. We're working very well with the Washington police,

00:03:37.560 as you know. The D.C. National Guard is unbelievable. We're also getting tremendous help from Secret

00:03:43.900 Service. And we are at a point where Washington is booming again. People are pouring in.

00:03:52.460 Like we haven't seen for years. Nobody wanted to come here. They didn't want to come here and

00:03:56.300 and get murdered. I have a friend of mine who has a very successful son. And I said,

00:04:01.980 where is your son going to be this weekend? He said, he's going to Washington with his friends.

00:04:07.020 I said, really? Yeah. He's wanted to do it for four years, but he couldn't do it because it

00:04:10.420 was so unsafe. And he's a tough kid too. It's so unsafe. And he ended up staying and staying three nights

00:04:16.820 going out to restaurants all three nights. He said it was so beautiful, so peaceful,

00:04:20.160 because all the criminals are either arrested or they're hiding. And we're finding the ones that

00:04:24.680 are hiding. So I want to thank Pam Bondi. I want to thank our vice president. I want to thank

00:04:29.540 everybody standing behind me because they are really gaddy. You've been unbelievable, by the way.

00:04:37.320 They have done an unbelievable job. They're working 24 hours a day. And Washington, D.C. is now in great

00:04:43.360 shape. I'm going to be working with Clark Construction, which is by far your biggest

00:04:48.060 construction company. And we're going to also beautify Washington. We're going to rip down the

00:04:52.780 broken medians, fix them. We're going to put asphalt on the roads. We're not ripping them apart like these

00:04:58.240 stupid people do. They rip a road. They rip a road down to the dirt. And then they spend five years in

00:05:04.700 building the new one. And then it starts settling. You know, the whole thing is so crazy. And they'll

00:05:09.780 they'll spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a road. I'll spend about two dollars and it'll look

00:05:16.660 better. So we're going to be replacing medians. We're going to be replacing much of the asphalt in

00:05:22.640 the road, which in the city, which is in bad shape. We have great stripers. We have great contractors,

00:05:27.940 but we have to let them do the thing. The Congress had said that they'll give us whatever money is

00:05:34.500 needed to fix up the capital. This is the capital. And we're not going to spend a lot. It's going to

00:05:39.340 go fast and it will be spotless. And we want it spotless for the World Cup and for the Olympics.

00:05:44.960 You saw the World Cup was here the other day. And come to think of it, there's your trophy for the

00:05:50.520 World Cup. In fact, it's solid gold. That's actually solid gold. So heavy that some of the people in

00:05:56.100 this room wouldn't be able to lift it up. I think what I'm going to do is place it right

00:05:59.540 above the angel, right over there. That's solid gold, too. We're going to put it right up there.

00:06:03.580 Look at that. There's a solid gold trophy. They know how to get to me. You know,

00:06:08.680 I like the angel better, to be honest with you. So we're going to start sign and then we'll take a

00:06:16.480 few questions and we'll tell you how good a job we're doing. We want to go from here to other places.

00:06:23.660 But I was telling some of the people that in a certain way, you really want to be asked to go.

00:06:31.820 You know, I hate to barge in on a city and then be treated horribly by corrupt politicians and bad

00:06:37.420 politicians like a guy like Pritzker. He ought to spend more time in the gym, actually.

00:06:43.540 This guy is a disaster. Gavin Newsom is a disaster. When we went, we saved Los Angeles. You wouldn't

00:06:49.560 have been able to have the Olympics in Los Angeles. You're barely able to have it now. They did lose

00:06:53.840 25,000 houses to a fire that should have never occurred because they didn't let the water come

00:06:58.600 down from the Pacific Northwest, which you guys don't want to write about. I had to break into

00:07:03.500 the water supply to let the water down. And even now we want more. We can have much more. It's less

00:07:09.460 than half of what should be coming in. I don't know. They have a political thing about it. It's like the

00:07:14.720 craziest thing I've ever seen. But I don't like going to a town, city, place, a state, and then be

00:07:23.760 criticized by some corrupt or incompetent governor where crime is rampant. Like, take a look at D.C.

00:07:29.260 Crime was rampant. It was at the all time worst. It got really bad during the Biden four years.

00:07:35.260 And then I have a mayor stand up and say how crime has reached a 30 year low. 30 year low. People are being

00:07:41.280 killed left and right. And it's not a 30 year low. Think of it. So for 11 days, there's been no

00:07:47.580 murders. The record goes back years where that's happened. They haven't seen that happen in years.

00:07:53.740 And then people stand up. And instead of thanking us, which they should do, and she's not that bad.

00:07:59.680 She's better than most. But, you know, you have people I watched in Illinois, Chicago, Illinois is a

00:08:05.080 disaster. I have property there. It's a disaster. What's going on in Chicago. And you get her.

00:08:10.640 He's violating our rights. I think this is another men and women's sports thing. I think this is one

00:08:18.160 of those, you know, they call them 80 20 issues. I call them 97 three. I think the Democrats better

00:08:25.400 get smart. And, you know, politically, I hope they don't. But actually, in terms of love for the

00:08:29.700 country, I hope they do because it would be good to work together. So I'm thinking about, you know,

00:08:36.060 when I have some slob like Pritzker criticizing us before we even go there, I made the statement

00:08:40.860 that next should be Chicago because, as you all know, Chicago is a killing field right now.

00:08:45.820 And they don't acknowledge it. And they say, we don't need him. Freedom, freedom. He's a dictator.

00:08:50.960 He's a dictator. A lot of people are saying maybe we like a dictator. I don't like a dictator. I'm not a

00:08:56.840 dictator. I'm a man with great common sense and a smart person. And when I see what's happening to our

00:09:03.940 cities and then you send in troops, instead of being praised, they're saying you're trying to

00:09:09.420 take over the republic. These people are sick. But I'm really saying and I say this to all of you

00:09:17.200 in a certain way, we should wait to be asked because they have cities that are so under control,

00:09:21.940 you know, out of control. So we go in and fix it. They take the full credit for it. And they go out

00:09:26.380 and say, I heard it this morning. They're saying how well they've done over the last 10 day period

00:09:32.500 that they set record lows. They don't say that we're there with very tough people, by the way.

00:09:38.040 They have to pass a toughness test. Otherwise, they're not working for us. So, and we're allowed

00:09:42.860 to do that now, according to the United States Supreme Court decision. Now, they have to pass a

00:09:47.380 toughness test. If they're not tough, we don't want them for this job. They might be great for other jobs,

00:09:51.840 but not for this job because they're respected. You saw the gang of kids. They were all huddled up

00:09:57.580 and a group of soldiers walked up. They never even got over. Those kids ran back to their homes

00:10:02.640 or wherever the hell they came from. They were gone. You have, this is one of the safest cities

00:10:08.000 right now in the world, as crazy as that sounds. And it took seven days. It took really three days,

00:10:14.060 but we're now in our 11th day. So I want to thank you. So we had all of these things, 439 illegal alien

00:10:23.740 criminals have been removed. And we have six known gang members, some of the worst leaders

00:10:31.880 of gangs anywhere in the country, MS-13 and Tren de Aragua. We have two missing children that have

00:10:39.160 been recovered. They thought they were gone. We brought them back to the family. The family

00:10:43.020 started crying. They couldn't believe that they saw their child again. 49 homeless encampments

00:10:49.360 encampments have been removed. Like we have the head of South Korea coming in in a little while,

00:10:54.460 the president. And he drives down the street already. His people have told me, he said,

00:11:00.140 what happened? It's so clean. We always came here. It was filthy dirty with homeless and

00:11:03.940 papers all over the road. That's the other thing. Those roads are swept immaculate, but they're going

00:11:09.100 to be much better in a few months when we put a topping on them. They're going to look like they're

00:11:13.580 brand new. We'll get rid of those rusty old medians that have been crashed into a thousand times

00:11:18.020 and they don't fix them. They just let them. They put them, they lay them down on the road

00:11:22.800 and they sit there for months. But we don't do that. We don't run things. We run things like we

00:11:27.740 run this. We like clean, we like beautiful, and we like safe. And that's what we're getting.

00:11:32.640 So I'll start signing the executive orders. To me, this is a very, very big deal. One of the

00:11:38.240 executive orders has to do with cashless bail. That was when the big crime in this country started.

00:11:44.680 And I can tell you who did it, when, but I don't want to do that because others followed pretty

00:11:51.800 quickly. But that was when it happened. Somebody kills somebody. They go in. Don't worry about it.

00:11:56.480 No cash. Come back in a couple of months. We'll give you a trial. You never see the person again.

00:12:01.660 And I mean, they kill people and they get out cashless bail. They thought it was discriminatory

00:12:06.660 to make people put up money because they just killed three people lying on a street.

00:12:11.180 Any street all over the country, cashless bail. We're ending it. But we're starting by ending it

00:12:18.160 in D.C. And that we have the right to do through federalization. Okay, let's go. Could I ask you to

00:12:25.280 say exactly what this is? Of course. So as you've consistently identified, sir, cashless bail policies

00:12:30.520 are a key driver of the disorder we see on city streets all over America. Catch and release system

00:12:36.740 allows criminals to keep going back out onto the street and reoffending. What this executive order

00:12:41.500 does, it charges your attorney general with identifying jurisdictions all over the country

00:12:46.220 that have cashless bail policies. And then it withholds or revokes federal funds and grants

00:12:51.920 that are flowing to those jurisdictions to ensure that we're only supporting the people

00:12:55.900 who have reasonable common sense policies around crime. So what area does it cover?

00:13:00.160 Potentially anywhere that has a cashless bail policy. So some of the largest cities,

00:13:05.920 some of the most left wing states in America. Almost all of them, right?

00:13:09.160 Illinois would be a great example of that, sir. Oh, they have a great cashless bail. You don't

00:13:13.060 even have to go to court sometimes. No, Illinois. I love that state. It's a great state, but it's run

00:13:19.560 so badly by Prescott. They threw him out of the family business and he becomes governor. Now he wants to

00:13:24.880 run for president. I don't think that's going to happen. Okay, we'll sign right here, right?

00:13:28.920 Sir. So important. And this isn't Republican Democrat. This is, and by the way, most Democrats

00:13:40.460 agree with us, but this is just, we got to bring our country back. Okay. That's a big one.

00:13:52.460 Also on the issue of cashless bail, sir, this is a D.C. specific executive order. In addition to the

00:14:00.100 measures that we're taking that are quite similar to what we're doing around the country,

00:14:04.020 in D.C. in particular, the objective is holding as many criminal defendants in federal custody and

00:14:09.600 subjecting them to federal charges as possible. That means that they'll be held pretrial in federal

00:14:15.940 jail as opposed to just being cut back out on the streets due to a cashless bail policy.

00:14:20.000 Okay. And we have the room. And by the way, the prison they have in D.C. is horrible.

00:14:32.540 It's horrible. People were subjected to live in that dog trap for so long, so unfairly. I have

00:14:41.520 stories you'll be hearing about them. That prison is horrible. Okay.

00:14:45.500 This is an executive order that contains a number of additional measures relating to crime and law

00:14:50.640 enforcement in Washington, D.C. It charges, for example, your Secretary of Defense with establishing

00:14:56.880 specialized units in both the D.C. National Guard and the National Guard units around the country

00:15:02.400 specifically trained and equipped to deal with public order issues. It charges all of your various

00:15:08.140 federal law enforcement agencies with hiring additional personnel to allow them to surge personnel

00:15:14.440 to Washington, D.C. to deal with the current emergency here. It does a number of other things in that

00:15:19.880 space. And it also asks the Attorney General to look at D.C. Metropolitan Police general orders

00:15:26.620 that have currently impeded law enforcement efforts in the city and to potentially look at unwinding those

00:15:33.060 that are stopping the police from doing their job effectively.

00:15:35.720 And are we going to ask this to be codified by Congress, all of these things?

00:15:39.860 I think we could potentially, yes, sir.

00:15:41.460 I think so. I think we should. I think we'll get it. I think Democrats will vote.

00:15:45.620 Well, it's hard. It's hard to believe that they might not. But I think Democrats will actually vote

00:15:50.860 for this. There's no auto pen that can do that. Right? Look at that, Pam. Is that a good signature?

00:16:03.360 Seriously, is that a good signature? Who can who can write like that? Nobody. I don't know.

00:16:11.520 That's the other thing. I assume we're looking at the whole auto pen scam, sir, because the person

00:16:16.720 that ran it said he spoke to briefly twice about nothing. That means that all those pardons

00:16:23.260 that he gave to some very bad people, very unpatriotic people, very evil people, it looks

00:16:29.380 to me like those partners are worthless because, number one, you shouldn't use an auto pen very

00:16:36.140 specifically. But if you do, it has to be a very good reason. And they have to know that the president

00:16:42.520 wanted it. The president didn't want this. The president didn't know he was alive. Okay?

00:16:47.880 He never approved any of this stuff. He wasn't for open borders and all the other things. He was never

00:16:54.060 for open borders. I've known Biden a long time. He was never very sharp, but he was never in favor of

00:17:00.300 open borders and all of the other things he did to destroy our country. Let's go.

00:17:04.540 Lastly, sir, this is an executive order on flag burning. It charges your attorney general.

00:17:08.880 Would you listen to this? This is very important. Flag burning. All over the country, they're burning

00:17:13.940 flags. All over the world, they burn the American flag. And as you know, through a very sad court,

00:17:22.000 I guess it was a five to four decision. They called it freedom of speech. But there's another reason,

00:17:27.120 which is perhaps much more important. It's called death. Because what happens when you burn a flag

00:17:33.300 flag is the area goes crazy. If you have hundreds of people, they go crazy. You could do other things.

00:17:39.860 You can burn this piece of paper. You can. And it's. But when you burn the American flag,

00:17:45.100 it incites riots at levels that we've never seen before. People go crazy in a way, both ways.

00:17:53.040 There are some that are going crazy for doing it. There are others that are angry,

00:17:56.680 angry about them doing it. Do you want to discuss that? Sure. What the executive order does, sir,

00:18:03.240 charges your Department of Justice with investigating instances of flag burning. And then where there's

00:18:09.000 evidence of criminal activity that where prosecution wouldn't fall afoul of the First Amendment and

00:18:14.460 instructs the Department of Justice to prosecute those who are engaged in these instances of flag

00:18:19.160 burning. And what the penalty is going to be, if you burn a flag, you get one year in jail,

00:18:26.060 no early exits, no nothing. You get one year in jail. If you burn a flag, you get. And what it does

00:18:33.500 is incite to riot. I hope they use that language, by the way. Did they? Incite to riot. And you burn

00:18:40.060 a flag, you get one year in jail. You don't get 10 years. You don't get one month. You get one year

00:18:44.540 in jail. And it goes on your record. And you will see flag burning stopping immediately, just like when

00:18:50.440 I signed the Statute and Monument Act. Ten years in jail. Have you heard any of our beautiful monuments?

00:18:56.180 Everybody left town. They were gone. Never had a problem after that. It's pretty amazing. We stopped it.

00:19:02.380 But this is something that's, I don't know, in a certain way, it's equally as important. Some people would say

00:19:08.660 it's more important. Because the people in this country don't want to see our American flag burned and spit on.

00:19:14.940 And by people that are, in many cases, paid agitators. They're paid by the radical left

00:19:22.520 to do it. You talk to these people, they don't even know, half of them don't even know what

00:19:26.960 they're doing. They say, I don't know. They gave me money to do this. I see the same things that you

00:19:32.500 did. They're bad people. They're trying to destroy our nation. That's not working. Because I think our

00:19:36.920 nation now is the most respected nation anywhere in the world, by far. You saw that with the European

00:19:42.640 leaders on Friday. You saw that with NATO, where they agreed to go from 2% no pay to 5% fully paid

00:19:50.980 up, trillions of dollars paid, where they respect your president to a level that they jokingly call

00:19:57.660 me the president of Europe. They call me the president of Europe, which is an honor. I like

00:20:01.860 Europe and I like those people. They're good people. They're great leaders. And we've never

00:20:06.600 had a case where seven plus, really, 28, essentially 35, 38 countries were represented

00:20:14.640 here the other day. 38 European countries were represented. European and other countries

00:20:20.220 were represented. And it was a great meeting. But your country is respected again. I say it

00:20:26.520 all the time. One year ago, our country was dead. Everybody said it. We had a dead country.

00:20:33.200 We were not going to survive. Now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.

00:20:37.740 So it's an honor to be involved. And this group has a lot to do with it right behind me.

00:20:47.480 Does anybody behind me have anything? Pam, would you like to say something?

00:20:51.380 Sure, President. Thank you for keeping D.C. safe. You know, just a couple examples of a mother,

00:20:59.120 a single mom whose house was burglarized. And the defendant got out on cashless bail,

00:21:05.420 went back the next night and burglarized her house again. That's why this is so important.

00:21:11.300 A man got in a fight with another guy. He had a gun. He was let out. Next night, he got up,

00:21:17.000 went back and killed him. So that's why it's so important, President, what you're doing.

00:21:21.980 And thank you. And thank you for protecting the American flag. And we'll do that without running

00:21:26.480 afoul of the First Amendment as well. And President, I think Terry Cole, excuse me,

00:21:31.160 I think Gatti Seralta had something he wanted to give you on behalf of all the law enforcement

00:21:36.100 who are out there every single night. Yes, thank you for putting me in charge of this surge

00:21:42.040 as the director of the United States Marshal Service. It's the oldest law enforcement agency.

00:21:47.640 It was created in 1789. So on behalf of all the federal law enforcement agencies that we're

00:21:55.020 working with and those that have yet to join the team, we thought it was only appropriate

00:22:00.260 to present you with an honorary United States Marshal Service badge. And this badge comes with

00:22:11.260 this little item right here, which is a handcuff key, Mr. President, because you continue through

00:22:20.500 your policies and your efforts with your staff to unhandcuff law enforcement officers all over

00:22:27.280 this nation. And I can tell you personally that they thank you for that. Thank you. That's beautiful.

00:22:34.480 You can continue unhandcuffing law enforcement. That's a very great honor. I'll save that and put it

00:22:39.820 someplace up, which is important. Thank you very much, Gatti. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

00:22:44.760 Thank you. That's very nice. Thank you. Well, we love those people. They're brave and they love

00:22:51.160 our country and they don't want to see, they don't want to see it. Do you know how many people

00:22:55.040 volunteered for this job? And before I ask the VP to say a few words, because he feels very strongly

00:23:04.180 about it, I think it's very important, Pam, that when we do this, that a state required,

00:23:10.860 they come and ask us. I mean, I see Pritzker saying, we don't want them. In the meantime,

00:23:16.400 a city is being shot to hell. And they do that politically. And they probably do want it.

00:23:22.120 If we didn't go to Los Angeles, you would literally have had to call off the Olympics.

00:23:27.660 It was so bad. And the sheriff and the law enforcement people, but the sheriff said,

00:23:33.700 and he came out very strongly, he said, if we didn't have these people, we were not able

00:23:37.940 to control it. Now, four days later, after we had it totally under control, we did that

00:23:42.780 quickly. He changes to it a little bit. Well, I think we could have done it. He was, they

00:23:48.460 were dead. We didn't send in the troops. Los Angeles was dead. The Olympics was gone.

00:23:53.660 The World Cup was gone. Everything was gone. We did a great job. And Newsom, we got an

00:23:58.680 incompetent, I mean, he's an incompetent governor. But I think people should want us to be there

00:24:04.120 because otherwise, all they'll do is complain as we do our job. So we'll have to think about

00:24:08.720 that. Okay. We, we go in, like in Washington, we go in and they, the people that are here

00:24:14.360 that have been doing, I don't want to say terrible because she happens, you know, she's a nice woman,

00:24:19.560 I guess. I don't care about if she's nice. You know, I really don't care. I want her to do,

00:24:23.120 I'd rather have her be horrible, but do the job. But we come into Washington and we have

00:24:28.960 the 11 best days they've had here in two centuries. I mean, they've never seen anything

00:24:34.280 like it. Let's go two decades. In over 20 years, they haven't seen anything like what happened.

00:24:40.760 And now they're out there saying, we don't have crime in Washington. Well, that's true. For 11 days,

00:24:44.640 you don't have crime. But before that, everybody was getting hit and mugged. And you people could not

00:24:50.740 walk to your office without security. That's how unsafe it was. So I think we should really

00:24:56.580 let them have their city, let their city go to hell. And when they come and beg us to help,

00:25:04.380 the only problem is we want to save it for the people. Because the people want us there.

00:25:08.800 The people here, 95 percent of the people here want us. The real people, not the people you find.

00:25:14.740 I don't know where you find these people. You have one person that has a broken nose. Where'd you get it?

00:25:18.940 Well, I was mugged. Good. Do you want to see Trump here with... No, I don't want... The woman has a

00:25:24.780 broken nose. She got mugged. But she's saying she doesn't want any protection. It's all made up

00:25:32.040 fake news. It's just fake news. I don't know where you find these people. Anyway, would you say a couple

00:25:37.500 of words, please? And then I'm going to ask J.D. to say something. You have done an unbelievable job

00:25:42.940 in a short period of time. Thank you, Mr. President. Highly recommended by you-know-who, right?

00:25:47.120 Yes, sir. Do you want to say his name? Mr. Youngkin. Governor Youngkin. Yes, sir.

00:25:51.460 We stole you from Governor Youngkin. He called me. He called me. Glenn Youngkin called and he said,

00:25:55.820 I have somebody who's really fantastic. And based on that recommendation, here you are.

00:26:01.120 You've done a fantastic job. I appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Go ahead.

00:26:04.780 The men and women of the Metropolitan Police Department are back. They enjoy doing their job

00:26:10.600 again. They feel the ability to go out and be law enforcement officers. They feel that they're

00:26:16.040 connected to their communities again. They are making a difference. Thanks to you, Mr. President,

00:26:21.260 and our federal task force, you are making D.C. safe once again. Thank you, sir.

00:26:26.680 It's going to get better and better. Well, it can't get much better if there's no crime.

00:26:30.240 I read where crime's down 89 percent. I said, really? Who are the 11 percent? Okay. There's no crime.

00:26:36.300 J.D., please. Yes, sir. Well, thanks, Mr. President. Thanks to the incredible team here.

00:26:42.500 You know, I was – I want to echo something the President said where you say there haven't

00:26:47.020 been murderers in a couple of weeks in D.C., and it doesn't sound good, but then you talk

00:26:51.520 to local law enforcement, and I didn't realize this, that this town averaged one murder every

00:26:57.060 other day for the last 20, 30 years, which means that in two short weeks, the President and

00:27:03.200 the team have saved six or seven lives, people who would have been killed on the streets of D.C.,

00:27:08.280 who are now living, breathing, spending time with their families because the President had

00:27:12.920 the willpower to say, no more. We're not going to give the streets of D.C. over to vagrants

00:27:16.880 and robbers and murderers. And the last point I want to make, sir, to your point about we want

00:27:21.760 people to welcome us, to ask us, because look at Governor Pritzker in Illinois or Governor

00:27:27.520 Newsom in Los Angeles or Governor Moore in Maryland. They are angrier about the fact that the

00:27:33.180 President of the United States is offering to help them get their crime under control

00:27:37.600 than they are about the fact that murderers are running roughshod over their cities and

00:27:41.900 have been for decades. Why are Democrat governors angrier about federal law enforcement helping

00:27:48.120 clean up their streets than they are about the fact that those streets need to be cleaned

00:27:52.000 up to begin with? It shows a real sickness in the head. And I agree with the President of

00:27:56.180 the United States. I think most Democrats rank and file. Nobody likes crime. Republicans

00:28:01.060 don't like crime. Democrats don't like crime. Independents don't like crime. Why are Democratic

00:28:06.140 governors doing everything in their power to make crime easier to do in their cities? It

00:28:10.780 doesn't make an ounce of sense to me. But, Mr. President, I appreciate you being willing

00:28:14.400 to help. And I hope these governors take you up on the offer because we should clean up all

00:28:17.980 of America's streets. It's the right of every American to live in safety and comfort in their

00:28:21.860 community. And we've got the people to do it. They're signing up like they've never signed up

00:28:27.800 before. Our military, as you know, during the campaign, nobody was signing up. We were way

00:28:35.420 short, short of their goal, short of their we were understaffed. We nobody wanted to be

00:28:40.480 in the military. Nobody wanted to be a policeman. Nobody wanted to be a fireman. They didn't want

00:28:44.360 anything to do with the country. We had an incompetent, grossly incompetent president who,

00:28:48.800 frankly, should not have been there. They should have never been there. What the damage he done,

00:28:52.800 he he did to this country is incalculable. I mean, just what what he has done. So much of our effort

00:28:59.880 are getting murderers and jailbirds and people out of this country who are drug dealers at the highest

00:29:07.720 level. So much of the energy of people that he led into just it was an unforced error. But I don't

00:29:16.500 think they think it's an error. But I don't believe he believed it. It was the radical lunatics that

00:29:20.500 surrounded this guy at this desk who are brilliant people, but with the wrong philosophy. There was

00:29:26.140 some brilliant people, but they're evil people and they're going to be brought down. They have to be

00:29:29.780 brought down because they really hurt our country. But we're getting it back very quickly. And I'll

00:29:34.480 tell you something, our country's now it's stronger. I think we're more respected than we've been

00:29:39.720 respected in a hundred years. It's a whole different ballgame. J.D., could I ask you, you gave a stat

00:29:45.220 on murders here. What were the numbers? You said in a short period of time, how many people were murdered?

00:29:50.760 Local law enforcement told me, sir, that in the past 20 or 30 years, D.C. has averaged a murder

00:29:55.960 every other day. That's, you know, 200 murders a year, 150, 250. But about every other day,

00:30:02.780 a person has been killed on the streets of Washington, D.C. We've been doing this for two

00:30:06.760 weeks. Zero people killed. That's real lives saved that the media and frankly, the entire Democratic

00:30:12.680 Party should be saying, thank you for saving lives instead of attacking the president of the United

00:30:16.960 States for doing so. You know, when the person, when a person, unfortunately, will probably happen

00:30:22.840 at some point when a person's murdered in D.C., it's going to be the biggest story maybe in history.

00:30:29.780 Yes, sir. Somebody was murdered in D.C. Trump is failing. No, we're not failing. We have a safe city.

00:30:35.780 This is maybe the safest city in America right now. That's how good it is. And it would be nice to be

00:30:41.020 appreciated. These people, eventually, they're going to have to be appreciated for what they're

00:30:44.220 doing. And they're going to have to be appreciated by the officials that are really happy when we go

00:30:49.240 in because they've lost control of their, their place. Steve Miller, please say a few words.

00:30:54.620 Thank you, sir. So just to, first of all, follow up on what the vice president said,

00:30:59.180 no police officer working in the city can remember a time in their lives when there has been no murders.

00:31:06.220 You can work at the police department for 20 years, 30 years, your whole life. We've checked the records.

00:31:10.220 No one can even find a record of being murder free for as long as we've been murder free under

00:31:16.140 President Trump's leadership. Additionally, and the president has spoken about this before,

00:31:20.580 we've uncovered in the process of uncovering a massive scandal in Washington, D.C. with the

00:31:26.560 doctoring of crime stats. And the Department of Justice under the attorney general is leading the

00:31:30.820 effort to uncover this. But when we ultimately share the results, it will, it will stun you.

00:31:35.520 The extent to which even though D.C. had the worst crime in America, honestly measured,

00:31:41.440 it dramatically understated how bad it was. There's even accusations that murders and homicides

00:31:48.100 were reported as accidents instead of murders. I mean, this is how severe the manipulation of the

00:31:53.160 crime data has been in this city. And it will all be uncovered and it will all be brought to light.

00:31:58.220 You know, I've had a chance to spend some time, as is everyone here, with the police officers in the city.

00:32:01.960 Members of the public are going up to them and thanking them, just overflowing with

00:32:07.760 gratitude. Because for the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on

00:32:12.060 the streets. You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed

00:32:16.940 or mugged. They're wearing their watches again. They're wearing jewelry again. They're carrying purses

00:32:21.500 again. People have changed their whole lives in this city for fear of being murdered, mugged, and carjacked.

00:32:26.920 It is a literal statement that President Trump has freed 700,000 people in this city who were living

00:32:36.060 under the rule of criminals and thugs. And the last thing I'll say is that under the efforts of Terry,

00:32:43.300 to my left and many here, what they found also is that the street criminals here in Washington, D.C.

00:32:49.080 were doing business directly with the transnational criminal cartels, the foreign terrorist organizations.

00:32:55.100 So not only was the city being run by these criminal thugs, but they were working with

00:32:59.640 some of the most dangerous terrorist organizations on the planet to traffic weapons and drugs into

00:33:04.600 this city. And what we are covering every day is shocking to us. And we look forward to sharing

00:33:10.040 all the results with you. But President Trump, your leadership has uncovered some of the great

00:33:14.420 public safety scandals of our life. And now because of you, people are safe and free for the first

00:33:18.760 time ever in the city. Thank you very much, Steve. You know, in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills is a great

00:33:25.300 place. I have a house there. I had a house there. I used to stay a lot of time, spend a lot of time

00:33:30.740 there. And a great place. Do you know that I have friends, they leave their trunk open for their car

00:33:37.500 because they don't want, they know they're going to be vandalized. They don't want the trunk ripped off

00:33:42.940 in order for them to steal what's in the back. They leave the doors open. So when they go into

00:33:47.500 steal the radio or whatever they take, that they don't rip off the door, they leave the doors totally

00:33:51.940 open. So the criminals, when they go and open the door, they'll have to break the windows and

00:33:55.660 kill the car in order to steal whatever it is in the car that they're looking for. And that's

00:34:01.300 at a level that nobody's ever seen before. Nobody lives like that. I have another friend. He has a garage

00:34:08.500 and in order to save his garage door, he leaves it open so that people can just walk into his

00:34:13.700 garage, take whatever they want and leave. But all the cars are, so many cars, I've been told this

00:34:19.900 by many people, stars, big people, they leave their doors open so the doors aren't destroyed by these

00:34:26.760 criminals. All over Los Angeles, this is taking place. And, and you know that. I mean, you've heard

00:34:34.020 that. Christy, could you say a few words? Sure. Well, Mr. President, I think one of the,

00:34:38.500 most impactful statistics that you used today was of the 1,000 arrests that have happened

00:34:45.200 already so far, 439 of them were illegal criminals, which means they never should have been in this

00:34:51.260 country to begin with. But they were in this country, invaded over our southern border or

00:34:56.120 northern border or maritime seas, and then they committed crimes against the American people.

00:35:00.900 So by getting those individuals incarcerated, we've stopped those violent crimes from happening

00:35:05.800 here in this city. And sir, they do. Exactly like Steven was talking, they have ties to cartels.

00:35:10.500 They have networks across this country in other cities. So by what you're doing here is going

00:35:15.500 to have a ripple effect in Miami, in Chicago, in other cities because you're grabbing those

00:35:20.460 networks and giving us information and targeting information to go and get more criminals across

00:35:25.500 this country. So thank you for the work that you're doing. We have ICE and CBP, Federal Protective

00:35:32.200 Services, Secret Service, HSI. All of our officers are working with all the other agencies every

00:35:37.500 day here in D.C. And they're so proud to have this kind of partnership. So they're so glad that

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00:35:47.200 for ICE when we were going to hire 10,000 new officers, we've got over 130,000 people that have

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00:40:21.160 I was going to say that our recruitment drive, so it was dead. During the campaign, they couldn't get,

00:40:27.200 every story was the Army can't fill up, the Marines, none of them could fill up. They were way behind. We

00:40:32.540 couldn't get anybody to go into the military. Couldn't get any police. We've just set records

00:40:37.340 on everybody wants to be in. Everybody wants to go in. And we're taking incredible people. I mean,

00:40:43.560 the level of, you know, because of the Supreme Court, it's based on merit. It's all based on

00:40:48.380 merit now. It's not based on anything else. You got to, if you need strong people, you have to get

00:40:53.580 strong people. It's all based on merit. But we're setting records in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines,

00:41:00.260 the Coast Guard. My, one of my favorites, because I happen to have created it, Space Force. We're

00:41:06.540 very proud of Space Force. It's amazing what it's doing. We're leading in space now. China was killing

00:41:12.260 us. Russia was beating us. China was killing us. We're now killing China. We are leading in space

00:41:17.640 by a lot because of Space Force. So we're very proud. But everybody wants to go in. We went from

00:41:23.780 not, and you know how bad that is for the spirit when every story that you were writing a year ago

00:41:29.240 was that nobody wants to go into the military anymore. And if you're in the military, you know

00:41:34.100 how deflating that is? You're going to be a family. Nobody wants a job that you have. Well,

00:41:37.940 now it's the opposite. Everybody wants to be there. And that includes police and fire and everything

00:41:43.000 else. You've done a good job. Thank you, sir. You're stopping a lot of wars.

00:41:48.060 Just, just the presidents we're stopping. We had, we've stopped seven wars. And really,

00:41:54.280 the number is actually 10. We're not including a couple. And we're not including in there the,

00:41:58.980 what we did with Iran stopping their nuclear play. They would have had within a month or two,

00:42:05.680 they would have had a nice big nuclear weapon to use. That's not going to happen. That won't happen.

00:42:10.940 Pete, go ahead, please. Yes, sir. Well, Mr. President, thank you very much for your leadership.

00:42:14.520 Uh, and the defense department is proud to be a part of this task force. Just, just like we have

00:42:18.880 been down at the Southwest border where crossings are at zero. We've got national defense areas where

00:42:23.580 we're working with border patrol, uh, to secure the Southern border for the American people,

00:42:27.200 just like Los Angeles, where ice officers deserve to do their job without being attacked.

00:42:31.860 We're really proud to be a part of defending the nation's capital and ensuring it is safe

00:42:35.680 and beautiful and working with law enforcement. And Mr. President, let me tell you the morale of the

00:42:39.520 troops getting out there, talking to them. They love this mission. They're grateful to be doing it,

00:42:43.940 uh, whether they're DC national guard or other, uh, state national guards, uh, and at your direction

00:42:49.080 as well, sir, it's just common sense to make sure they're armed as well. And so they, uh, we're

00:42:53.000 rolling out and shooting their arm, capable of defending themselves and others if need be,

00:42:57.080 supporting law enforcement. And we're proud to be there, sir.

00:42:59.420 Well, look at the mission you just accomplished with Iran, uh, 36 hours back and forth,

00:43:06.380 flawless, every bomb hit its target. They went right down their chutes, dark at night,

00:43:11.720 no moon, no, nothing. Every target, every bomb went right down. They have a chute that goes right

00:43:17.360 down deep into the mountain. And, uh, they shouldn't have put ventilation in. I can tell

00:43:21.860 you because we use that for our advantage, but, uh, what they did and we had the pilots and even the

00:43:27.320 people that took care of the planes, we had a whole group of people at the white house a couple of

00:43:31.400 weeks ago. And, you know, uh, they, I didn't realize this, but they said, we've been looking at

00:43:36.780 their predecessors and then these were the pilots. They said, we gave them beautiful metals and,

00:43:42.480 uh, I'll show you the metal. Gave them a metal just like this. See, just like that. They were so

00:43:49.140 happy. We have a lot of them out for that. It was an incredible job. You know, we had 52 tankers,

00:43:53.880 people don't realize so that they could refuel. We had many fighter jets, F 22s and, uh, F 35s. We had

00:44:01.320 many. It was an amazing operation. It was flawless. Compare that to the operation when they went in

00:44:07.380 with the helicopters crashing and everyone running around the desert and the prisoners being taken.

00:44:13.020 And that was Jimmy Carter. And what a, what a horrible thing. This was the exact opposite. This

00:44:19.080 was the exact opposite of what they did in leaving, uh, a very, very nice place. The Taliban has runs a

00:44:26.880 tough operation in Afghanistan. And I think it was the most embarrassing day in the history of our

00:44:31.920 country. That was Biden. I was leaving and we would have left through strength, tremendous strength.

00:44:36.480 We would have had tremendous, we would have kept Bagram, which is the air base, one of the largest

00:44:41.580 runways in the world, one of the most powerful. You could land anything on it. Many, many feet thick,

00:44:47.040 you don't build them that way anymore. You can't. But, uh, we left it and now China's occupying that air

00:44:53.940 base. Uh, this was the most incompetent administration in history, the Biden

00:44:58.320 administration. And, uh, you're just lucky that they lost because if, if they won, you wouldn't

00:45:03.900 have a country anymore. And so Pete, you started up by saying the department of defense and somehow

00:45:09.300 it didn't sound good to him. You know, it didn't sound good defense. What do we defense? Why are we

00:45:14.640 defense? So it used to be called the department of war and it had a stronger sound. And as you know,

00:45:22.020 we won world war one, we won world war two, we won everything. Now we have a department of defense

00:45:28.020 with defenders. I don't know if you, if you people want to standing behind me, if you take a little

00:45:33.420 vote, if you want to change it back to what it was when we used to win wars all the time, that's okay

00:45:37.960 with me. All right, that's coming. You go, you let me know if you want to do it. I think department of

00:45:42.640 work, it just sounded bad. He said, sir, on behalf of the department of defense, defense,

00:45:46.560 I don't want to be defense only. We want defense, but we want offense too, if that's okay. So you'll

00:45:53.160 make a decision. But you know, as department of war, we won everything. We won everything.

00:46:00.840 And I think we're going to have to go back to that. In the meantime, I've stopped all of these

00:46:05.220 wars. I've stopped them. A big one would have been India and Pakistan, but we stopped them all. We

00:46:11.040 stopped three wars. Go to Africa. They like to say, oh, you know, I love black people. And they,

00:46:18.620 and I did great with the vote with the black people. But they say, he's a racist. He's a racist. I said,

00:46:23.520 really? For 35 years, a war raged between Rwanda and the Republic of the Congo. And it was a vicious

00:46:30.480 war. Nine million people were killed with machetes, largely. Hatchets, machetes. That went on for 30,

00:46:37.640 more than 30 years, but 34, 35 years. And I stopped it. In fact, the presidents are coming in

00:46:43.780 a week or two to sign the, we have the foreign ministers. It's all signed. The war stopped.

00:46:49.120 But I got it stopped and saved a lot of lives. The Congo. It's deep into deepest of, darkest Africa.

00:46:59.160 I got that war stopped. Nobody else could have done that. We did a lot of jobs. We did a lot of,

00:47:03.500 a lot of wars were stopped that nobody thought would even be possible. And I'll tell you what,

00:47:07.640 the war with India and Pakistan. That was the next level that was going to be a nuclear war.

00:47:13.660 They already shot down seven jets. That was raging. And I said, you guys want to do trade? We're not

00:47:19.240 doing any trade. We're not doing anything with you. If you keep fighting, you get it. You got 24 hours

00:47:24.020 to settle it. They said, well, there's no more war going. And I used that on numerous occasions. Trade.

00:47:32.180 I used trade. I used other. I used whatever you had to use. But we got seven of them stopped.

00:47:37.720 And the one I thought would be easiest, frankly, was going to be Russia and Ukraine. But that turns

00:47:44.700 out to be some big personality conflicts. It's one of those things. But we're going to get that

00:47:50.540 stopped eventually. We're going to get that stopped too. 7,000 soldiers died last week. Think of that.

00:47:55.920 7,000. I usually say 5,000. But 7,221 soldiers died last week in the fighting between Ukraine and

00:48:03.540 Russia. And they're not our soldiers, but they're souls. They're living souls. And they leave their

00:48:09.000 homes. And they wave to their parents. And their parents are so proud that they leave in a beautiful

00:48:13.520 uniform. And a week later, they get their head blown off by a drone. New form of military. It's a whole

00:48:20.440 new form of fighting. So I would just like to thank the people that are behind me. Thank you very

00:48:28.640 much. You've done a fantastic job. I appreciate it very much. We're doing a real, we're doing a real

00:48:35.220 job. And I'm so proud of D.C. I look, I passed it two days ago. And all the garbage is off the streets.

00:48:42.740 It's terrible. I walked, I came in a month and a half ago. I'm driving down and I see garbage all

00:48:50.980 over the place. The streets were pigsty. Like, like, I won't use the city's names, but you know

00:48:56.080 who I'm, what I'm talking about. There are plenty of them outside of this country and inside of this

00:49:01.060 country. Baltimore is a horrible, horrible deathbed. It's a deathbed. I know Governor Moore said,

00:49:08.860 oh, he wants to take a walk with me. He meant it in a derogatory tone. I said, no, no, I'm the

00:49:14.020 president of the United States. Clean up your crime and I'll walk with you. But there's, it's tremendous

00:49:18.420 crime. But he was trying to be derogatory. He doesn't have what it takes, but he's trying to

00:49:23.660 be derogatory. And I met him at the Army Navy game. They said, oh, there's Governor Moore. He'd love to

00:49:28.560 see you. He came over to me, hugged me, shook my hand. You were there. He said, sir, you're the greatest

00:49:33.740 president of my lifetime. I said, it's really nice that you say that. I'd love you to

00:49:38.840 say it publicly, but I don't think you can do that. So it's okay. But no, so you're doing

00:49:43.080 a fantastic job. I want to just shake your hand. Thank you very much, Governor. That was

00:49:47.180 it. And then every time I see him on television, he's knocking the hell out of me. So, but that's

00:49:52.400 all right. That's called politics. But Governor Moore's got to, he's doing a bad job. Newsom's

00:49:58.840 doing a bad job. All of their potential candidates are doing a bad job. I can't imagine Pritzker being

00:50:03.980 even a candidate. But somebody said he is, he can't do the work, can't do the job. He's

00:50:09.040 not temperamentally suited. So I just want to thank you all for being here. Do you have

00:50:14.260 some questions?

00:50:14.980 Is the Pentagon, and maybe the Secretary of Defense can weigh in too, is the Pentagon preparing

00:50:19.440 for military deployment to Chicago? And with what you said there, are you waiting for the

00:50:24.360 governor there?

00:50:24.860 We're ready to go anywhere. We have a full complement of great human beings.

00:50:31.000 We're full. You know, our military is full. We were way empty one year ago. Now we're

00:50:38.660 full. So we can go anywhere on less than 24 hours notice. And we're doing a lot to

00:50:45.060 interdict to stop drugs from coming in too. We have ships out on sea. You know, we have

00:50:50.540 nobody coming through our border anymore. Nobody. Doesn't that feel good to know that you

00:50:54.280 don't have prisoners coming in and, you know, killers, murderers. We had 11,888 murderers

00:51:00.940 come in, led in by the Biden administration. Many of them have been captured. But we still

00:51:06.560 have a couple of thousand that are out there. Some of them, 50 percent of them killed more

00:51:11.780 than one person. Okay? But a lot of them have been captured. What they've done to our country,

00:51:17.580 these people that circle this, this moron that we had behind this desk, what they've

00:51:22.580 done to our country is unthinkable. It's unthinkable. I mean, if you think, so much of our time is

00:51:29.440 devoted to correcting a problem that all they had to do is say, close the borders. Remember

00:51:34.080 when he said, well, I have no power to close the border. I have to go back and get an act

00:51:38.080 from Congress. I didn't get an act from Congress. I came in, I said, close the borders. And Tom

00:51:43.080 Holman, who's not here, has been fantastic, Christy, right? Tom Holman is great. He is

00:51:48.080 a fantastic man and respected by everybody. But I said, Tom, close the borders. Christy,

00:51:53.680 close the borders. The borders were closed. We didn't go to Congress and get permission. We

00:51:58.880 just closed the borders. And in the last three months, hard to believe this one, too. In the

00:52:04.680 last three months, we've had zero people come into our country illegally through the southern

00:52:09.980 border. Nobody would have said that's possible. Yeah, please. Thank you, Mr. President. Today,

00:52:17.180 MS-13 gangbaker and human trafficker Kilmar Abrego Garcia turned himself into ICE in Baltimore.

00:52:22.580 Do you have any comment on this? And why are the Democrats so emotionally attached to this man who

00:52:27.780 beats his wife and is part of a terrorist organization? Because they think he's going to

00:52:33.980 be good for votes. And I think he's very bad for votes. These people are deranged. He's not good for

00:52:39.480 votes. He beat the hell out of his wife. His wife is afraid to even talk about him. She's been mauled by

00:52:45.780 this animal. And, you know, through a system of liberal courts, you know, he's doing things. But

00:52:54.180 no, we have that under control. And Pam has got that very much under control. Do you want to comment on it?

00:53:00.180 No, no, we've got him under control. He will no longer terrorize our country. He's currently charged with

00:53:06.580 human smuggling, including children. The guy needs to be in prison. He doesn't need to be on the streets like

00:53:14.380 all these liberals want him to be. And as part of this operation here in D.C., we've also taken off MS-13

00:53:20.980 members. We've taken, I think just last night, we got a TDA guy off our streets right here, right around from

00:53:26.980 where we all work. Another TDA member gone because of this project. So we're going to keep

00:53:32.980 America safe from all of these foreign terrorist organizations, including Abrego Garcia.

00:53:38.980 Okay. Mr. President, if we could get your reaction, sir, the Israelis bombed a hospital in Gaza that killed 20

00:53:46.180 people, including five journalists. When did this happen? This happened overnight today. I didn't know that.

00:53:52.980 Any reaction to this? I don't want to see it. At the same time, we have to end that whole nightmare.

00:53:58.980 I'm the one that got the hostages out. I got them out. All of them. Steve Whitcoff has been amazing.

00:54:04.180 He's done a great job. But I'm the one that got them all out through my people and through me. And now we're

00:54:10.980 left with probably a little bit less than 20 because I think one or two are gone. And I said a long time ago,

00:54:18.020 I'm going to get them out. But when we get down to that final 10 or 20, these people aren't going to

00:54:22.020 release them because they're dead after they release them. So it's a it's a nasty situation. Very nasty.

00:54:28.180 Horrible thing. Yes. Could you please elaborate on your your post on South Korea? What were you referring

00:54:34.020 to? Well, I heard that there were raids on churches over the last few days, very vicious raids on churches

00:54:40.020 by the new government in South Korea, that they even went into our military base and got information.

00:54:47.140 And they probably shouldn't have done that. But I heard bad things. I don't know if it's true or not.

00:54:51.540 I'll be finding out. As you know, your new president's coming in just a couple of hours coming here.

00:54:56.500 I look forward to meeting him. But we won't stand for that. We just won't stand for that.

00:55:01.540 Are you prepared to order National Guard troops, though, into American cities if those governors don't

00:55:07.620 request the federal equipment? I am. But I also think that, look, Chicago,

00:55:14.180 everybody knows how bad it is. Everybody standing there knows. We know you don't have to be doing

00:55:18.740 any studies. They should be saying, please come in. Pritzker should be saying that. You know,

00:55:25.540 I did a favor for Christie for Christie Whitman Whitmer. A good a good favor, I think, with the fish,

00:55:36.420 the carp, the China carp. Did you ever hear of it? China carp. And it's taken over your Great Lakes.

00:55:43.860 You know about that, right? And she came and she wanted to know if it's possible for us to do

00:55:51.460 something about it. And I said, well, I'll do it. But I think it's appropriate that the person from

00:55:57.140 Illinois, the governor from Illinois, asks also. It's a tremendously expensive project, actually.

00:56:02.260 It's invasive. It's horrible what's happened. And we can do it with GSA and various people.

00:56:09.300 But we can do it. We're going to just have to see what happens. Okay? We're going to have to see

00:56:14.260 what happens. But the governor of Michigan came, was very respectful, asked for it. She's done a good

00:56:22.660 job. We, I, I did that. I opened the Air Force Base, you know, kept it open for F-35s and various

00:56:31.380 planes, F-22s too. I did that for the state of Michigan at her request. And I will, and also

00:56:38.660 at our congressmen, you know, we have congressmen that are unbelievably pro-Michigan up there.

00:56:44.740 But some of this stuff, like the lakes, the Great Lakes, this is a big problem that nobody ever talks

00:56:50.820 about. Most of you probably have never heard of. We have a very, pretty violent fish that has,

00:56:56.100 comes from China. China carp, Chinese carp. And you see them jumping out. They jump into boats and

00:57:04.500 they jump all over the place. They've got a lot of energy. And there's a way of getting rid of them.

00:57:10.420 It's very expensive. And we, I didn't get a request from the governor of Illinois,

00:57:17.540 is affected maybe more than anybody else. Right? And I think until I get that request from that guy,

00:57:22.820 I'm not going to do anything about it. And I feel the same way about crime.

00:57:27.540 We go in, we will solve Chicago within one week, maybe less. But within one week,

00:57:31.620 we will have no crime in Chicago, just like we have no crime in DC.

00:57:35.700 But, you know, I don't like to go in and do it and then have somebody stand up and say,

00:57:40.260 what a great job he's doing on crime. And we don't want the military in our state. We don't want the

00:57:46.020 military. Do you understand? Do you understand that?

00:57:49.860 Yeah, these governors will say there is no emergency to respond to.

00:57:53.060 I think, you know, I feel like we go in and we do it, like here,

00:57:57.860 to a lesser extent with the mayor. She hasn't been terrible, but she hasn't been,

00:58:01.940 you know, exactly saying, oh, great. She said, she did say last night, I heard her say that,

00:58:07.780 well, we really don't want the military in DC. Well, that's, you know, not very nice, I guess.

00:58:12.500 That's a little bit of a hit. But she's not as bad as some.

00:58:17.220 We saved Los Angeles. And all we did is get criticized by this

00:58:22.820 idiot that's running the state into the ground, right, where people are leaving.

00:58:27.620 He should be thanking us. And he should be requesting us to be there. And the governor

00:58:32.900 of Illinois should be. Chicago is a disaster. And the governor of Illinois should say,

00:58:37.860 President, would you do us the honor of cleaning up our city? We need help.

00:58:42.260 They need help. They need help.

00:58:44.020 So are you getting back to the president?

00:58:46.180 We may wait. We may or may not. We may just go in and do it,

00:58:49.700 which is probably what we should do. The problem is, it's not nice when you go in and do it and

00:58:54.660 somebody else is standing there saying, as we give great results, say, well, we don't want the military.

00:59:02.260 They need they need help badly. Chicago desperately needs help. Just look at the crime statistics.

00:59:09.140 Look at the statistics that JD said about even I didn't know it was that bad. That's terrible.

00:59:14.980 But all I know is we're being celebrated because we went an entire week. Now it's 11 days.

00:59:22.580 We went an entire week without a murder. And I said, boy, that sounds terrible.

00:59:27.140 I didn't know how I actually made a speech. I didn't know how to say it because it's a great

00:59:32.020 number. It's a great thing. But it sounds so bad. I mean, supposing you're from a foreign country,

00:59:36.980 which is properly run and they don't have murders and things right so much or in some cases virtually

00:59:43.140 at all. And you have somebody saying, I'm proud to announce that nobody was murdered in the capital

00:59:49.940 of the United States this week. It sounds terrible. But Mr. President, Gavin Newsom,

00:59:55.940 you mentioned Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom. Yes. Is there a federal mechanism you're hoping to use

01:00:01.060 to fight back against his redistricting constitutional amendment or is that. Well,

01:00:04.580 I think I'm going to be filing a lawsuit pretty soon. And I think we're going to be very successful

01:00:12.100 in it. We're going to be filing it through the Department of Justice. That's going to happen.

01:00:16.340 And we're also going to be filing a lawsuit on blue slipping. You know, blue slips

01:00:20.580 make it impossible for me as president to appoint a judge or a U.S. attorney because they have a

01:00:28.900 gentleman's agreement. It's nothing memorialized. It's a gentleman's agreement that's about

01:00:33.860 100 years old, where if you have a president like a Republican and if you have a Democrat senator,

01:00:41.060 that senator can stop you from appointing a judge or a U.S. attorney in particular. Those two.

01:00:47.620 Those are the two. I guess anything. But those are the two that are very important.

01:00:52.020 So we have numerous states where we have unbelievable people. Now, Jay Clayton was just

01:00:56.580 approved in the Southern District, but he was so good. He was a top student, top schools, top everything.

01:01:02.900 Went to Sullivan and Cromwell. Became the head of Sullivan and Cromwell. Came down here with

01:01:07.700 Securities and Exchange Commission. Ran it for four years during my term. Like,

01:01:13.140 impeccably. Beautiful job. He did an incredible job. And we went to court. And the judges, Democrat

01:01:21.460 judges, voted that he can. That's the only way you get by it. But generally speaking, you can't do that

01:01:27.220 because you'll have judges from the other party. So, so Jay Clayton just got approved and he's in,

01:01:33.780 but he didn't get approved by the senators. He got approved by the court system in New York,

01:01:38.180 which was a great thing. And I had a big victory in New York, I might add. I saved myself 500 million

01:01:44.100 dollars with a fake, corrupt attorney general. A really corrupt person with a corrupt judge who was

01:01:52.740 disgraceful and they're being, they're being mauled right now by everybody. Just, it's so corrupt. And it

01:01:58.660 kept business out of New York. Stuff like that. But the appellate division, uh, vacated all of that

01:02:05.060 stuff that you read about. And, uh, we're, we're going to do a big number on that whole thing.

01:02:11.220 You can't have a corrupt court system. You can't have that. You have to have borders

01:02:15.780 and you have to have a free press. Otherwise you don't have a country. But, uh, you'll be hearing

01:02:20.740 about the blue slipping because if you have not, you don't need two senators. You just need one

01:02:26.100 democrat senator with a republican. The only person that I can get approved are democrats

01:02:32.500 or maybe weak republicans. But we don't want that. But the only person I will be able to get

01:02:37.380 approved in any of those states where you have a democrat will. I can't get a U.S. Attorney. I can

01:02:41.940 only get a democrat U.S. Attorney. Uh, and this is based on an old custom. It's not based on law.

01:02:49.060 And I think it's unconstitutional. And I'll probably be filing a suit on that pretty soon. Yeah, please.

01:02:54.020 During the campaign, you called Kamala Harris a communist. But the Biden Harris administration,

01:02:59.540 they never called for nationalizing a private company with the federal government like you're

01:03:03.940 proposing with Intel. What do you say to some who say this is a bit hypocritical? And is this the new

01:03:10.100 way of doing industrial policy? Yeah, sure it is. I want to try and get as much as I can. And people

01:03:15.140 come in and they need something. As an example, as a real estate person, if I have an agreement and I

01:03:21.380 have a I have any form of a stop gap where I can stop somebody from doing something. Right? I have

01:03:29.380 a covenant and an agreement and they come to me and they say, I would like you to

01:03:35.380 would like to do something, but you have us restricted. If I do that, they usually have to pay.

01:03:40.740 Now, in the case of Intel was interesting, but I hope I'm going to have many more cases like it.

01:03:46.180 Intel came in. I met with a gentleman. I had a lot of respect for him. He came in under

01:03:51.380 a little bit of a cloud. I liked his story. I thought he was good. I think he really means to

01:03:57.460 do a good job with Intel. I said, I'd like to ask whether or not you'd give the United give,

01:04:03.860 you know, because a lot of people said I invested in it. I didn't invest,

01:04:08.340 but I invest my heart in it and my soul because I want the country to be strong.

01:04:13.220 But I said, I'd like you to give 10% of Intel to the United States of America,

01:04:18.020 not to me, to the United States of America. And I said, if you have them as a partner,

01:04:22.980 you have the United States as a partner. I think that would be a very good thing for Intel.

01:04:27.780 And he thought about it a little bit different. And he said, I like that idea very much.

01:04:32.180 We have a deal. And that's I just made $10 billion or $11 billion for the United States of America.

01:04:38.420 And yeah, there will be other cases. If I have that opportunity again, I would do that.

01:04:43.220 And then, you know, you do have stupid people say, oh, that's a shame. It's not a shame.

01:04:46.900 It's called business. If somebody is willing to give you 10% of a company and you're not paying for

01:04:53.060 it. And I will tell you with a company like Intel, as you know, it's had difficulty.

01:04:59.460 I want them to do well. I have a, I want them to do well anyway,

01:05:02.420 but I want them to do well in particular that public ownership of a private company,

01:05:07.620 a new way of doing business and the business of the United States. Isn't that what you were

01:05:13.060 sort of rejecting? So it does. So, as you know,

01:05:16.420 the stock market went up almost a thousand points on Friday and it went up not because of this very,

01:05:23.620 uh, I think terrible. Hello, who's that? Who is that back there? All right, get out of the room.

01:05:32.260 It went up because of something much different. It went up because, uh, it was announced CBO announced

01:05:38.980 the numbers. And as you know, they gave no credit to tariffs. They said they made a mistake that the

01:05:45.860 trade deficit will be reduced because of Trump's tariffs will be reduced by $4 trillion. Right?

01:05:54.100 Is that what they said? Right? They said $4 trillion and the market went up like a rocket ship

01:06:00.180 because the tariffs are good. Well, tariffs aren't that usual. If the seven wars I stopped,

01:06:07.300 four of them were because of the fact that I had tariffs and trade. And I was able to say,

01:06:12.420 well, if you do this, if you go fight and you want to kill everybody, that's okay,

01:06:17.460 but I'm going to charge you each 100% tariff when you trade with us. You know what? They all gave up.

01:06:24.180 I stopped seven wars. Numerous of them was because of tariffs. So, you know, you never knew the word

01:06:29.940 tariff. It didn't exist really essentially in this country until actually in, uh, the 1870s up till 1913

01:06:38.820 it existed. And we were the richest country. We were richer then proportionately than at any time

01:06:44.900 in the history of our country. And then stupidly in 1913, they said, let's go to the income tax

01:06:51.380 uh, way of life. Let the people pay instead of foreign countries. No,

01:06:55.540 we're taking in trillions of dollars in tariffs and we're stopping wars because of tariffs. So that's not

01:07:01.860 uh, so normal either. But you know what? Other countries did it to us and now we're doing it to other

01:07:07.860 countries. You rolled out boots on the ground in Ukraine. But how would air support as part of

01:07:14.900 a security guarantee be any different? Those U.S. Airmen? Well, you really went from one question to the

01:07:19.460 net. You went from one? I expected it'd at least challenged me a little bit. Now we're talking about

01:07:25.620 boots on the ground. But U.S. air assets over the skies of Ukraine as part of a security guarantee,

01:07:30.820 wouldn't those U.S. Airmen also be in danger? Well, you don't know what security guarantee is because we

01:07:34.740 haven't even discussed the specifics of it. And we'll see. Number one, Europe is going to give them

01:07:41.300 significant security guarantees. And they should because they're right there. But we'll be involved

01:07:45.860 from the standpoint of backup. We're going to help them. And I think if we get a deal, and I think we

01:07:51.620 will. But if we get a deal, you're not going to I don't believe you're going to have much of a problem.

01:07:56.180 But we'll back it up because I want to stop seeing people being killed. You know,

01:08:00.260 when Biden was here, he gave 350 billion dollars — you know this from covering business — 350

01:08:07.700 billion dollars to Ukraine. I said that Zelensky is the greatest salesman I think I've ever met

01:08:13.700 better than P.T. Barnum because he'd come to the country. He'd walk out with 50 billion dollars every

01:08:18.340 time. He actually came here once. He walked out with 100 billion dollars. We're up to 350 billion.

01:08:23.620 I got a trillion dollars worth of rare earth that we have from the country because I felt badly for

01:08:31.540 our taxpayer. But I did something else at the NATO meeting. They are wealthy countries, but they

01:08:37.220 weren't paying. And we don't pay any money to Ukraine anymore. Do you know that? In fact,

01:08:44.100 it's the opposite. They request through NATO — we deal with NATO. We don't deal really with Ukraine.

01:08:51.140 NATO requests missiles. They want Patriots. They want missiles. We give the missiles to NATO.

01:08:57.780 NATO pays us in full and does what they want. I mean, I think they give them mostly to — they

01:09:03.700 can do other things with them, too, because we're dealing with NATO. We pay no money to Ukraine.

01:09:08.740 We gave 350 billion dollars to Ukraine. You know, if we didn't give that kind of money — and I was the

01:09:15.220 one that gave the javelins, if you remember. I gave the javelins. They were very effective.

01:09:19.220 They say Obama gave sheets and Trump gave javelins. They were very effective with those tanks right

01:09:25.620 at the beginning. But you would have never had a war if I were president. You would have never had

01:09:29.780 a war. Just to finish, we spend no money on Ukraine anymore. We were getting fleeced by

01:09:41.620 a president that didn't know what he was doing. To be honest, I don't blame Ukraine. I mean, if they come

01:09:45.780 and ask for $100 billion and they get it. But we were in for $350 billion. Now we make money.

01:09:53.060 I don't want to make money on Ukraine. I want the war to end because I want to save all those lives.

01:09:57.300 I want to just say — but just so you understand, we're no longer losing money on that thing. We were

01:10:01.540 losing money hand over fist. And now we don't lose any money. Now we sell weapons to NATO. Because NATO

01:10:09.620 agreed, because of me, to go to 5 percent. They had 2 percent and didn't pay. Now they have 5 percent

01:10:15.780 and they're all paid up. So they have trillions of dollars and they give us that money. But I really

01:10:20.980 want the war to end. And we're going to get it ended.

01:10:23.700 Mr. President, one piece is the historic summit here with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and European

01:10:28.660 leaders all met here with you at the White House. You said you wanted to get this done

01:10:32.100 bilateral as soon as possible. Have you spoken to Putin since last Monday?

01:10:36.100 Mr. President, yeah, I have. What is your conversation?

01:10:39.940 Mr. Every conversation I have with him is a good conversation. And then,

01:10:43.540 unfortunately, a bomb is loaded up into Kiev or someplace. And then I get very angry about it.

01:10:50.820 I think we're going to get the war done. It's tough. I thought that would be, of the seven that I

01:10:55.620 settled, I thought that would be the easiest of the group. See? You never know what's going to happen.

01:11:00.420 You know, war. Strange things happen in war.

01:11:02.980 The fact that he went to Alaska, our country, I think was a big statement that he wants to get it

01:11:11.460 done. That was not easy for him to go to Alaska, you know, for him to come here. But the fact that he

01:11:17.380 showed up on a very successful day, it was a very successful day for other things. Because,

01:11:22.180 you know, we're also talking about missiles, nuclear. We're talking about a lot of different things.

01:11:29.140 We're talking about limiting nuclear weapons. We'll get China into that. We have the most.

01:11:36.820 Russia has the second most. And China has third. But China is way behind, but they'll catch us in

01:11:42.260 five years. We would like to denuclearize. It's too much power. And we talked about that also. That's

01:11:50.020 part of it. But we have to get the war over with.

01:11:56.100 Thank you. On Baltimore, you said that you are going to have to reconsider bridge funding.

01:12:01.140 Is that contingent on Westmore cleaning up the streets?

01:12:03.700 No, we were very generous to him on a bridge. You know, a boat ran into a bridge and the bridge

01:12:08.420 came down like I've never seen anything. The boat was just, it just shows you the mass of that boat,

01:12:13.460 the power of that boat. You know, people were up on that bridge, painters, they were painting the bridge,

01:12:17.940 and they were watching it happen. And they thought they were very safe. They all died.

01:12:22.580 They were painting the bridge. Can you imagine? And they watched the boat. The engines were off

01:12:27.780 and they watched the boat. And the power of that boat, the mass of that boat,

01:12:32.740 went right through that steel, just like it was nothing. It's amazing. It's called mass.

01:12:36.580 Mass is a big deal. But the mass of that boat, those people all died. But they were,

01:12:41.620 they thought they were totally safe. Two of them were eating their lunch. They were,

01:12:45.140 you know, whatever. They were watching it. They could have gotten off.

01:12:49.140 Somebody did a very good job. A police officer called in and said,

01:12:54.980 close the bridge. And he did it with, with power. Get everybody off the bridge. Close that.

01:13:02.340 That guy should get a medal because he stopped the bridge. A lot of people would have died. A lot more

01:13:06.660 people would have died. The ones that died were the workers on the bridge. And they, they were just,

01:13:10.820 they thought there was no danger because, you know, it's a big steel bridge. And it came down like,

01:13:18.900 like toothpicks. It was incredible to watch that. It was just, and they died. They all died.

01:13:24.740 But that police officer, again, the police do a great job. The police officer did an amazing job.

01:13:30.740 And I heard the tapes. He would say, get everybody off. Most people wouldn't have said that.

01:13:35.780 You know, when you see a thing like that, you assume it's going to, you know, tap the bridge and

01:13:41.380 it's going to be rebuffed. The thing just came down. I've never seen anything like it. So,

01:13:45.540 he did a good job. In fact, I think we should get him in for a medal. The man that gave the warning,

01:13:49.780 I listened to him. Everybody get off screaming. Everybody off. He had the sense to realize that

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Bannon's War Room - August 25, 2025

Episode 4731： Trump Signs Executive Orders Regarding Crime

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