AMERICA'S VOICE LIVE WITH STEVE GRUBER - OCTOBER 23RD, 2025

Summary

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Real America’s Voice Live with Steve Gruber – October 23, 2025

Main Theme & Purpose

This episode of America's Voice Live—hosted by Steve Guerrero (Steve Gruber)—centers on the defense of free speech and the exposure of what the host views as attacks on First Amendment rights, both overseas and in the U.S. It also covers breaking political news, including a government shutdown attributed to Democrats, a massive illegal gambling sting involving NBA figures, and an in-depth segment featuring President Donald Trump addressing an unprecedented crackdown on drug cartels with key administration officials.

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1. The Defense of Free Speech in America (00:59–14:12)

Key Points & Insights

• Opening Rant: Free Speech Under Siege

  • Guerrero frames Real America’s Voice (RAV) as a bastion for conservative free speech.
  • He criticizes alleged “societal censorship” by institutions and “governmental overreach.”
  • “Lose free speech, we lose everything. Innovation, accountability, the very soul of our republic.” — Steve Guerrero (03:35)

• Global Crackdown on Speech

  • Describes Europe’s Digital Services Act and similar UK policies as “Orwellian.”

  • Asserts that government and court systems in Europe are prioritizing “other goods over expression,” creating a chilling effect.

  • Notable quote:

    • “Can you believe it? Prosecutors are raiding homes over online hate speech... Europe’s courts are prioritizing other goods, whatever that means, over expression, creating a chilling effect that’s spreading like wildfire or a disease.” — Steve Guerrero (06:00)

• Big Tech and Government Collusion

  • Criticizes the Biden administration’s role in content moderation during COVID-19.
  • Plays a segment with Mark Zuckerberg admitting pressure from the White House:
    • “They [the Biden administration] also tried to censor anyone who is basically arguing against [vaccines]... They pushed us super hard to take down things that honestly were true.” — Mark Zuckerberg (10:00–10:25)
  • References Google’s admission to House Judiciary about political censorship.
  • Calls for accountability and restoration of banned accounts.

• Historical Context & “God Complex” Documentary

  • Suggests that the use of “disinformation” to control speech was perfected in the Soviet Union.
  • “The Soviet Union created the notion of disinformation, that there was one central truth and that was held up high by the politburo...” — Stephen Miller (12:34)

• Guerrero’s Rallying Cry

  • Insists defending free speech is fighting for freedom itself.
  • Applauds Real America’s Voice, Congressman Jim Jordan, and Senator Schmidt.
  • Encourages audience activism and vigilance: “Vote with your wallets, your views, your voices. Because if we preserve free speech against societal boycotts, government pressure and global trends, we save America.” — Steve Guerrero (13:06)

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2. The Government Shutdown and Political Leverage (17:01–23:34)

Key Points & Insights

• Blame Placed on Democrats
  • Guerrero accuses Democrats of prioritizing illegal immigrants over Americans by refusing to pass a continuing resolution.
  • Quotes Democratic whip Katherine Clark and others acknowledging using the shutdown as leverage.
    • “People are going to suffer. But it’s one of the few leverage points we have, really.” — Pete Hegseth reading from Clark’s remarks (18:03)
• Interview with Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) (18:39–23:34)
  • Norman denounces the Democrats, accuses them of holding the country hostage for $1.5 trillion in new spending and free health care for illegal immigrants.
    • “We’re using our leverage. Leverage to take food away from women and children, leverage to take, not pay our military, our bravest and our true patriots. It’s unfathomable, Steve, but they will do anything now...” — Rep. Ralph Norman (19:05)
  • Both criticize media coverage, contrasting it with focus on White House renovations.
    • “They’re ignoring that cost altogether and obsessing over a remodel at the White House. Talk about missed opportunities and misplaced priorities.” — Steve Guerrero (21:32)
  • Norman praises Trump: “He’s the greatest president in my lifetime. And it’s amazing the Democrats will fight him just because of who he is at every level.” (22:00)

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3. President Trump’s Address: “War on Cartels” (27:29–61:28)

Key Points & Insights

Introduction & Key Announcements (27:39–30:00)

• President Trump announces the largest crackdown on drug cartels in U.S. history.
• Executive order designating cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and creating a Homeland Security Task Force integrating all pertinent agencies.

Law Enforcement Achievements (30:00–44:31)

• Reports record-breaking arrests and drug/gun seizures.
  • Over 3,000 cartel operatives arrested within the first month.
  • Over 120,000 criminals arrested since Trump’s return to office in 2025.
  • Seized 70+ tons of narcotics, 1,000+ illegal guns.
• Credits federal, state, and local law agencies, and acknowledges leaders from police, sheriff, and border patrol organizations.

Notable Quotes

• “The cartels are the ISIS of the Western hemisphere… In recent weeks, our Homeland Security task force has seized more than 70 tons of deadly narcotics along with more than 1,000 illegal guns.” — President Trump (35:00)

Testimonials from Cabinet & Officials (43:56–55:43)

• Attorney General Pam Bondi:
  • Details the operational results: Over 3,200 violent gang members and drug dealers arrested, 91 tons of drugs seized in one month.
  • “We're dismantling the cartels and we are taking the leaders into custody and all of the gangs. We are going to supercharge this work. This is not a pilot program. This is permanent.” — Pam Bondi (46:18)
• Secretary of War Pete Hegseth:
  • Frames the anti-cartel campaign as a military-style effort.
  • “You declared war on them. And you didn’t say we were just going to fight them. You said we were going to destroy them.” (47:50)
  • Describes 100% control of southwest border.
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard:
  • Highlights creation of a National Intelligence Fusion Cell.
  • Describes recent successes: targeting cartel bosses and “harvesting organs and selling newborn babies” criminal rings.
  • Expresses determination to keep working despite the shutdown.
• Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Advisor:
  • Declares the country “was going to die without you [Trump],” credits him for “the single most successful public safety initiative in American history.”
  • “And only President Trump could have done this. And I will say one last thing, which is that his courage has been an inspiration to everyone else in this room.” (55:43)
• FBI Director Cash Patel:
  • Emphasizes the scale and speed of the administration’s task force work.
  • “Your vision to safeguard American freedoms and our children and our future is the most courageous thing I've ever seen a President of the United States ever do.” (60:21)

Closing Remarks (58:06–61:28)

• Trump recaps his administration’s efforts to clean up the nation’s capital and restore order and pride.
• Praises the assembled team and underscores national and international confidence in the United States.
• “We have the hottest country anywhere in the world right now. The whole world is talking about it... We're going to clear up this crime in our cities. We can do it quickly, too.” — President Trump (58:06)

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Memorable Quotes & Timestamps

• “In America, we preserve it [free speech] against all comers, whether it’s sneaky societal censorship from woke universities or outright governmental overreach. Lose free speech, we lose everything.”
  • Steve Guerrero (03:35)
• “Mark, here he is [on government pressure to censor vaccine information]... They pushed us super hard to take down things that honestly were true.”
  • Mark Zuckerberg (10:00–10:25)
• “We're defending freedom itself at its core.”
  • Steve Guerrero (03:19)
• “We’re using our leverage. Leverage to take food away from women and children, leverage to take, not pay our military, our bravest and our true patriots.”
  • Rep. Ralph Norman (19:05)
• “You declared war on them. And you didn’t say we were just going to fight them. You said we were going to destroy them.”
  • Pete Hegseth (47:50)
• “We're dismantling the cartels and we are taking the leaders into custody and all of the gangs. We are going to supercharge this work. This is not a pilot program. This is permanent.”
  • Pam Bondi (46:18)
• “This country was going to die without you. This country was going to actually die without you. That’s what we were facing in 2024...”
  • Stephen Miller (55:43)
• "Your vision to safeguard American freedoms and our children and our future is the most courageous thing I've ever seen a President of the United States ever do."
  • Cash Patel (60:21)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• 00:59: Gruber’s opening—RAV and the free speech battles
• 03:00–07:00: European/UK censorship and U.S. Big Tech collusion
• 10:00: Zuckerberg audio, admissions on Biden administration pressure
• 12:34: "God Complex" documentary and Soviet methods of disinformation
• 17:01: Government shutdown segment introduced
• 18:39: Rep. Ralph Norman interview
• 27:29: President Trump’s address on cartel crackdown begins
• 43:56: Attorney General Pam Bondi's operational summary
• 47:50: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's remarks
• 53:14: DNI Tulsi Gabbard intelligence and operations summary
• 55:43: Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller's tribute
• 60:21: FBI Director Cash Patel comments on the administration’s vision

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Conclusion

This episode of America's Voice Live with Steve Guerrero takes listeners through a highly charged, pro-conservative critique of government censorship and mainstream media, hailing Real America’s Voice as a free speech champion. A central segment hammers Democrats for a government shutdown, while the latter half of the episode features a high-profile, roundtable address led by President Trump. There, he and his administration detail a sweeping offensive against drug cartels, with cabinet-level officials underscoring a narrative of unprecedented law enforcement success and national revival under Trump’s leadership.

The tone throughout is urgent, combative, and deeply loyal to conservative populism, blending domestic cultural grievances, political attacks, and a vision of muscular executive action framed as a restoration of American greatness.

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Transcript

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[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

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[Stephen Miller]

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[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Breaking news right now here on Real America's Voice Filtered. These people are domestic terrorists and unapologetic. We're here to take a stand for God and country. Does feel good. America's Voice Live starts now. Welcome to America's Voice Live. I'm Steve Guerrero. It is Thursday 23rd October, year of our Lord 2025. Let's get to the day's top stories. As always, thank you for joining me. Here on Real America's Voice. The federal government remains shut down, all thanks to the Democrats. Love for illegal aliens. One Democrat congresswoman even said that Democrats are intentionally inflicting suffering on hardworking American families for leverage. Yeah, we'll have that story with Ralph Norman of South Carolina. He doesn't like his colleagues comments. Also, the FBI has arrested more than 30 NBA stars and mob members in a massive illegal gambling sting. Former current players, including Chauncey Billups charged with fraud, extortion and money laundering, among other things. I'll discuss that as well today. And then later, the VA coming under fire for enforcing a rule in which veterans could see their therapy sessions suddenly get cut off. Raising concerns over corporate interests, taking precedent over ensuring veterans have the resources they need. The details of all that coming up. But first, I want to start with free speech. Our God given right in the heart of what makes America exceptional. And let me tell you folks, if there's one outfit that's been battling tooth and nail to keep that flame alive, it's Real America's Voice right here. Real Clear Politics put out a piece here a couple of days ago. Real America's voice at the real cost of free speech. And you should look at this article during the break. Rob Sig and the rest of the team here at RAV are American heroes, plain and simple. They've built RAV from the ground up, giving a megaphone to bold conservative voices like mine and Charlie Kurt, whose message has now reached more hearts and minds than ever before. Terrible price to pay, but it resonates. RAV isn't just another network. It's a disruptor, paving the way for courageous patriots who dare to speak truth to power in an Internet age rigged against us. They faced shadow bans, ad boycotts that even spilled over to their weather channel. Talk about vindictive. But the Sigs, they don't back down. They're all about that. Never surrender spirit blending faith and fight to prove the elites wrong every single day. RAV showing us how to build for a future on the Internet where conservative ideas flow free, lifting all boats in the marketplace of ideas. They're the vanguard folks, ensuring voices like mine and yours aren't drowned out by the swamp. But here's the thing. Free speech isn't just a nice to have. It's the bedrock of our republic. The First Amendment isn't some suggestion. It's a shield against tyranny. It's let us debate dissent and dream big without fear of big brothers slapping us down. In America, we preserve it against all comers, whether it's sneaky societal censorship from woke universities or outright governmental overreach. Lose free speech, we lose everything. Innovation, accountability, the very soul of our republic. We've seen what happens when it's eroded. Ideas stagnate, truth gets buried, and power consolidates in the hands of the very few. That's why conservative warriors fight so hard. We're not just defending words. We're defending freedom itself at its core. Now look around the world. You'll see the nightmare we're up against if we let the left win. Take Germany, once a beacon of post war democracy, now turning into a thought police state in 2025. Their coalition governments pushing for tighter controls and public debate. All in the name of protecting democracy. Hillary Clinton wants us to follow suit. Professor and attorney Jonathan Turley called her out and watched her trying to weaponize the EU against us firsthand. Here's what he said. The Berlin World Forum followed the remarks.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

Of Vice President Vance on free speech and the EU was red hot.

They gathered in Berlin and it was.

The most anti free speech gathering I've.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Ever been part of.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

There's only two of us from the free speech community.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

And they are committed. And, you know, Hillary Clinton was there.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

And she really fueled the anger.

I mean, she.

When Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk.

She called on the EU to use.

The infamous Digital Services act, which is.

One of the most anti free speech pieces of legislation in decades.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

And she called upon the EU to.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

Use the DSA to force the censorship.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Of American citizens, force people like Musk to censor.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

It's an extraordinary act by someone who was once a presidential candidate, the United States.

But they are committed to it.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

And after the World Forum, they further globalize this effort.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

And they are threatening companies like Axe.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

With ruinous fines unless they resume censoring American citizens. Oh, they're doing it all over. Can you believe it? Prosecutors are raiding homes over online hate speech. Defending these crackdowns is necessary to safeguard society. It's straight out of Orwell. Say the wrong thing about immigration or politics, bam. Fines, arrests, or worse. Europe's courts are prioritizing other goods, whatever that means, over expression, creating a chilling effect that's spreading like a wildfire or a disease. The uk, no better. Under Keir Starmer's regime, free speech is under siege. They're arresting up to 30 people a day, a day for petty stuff like retweets or cartoons that offend the sensitive snowflakes. The Online Safety act is expanding its tentacles, curbing speech under the guise of safety. Of course, ordinary Brits are getting hauled in for daring to question the narrative on riots or immigration. It's a sinister turn, folks, censoring citizens while the elites preach tolerance. Of course, their end goal is for all platforms to fall in line, get in line, or else they have to have their mainstream talking points expanded and amplified. And they almost had it until alternative platforms like Telegram and Parler were launched. And then Elon Musk bought Twitter, of course, turned it into X. And conservative ideas have reached farther than ever before, which is why these innovators have the biggest targets on their backs. RFK Jr. For example, says the United States should be standing up for them around the world. I agree.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

Listen, Europe is now censoring speech openly. We saw the arrest of Pavlo Durov, the head of Telegram, when he refueled, landed to refuel in France. He was dragged off his airplane and put in jail because of free speech, because they didn't like what was written about the Ukraine war. We see the head of the European Commission, Terry Badot, Terry Breton, threatening Elon Musk that if he has a live interview on X, Twitter X. X bases with President Trump, the former president United States, the nominee of one of our two great political parties. That that would be violating that he was going to be. Musk was going to be criminally and civilly prosecuted or penalties amounting to 6% of the value of his company. Oh, this. And, and what should our government be doing about that? The Biden administration, If we really were promoting democracy in the around the world as we claim, instead of fighting a war in Ukraine, we should be screaming at the rooftops against these governments and threatening sanctions against them if they censor their people.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Amen to that. How about Canada? Oh, our northern neighbors are no better. No better at all. In fact, following Charlie Kirk's murder, they're cracking down on political speech in workplaces, stifling debate under hate speech laws that sound downright authoritarian. Cities are clamping down with bills like C63. It empowers bureaucrats to silence dissent, silence even their attorney general echoes calls for more restrictions, making hate speech a catch all for anything. Anything the left doesn't like. It's a global crackdown and Americans are not immune if we don't fight back. Which reminds me of the dark days under the Biden regime. Talk about censorship. Tyranny we can't forget or else history will repeat itself. For years, Big Tech acted as the enforcement arm of the radical left. Shadow banning, deplatforming and outright censoring conservatives like me. Remember the COVID lockdowns, Question the experts and poof, your accounts disappeared. Election integrity concerns labeled misinformation and scrubbed immediately. It was a full on assault with the White House pressuring tech giants to silence Americans. Mark Zuckerberg has admitted it and tried to say, well, it wasn't really my fault, really. Mark, here he is.

[Stephen Miller]

They were trying to roll out the vaccine program and I'm generally like pretty pro rolling out vaccines. I think on balance the vaccines are more positive than negative. But I think that while they're trying to push that program, they also tried to censor anyone who is basically arguing against it. And they pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly were true.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

Right.

[Stephen Miller]

I mean, they basically pushed us and said, you know, anything that says that vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down. And I was just like, well, we're not going to do that. Like, we're clearly not going to do that. I mean that's, that, that, that is kind of inevitably true. They.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Who's telling you to take down things?

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

Yeah, it was, it was.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Talk about vaccine side Effects.

[Stephen Miller]

It was people in the. In the Biden administration, I think it was. You know, I wasn't involved in those conversations directly.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Of course not. I wasn't directly involved. Do you trust him? Doesn't matter. The truth still coming out. Google just admitted it all in a bombshell letter to the House Judiciary Committee. It's all there, thanks to Chairman Jim Jordan's relentless oversight. God bless that man. By the way. Google confessed that the Biden crew pushed them to censor content that didn't even violate their policies. They called it unacceptable and wrong, vowing never to rely on third party fact checkers again or bow to Europe censorship laws that target American free speech. They're even promising to reinstate thousands of banned YouTube accounts kicked off for political speech on COVID 19. And elections. Haven't seen it much, but they're promising that, folks. It's huge though. A direct admission that the Deep state colluded with Silicon Valley to shut you up. But it's not enough. Not enough at all. We need accountability, not useless apologies. We can't let this happen again. Free speech is our line in the sand. It's what separates us from the rest of the world and those authoritarian regimes. Disinformation, misinformation. These are catch all words that tyrants have been using since before the Biden era. There's a documentary out on YouTube right now called God Complex, the Rise of America's Censorship Machine. It's free to watch, by the way, and it points to the Soviet Union's use of disinformation crackdowns. Listen to this.

[Stephen Miller]

Soviet Union created the notion of disinformation, that there was one central truth and that was held up high by the politburo, by those in power of the Communist Party, and it instilled truth from the top down.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

So this sort of brings us back.

[Stephen Miller]

To the dramatic difference between an American approach about decentralized truth, trust in the masses, trust in an average citizen versus a top down approach where there is a central truth.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

The top down approach. Now the left knows that the Soviet Union were the bad guys, but they sure ripped a page out of the playbook, didn't they? In the MAGA era, we've got to double down support warriors like the Sigs at Real America's voice back leaders like Jim Jordan and Senator Schmidt from Missouri who exposed the censorship industrial complex and demanded big tech play fair. Vote with your wallets, your views, your voices. Because if we preserve free speech against societal boycotts, government pressure and global trends, we save America. Let's make it great. Keep it free and never, ever surrender. God bless you. God bless United States of America. And again, I ask, who's with me? All right, coming up after the break, the government shutdown is dragging into its fourth week now and Democrats are seemingly holding American families hostage to push their radical agenda. You see, they think it's leverage. 22 days and counting. We'll have more on the Democratic shutdown with Congressman Ralph Norman after the break.

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When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes or just asked why Benghazi?

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

The truth became a web of lies.

It's almost a dirty word, one that Connotes conspiracy theory.

[Pam Bondi]

Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Bad faith, political warfare and frankly, bullshit. We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together. Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. I'm Leon Neyfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.

[Pete Hegseth]

What? What difference at this point does it make?

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

Yes, that's right.

Lock her up.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, so the government shutdown has entered its fourth week since taking effect. And it's all thanks to the Democrats who favor illegal aliens over American citizens and federal workers. The Democrats have repeatedly refused to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded. In fact, today they voted not to pay certain members of the government staff. Catherine Clark, the number two Democrat in the House, has openly admitted that Democrats are intentionally inflicting pain and suffering on hardworking American families for leverage, for leverage purposes in their Democrat shutdown. But don't take my word for it. Listen for yourself.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of.

Course there will be, you know, families.

[Pete Hegseth]

That are going to suffer.

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We take that responsibility very seriously.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

But it is one of the few.

[Pete Hegseth]

Leveraged times we have.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

People are going to suffer. But it's one of the few leverage points we have, really. Democrats using the federal government and the American families as ransom to secure $1.5 trillion in new spending, taxpayer funded health care for illegal aliens, and hundreds of millions of dollars for left wing news outlets. There's no doubt that this proves that the Democrat Party doesn't care about you, doesn't care about the American people will do whatever they can to ensure that their anti American agenda is fulfilled. Here with me to discuss this, Congressman Ralph Norman of South Carolina. 5. Congressman, nice to see you again.

[Congressman Ralph Norman]

Glad to be with you, Steve.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Just one programming note. We are watching the White House. Donald Trump could step out. If he does that, we're going to have to go to him live and see what he has to say today about the shutdown and so much more. Let's talk about this. The Democrats have voted, what, 12 times refusing to open the government. We just heard your colleague there say it's about leverage. It doesn't matter who gets hurt, it's about leverage.

[Congressman Ralph Norman]

Your response, that response from, from the Democrat Party and It's just not Ms. Clark, it's. Look at Chuck Schumer. Every day is a better day. Look at Bernie Sanders. Basically, we're using our leverage. Leverage to take food away from women and children, leverage to take, take our, not pay our military, our bravest and our true patriots. It's unfathomable, Steve, but they will do anything now and it's all over. As you mentioned, $1.5 trillion of new spending of money we don't have. And I don't think the Democrats understand that. One, they're dealing with Donald Trump, and as he told Zelensky, they don't have the cards. And secondly, you're putting the American people and the whole American country at hostage in a hostage situation. It's just not going to work. The House has done our job. We've, we've passed the CR. The Democrats voted under Joe Biden 13 times to pass the CR. And now, due to their hatred of Trump and their willingness to make the American people suffer, this is what they're doing.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

It's what they're doing. It seems to me that there should be commercials running on endless loops with Chuck Schumer, with Catherine Clark and others saying these things. I mean, it's pretty clear it's what they want. They think it's a political game. And it's interesting, in the aftermath of the no Kings protest this past weekend, the minority party in America, they lost the House, they lost the Senate, they lost the White House, and yet they can shut the government down. I don't see a king here. I see some petulant children that are stomping their feet and holding their breath. Where am I wrong?

[Congressman Ralph Norman]

Well, you're exactly right. And you're seeing a unpatriotic stance against this country and the fact that they're doing it now. We've got Thanksgiving coming up, we have Christmas coming up. And so many bright things are happening with America. And for them to do this shows again, they will do anything. It doesn't matter. And they're the party in the past who in their opinion was work for the American people. They are working against the every American by this tactic. And I say I see no end to it. Either they get the senators to sign on, pass the cr. They will open the government back up. Up until, until they do that, there's nothing to negotiate.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Yeah. You had nothing in there. It's a clean cr. What would you take off the table? Nothing. The Republicans put nothing in there. Democrats are spending almost all of their time talking about the cost of the 90,000 square foot ballroom. The president is adding to the White House. They're not talking about the cost of the American family, cost of the American businesses, cost of those that can least afford it. They're ignoring that cost altogether and obsessing over a remodel at the White House. Talk about missed opportunities and misplaced priorities.

[Congressman Ralph Norman]

Well, and they're not going to give Donald credit, Donald Trump credit if he solves Alzheimer's and cancer. They're just not going to do it. This is a pure hatred of him. Look, look at the good he's doing for the country. And they will pick out the negative irregardless. But the American people see through it. This president will should have gotten the Nobel Peace Prize for what this man has done to keep America safe and now prosperous. He's the greatest president in my lifetime. And it's amazing the Democrats will fight this, fight him just because of who he is at every level.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Here's something to think about. Barack Obama did two major renovations at the White House during his time there, including converting the tennis courts into a enclosed basketball court. If Donald Trump had been brought in in 2012 or 14 to build that basketball court, the Democrats would have celebrated. They would have, because here's a guy who builds things, but because he's president and he's building something, they go bananas and lose their mind. I mean, that's just the, the fact of the matter isn't is and this.

[Congressman Ralph Norman]

Is a president who's taken no salary, who doesn't have to do this, who's dedicated his life to saving this country. And I mean, he's put his life on the line. And so that's why the mainstream media has lost their way. That's why the Democratic Party is now the Marxist socialist Democrat Party. And the American people are going to hold them accountable for it.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

They sure are. Congressman, always good to talk to you, my friend. I see they're filing into the room there at the White House. So we're going to end it there for today, but we'll talk again soon, my friend.

[Congressman Ralph Norman]

Thank you. Appreciate you, Steve.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

There you have it. Ralph Norman, SC 5. Good man there. Running for governor too, by the way, in South Carolina. If you have an interest, look him up. See what you can do to help out. We'll take a break and watch the feed here. Hopefully we'll see the president coming in shortly here on Real America's Voice. America's Voice live.

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When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi?

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

The truth became a web of lies.

It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.

[Pam Bondi]

Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Bad faith play, political warfare and frankly, bullshit. We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together. Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. I'm Leon Neyfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.

[Pete Hegseth]

What difference at this point does it make?

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

Yes, that's right, lock her up.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Keeping an eye on the East Room of the White House. You can see everybody standing. President Trump expected to be there any moment. And of course, we're going to be following this as he is. Well, you can see all the people assembled. You see Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem and others. I'm guessing the president is on his way into the room, so. And there he is. There's President Donald Trump making his way to the front of the room. And we're going to just join this in progress and hear what he has to say today. Always.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

Thank you very much.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

Newsworthy. Here he is.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

Oh, it's a great honor to have all my friends here. It's like old home week. What a job you're doing. And thank you very much for that. We want to begin by thanking the people that have done such a great job at the White House. They have been doing really incredible work during a shutdown. I don't even know if they're supposed to be working, but they wouldn't miss a day. So I just want to thank everybody for the that very much. And we're here today to discuss a sweeping, unprecedented, and historically successful operation that my administration has carried out in recent weeks to arrest, prosecute, and permanently remove members of foreign drug cartels from American soil. And the people gathered around this table are the ones that are doing it. And in this room, some of them sitting a little behind, some of them, I'm surprised, are not actually at the table. You people should be very insulted by that. But you've done a great job back there. On my first day in office earlier this year, I signed an executive order to officially designate the drug cartels and savage transnational gangs as foreign terrorist organizations. It was my honor to do so. And on that same day, I also signed an order directing the creation of the Homeland Security Task Force to bring together all federal, state, and local partners to achieve the national policy goal of eliminating the cartel presence in America once and for all. And the results are. And it's early, and the results are spectacular. Led by ICE and the FBI, this task force includes the Department of Justice, the Department of War, dhs, the intelligence Community, atf, the dea, the US Marshals, and the state and local agencies in every part of our country. Other than that, we don't include too many people. That's a hell of a group, isn't it? Huh? When you think of it, that's not a group you want against you? Certainly not at one time. In addition to the task force members, we're pleased to be joined by representatives of law enforcement at every level. The highest level, actually, but every level, including National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, Patrick Yoes. Where's Patrick? Patrick. Thank you, Patrick. Thank you for the endorsement too. That really hit it off. I would have gotten 98% anyway, but it was still good to have your address. Thank you, Patrick. I don't forget those things. President of the National Sheriff's Association, Chris West. Chris. Thank you, Chris, very much. Great. Good job. Major Cities Chief Association Executive Director Laura Cooper. Laura. Thank you, Laura, very much. Major County Sheriffs of America Executive Director Megan Noland. Megan, thank you. Thank you very much. And President of the National Border Patrol Council, my friend and a very good speaker, by the way. Whenever he gets up and speaks, I say, that guy can really speak. I don't know. I don't want him to run for office. I want him to stay where he is. Paul Perez. Paul. Thank you. Paul. Where is Paul? Hi, Paul. What are you doing over there, Paul? Good job. Good speaker you are though, Paul. I mean, you've made some incredible speeches. Some. And all from the heart too, right? Some great ones. Today you'll hear details from my National Security and Homeland Security teams about the extraordinary historic achievements of this new Homeland Security task force since it became fully operational last month in all 50 states. The job they're doing, what we inherited from this past administration is like, disgraceful. In a matter of weeks, the task force has made the largest number of arrests of cartel leaders, operatives and gang members in American history. More than 3,000 and counting. That includes members of the ultra violent New Generation Cartel, the Sinaloa cartel, the LNFM cartel, Ms. 13 cartel, and you know, Ms. 13, the gang and trend. Another beauty. That's a group of real, real garbage we have to deal with that we shouldn't have to deal with. These are in addition to the massive numbers of dangerous criminals my administration arrested nationwide since January 20th. Numbering over 120,000, it's a record. And 120,000 criminal arrests. Thank you very much. Unfortunately, for four long years before I took office, the last administration allowed the cartels and their operatives to frankly take over our country. To freely infiltrate America and all the communities nationwide. Along with transnational gangs, these groups have unleashed more bloodshed and killing on American soil than all other terrorist groups combined. These are the worst of the worst. It should now be clear to the entire world that the cartels are the ISIS of the Western hemisphere, in addition to their monstrous violence, such as cutting off heads, burning their enemies alive, and burning innocent people alive, too, by the way. The cartels control large swaths of territory. They maintain vast arsenals of weapons and soldiers, and they use extortion, murder, kidnapping to exercise political and economic control. Thank you very much, Joe Biden, for allowing that to happen. Biden surrendered the. I mean, he just surrendered our country to the cartels. Don't worry, we're taking. It gets better. We're taking it back. It's really fast at levels that nobody's ever seen before. But what we had to put up with, what we inherited, was just a disgrace. And while Biden was president, if he was president, I think the auto pen was president, not Biden. Nearly 100% of those who infiltrated our southern border did so because they were personally approved. They admitted they were. They were just what happened. Assisted by the most dangerous and violent criminal organizations anywhere on the planet. The worst people on the planet, they allowed into our beautiful country. Under the Trump administration, we're finally treating the cartels as the core national security threat that they really are. The cartels are waging war on America, and just as I promised in the campaign, we're waging war on them like they've never seen before. All you have to do is turn on your television and you'll see what's happening to them. Past administrations have tried to mitigate this threat, and our objective is to eliminate it. We're not mitigating. We're eliminating. We're getting them out. The bad ones we're putting in prison. We hate to do that, because that means we're stuck with them for 50 years or more. In recent weeks, our Homeland Security task force has seized more than 70 tons of deadly narcotics along with more than 1,000 illegal guns. And that's just recently. This is already the most successful anti cartel and anti gang operation in American history, and it's just getting started. We have incredible people. A lot of them are in this room with us today, and it's an honor to have them. But we're going to not stop until the threat has been fully and completely eradicated. I want to thank task force members with us today, including a person who's doing a fantastic job, Attorney General Pam Bondi. Thank you, Pam. Thank you. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth sounds so much better than Secretary of Defense. I don't know. Do you guys agree with that? I don't know. We won the First World War, the Second World War. I Always say everything before and everything in between. And then we got woke and we said, well, let's call it defense. I don't think. I think we like it this way better. You know, it's funny. That's. That's something. I thought it would be maybe controversial. And it's only controversial that we changed the name in the first place. It's not controversial at all. It's been unbelievably well accepted, Pete. Hasn't it been pretty amazing? I thought it would be controversial. People want to have our country back. People want to do exactly what we're doing right now. We're getting a lot of credit for it, and we should. I want to thank, though, Pete, you're doing a great job. Pete Hex said. Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. Kristi, thank you very much. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi, good job. And the heads of all of the law enforcement agencies all throughout the room. You're really amazing, the job you've done. To provide additional details on our mission, I would like also to ask General Bondi to say a few words, followed by Secretary Noem, Secretary Hegseth, Director Gabbard, Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller. Stephen, you're such a superstar, Stephen. They called Stephen the other day a very bad name. And I said, you should sue them, Stephen. I think he will. I hope he does. FBI Director Cash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. And I just want to say it's an honor, the job we're doing and these people are doing, absolutely incredible. I'll just add a couple of things. In Memphis, as you know, where the numbers are down in half already, and it's only been about two weeks. Doing a fantastic job there. Thank you. Incredible. Nobody thought it was possible. It was really a. It was a very sick city. It was horrible what happened there. People would go from. If you're on the board of FedEx, they would ride you one block to the hotel. They said you couldn't walk it because it was too dangerous. And they're already feeling better about it. But the best example right now is, is Washington, D.C. we have. We went from one of the most unsafe places in the planet, I hate to say, but in this country to a totally safe city. It's. Nothing's crime free, I guess, but this is about as close to crime free as you're going to get. And you guys have done an incredible job with that. Every one of you have worked so hard on this one. And it's our nation's Capital. And people would go to the nation. They'd go from, I always say Iowa, Indiana. They'd go from Florida. They'd come up, they want to see the monument. I want to see the Lincoln Memorial. I want to see one of the monuments, any one of them. And they'd go home in a coffin. But not anymore. It's not happening anymore. We haven't had that happen in a long time. Was averaging more than one a week, one person a week. Who would think that's possible? And it hasn't happened anymore. And we have a safe city. We have a city where the restaurants are booming, people are going out, nobody is being mugged, hit over the head with a baseball bat. None of the stuff is gone. We took out 1,700 criminals, many of them career criminals, many of them given to us by Joe Biden and his ridiculous open borders policy. They came in from jails from all over the world. Not just South America, from all over the world, jails. They came in from mental institutions and insane asylums all over the world. Drug dealers. And we got them the hell out of here. They're either that or if they're so bad, as I said before, we put them in jail because we can't take a chance that they come back. But I want to just say that Washington D.C. is such an example of what could be done. And now the same thing is happening in Memphis. We're just halfway through the process and already the numbers are far superior, far, far better than what we would have thought at this time. And Chicago, I just saw the number last week. It was last weekend. Four were murdered, 11 were shot. And then I have this guy Pritzker who's a very weak governor. Let me be nice. I'm going to be very nice. He's extremely weak. He's pathetic. I have Pritzke get up and say how great they're doing in Chicago. They're doing very poorly. So four were murdered. Four, 11 were shot, I would say. And that was not a bad week for him. Okay? That was not a bad week. He said some were 18 or 19 were murdered. And you know what his excuse was? Yeah, but that was a long weekend, okay? Can you believe it? He said that was a long weekend. He's bad. And then the mayor is worse. I mean that mayor is worse. Low iq, very low iq. And we don't need low IQ people. We need people that are going to take care. And I love Chicago and I love those beautiful women, black women, beautiful women wearing MAGA hats and they're all over the place in Chicago. They want protection. They don't care if it's the National Guard, if it's the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, they'll take Space Force, okay, space for us. Send them in. They couldn't. They just don't want to be mugged, killed, raped, shot in the head, and we stop it. So we're going to be given a very special. We're going to give Chicago very special care. As you probably know, maybe you heard, we were going to do a big surge in San Francisco. But I got a great call from some incredible people, some friends of my very successful people. Mark, who's. Everybody knows him and Jensen. Everybody knows Jensen. Nvidia and others called me from San Francisco and they said, we're working really, really hard with the mayor. We're making progress. Would it be possible for you hold off, for you to hold off the surge? And I had four or five calls, and I think they're making progress of their own. That would be the greatest. I mean, if they could do that, that would be great. And they have great competence in those people. I mean, incredible competence. Some of the smartest business leaders, and they're working very well with the police department. They're doing a good job. So we are holding off that surge, everybody, and we're going to let them see if they can do it. I said, I think we can do it much faster. I know we can do it faster. I think we can do it better than anybody. We can take criminals out that they're not going to know about, and probably they don't have the legal authority maybe to do what we can, but I'm okay with it. And we're going to let. San Francisco has the potential to be. It was a great, great city, has the potential very quickly to be a great city again. And these are the companies that are there that are all working, and those are the people that asked me, could you do away with the surge? And let's see how it works. And we'll do that. If we need to, we'll do it. But it's possible that we won't need to. And we will be focusing on other places like Chicago, and we'll have Chicago taken care of very quickly. But just remember, 11 people shot, four people murdered. Okay? And that was this weekend, and that was Chicago. And then you'll see Pritzker get up and talk about, well, we have it under control. They don't have it under control. Jesse App. It's getting worse. So we'll take care of as soon as we give the go ahead, which is all I have to do is give the go ahead. We won the big court case the other day on the National Guard. That was a good case. Same thing with Portland, speaking of that, because that's where we won it. But I mean, I looked at, I looked the other night, Saturday night, Portland is like burning to the ground. And these people are saying it's just friendly stuff. The whole place is burning to the ground. So we'll take care of that one. That's like an insurrection more than it is anything else. That's. That's crazy. Portland's crazy. And then you listen to these radical left people talking about it's really okay. You're seeing things. You're really seeing things. So we're going to take care of Chicago, we're going to take care of Portland, we're going to take care of Memphis. We're proud of dc. There's nothing to take care of anymore. But we're not going to let it ever go bad. What's never going to happen again, our nation's capital. And with that, I'm just going to tell you that Pam Bondi has done a fantastic job. And Pam, would you say a few words, please?

[Pam Bondi]

Thank you, President Trump, and thank you for your leadership. And this is all about collaboration. And around this table, I'm looking around this table. We all work so well together. I don't think another administration in our nation's history has worked so well together. Together, we talk constantly. Secretary Noem Tulsi, Pete constantly. But also all of our agencies working hand in hand. And that's why this is so successful. And these people around this table are working seven days a week, 24 hours a day, even though the Democrats have tried to shut down the government.

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[Pam Bondi]

I'm laughing because you're around the clock. You're all over the world. Director Patel. You're unstoppable. What you're doing around this country, Gaudy Soralta. U.S. marshal Rob Sakata and Dan Driscoll wearing your ATF hats. Rob, I was on the texting. Todd Blanche and I were texting you at 1am on cases. I mean, that's how committed all of these people are to just keeping all of our citizens safe. And that's what it's all about. And this project is the brainchild of Stephen Miller. And you are doing so much to keep our citizens safe, our kids safe, and get these drugs off our streets. Like, mayor of San Francisco and I are going to be meeting on Fentanyl in a few weeks and working hand in hand on that. Secretary Noem spoke to him. But the results of this last month have been historic. As the President said, in the last month, think about this. 3200. More than 3200 violent gangs and drug dealers have been taken off the streets. Off the streets. Now, Director Patel and all of these agencies have also been working so hard on getting the leadership, but we are getting all the gang members off the streets and the drug dealers. Sinaloa, CJNG, Ms. 13 and more. TDA, 91 tons of drugs have been seized as a result of this task force. We tried to put this in perspective for you. This would be filling four 18 wheelers for all the drugs just in the last month that have been taken off the street. 58,000 kilos of cocaine. Think about a big backyard swimming pool that would fill one and a half square swimming pools. Just the powder cocaine that has been removed, saving lives. This last month, thanks to all of these people around the table, 2,300 kilos of fentanyl powder and 2.1 million fentanyl pills off the streets. And as the President said, more than a thousand illegal guns. The Biden administration was for way too much long. All of these great law enforcement officers surrounding the table were not able to do their jobs. What they've said is now they've been uncuffed, they can do their jobs now. We've been watching transnational gangs grow in our country, become organized, set up infrastructure in all of our states, but no longer under President Trump, we are destroying the infrastructure and we're no longer on defense. All of these great men and women are on offense, so they better get ready. We're dismantling the cartels and we are taking the leaders into custody and all of the gangs. We are going to supercharge this work. This is not a pilot program. This is permanent. We are here to stay. And Secretary Hegseth, we couldn't do this without you and the Department of War. Thank you all so much for everything you're doing around this table, working tirelessly. And President Trump, thank you for giving them the ability to do it.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

Thank you very much. Thank you.

[Pete Hegseth]

Mr. President. Since the year 2000, we have lost over 1 million Americans to drugs, to overdoses, to these cartels that have proliferated that kind of a disease on our people and have gone to war with our next generation of Americans. When you signed the executive order that was protecting the American people from invasion, what you did is that you took these cartels and gangs that we've known for decades. And you declared them to be what they really are, and that's terrorists. You declared war on them. And you didn't say we were just going to fight them. You said we were going to destroy them. And everybody around this table is so honored to be here to work with you to destroy these terrorists that have been killing Americans for years and getting rich off of it. I'm so proud of the work that was done just in the September surge. You referenced that earlier. We had over 400 operations that went down in those first 43 days of the Homeland Security Task Force in operations that brought, as Pam referenced, 3,200 terrorists to justice, got them off the streets, sir. We also have had over precursors and chemicals that were brought in. We've had the work at the southern border. We've got Border patrol here at the table with you. Fentanyl has been cut down by 50% coming into this country over our borders. We've continued to work, not just nationally, but internationally and on our maritime borders as well. The ICE agents that have so much violence against them and threats against them, sir, they get up every day ready to work with this task force to be able to keep people safe. And then we've got Coast Guard, who's been doing just a ton of our incredible interdictions out on the seas in the waters and cooperation with operations that you've targeted in the Caribbean with the Department of War. And, sir, I just want to thank you for the leadership you put at this table, for your cabinet members, for Stephen Miller, for putting this in place to make sure that what you did when you consolidated the Homeland Security Task Force, you took a thousand other task forces that were already established in the federal government, and you streamline them into this room, into this group right here, so that we can look at each other in the face every day and say, what's our problem? How do we address it? How do we fix it? And then we go to work together with our arm's length to do exactly what you told us to do. And that's not just protect the American people from invasion, but to kill these terrorists. You gave us the task to eliminate them, destroy. Destroy them so that they can't destroy the next generation of Americans. So thank you, sir. Thank you for the people you put around this table.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

Thank you very much. That's a great job. Thank you. Pete.

Yes, sir. Well, thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership. Chief. Likewise, Tulsi and Todd and Dan and Pam and Christy and Steven and Cash. I mean, I could go around the table. From the Department of War, we are thankful and grateful for the incredible effort that your agency has put in. And we could not be more proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with you. Not superficially, not kind of over here, but front and center on the Homeland Security task force right there with you. Because our department has spent over two decades defending other homelands, and we're very proud to be defending our own. And if you talk to the troops down, say, on the southwest border, Mr. President, morale is sky high and continues to be because they're proud to be defending their own communities, their own state, their own country. So when that executive order was signed, the mission was clear. Protecting the American people against invasion. And so the Department of War went straight to the southwest border. We still have 10,000 troops there. We have national defense areas. We're standing alongside the border patrol, and we've locked that border down. 100% control of the southwest border. You stop the invasion, and then we're proud to be going on the offense. Counter cartel operations. And it's not counter cartel, as was mentioned. These are designated terrorist organizations, foreign terrorist organizations. Our generation spent the better part of two decades hunting Al Qaeda, hunting isis. Well, as the President said, this is the isis. This is the Al Qaeda of the Western hemisphere. They intimidate, they terrorize, they extort, they poison the American people. The President's right. Every boat we strike is 25,000Americans whose lives are saved because of the drugs that were headed in our direction. So our message to these foreign terrorist organizations is we will treat you like we have treated Al Qaeda. We will find you. We will map your networks. We will hunt you down, and we will kill you. And you've seen that evidence in the maritime domain, whether it's in the Caribbean or in the Pacific. With the last two strikes, we know exactly who these people are. We know what networks they work with, what foreign terrorist organizations they're a part of. We know where they're going, where they originated from, what they're carrying, and they know we know. And that will soon start to change the calculus of these boats. So the critique of this is, of course, as often is the case, wrong. We know our authorities. It's locked tight. And we're going to treat them like foreign terrorist organizations on the offense. So the Department of War is not going to degrade or just simply arrest. We're going to defeat and destroy these terrorist organizations to defend the homeland on behalf of the American people, making the jobs of law enforcement safer in the Process making the communities of Americans safer in the process. We think it's a very core mission of the Department of War and we're proud to be here. Mr. President.

Thank you very much. Pete. Thank you. Tulsi, please.

[Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard]

Yes, thank you. Mr. President, the key reason that you are hearing about these incredible effects is number one, the team that you've assembled here and the leadership and the tone that you, you have set first and foremost about keeping the American people safe. The intelligence community plays a critical role in being able to support our law enforcement at the federal, state and local level to make sure that they are armed with actionable intelligence to be able to actually go after those who threaten the safety and security of the American people. Mr. President, under your leadership, for the first time, there is a newly created National Intelligence Fusion Cell at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, National Counterterrorism, that has a very simple purpose, to make sure that we have two way intelligence sharing of actionable information between the intelligence community and law enforcement. I want to talk briefly about three successes that we've had just here in the last few weeks, Mr. President. Through the success of this interagency fusion cell just this last week, our National Counterterrorism center supported through actionable intelligence to both US Law enforcement as well as Mexican law enforcement, the arrest of a Sinaloa cartel boss, El Plato, in Juarez, Mexico, as well as his top three money launderers. In a separate and recent successful interagency operation, NCTC worked closely with the U.S. marshals Service that led to the arrest of another dangerous Sinaloa cartel member responsible for tracking huge amounts of cocaine and hundreds of thousands of dollars in this single incident with drug proceeds through his network. I'll say the last example I'll share is probably the most insidious was providing intelligence to the Mexican law enforcement that led to the arrest of a CJNG cartel affiliated baby trafficker called La Diabla. Her whole money making operation was centered around luring pregnant women, performing illegal C sections, harvesting organs and selling newborn babies. Mr. President, it's your leadership that has made all of this possible. I can tell you in the midst of this government shutdown, our folks, like everyone around this table, are working 247 without pay and eager to get after this because they believe in your leadership and the mission that you have presented to them. Thank you, Mr. President. I'll hand this off to Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, the leader of this task force.

[Stephen Miller]

Let me just say, Mr. President, that this country was going to die without you. This country was going to actually die without you. That's what we were facing in 2024. We've been invaded for four years. Our communities were sinking. Our public safety had gone to zero. Cartels are running entire communities. Sex trafficking, child trafficking, labor trafficking was out of control. Overdoses were out of control. The cartels were claiming more and more territory. City services were buckling. This was a country on the verge of dying, and you alone saved it. And when you stepped forward, originally in 2016, you started the movement to make America great again. And that means make America great again in every way. And that means safety and prosperity and peace and freedom from cartels and crime and gangs. And your vision and your leadership in declaring war on the drug cartels is the single most successful public safety initiative in American history. And I need the media to understand what President Trump has done. People have been talking about drug cartels for longer than I've been alive. And everyone has just taken for granted that they can't be touched or stopped. They're too big, they're too powerful, they're too evil, they're too murderous. They can operate with impunity. And in just nine months, President Trump is the only American leader, not just in our lifetimes, but ever to actually take the fight to the drug cartels, to actually seek their eradication. And it is happening. And so, while the Democrats are shutting the government down and fighting for free health care for illegal aliens, look at what President Trump has assembled here. He's assembled the team under his vision, direction, and leadership that is saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Hundreds of thousands of lives. And only President Trump could have done this. And I will say one last thing, which is that his courage has been an inspiration to everyone else in this room. There are people in this room looking at, for example, at Todd Lyons, who have been relentlessly doxed and harassed and threatened. But when they see President Trump's courage, what he's been through for 10 years, to save America, when they came after his family, his businesses, his safety, his freedom, everyone at this table knows we can give whatever it takes to get the mission done. So, President Trump, thank you for your leadership, your boldness, your courage, and your vision. We're honored to serve underneath you.

[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

Well, I want to thank you, Stephen. And I have to say that, you know, I've been making the rounds. I'm leaving tomorrow for some very big meetings, including with the President of China, where I think we're going to come out very well, and everyone's going to be very happy. But everybody said the same thing. A year ago, we had a dead country. We were a dead country. We really were, in a lot of ways. Not just this. We were dead as doornails on this, but we were a country that was in serious trouble. And beyond that. And we have the hottest country anywhere in the world right now. The whole world is talking about it. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're going to clear up this crime in our cities. We can do it quickly, too. They showed how quickly we could do it in D.C. it was a real bad place. It was a real mess. Dirty, filthy, disgusting. Graffiti all over the place. Tents on every ounce of parks that we had. Just disgusting. And I rode around last weekend. I rode around the city. I felt very safe in that car. But, you know, I would have done it without it. I wouldn't need that car so much anymore, I will tell you. But the place was clean. We've started that also. Not only law and order, but we, you know, that cleanliness is important. I think cleanliness is almost a part of law and order. If you see dirty, disgusting streets and potholes all over the place and railings falling down and graffiti all over the marble, beautiful statuary, marble columns, those gorgeous columns where they had graffiti, it's all gone. And I think it's a part of it. I really do. I think it's a big part of it. But we have a city that we can be proud of. It's good we're going to be that way with every city we have. That's why we're San Francisco. I wish him luck, but we could do it so much faster. I told the mayor, I love what you're doing. I respect it, and I respect the people that are doing it. They're the biggest people in the country. They're the biggest people in the world. A lot of the high tech, some people like them, some people don't. But they're smart and they want to do it. And I said, I am so honored to let you do it. And if it doesn't work out, we'll do it for you very quickly. But I just want to thank the people around this table are amazing. Cash, please.

[iHeart Podcast Announcer]

Go ahead, Mr. President. I'll just keep it short, but I think what the media should realize is the amount of courage it takes to do this. And you led that mission. You led it during your campaign, and you brought it to the American people. I think the media should focus on some of these numbers the attorney general just ralled off. Those aren't numbers. Those are lives. Lives Saved by the millions. The millions. Enough. Excuse me. Enough fentanyl to kill over 200 million Americans. Gone. Evaporated off our streets permanently. Your vision to safeguard American freedoms and our children and our future is the most courageous thing I've ever seen a President of the United States States ever do. And your ability to marshal it out in eight months. In eight months, these statistics would have taken other administrations decades. Decades. And the partnership that you see around the table, I just want to, you know, sum it up with the following. When I call these folks around the table, when I call our state, local law enforcement partners who have been absolutely critical to this mission, when Stephen Miller called me and said, we're going to create the Homeland Security Task Force and the FBI and DHS are going to co lead it, I said, absolutely. The country's been yearning for this and needing it. And the one thing I see different than any other administration is when I.

[Steve Guru / Steve Guerrero]

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[Conservative Commentator / Supporter]

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