Donald Trump (2:54)

It's so exciting. And somebody had to do this. A president should have stepped up long ago and saved these cities. So it's not that I wanted to do it. Believe me, somebody had to do it. And we're doing it in a big way. Pete, could you say a few words? Yes, Mr. President. You know, from day one, the DOD, excuse me, Dow, the Department of War. I'm glad you made that correct. Correct. Has been proud to stand with our partners across the interagency.

Dan Bongino (3:22)

Whether it's the southwest border, whether it.

Donald Trump (3:24)

Was Los Angeles getting ahead of that, whether it was.

Dan Bongino (3:26)

Whether it's right here in Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump (3:27)

Where Secretary Driscoll and the army and the National Guard have taken the lead in helping across all of these great folks to secure the city. We are very proud to be here to stand strong alongside law enforcement.

Dan Bongino (3:39)

We're glad that Memphis is the place.

Donald Trump (3:41)

To go, the Volunteer State. We're not going to have any problems with the Tennessee National Guard being willing to go in and stand strong. Not at all. And get ready, because you'll be doing a lot of other places that are almost as troubled. Some of them are equal. You look at what's going on in Baltimore, where the governor was telling me how wonderful it is, and you can't walk across the street without being shot. Could I ask our two great senators to say a few words, please?

Jesse Watters (4:06)

Of course, Mr. President. Thank you so much. I want to say a thank you to Director Patel because he had promised that he would come into Memphis. We've had Operation Viper there this summer. There have been over 500 arrests. There are over 100 indictments. And Memphis had the best stats they have had in years this past August. Last month, it was the best August they have had. And it's because of the work that's been done. And now to have a new phase of this enforcement for Memphis, where we are going to have all of these agencies working as a team, as the governor said, making certain that this is a long term effort to make Memphis safe again. Mr. President, we are so grateful and we thank you.

Donald Trump (5:03)

Thank you.

Bill Lee (5:04)

Thanks, Mr. President. And this is an issue that's plagued Memphis since I was a boy, Mr. President, and it's time that we addressed it. And I appreciate your leadership allowing us to do that. And the team that you've assembled here is going to help us deliver the most fundamental responsibility of our government, and that's public safety. This shouldn't be a partisan issue. This should be something that is our primary goal. And certainly I hope to see Memphis become the safest city in America. And thanks for the effort of all of your team here to make us make certain that happens. Thank you, Governor Lee. And I want to say thanks to the Memphis Police Department and the Sheriff's Department there too, who have all worked closely to bring this together. I look forward to tremendous results.

Donald Trump (5:42)

And I want to thank the FBI for the last four or five months because they have brought down the numbers quite a bit. Chicago here and a couple of other places that we can talk about later. If anybody wants to. Could I ask you to getty to a couple of words also. You really did lead the charge here and you've done such a great job.

Stephen Miller (6:01)

Please, Mr. President, thank you for always supporting law enforcement. I think the major difference here in Washington, D.C. has been your support for law enforcement, has been empowering the men.

Donald Trump (6:10)

And women that are on the street.

Stephen Miller (6:11)

Working every single day.

Donald Trump (6:13)

And I look forward to not only.

Stephen Miller (6:14)

Going to Memphis, but other places in Tennessee as well. And I think you'll hear from us real soon. Mr. President, thank you for your support, sir.

Donald Trump (6:20)

We have plenty of places.

Stephen Miller (6:21)

Yes, sir, we do.

Donald Trump (6:22)

You know the country very well. That's great. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you, Mr. President.

Bill Lee (6:26)

I just want to say that we're honored once again to lead the charge with the United States Marshals Service leading and joining 22 other federal agencies. I can say that today we spoke with over 30 of the local agencies, letting them know what to expect, giving them the template that we've done here in D.C. so they know what to expect. They're extremely excited. I think everyone is going to be well receiving the law enforcement surge that we're about to take to Memphis.

Donald Trump (7:04)

Great job.

Bill Lee (7:05)

Thank you.

Donald Trump (7:06)

And I'm going to ask one of the Best lawyers in the country. He is one of the best. Todd, say a few words, please. He is a great lawyer.

Cash Patel (7:13)

Thank you, Mr. President. Look, I think it's been said for the past 15 minutes, the President ran on making this country safe again. And we do not make this country safe again unless we go into our cities where there's the most violent among us and go street by street and block by block and arrest, arrest and women in this country that are destroying cities and communities for the rest of us. And so what we plan on doing, as the governor said and the senator just said, this has been a problem in Memphis for a long time. We plan on delivering Memphis back to the citizens that are there to raise their families, to go to church, to be in their communities. That's our goal and that's what we plan on doing. Whether it takes two weeks or two years, that's what we're going to do.

Donald Trump (7:58)

Thanks, Tom. Agreed. Stephen Miller, please say a few words.

Stephen Miller (8:02)

Thank you, Mr. President.

Donald Trump (8:03)

It's the same emotion you do on.

Jessica Tarloff (8:05)

Television.

Donald Trump (8:07)

That'S hard to do. I think that's going to be hard to do.

Stephen Miller (8:12)

President Trump's initiative here in Washington, D.C. is important to understand, is the most successful anti crime initiative in American history. But just think about it for a second. In 30 days, President Trump put together a team that saw the largest ever violent crime reduction in any city in American history. Something that people had not been able to do in 40 years. That is a momentous achievement. And now the President is going to take that same model to Memphis and as he said, more cities after that. The team the President has put together has no equal today or anywhere in American history. I think what's happening here is that what the President has done is made clear the power of federal law enforcement that was used for the last four years to harass and attack conservatives, to harass and attack Christians, to go after law abiding families. The power of law enforcement under President Trump is going to be used to get all the criminals, all the violent offenders, all the murderers, all the cartels and all the domestic terrorists off our streets. So whether you're antifa, whether you're a domestic terrorist, whether you are a violent gang member, a drug trafficker, a trained nicua killer, or anyone else that's threatening our people, President Trump is saying he's going to use his FBI, his dod, his atf, his DEA, to wipe you out, to put you behind bars, to take you off the street, or to apply whatever legal consequence is necessary. Mr. President, I'm honored. Beyond Words to be a part of this team under your leadership as you've saved thousands of lives.

Donald Trump (9:44)

Thank you very much. Come on over. Let's sign that bill. You want to say anything about our great military, real fast, he's. What a job he's doing.

Dan Bongino (9:51)

Mr. President.

Donald Trump (9:52)

So our Army National Guard is honored.

Stephen Miller (9:54)

To be part of this mission.

Donald Trump (9:55)

This is their community.

Stephen Miller (9:57)

A lot of them are from D.C. they're from Tennessee. When you talk to them, when you talk to the actual population out there who interact with them every day, they say it's a blessing to have them as a part of their lives. And then for the National Guard getting to have this, where they get to.

Donald Trump (10:10)

To improve their communities, where their kids.

Stephen Miller (10:12)

Are growing up and they're going to.

Donald Trump (10:13)

Church and this is where their families are.

Stephen Miller (10:16)

Many of them, sir, have said this.

Donald Trump (10:17)

Is the honor of their lifetime.

Stephen Miller (10:19)

So thank you.

Donald Trump (10:19)

Look at that nice face. And yet he's a killer. That nice, beautiful face. Yet he's a total killer. I don't know how you do it. Looks a great. Everybody here is doing all right. Here we go.

Jesse Watters (10:43)

Wonderful.

Donald Trump (10:43)

Perfect.

Jesse Watters (10:44)

Wonderful.

Donald Trump (10:55)

Okay, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Great job. Any questions, please? First of all, you got to. Did they take down the blue tent?

Bill Lee (11:08)

Yes, sir.

Donald Trump (11:10)

Last time he hit me with a blue tent and nobody knew what he was talking about. We found out, right. And it was gone the next day. And they had a lot of. That was not so easy. They had. That's a violent, radical left group. Okay, go ahead.

Bill Lee (11:22)

Got peppered with a lot of comments for doing that. They still have their First Amendment right, though.

Donald Trump (11:27)

They're still out there protesting. You've got an amazing team behind you.

Bill Lee (11:30)

You've done an awesome job for D.C.

Donald Trump (11:32)

I want to get ahead of a.

Bill Lee (11:33)

Story that I think might come out.

Donald Trump (11:35)

You pushed out an email earlier today, really showing dozens and dozens of local.

Bill Lee (11:40)

Media in Memphis highlighting all the violent.

Donald Trump (11:44)

Crime in that city.

Bill Lee (11:46)

So they have no problem reporting the crime, but when you show up to solve it, they're going to run around town looking for that one person that.

Donald Trump (11:53)

Says, we don't want Donald Trump in our city.

Bill Lee (11:56)

What can you say to the media there in Memphis, Tennessee, to help let them know the people want you there in their city?

Donald Trump (12:03)

Well, I'm not sure they found that person, you know, because I saw them doing some interviews and it looked like they were looking, but they were very. In fact, that producer, that person, I think they lost their jobs because everybody was saying, we want Trump to be there they want the people right here to be there. Look, it's very simple. In Chicago, they're getting beat to hell. They're being shot. If you lose six or seven people die over a weekend, they consider that a successful weekend. And when you consider that a successful weekend, that's pretty bad. I had the president of Poland here a few days ago and we had a news conference. Many of you were here. And I made the statement. I said, you know, we're very happy to announce that it's been over two weeks since anybody has been killed in D.C. and he looked at me like, is that supposed to be good? You know, he's looking like, what kind of a place is this? And now it's been a long time, but. And as I was saying it, I said, you know, I'm not sure if that sounds good to somebody. It sounded great to you, but it doesn't sound good to somebody from a country where they don't have violent crime like we have. But now it's a long time since that's happened. We went for years where at least one person was killed. Now you're not seeing it. It's like the border. Millions of people, A year ago, millions of people poured into our country. In the last three months, there have been zero, as reported by largely Democrats. Actually, the border is secure, the country is secure. We've got the hottest country anywhere in the world. And I'll tell you, a year ago, we were a country in tremendous trouble, probably a dead country if it continued. So we're very happy about it. And so just, you know, in terms of your question, people have never seen anything like what we're doing. And I think they're very happy and they want us to be there. They don't want to be mugged. Who would say, gee, I don't want the National Guard. And you need that in terms of numbers. And also, you look at those guys. I looked at them. They're rough guys. They're, you know, the Supreme Court voted recently on merit. We're a merit based country again. I said, they had tremendous courage to do that. We're merit based country again. When I looked at the people that were patrolling the streets for the National Guard and for others I could see were merit based. They were rough looking, they were tough looking, and they love our country. So that's where we are. Brian, thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, please. Yes, given with all the.

Jesse Watters (14:34)

What's going on, Charlie Kirk's assassination and the left wing, left wing violence going.

Jessica Tarloff (14:41)

On, do you have plans and actually.

Jesse Watters (14:42)

This is a great, great opportunity with all these. Do you plan on designating Antifa finally a domestic terror organization?

Donald Trump (14:52)

Well, it's something I would do, yeah, if I have support from the people back here. I think would start with Pam, I think. But I would, if you give me, I would do that 100% and others also, by the way. But Antifa is terrible.

Jesse Watters (15:06)

Are there other groups that you can make?

Donald Trump (15:08)

There are other groups, yeah, there are other groups. We have some pretty radical groups and they got away with murder. And also I've been speaking to the attorney General about bringing RICO against some of the people that you've been reading about that have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for agitation. These aren't protests, these are crimes. What they're doing where they're throwing bricks at cars of the, of ICE and Border Patrol and they come in a beautiful new car, they're so proud. It's border Patrol ice, you know, it's got whatever it is and they're throwing rocks at it. And after 50 yards it looks like an old beat up vehicle. It was just brand new. It was just bought for the purposes. And they don't have to take that anymore. I let it be known we'll take responsibility. They don't have to take it anymore and they don't want to take it. They were told by a past administration. It became almost a culture. If somebody throws a rock at you, do nothing. If somebody spits in your face, do nothing. And I say when they spit, you hit. Do whatever you want. You do whatever the hell you want. I watch it. I watched it so sick it made me for four years I had to sit home and watch people screaming at policemen and spitting in their face. And they weren't able to do anything. They just had a grin and beard. They're standing up like a piece of steel. And a woman, in many cases women, you can see, they're professional agitators. I had one the other night, I had four the other night, all in one group. Total phonies that started to scream when I got into a restaurant. Oh, you know something with Palestine. I said, well, I'm doing a great job for peace in the Middle East. I should get lots of awards for that, right? With the Abraham Accords and everything else. But a woman just stood up and started screaming and she got booed out of the place too. The people, there were a lot of people in the restaurant. I went there to show how safe and it was safe. I mean the woman is just a mouthpiece. All she was, she was a paid. She was a paid agitator. And you have a lot of them. And I've asked Pam to look into that in terms of RICO bringing RICO cases against the criminal, rico, because they should be put in jail. What they're doing to this country is really subversive. Charlie Kirk, you floated potentially going into St. Louis.

Greg Gutfeld (17:28)

You mentioned you want to go into Chicago next.

Donald Trump (17:31)

Could St. Louis be out of Chicago? It's going to be around there someplace. Yeah. We got to save St. Louis. We've got to save these cities. This isn't like, you know, we're going to do something. We have to save St. Louis, we have to save Chicago. I know all about Chicago. I have a great, beautiful building. I'm so proud of it. But you know, you get less proud when you see all the crime. When they announced two weeks ago, 11 people killed, this is over a weekend, I think they said 38 people shot and 11 people dead. And then you watch Pritzker get up and say, we've got crime under control. And I will say that Cash and the FBI did a good job with a very light force. They went in and for about four months, cash or so, they've been working on keeping crime down. They have brought the numbers down a little bit, but those are the easy numbers. You know, the first 20, 25% are these numbers. That's where it gets. Then you have to bring in the big forces. Right. Which is what we always intended to do. But I think the FBI has done a very good job in particular in Memphis and Chicago, they burn down a little bit like 20% and 25%. It's not so little. But we have a long way to go. We think Chicago is going to be next and we'll get to St. Louis also.

Jessica Tarloff (18:46)

And on Charlie Kirk's assassination and New.

Donald Trump (18:47)

Orleans we want to get to too.

Jessica Tarloff (18:49)

Your FBI is investigating the potential role of left wing organizations in the assassination.

Donald Trump (18:54)

I'm wondering if you think if Charlie Kirk's assassin worked alone or he worked with. I don't know. I mean, I can tell you he didn't work alone on the Internet because it seems that he became radicalized on the Internet. That's just by watching what same things that you're watching and hearing. It looks like he became radicalized over the Internet and it seems like his wonderful parents brought in a wonderful neighborhood, smart guy, great boards, great marks, great student. And then he. Something happened to him over a fairly short period of time. Looks like he was radicalized over the Internet and it's radicalized on the left. He's a left. I have a lot of problems with the left. And they get protected and they shouldn't be protected. But as you understand, I think very well from the tone of your question. Thank you very much.

Jesse Watters (19:46)

Israel first on Venezuela, what can you tell us about this Venezuelan boat that was taken out? And do you plan to provide proof that these were narco terrorists who were on their way to the us?

Donald Trump (19:58)

Well, we have proof. All you have to do is look at the cargo that was like, it's spattered all over the ocean. Big bags of cocaine and fentanyl all over the place. And it was. Plus, we have recorded evidence that they were leaving. We've recorded them. It's very careful because we know you people would be after us. We're very careful. The military. The military has been amazing. And General Kane showed me a little while ago the clip. But you could actually see it. But you don't have to see it because we have recorded proof and evidence. We know what time they were leaving, when they were leaving, what they had, and all of the other things that, that you'd like to have. But we have noticed that there are no ships in the ocean anymore. We're seeing that there's like no ships. No, you know, when the first one we went, there were hundreds of boats. Now there are no boats. I wonder why. Meaning no drugs are coming across. Probably stopping some fishermen, too. I mean, to be honest, if I were a fisherman, I wouldn't want to go fishing. Just a nice, let's take a little trip. Because I'd say, man, if they. Maybe they think I have drugs downstairs, I don't want that. I think the fishing business probably been hurt. But no, there are literally no boats. This was a boat and we were surprised to see it. Now, what does that mean? That means there's no drugs coming by sea, but they do come by land. And you know what we're telling the cartels right now? We're going to be stopping them, too. When they come by land, we're going to be stopping them the same way we stopped the boats. And you'll see that. But maybe by talking about it a little bit, it won't happen. If it doesn't happen, that's good. But what. They killed 300,000 people in our country last year, and we're not letting it happen anymore.

Jesse Watters (21:41)

And then on Israel, did Bibi Netanyahu speak to you directly to alert you that Israel was going to be striking no Hamas sites in Qatar?

Donald Trump (21:51)

No, he didn't no, he didn't. Yeah, go ahead. Having to learn from it, same way you did. Go ahead, please. You mentioned that the shooter was radicalized online. I think so. You know, by the way, when I say that, that's my opinion, I think he was radicalized online based on what they're saying.

Kayleigh McEnany (22:09)

Do social media companies bear any responsibility for that?

Donald Trump (22:12)

And how does that happen? I'm going to have to ask. I don't know. I'd ask Pam that question. I don't know if you or Todd could give an answer to that. Somebody has to bear some responsibility, you.

Jesse Watters (22:20)

Know, and President Trump. I've always told parents, you got to watch what your kids are doing on the Internet, what they're doing online, what they're listening to, what they're reading. They're all online. They're all on their phones all the time. Parents have got to monitor that because this starts when you're young. This starts when you're young, when you listen to these groups, when you watch these shows. And parents have got to just be vigilant. So. Sure, that's part of it. And they're meeting kids online who they think are kids, and they can be anywhere in the world and talking to them. And yeah, they are being radicalized.

Donald Trump (22:50)

He went bad, and he just went. Went bad very quickly, in a sense, because he sort of led a very normal life, a life of, you know, great education, schools, everything else. But somewhere along the line, something happened. Yeah, please.

Jessica Tarloff (23:05)

Thank you, Mr. President.

Donald Trump (23:07)

How will you send the National Guard into Chicago without cooperation of the governor and mayor? Well, if they do cooperate, that's good. If they don't, it's not going to matter to us at all. You know, who wants to help us? Police department. They have no respect for the governor. They have no respect for the mayor. They respect us. And we found that in Washington, you know, we haven't had total support in Washington from government, as you know, from everybody. I don't want to say the mayor, because she was better than most, but we haven't had great, great. But we have had great support from the Metropolitan Police. They're like brothers of these people. They're really like brothers. You see that they work together. And so if the governor wants to support, as I said to Bill, it's going to be his proudest moment, what he's going to do. The governor of Tennessee, what's going to happen with Memphis in three, four weeks, we'll stand together and we'll say, look at this. The crime has almost disappeared, maybe completely disappeared in Washington, they don't even know how to record it because it's down so much. You know, they've never heard. I heard 87% is down. I said, really? Who are the 13%? Because it's more than that. It's actually more hard to believe. Right. You're going to have the same results in Chicago. And we hope we have the governor's help, but if we don't, we're doing it without him. And Mr. President, you had the framework that's been agreed to with TikTok. For example, will China continue to have a stake in the company or. Well, we haven't decided that, but it looks to me, and I'm speaking to President Xi on Friday for confirmation of that. And you know, frankly, more importantly, a big deal. And we've had very good meetings. As you know, we were in Europe, our people, Scott Besant and Jameson or Jamison, Greer and others. And it was a very big meeting with China. And you know, they're treating us with respect. We treat them with respect, too. But it was very successful. And on top of it, we have what could be a very good deal. Don't forget, I've had more people say, could you try and keep TikTok alive? I use TikTok. I mean, I have to admit it in the election and look how I did with you. No Republicans come close. I blew everyone away. You know, if you, if you look back not so long ago, Romney, he got like 7% of the youth. I got like eight times that amount. I guess I got tremendous numbers of you. By the way, I want to say Charlie helped me. And Charlie was the one get on TikTok. He used to say to me, get on TikTok. Charlie was unbelievable. So probably. And I did. I had somebody named Tick Tock Jack and he put that camera, he said, just a real quick statement, sir, like 10 seconds or less. They didn't like anything over 10 seconds, but it worked. But Charlie is the one that really. And my son Baron also. And I have to say, Don, Eric, the whole group, it's important and it can maybe even bring us closer to China. We had a very good meeting with China. I was surprised. I didn't expect it to that extent. And I'm going to speak again with President Xi on Friday at. You know, I think, I think that'll confirm things up. Charlie Kirk in crime, I'm Charlie Kirk.

Dan Bongino (26:31)

Do you plan to speak at the.

Donald Trump (26:33)

Funeral and what would your message be? Well, I'm going on Sunday. We're taking a whole plane load and having. I was invited on Saturday, but I said I'd rather save it for Sunday. You know, we're going to have a. Have a stadium. And I'll bet that stadium is going to be pretty packed, maybe completely packed. It's going to be big. But I'm going to be at the stadium and I guess I'll say a few words. I don't know, but I guess I will. But I knew him very well. He was an amazing guy. Was an amazing guy. He. He was all about young people getting them started, right? And he was like a magnet for young people. They just attracted to him. He loved him and they attracted to him. His wife is a tremendous person, by the way. He always had great respect for his wife. He got married. I was. I didn't know he was getting married. I already got married. And it's. He loved her. He really loved her. She loved him. And I think she'll have something to do with keeping the. That whole thing going. You know, Turning Point is it became a very big deal, and I heard they had like 38,000. So he wanted to get it up to 20,000 chapters. That's a lot. That would have been a lifetime's work. I heard that over the last four days, if 38,000 people wanted 38,000 chapters at colleges, schools, other places, numbers that, you know, nobody's ever heard of, numbers like that. So I think Turning Point could be, you know, through what happened, this horrible act. It could be maybe bigger than it could have ever been had he been there. And I will say this, he'd be very happy if he saw what was going on. And there's some very good people, because I speak at Turning Point quite a bit. And Charlie would call me up. So the last time I spoke to him, he said, sir, I think it was Phoenix. Sir, could you get to Phoenix? This was like in a day. I said, charlie, I'm the President of the United States. You called me asking me if I could speak tomorrow in Phoenix. You can't do that to me, Charlie. But usually I ended up going, he was great. He was a great guy. And he didn't deserve this. He didn't deserve this, believe me.

Bill Lee (28:46)

Ilhan Omar, after his assassination, called Charlie Kerr a reprehensible human being.

Donald Trump (28:52)

Should she be stripped for her community of science? I would. I think she's a disgraceful person, you know, I think she's a disgraceful person, a loser. It's amazing the way people vote. I know it's people from her area, maybe of the world. I Don't know. They got here and they vote her in. It's hard to believe, but I think she's a disgusting person. And one more question, if I could. A lot of these, in recent of.

Bill Lee (29:16)

These trans shooters that we've seen over the last couple incidents, this, this, this flag right here is up and down 14th Street.

Donald Trump (29:24)

This is a.

Bill Lee (29:25)

What would be the trans flag? A lot of people are very threatened by this flag. It means a lot of different negative things to people.

Donald Trump (29:33)

Violence.

Bill Lee (29:34)

Would you be opposed to taking this flag down, up and down the streets of dc?

Donald Trump (29:37)

Well, I wouldn't be. Then they'll sue and they'll get freedom of speech stuff, you know, so that'll happen. But I would, I would have no problem with it. I will say. And Steve might just mentioned this. Todd, you might mention it too, because we're putting out an order. You know, freedom of speech means you could burn the American flag, which I think is horrible. But I noticed something over the last little while. You know, as you do this, you start noticing things that you wouldn't normally think. It really causes unrest and violence when they bury American flag. So the American flag, I wanted, anybody burns the American flag, go to jail based on freedom of speech, goes to jail immediately. But the freedom of speech protected them. Right. And so, and that, that's been argued a couple of times. And, you know, it's one of those things. But you know, what hasn't been argued and we're going to be arguing and I think very soon, and that's the violence. They incite violence. So when they, I saw it just yesterday, they burned the American flag and people that were there were fine. And all of a sudden they're going crazy and there's fist fights. It wasn't in Memphis either. But I will say it incites violence. And I think you go, you just do the exact same thing. Don't use freedom of speech, use the incitement of violence. I mean, it's really. You ought to see these people were going at it. Yeah. And you know, you could burn other things. If people just sit there, they fall asleep, you burn the American flag. And on both sides. But the level of violence I saw this flag burning caused was incredible. It was an incitement. So I hope you guys are going to be able to do that. Pam. Right.

Bill Lee (31:10)

Well, there's also groups called transtifo, so perhaps if you can label them a domestic terrorist group, then you can, in all reality, you could take that flag down because it would represent the trans people.

Donald Trump (31:21)

I think you probably could Again, you'll be sued and it's okay. I've been sued before, a couple of times you may have seen.

Jesse (31:29)

Anyway, Netanyahu said that he doesn't rule.

Jesse Watters (31:34)

Out targeting Hamas anywhere they are.

Donald Trump (31:36)

You said that you don't want to.

Jesse Watters (31:37)

See Qatar hit again. Are there any guarantees that Qatar.

Donald Trump (31:42)

Well, he won't be hitting in Qatar. As I say, I call it Qatar and you call it Qatar. You're actually more right, but actually you're allowed to go the Amir said. You can say it any way you want, but I've always thought of it as Qatar. I think it's a beautiful sound. And actually they've been a very good ally and a lot of people don't know that. But he won't be hitting Qatar, but he will be maybe going after. Now, there was an article that I read in a newspaper just about an hour ago where Hamas said they're going to use the 20 hostages as human shields. They're going to bring them up from the dark tunnels and they're going to put them in the line of fire so that if Israel goes forward, they're going to die. And I thought that was very terrible, and I put out a statement on that. You saw that.

Jessica Tarloff (32:31)

Mr. President.

Jesse Watters (32:35)

In retrospect, given all of the moving ways that this White House has paid tribute to Charlie Kirk, do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hordman, the Minnesota House speaker, was gunned down by an assassin as well?

Donald Trump (32:52)

I'm not familiar the.

Jesse Watters (32:54)

The Minnesota House speaker, a Democrat who was assassinated this summer?

Donald Trump (32:59)

Well, if the governor had asked me to do that, I would have done that. But the governor of Minnesota didn't ask me. I didn't. I wouldn't have thought of that, but I would have if somebody had asked me. People make requests for the lowering of flag and oftentimes you have to say no, because it would be a lot of lowering. The flag would never be up. Had the governor of Minnesota asked me to do that, I would have done that gladly.

Jesse Watters (33:21)

And given the killing of Melissa Hortman, the attack on Paul Pelosi, the attack on Gabby Gifford's, the attack on the Pennsylvania governor's mansion. Why make the case that violence is only on one side? It seems to be taking.

Donald Trump (33:36)

I didn't say it's on one side, but I say the radical left causes tremendous violence and they seem to do it in a bigger way. But the radical left really has caused a lot of problems for this country. I really think they hate our country. Okay. Yeah, please. This may be related to the RICO work that you're doing. And I'd like to confirm. And we are really looking at that. Seriously. Vice President Vance was speaking with Stephen Miller earlier today about targeting NGOs that they were saying foment violence. Is that. That. Can you speak more to that and what NGOs specific specifically are you looking to target? A number of them, Steve, please.

Stephen Miller (34:12)

Yes. So I believe what you're referring to is there are these nonprofit entities that organize, as the President mentioned, attacks on ICE officers, attacks on border Patrol agents, organize doxing campaigns which are a violation of federal law. They break off cement and they bring into riots. They have organized drop points for weapons, organized drop points for gas masks, organized drop points for all the materials necessary to launch a riot. Of course, you saw that during the Black Lives Matter riots as well, too. So this whole network of organizations, and I think the key point the President has been making is somebody is paying for all of this. This is not happening for free. And so under the President's direction, the Attorney general is going to find out who is paying for it, and they will now be criminally liable for paying for violence.

Donald Trump (34:56)

And, you know, a new thing that I've been seeing a lot of lately but never saw before, is they're walking in with bricks and rocks and everything, and the FBI or the Border Patrol or ICE and. Or the police are grabbing them and taking them away. And that's great. And then they whip out. And then they whip out a hammer. And it's a beautiful hammer. Really, it's nice. You know, this is not a hammer somebody happens at. These are serious hammers, beautiful, brand new hammers. And they start breaking up the concrete sidewalks and the granite curbs. In many cases, granite is hard to cut. You know, it's very hard stone. And they're banging away and handing out pieces of stone, so instead of having it in bags, they're banging the sidewalk, knocking that. You have to see what some of these sidewalks look like when they finish. And especially the curbs, because the granite curbs are very, very expensive. And they're great, you know, very hard, very. They are almost indestructible, but not when it gets pounded on for 20 minutes by some pretty strong guy. And then they hand out big chunks of stone so that people can throw them at the police and people can drop them off bridges into car windows. No, we have a long way to go, and we're going to make it all good. We're going to make it really safe. This country is going to be safe. We've got almost three and a half years. Think of that, three and a half years. It's a long time. It goes quickly. But at the end of that time, I hope one of the many things we can say is that we made our cities safe again. Thank you very much, everybody.

Jesse (36:36)

All right, welcome to THE five. That was President Trump in the Oval Office signing a memo on sending the National Guard and other federal resources to crack down on crime in Memphis. He also spoke about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. He said the suspected killer was radicalized online. Officials say Tyler Robinson is not cooperating, but his family and friends are. FBI Director Cash Patel and Deputy Dan Bongino giving an update on the investigation.

Donald Trump (37:03)

We were able to gather a significant amount of forensic information which we expedited back to the lab, which was the key, I think, piece of information that we were able to crack this thing open.

Cash Patel (37:13)

His family has collectively told investigators that he subscribed to left wing ideology. He claimed that he had an opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and he was going to do it because of his hatred for what Charlie stood for.

Kayleigh McEnany (37:26)

We can confirm that, that his roommate was indeed a boyfriend who is transitioning from. From male to female. He is cooperating with, with authorities as well.

Jesse (37:38)

You know, Kelly, a big question becomes, as we were just chatting about a moment ago, when did he become deeply indoctrinated with this leftist ideology? And how did he become indoctrinated?

Jessica Tarloff (37:50)

That's the key question. I mean, from what I read with CNN's reporting, he had a 4.0 GPA, he had a scholarship, he had a family that was close to him. And then something snapped. And we need to figure out exactly what that is. But I can tell you, as I've watched these image images over the last few days, Erica Kirk, her beautiful and moving speech, and then learning about this killer, this assassin. It occurred to me, Charlie Kirk said once that there is a spiritual battle playing out all around us. And you can choose to acknowledge it or you can choose to ignore it, but it is happening nevertheless. And you see that. You know what you're looking at now, this supposed assassin, it's the face of evil. This is a guy who wrote a handwritten note that he was going to take Charlie Kirk out. He kills Charlie Kirk, a father, a husband, and then he goes on discord and jokes about his doppelganger doing it. Who, who jokes after you've literally slaughtered a man, and that's the darkness, but then there's also a lot of light. And we get very caught up at the people celebrating this. And I'd like to believe there are the few voices, but there's a lot of light out there, too. And I'll just end with this. There's several accounts I've seen amazing accounts of young people. This guy, big athlete, says, I'm not an emotional guy. I don't cry. But when I watch Charlie Kirk's videos, every time he talks about God, I start to cry. Another young woman said for the first time she opened a Bible. Her in laws had been encouraging her to do it. She never wanted to open it. And she read a scripture about the truth and the truth setting her free. These stories are huge. They are out there. There is a wave of young people in this country turning toward the light. Erica Kirk is picking up the mantle. She's carrying it forward. And that light will always be the darkness.

Jesse (39:26)

You were just looking at Jesse. The FBI investigation, a lot has been made aware to the public as this is ongoing. But they've widened the probe. Now, as we heard through Cash Patel and Dan Bongino, they've widened this probe pro to some of these pro trans groups, these online groups. And a big question too will become, did they know that he was going to be taking this action? Did they know in advance?

Donald Trump (39:50)

Right.

Dan Bongino (39:50)

So we all figured there was going to be a trans angle. So the guy was dating a trans man, whatever that means. And was this killing a romantic overture to impress this trans boyfriend? We don't know what was the motivation, but we do know that most of these trans shooters are lone wolf, mentally ill savages. This is not the case here. There might have been coconspirators. There might have been people with foreknowledge of the attack. Did he have a cell? A little cadre of crazy people that knew this was going to happen and gave him aid and comfort? And the investigation will show that. And this is where it's different, because a lot of these people are highly intelligent, they're highly motivated, they're well organized, and they're steeped in this progressive ideology. Luigi Crooks, Ruth, this guy, the guy who shot Scalise, all smart people that were very, very specific about their intent. And they murdered someone in cold blood. You look at these people at these protests, they're torching cars. You look at the people at the riots, they're getting brick deliveries. They put bombs on Fox News trucks out west. These are people that are not flying off the handle. This is very well organized. And you want to say, okay, well, well, let's Just come together. Well, how do you come together with someone like that if they're hell bent on murder? If they've chosen violence as a strategy to advance a political agenda? Charlie came together with him every time he went on campus and they shot him dead in the neck. He tried to build bridges, he tried to have a dialogue, and they murdered him in cold blood. So that's where the left doesn't really understand what's been done. Because if you're going to kill Charlie, you can kill anybody. This guy was not just a political activist. He was a spiritual leader of a movement. He talked about God, family, love, sovereignty, not just politics. So this was a spiritual attack. And people will be dealt with. There will be a reckoning, not violence. We don't condone violence. We would never stoop to this level. But we will drive these people out firmly and resolutely. So this kind of stuff will not exist in the United States of America ever again.

Jesse (42:30)

Jessica we're learning brand new details through the Washington Post this evening. The Washington Post is reporting through two people familiar with the Discord chat that we have started to learn some details of. They're reporting that the suspect in Charlie Kirk shooting did post to Discord. It was me, an outright confession for what he did, saying, quote, I'm sorry.

Greg Gutfeld (42:52)

For all of this and that he was going to be turning himself in in a couple of hours, which we know to be the case. And I'm glad, Jesse, that you were clear that this was a nonviolent call to action that you're talking about. But there are a lot of people saying things like we are at war and war has a very particular violent connotation to it. And from what we know thus far, and it's an ongoing investigation that seems deeply complicated, but everybody from the President to Governor Cox to FBI Director Patel all seem to agree that he was radicalized online and seems to be part of this kind of Internet nihilist group of kids, right, who spend all their times in Discord chats to play video games. And that makes sense because of what we saw in the bullet casings, right? The furry meme, which is old, by the way, I was reading about it. It's over 10 years old. So, you know, he's grown up on this, been seeing it for a long time. The Helldivers to the Game, then the Chao Bella, which has been used by both the left and the right. This anti fascist call to action if there is evidence that he was a leftist. And Cash talked this morning about this note that doesn't exist anymore. But through our aggressive interview posture, we know exactly what it said. They're going to have to do better than that for people to take it from the President and people who are supporting him in this that this is a they problem. That the left came out and they took out Charlie Kirk. Now, it may absolutely be the case, but we know that Tyler Robinson was raised in a close knit conservative family. We know it was a big gun culture family. The grandma said something like, we don't even know any liberals. It wasn't school indoctrination. Kerry Lake went off on that. He was in an online apprentice apprentices apprenticeship program at Dixie Technical College, which I don't think was.

Jessica Tarloff (44:35)

I would just know.

Greg Gutfeld (44:36)

I understand when he changed. I'm just saying we need more information before you.

Jessica Tarloff (44:41)

Charlie got a dinner before.

Kayleigh McEnany (44:43)

We don't need more information.

Greg Gutfeld (44:45)

Really?

Kayleigh McEnany (44:45)

Yes. We don't need it. What is interesting here is why is only this happening on the left and not the right? That's all we need to know. There's absolutely no what about Melissa Hartman that we just want to talk about Melissa Horstman. Did you know her name before it happened? None of us did. None of us were spending every single day talking about Mrs. Hortman. I never heard of her until after she died. Don't play that bullshit with me. You know what I'm talking. What I'm saying is there was no demonization amplification about that woman before she died. It was a specific crime against her by somebody who knew her the same. You could bring up Josh Shapiro, but then you will not bring up, for example, that that was a pro Palestine person. So don't use your what about this.

Donald Trump (45:30)

The fact.

Kayleigh McEnany (45:31)

The fact of the matter is the both sides argument not only doesn't fly, we don't care, we don't care about your both sides argument. That shit is dead. For one thing. There is no cognitive dissonance on our side. On your side, your beliefs do not match reality. So you're coming up with these rationalizations like what about this or what about that? We're not doing that because we saw it happen. We saw a young bright man assassinated and we know who did it. We are not coming up with rationalizations. We are calm, we are honest and we are resolute. We're not defensive. And I understand the defensiveness. I understand why people are saying what about this and what about this? Because if you have to face the underlying fact of this, your life is going to fall apart because you're going to realize you're not the good guys. If you sat around and you defended the mutilation of children, you're not the good guys. If you sat 600, 700 cases of harassment against Republicans and you said, but what about this? What about this? And then you see this murder. After calling somebody a fascist, you fascist, you realize maybe I'm not the good guy. That is a hell of a realization to deal with. So therefore. Therefore you have to grasp at rationalizations. You don't have to do that, Jessica, they do. I don't believe you're part of that group. But why the hell do you have to mimic and echo that crap to us? He was a patsy. That guy was a patsy. He was under the hypnotic spell of a direct to consumer nihilism, the trans cult. And you know that if you can decide that biology is false, you can agree that that murder is okay and that humanity is expendable. How you cannot see that alone and see that for what the evil it is without having to attach all of these other things is beyond me.

Greg Gutfeld (47:35)

I just want to be clear. I want to let people speak. I in no way intended at all to minimize what happened to Charlie. I was horrified by it. I have not been on the five.

Kayleigh McEnany (47:45)

But the two sides argument, well, you know, it's like request duck.

Greg Gutfeld (47:49)

No, all that I was saying is, is could we have all of the information before you just say they did this? Because that is a broad brush to paint with this and this kid.

Kayleigh McEnany (47:58)

Let's have a conversation. No, Charlie had a conversation, got shot.

Greg Gutfeld (48:02)

I.

Kayleigh McEnany (48:04)

Look, sorry, I'm sorry. You weren't here for a week. You came in here and it's cold and I'm sorry, but this is a story that is immune to news cycles. It's immune to rationalizations, it's immune to bias. It's this thing is with us for good and we all have to deal with that. So that means we can't live by the same arguments that you might be reading about about relativism among the media. We can't deal with those stories. It doesn't matter. The media is dead to us on this story. They built this thing up. We're dealing with it. We're going to act. We don't care what the what about ism is anymore. That shit's dead. Sorry for the swearing as well. I apologize to the American public. I'm going to shut up for the rest of the show. Sorry, Jessica.

Jesse (48:53)

Millions are mourning the loss of Charlie Kirk, but unfortunately some on the left are celebrating his murder. There is this sick Individual trampling on the flowers and flags at a Charlie Kirk memorial yesterday just outside Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix. Some mourners tackled him and he was arrested shortly after. And the hate has spread overseas. UK punk rappers Bob Villain made this disgusting remark during a concert in Amsterdam.

Donald Trump (49:29)

Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk, a piece.

Jesse (49:36)

I feel we have no words, Kelly.

Jessica Tarloff (49:38)

I have no words for that. I have no words for what we see on these campuses where friends of mine go out onto these campuses and speak like Kristen Hawkins and Riley Gaines and they see spray painted kill all Charlie Kirk's. And then you look at the poll that we've put up over and over again on this channel about is political violence never acceptable? And baby boomers largely agree, never acceptable. And my millennials, about 78% of us, you get to just Gen Z, 58%, there you go. 58% say political violence is never acceptable. That's a scary place in this country. But what worries me almost even more than that is when our leaders, maybe they're a little more softly spoken, maybe they're a little smoother, maybe their words are a little more eloquent, but it gives permission to this kind of thinking when I'm sorry, but the former president, President Biden stands up and says, MAGA is a clear and present danger. That's what he said in that speech in front of that red background. A threat to the very foundation of our republic. I believe he was quoting a judge on that one. So a judge says that the list goes on garbage. The comment that was made, that maga's garbage. This is half of the country. And when you start making analogies to Hitler and when you start drawing these comparisons. Threat to democracy. How many times did we say that? Existential threat. It gives a permission structure to those below, to younger children to behave in the manner that they've behaved. Even if you're doing it unwittingly, it gives permission. And that is entirely unacceptable.

Jesse (51:02)

I mean, it seems they're everywhere. I mean, it's brought these people out of wherever they've been. I mean, it's pilots, it's schoolteachers, it's professors at college universities. Jesse?

Donald Trump (51:12)

Yeah.

Dan Bongino (51:13)

These aren't fringe people. These are people that are teaching your children, celebrating Charlie Kirk being assassinated. These are neurologists. These are people who work at Fortune 500 companies. And they're sounding like the devil himself. And so these people, we don't have to tolerate, we can forgive. But they have to get on their knees and they have to beg for forgiveness. They have to repent their political sins. Only then will we allow them back into polite society. Until then, we will be seeking them out and exposing them with sunlight. We will disinfect them with sunlight. Everything they say or do will be exposed. And then everybody will know who they are and they will not be allowed to be with us, live with us, be in our companies, be in our social groups. No, I'm not living with people who celebrate assassinations. This isn't like a freedom of speech thing where like, oh, yeah, I disagree on the border. This is like my guy just got shot in the neck and you guys are cheering, you're going to a vigil and you're dancing on the guy's grave. You don't deserve to be able to say that and then have no penalty. There will be costs. There'll be social costs, financial costs. We will shame, excommunicate them, banish them. And that is a promise. And until then, game on, Greg.

Kayleigh McEnany (52:38)

But first, I didn't mean to scream at you, Jessica. It's just that this is a very personal thing and it's a personal and it's a connective thing. I mean, we all feel this and it's, and it's, it's just not a normal story. And you haven't been here for a week. He came in and I think you might have said things that, that I'd already heard. But this guy only expresses his opinion in a safe space. It's never a two way thing. It's only on stage and he's shouting and he's also a big pussy because then he recanted what he said. He claimed he didn't say it, but he did. He's a cosplaying punk. He's not even a punk. He's a joke.

Jesse (53:19)

All right, one more thing is up next.

Donald Trump (53:26)

During my recovery.

Stephen Miller (53:27)

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Donald Trump (53:30)

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Jesse (53:46)

Time now for one more thing, Greg.

Kayleigh McEnany (53:47)

And another thing, Jessica. No kidding. Tonight, Kennedy, Terry Shaer, Dave Landau, Madison Alworth. Tonight, let's do this. Something fun. Animals are great. Animals are great. Animals are great. Let's take a look at this cat and this. What's on the cat's head, Jessica? What does it look like?

Greg Gutfeld (54:11)

A leftist?

Kayleigh McEnany (54:12)

Yes, it is a mouse. A little mouse resting on the cat's head. Isn't that Exciting.

Jesse (54:19)

It's beautiful.

Donald Trump (54:20)

Yeah.

Dan Bongino (54:21)

That's not natural.

Kayleigh McEnany (54:22)

It is not natural. See, the whole world's going to hell.

Jessica Tarloff (54:28)

Yes. Well, normally I have like, a cat or like some weird animal to show as well. But this week I can tell you that we are launching my new program on Saturday, 10am Eastern Time. So tune in Saturday In America with Kayleigh McEnany. Actually just booked a guest during this last block. So sorry if I was looking at my phone.

Kayleigh McEnany (54:43)

Howie Kurtz.

Jessica Tarloff (54:45)

No, not. But one of my good friends from the White House. So anyway, that's a great tease. All right, thank you.

Jesse (54:51)

We can't wait to see that, Kaylee. All right, Jesse.

Dan Bongino (54:53)

Over the weekend, my wife Emma, she served as the chair for Hope Through Education's annual gala. Hope Through Education does great work to help underprivileged students reach their full potential by providing partial scholarships to kids in need. And Emma's on the board and some of our friends from Fox were there, including Jessica Tarloff and Kayleigh McEnany. President Trump even made a quick appearance. And you want to know more, visit hopethrougheducationusa.org to do that tonight, Jesse Waters, Primetime Kid Rock, 8pm all right, we'll be watching.

Greg Gutfeld (55:26)

Jessica, I'm going to second everything Jesse said about Emma and the event that she hosted. She did a wonderful job, and it's a great charity, which we were happy to support. I am not mad at Greg, but I want to be on the record that what happened to Charlie Kirk was appalling and unacceptable. And it is just an incredibly tense, scary time for all of us. And that's what I was trying to say about broad brush language before Greg spoke for 11 minutes straight.

Jesse (55:59)

We understand that. Thank you for that, Jessica. I think we'll leave it there. I had a story about a Ukrainian flower nicknamed clover, but I think we're out of time.

Greg Gutfeld (56:06)

It's time for Brett that does it for us.

Jessica Tarloff (56:09)

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