2:43 P1 Hey, good morning. Welcome to RSBN Live. I'm Matthew Alvarez. At 1:00, the president will participate in a Memphis Safe Task Force roundtable. 2:52 P1 And we know that Senator Marsha Blackburn out of Tennessee says more than 8,000 arrests have been made since the start of the Memphis Safe Task Force, which was created in mid-September of last year. So we'll dive into more details on that in just a bit. 3:08 P1 Other headlines that we're tracking this hour, we'll have the latest on Operation Epic Fury from President Trump. This as the Senate continues to debate the Save America Act, and unprecedented long lines are still seen at numerous airports across the country. 3:26 P1 All while an emergency in New York last night as there was this fatal collision on the ground between an Air Canada jet and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a fire truck there at LaGuardia Airport late last night. 3:42 P1 So let's start with that story this morning as we get the latest from the Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who posted the following on X saying, quote, our prayers this morning are with the families impacted by the ground collision at LaGuardia. The FAA is deploying a team to the site to support the NTSB's investigation. ● 4:09 P1 We may have a photo of that incident from last night. If not, we'll continue on with Sean Duffy here. Here's the information that Sean Duffy said he can share at this hour. So last night, an Air Canada Express jet operating from Montreal and a Port Authority fire truck at LaGuardia Airport collided at about 11:45 last night. 4:30 P1 Of the 72 Air Canada Express passengers and four crew members, over a dozen are injured. Tragically, both pilots of the aircraft have passed away. At least two Port Authority firefighters sustained serious injuries. LaGuardia remains closed until 2:00 PM, so a couple hours yet while the NTSB investigates the accident site. 4:58 P1 Shifting gears now, the president has an update for us when it comes to Operation Epic Fury. This on Truth Social for clip one. He says, quote, I am pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran have had over the last two days very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East. Based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth, detailed, and constructive conversations, which will continue throughout the week, I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions. 5:42 P1 Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump. So that moments ago from earlier today. As we will look over some of the statements that the president has made at a recent press gaggle from JBA, Joint Base Andrews, as he's heading toward Memphis, Tennessee for that Memphis Safe Task Force roundtable, which we'll bring you live right here on Right Side Broadcasting Network. And let's shift to more details and background on the Memphis Safe Task Force. Let's start in September of last year when the president signed this memorandum to establish the Memphis Safe Task Force. Before we get to clip two, there's a number of videos here all having to do with Western Tennessee. Take a look. 6:26 P2 Today at the request of Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee, who's standing with us as you know, I'm signing a presidential memorandum to establish the Memphis Safe Task Force. And it's very important because of the crime that's going on not only in Memphis, in many cities, and we're going to take care of all of them step by step. Just like we did in DC, we have virtually no crime in DC right now. And we're going to keep it that way. It's our nation's capital. We're going to keep it that way. Or we're going to federalize it if we had to, but we don't have to anymore because it's in such great shape. This task force will be a replica of our extraordinarily successful efforts here. And you'll see it's a lot of the same thing, although the numbers here are really something, they're really bad. 7:13 P3 Memphis all my life. I grew up spending summers there with my cousins, riding bikes off of Getwell where they lived, through neighborhoods of a great American city that is legendary worldwide. And it saddened my heart to see over the decades that Memphis kids can't live that same safe experience. From day one, we've looked for opportunities to create change in a city that's more than worth fighting for. And over the years, good faith efforts have resulted in incremental progress, and that deserves recognition. But the Memphis Safe Task Force has fostered an unprecedented collaboration between local and state and federal partners. It's nothing short of extraordinary. The federal resources delivered by the Trump administration, the dozens of agencies working side by side, the relentless bipartisanship that has proven all the critics wrong. This Herculean effort has in fact created generational change in Memphis. ● 8:46 P3 Crime is down 55% in Shelby County, with the lowest monthly crime totals in over 25 years. 9:02 P4 Hi folks, this is Senator Brent Taylor coming to you from Broad Avenue and Binghampton for yet another Make Memphis Matter challenge. We're standing here in front of the Broadway Pizza, and I can tell you I remember it hadn't been that long ago that I would hear from my constituents who would come down here and they would go back to their car after having enjoyed a restaurant and get to their car and it's been broken into. And that happened not once, not twice, sometimes three times. But since the Memphis Safe Task Force has been here in Memphis, the car break-ins are down. Crime is being cut by 50% here in Memphis, and it's all because of the Memphis Safe Task Force. We're working hard to make Memphis matter. The Memphis Safe Task Force is working hard to make Memphis safe. As I've said many times, from Memphis to Mountain City and from Turtletown to Tiptonville, thank you, God bless you, and let's all work together to make Memphis matter. 10:01 P4 The Memphis Safe Task Force has made significant reductions in crime in Memphis. And so I guess my question is, has that reduction in crime, has that improved the attractiveness for Memphis in terms of economic development? And if you could just speak to that. 10:13 P1 improved the attractiveness for Memphis in terms of economic development and if you could just speak to that. 10:20 P5 It absolutely has. You know, I think Memphis has, you know, from the state's perspective, has always been a city and a community, a region of the state that's been very attractive across a diverse number of industries, always has been, for all the reasons that I think we all know. But because of that, I would say Memphis industries recognizing and watching what's going on, and they see that there is an opportunity for them, whether they're already there and they want to invest additional dollars or, you know, set up shop for the first time in our state because of what's happening in Memphis, absolutely, it has made a big difference. There's no question. 10:20 P2 It absolutely has. You know, I think Memphis has, you know, from the state's perspective has always been a city and a community, a region of the state that's been very attractive across a diverse number of industries, always has been for all the reasons that I think we all know. But because of that, I would say Memphis industries recognizing and watching what's going on and they see that there is an opportunity for them to whether they're already there and they want to invest additional dollars or you know set up shop for the first time in our state because of what's happening in Memphis absolutely has made a big difference. There's no question. 10:59 P4 Hi folks, this is Senator Brent Taylor coming to you live from Nashville. And I have a special guest with me today, and that is Senator Mark Pody, one of my colleagues in the Senate. He represents Wilson County and a little piece of Davidson County. 10:59 P1 Hi folks, this is Senator Brent Taylor coming to you live from Nashville, and I have a special guest with me today, and that is Senator Mark Pody, one of my colleagues in the Senate. He represents Wilson County and a little piece of Davidson County. And we were talking today in one of our committees about the success of the Memphis Safe Task Force. And I read aloud the statistics and how Memphis crime is literally being cut in half. And Senator Pody, I don't know if you heard last night, but President Trump single-handedly mentioned Memphis in the State of the Union and the reduction in crime, and I have not been able to do this alone. It's been through the help of you and others in the Senate, and I just wanted to thank you for what you're doing to help make Memphis matter. 11:44 P3 Well, I can appreciate what you're doing. And it's ironic because, Senator, you and I have something in common, because I represent one of the largest cities in the state that is heavily, heavily Democratic, and you represent a heavily Democratic city as well, one of the largest in the state. And I admire how you stand up and fight. You fight for law and order, you fight for what is right constantly, and we know that you are fighting hard to do what's right for Memphis. 12:10 P1 Well, I appreciate that, and I do, I anger a lot of purple-haired people down in Memphis, but we're doing what we can to try to make Memphis matter. And I wanted to give you, because of all your efforts in helping make Memphis matter by making Memphis safe, I wanted to give you your very own Make Memphis Matter baseball cap, and I hope you'll wear it with pride. 12:30 P3 Absolutely. I can just tell you as well, you keep up the fight. You are leading down here, you're leading not only for Memphis, for the entire state. You've already passed bills that are going to be affecting all of us in Tennessee, and keep up the great work you're doing. I just appreciate serving with you. 12:45 P1 Well, thank you, I appreciate it. And from Memphis to Mountain City, and from Turtletown to Tiptonville, thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the great State of Tennessee. 12:54 P4 So Senator Brent Taylor out of Shelby County there in Western Tennessee, of course that's where the Commander in Chief is headed to talk about the Memphis Safe Task Force. Trust me, there's a lot of news that we're following as well. The Save America Act, Operation Epic Fury, the latest on that, and many other stories. Before we get to that, let's go to a few of our sponsors here on Right Side, including the chance of donating to the network if you'd like. All you have to do is go to rsbnnetwork.com/donate to donate to Right Side as we continue to grow and expand here at the network and cover all the stories that we see happening across this country and a lot of them around the world as well, including of course Operation Epic Fury. 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And what we'll do is if we get a feed from the White House or a clip from the White House in regards to this morning's gaggle, we'll air that as well. But let's go to clip three in the meantime. 14:40 P5 Thank you very much everybody. I brought our great Secretary of State out, and he is doing a fantastic job, so we have Marco. Go ahead, please. 14:54 P7 Mr. President, I wanted to ask you, Iran executed three people this week. You have vowed strong action in the past. What message would you send? ● 15:02 P5 Well, we've been hitting them awfully hard. I mean, I don't know if you can possibly get hit harder, but these are thugs and animals and horrible people. But you can't hit anybody harder than we've hit them. But I'm not surprised they executed three young people for protesting. 15:19 P7 And do you plan to escort those ships through the Strait of Hormuz with or without allies? 15:23 P5 Well, we're doing very well there. We're doing very well overall. You know, we don't use the strait. We don't, the United States, we don't need it. Europe needs it, Korea, Japan, China, a lot of other people. So they'll have to get involved a little bit on that one. 15:38 P7 Mr. President, do you still want South Korea to pay for the United States... 15:45 P5 Well, I love South Korea. We have a great relationship with South Korea. We're helping South Korea a lot. 15:54 P7 Mr. President, do you think Israel will be ready to end the war when you're ready to end the war? 15:58 P5 I think so, yeah. The relationships are very good ones, I think so. We want more or less similar things. You know what we want? We want victory. Both of us. And that's what we've got. 16:10 P7 Mr. President, what's your plan for Gaza? You know, I may have a plan or I may not, but how would I ever say that to a reporter? If I said that to a reporter, Marco would say, please sir, let's bring you over to the helicopter immediately, right? I can't tell you that. 16:25 P7 Mr. President, the economic pain... certainly a place that people are talking about, but I can't say yeah. 16:34 P7 Are you ruling out ground troops in Operation Epic Fury if talks with Russia on Ukraine... 16:40 P5 What about it? Are the talks on the back burner right now because of the... No, we're talking about it. I think it'll get done. When are the talks going to take place? Uh, they take place almost every day. We're making a lot of progress. 16:54 P7 Mr. President, you said that the war was militarily won in Iran. What did you mean by that? ● 17:01 P5 Oh, I think we've won. We've knocked out their navy, their air force, we've knocked out their anti-aircraft, we've knocked out everything. We're roaming free. From a military standpoint, all they're doing is clogging up the strait. But from a military standpoint, they're finished. 17:16 P7 So how much longer should the American people expect... You said that opening the Strait of Hormuz is a simple military maneuver. 17:25 P5 Very simple. Yeah, but what did you mean by that? It's a simple military maneuver. It's relatively safe, but you need a lot of help in the sense of you need ships, you need volume. And NATO could help us, but they so far haven't had the courage to do so. And others could help us, but you know, we don't use it. You know, at a certain point, it'll open itself. At a certain point. But we've defeated the enemy, and they are an enemy. They're a sick group of people. The leadership is gone, the navy is gone, the air force is gone, the anti-aircraft equipment that they have, the radar they have, is all gone. Everything's gone. The strait itself, the actual strait, is... we're doing a good job. But it would be nice if the countries, including China, if the countries that use it, China uses it 90% of their energy. Japan is 95% of the energy. It would be nice if those countries would get involved. 18:30 P7 Mr. President, do you consider taking... 18:49 P5 I thought she did a good job yesterday. The American bases in Europe, Lindsey Graham has asked for you to reconsider the American bases in Spain, in Germany, after what they have done in the Strait of Hormuz. What's your take? Well, he deserves... he's right about asking that, and I think NATO's gone down a long way because they haven't... I mean, they should be helping with the strait. They get much of their energy from the Strait of Hormuz. And if Lindsey Graham said that, and don't forget he was a big NATO guy for a while, and now he's not. And a lot of senators and congressmen, they were big... they're very upset with the fact that NATO has done nothing. 19:13 P1 If Lindsey Graham said that, and don't forget he was the big NATO guy for a while and now he's not. And a lot of senators and congressmen, they were big, they're very upset with the fact that NATO has done nothing. 19:24 unknown Mr. President, the Pope Leo is calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East and to reopen dialogue. What do you say to the Pope? 19:25 P7 The Pope Leo is calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East and to reopen dialogue. What do you say to the Pope? 19:32 P1 Well look, we can have dialogue, but we don't, I don't want to do a ceasefire. You know, you don't do a ceasefire when you're literally obliterating the other side. They don't have a navy, they don't have an air force, they don't have any equipment to, they don't have any spotters, they don't have anti-aircraft, they don't have radar, and their leaders have all been killed at every level. Uh, we're not looking to do that. Thank you. Thank you. 19:33 P5 Well, look, we can have dialogue, but I don't want to do a ceasefire. You know, you don't do a ceasefire when you're literally obliterating the other side. They don't have a navy, they don't have an air force, they don't have any equipment, they don't have any spotters, they don't have anti-aircraft, they don't have radar, and their leaders have all been killed at every level. Uh, we're not looking to do that. Thank you. Thank you. 19:57 unknown Sir, Chuck Norris passed away today. Any thoughts on Chuck Norris? ● 20:04 P1 Oh, I didn't know. Chuck Norris died? Oh, I thought he was a great guy. Wow. Yeah, he died in the hospital, I think he was alive, but he was in a corner room. Yeah, he was a tough guy. Chuck Norris died, I didn't know that. He was a great guy. He was a really good, tough cookie. You didn't want to fight him, I can tell you. He was a tough, great guy with, and he was a great supporter. Wow, that's too bad. Tell his family, highest respect. Great man. 20:32 unknown Mr. President, do you want to make a deal with him? Do you want to make a deal with Nicolas Maduro? 20:48 P1 Well, I get along with him right now. 20:50 unknown Are you deploying the additional 300,000 troops for deterrence or to optimize your operational capability? 20:58 P1 Well, I would say this, that if I told you the answer to that question, my military people would be very happy. But we have a lot of troops, we have unlimited ammunition, we have the greatest equipment in the world, and we are decimating Iran. It's about time. And frankly, it should have been done long before me. It should have been done before other presidents. 21:23 unknown Polls have shown that 10% of the public is behind you sending 2,500 Marines to the Middle East. Are you concerned that a move like that could potentially change the dynamic? ● 21:39 P1 Well, I don't know, I seem to have great support because CNN came out with a poll today that I'm at 100%. And they said they've never seen a poll like that. The CNN poll said I'm at 100% and they've never seen that before. Uh, which is an honor. I was impressed that CNN would do that. But, uh, as far as troops are concerned, I can't tell you what we're doing with troops. 22:02 unknown Mr. President, you took issue with Australia, Japan, and South Korea this week. Over what? What would you like them to do? 22:13 P1 Well, they should get involved. And, uh, I was a little bit surprised that they said no, because we always say yes to them. 22:19 unknown What did Australia say no to? They have said that they will allow the US to use air bases to defend the Strait of Hormuz. What's your response to that? 22:30 P1 Well, it's been a very late response from the UK. Uh, surprised, because the relationship is so good, but this has never happened before. Uh, they were really pretty much our first ally all over the world, first ally, and they didn't want us to use the island, the so-called island, which for some reason they gave up rights to it. And, uh, I was a little surprised at the UK, to be honest with you. They should have, they should have acted a lot faster. 23:05 unknown Did you see that your former press secretary Sarah Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant by staff who felt threatened by her politics? 23:13 P1 Well, her politics are right down the center. She's a good person, and that shouldn't have happened. Where did that take place? Here or in Arkansas? In Arkansas. Wow. In Arkansas. That's very surprising. I love Arkansas. I won that state by so much. I think that Sarah's going to be just fine. But it's too bad. She's a good woman, Sarah. 23:34 unknown Mr. President, the price of oil is way up, the stock market is down. Did you miscalculate the cost of going into Iran? ● 23:41 P1 No. We're not giving a nuclear weapon to terrorist thugs. And we're knocking the hell out of them. Their navy is gone, their air force is gone, their leaders are gone, their anti-aircraft is gone, everything's gone. But did you expect the economic impact? No, I expected worse, actually. I really thought, I thought that oil prices would go much higher when I did this. We just set every record, every record in the book with Dow, with the S&P. Dow hit 50,000, S&P hit 8,000, 7,000, and at levels, at speed like nobody's ever seen before. But I said I have to go off on that path, and I have to take a little journey. We have to get the, and he would agree, but he's not going to say it. And this is not St. Patrick's Day, by the way. What are you doing with that tie? But we had to go off on a circuitous path and take care of business, and we are in the process of doing it, and I'll tell you, I think we're weeks ahead of schedule. My Secretary of State is very happy. Do you have a question for Marco? 24:47 unknown Yes, how soon, President Trump said to speak that he could take Cuba. How soon can that happen? 24:56 P2 Well, look, I mean, Cuba's a disaster. And it's because of their communist government, it doesn't work. So I don't have any news for you on that today, other than it's been going on for 67 years, they're a disaster, it's the worst it's ever been. 25:07 unknown And what are you guys hearing from your Senate colleagues about the chances of the Save America Act passing? 25:13 P1 Well, it seems to be doing okay. It's voter ID, it's you have to have citizenship to vote. And I'm hearing very good things. I mean, I was hearing negative things because the Democrats are all against voter ID, they're all against citizenship to vote. They're against transgender, you know, they have, they like the transgender thing with mutilation of your children. All of the things that we talk about. You know, we added to, you know, we added to little elements, no men in women's sports. Right? You know that. We added that. And when you add them all up, whether you take four or five, I think they're all 95 to 99% issues. I hear it's going, look, it should be an easy pass. But we need Democrat votes. They don't want to approve voter ID because they cheat. They don't want to approve citizenship. In other words, we want to have citizenship in order to vote. You have to prove your citizenship. The Democrats don't want to do that. You know why, Peter? You know why? Because they want to cheat, Peter. Now, speaking of something that's more pleasant. See that? 26:16 P1 It's going to be the greatest ballroom anywhere in the world. Nothing like it. And they just started today, one of the biggest pours of concrete that's ever been seen in Washington, D.C. When they're doing the construction, does it ever wake you up? It makes me happy. When I hear those pile drivers, my wife doesn't love it, but I love the sound. I love the sound of concrete, I love the sound of pile drivers. How are you? How are you? 26:50 P3 Okay, so that was from Friday, in case you missed it. 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Text TRUMP to 989898. 29:30 P1 Alright, let's see. It's approaching the top of the hour. This is Air Force One is on its way to Western Tennessee. If you're just joining us, this is RSBN live. Of course, we're going to see the president at about 1 o'clock Eastern time. That's the time that it's scheduled for, where he'll participate in a Memphis Safe Task Force roundtable. And Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn says more than 8,000 arrests have been made since the start of the Memphis Safe Task Force, which that memorandum was signed by the president in September of 2025. And we'll dive into some more details on that in just a minute. 30:06 P1 Other headlines we're tracking at this hour for those of you just joining us. We'll have the latest on Operation Epic Fury as the president posted about that earlier. This as the Senate continues to debate the Save America Act. And then of course we're seeing those unprecedented long lines. We're still seeing it at numerous airports across the country, thanks to you know who, the Democrats. This is all while that emergency in New York last night, as there was a fatal collision on the ground between an Air Canada passenger jet and Port Authority fire truck. This was at New York LaGuardia again late last night. ● 30:44 P1 So let's start with that once again as we get the latest from the Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who posted the following on X. He said, quote, our prayers this morning are with the families impacted by that ground collision at LaGuardia. As you see the photo there on the right side of your screen. Now, we know that the NTSB is now investigating this fatal accident. Here's the information from Sean Duffy. He said last night an Air Canada Express CRJ900 operating from Montreal and then a Port Authority fire truck at LaGuardia Airport collided at about 11:45 Eastern time last night. So of the 72 Air Canada Express passengers and four crew members, over a dozen are injured. Tragically, both pilots of the aircraft have passed away. At least two Port Authority firefighters sustained serious injuries. LaGuardia remains closed until 2 p.m. Eastern, so we have about still yet a couple hours while the NTSB investigates the accident site. We will continue to work closely with the NTSB, Sean Duffy says, and share additional updates as soon as possible. Quite the tragedy there at LaGuardia last night. 31:56 P1 Again, let's go over clip one here with President Trump talking about Operation Epic Fury as he posted the following. He said, quote, I am pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran have had over the last two days very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East. Based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth, detailed, and constructive conversations, which will continue throughout the week, I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period. This is subject, according to the president, to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions. The president says, thank you for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump. 32:45 P1 Let's shift back now to the Memphis Task Force. As you take that live look at the National Mall, kind of a very wide, if you look on your iPhone, a .5 wide scope shot right there of DC. Partly cloudy day as we see that the president is on his way on Air Force One over there to Western Tennessee for this roundtable. Again, all about the Memphis Safe Task Force. And he established this and signed the memorandum back in September of 2025. So let's take a look at clip two once again if you're just joining us. 33:24 P2 Today, at the request of Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee, who's standing with us as you know, I'm signing a presidential memorandum to establish the Memphis Safe Task Force. And it's very important because of the crime that's going on, not only in Memphis, in many cities, and we're going to take care of all of them. Step by step, just like we did in DC. We have virtually no crime in DC right now. And we're going to keep it that way. It's our nation's capital. We're going to keep it that way. We're going to federalize it if we had to, but we don't have to anymore because it's in such great shape. This task force will be a replica of our extraordinarily successful efforts here. And you'll see it's a lot of the same thing, although the numbers here are really something, they're really bad. ● 34:10 P3 Memphis all my life. I grew up spending summers there with my cousins, riding bikes off of Getwell where they lived, through neighborhoods of a great American city that is legendary worldwide. And it saddened my heart to see over the decades that Memphis kids can't live that same safe experience. From day one, we've looked for opportunities to create change in a city that's more than worth fighting for. And over the years, good faith efforts have resulted in incremental progress. But that, and that deserves recognition. But the Memphis Safe Task Force has fostered an unprecedented collaboration between local and state and federal partners that's nothing short of extraordinary. The federal resources delivered by the Trump administration, the dozens of agencies working side by side, the relentless bipartisanship that has proven all the critics wrong. This Herculean effort has in fact created generational change in Memphis. Crime is down 55% in Shelby County with the lowest monthly crime totals in over 25 years. 36:00 P4 Hi folks, this is Senator Brent Taylor coming to you from Broad Avenue in Binghampton for yet another Make Memphis Matter challenge. We're standing here in front of the Broadway Pizza, and I can tell you I remember, it hadn't been that long ago, that I would hear from my constituents who would come down here and they would go back to their car after having enjoyed a restaurant and get to the car and it's been broken into. And that happened not once, not twice, sometimes three times. But since the Memphis Safe Task Force has been here in Memphis, the car break-ins are down, crime is being cut by 50% here in Memphis. And it's all because of the Memphis Safe Task Force. We're working hard to make Memphis matter. The Memphis Safe Task Force is working hard to make Memphis safe. As I've said many times, from Memphis to Mountain City and from Turtletown to Tiptonville, thank you, God bless you, and let's all work together to make Memphis matter. 36:58 P4 The Memphis Safe Task Force has made significant reductions in crime in Memphis. And so I guess my question is, has that reduction in crime, has that improved the attractiveness for Memphis in terms of economic development? And if you could just speak to that. 37:13 P1 ...in terms of economic development and if you could just speak to that. 37:17 P2 It absolutely has. You know, I think Memphis is, uh, you know, from the state's perspective has always been a city and a community, a region of the state that's been very attractive across a diverse number of industries. Always has been, for all the reasons that I think we all know. Uh, but because of that, I would say Memphis, um, industries recognizing and watching what's going on and they see that there is an opportunity for them to, whether they're already there and they want to invest additional dollars or, you know, set up shop for the first time in our state because of what's happening in Memphis, absolutely, uh, has made a big difference. There's no question. 37:18 P5 It absolutely has. You know, I think Memphis has, you know, from the state's perspective, has always been a city and a community, a region of the state that's been very attractive across a diverse number of industries. Always has been, for all the reasons that I think we all know. But because of that, I would say Memphis industries recognizing and watching what's going on, and they see that there is an opportunity for them, whether they're already there and they want to invest additional dollars, or, you know, set up shop for the first time in our state because of what's happening in Memphis. Absolutely, it has made a big difference. There's no question. 37:56 P4 Hi folks, this is Senator Brent Taylor coming to you live from Nashville. And I have a special guest with me today, and that is Senator Mark Pody, one of my colleagues in the Senate. He represents Wilson County and a little piece of Davidson County. And we were talking today... 37:56 P1 Hi folks, this is Senator Brent Taylor coming to you live from Nashville, and I have a special guest with me today, and that is Senator Mark Pody, one of my colleagues in the Senate. He represents Wilson County and a little piece of Davidson County. And we were talking today in one of our committees about the success of the Memphis Safe Task Force. And I read aloud the statistics and how Memphis crime is literally being cut in half. And Senator Pody, I don't know if you heard last night, but President Trump single-handedly mentioned Memphis in the State of the Union and the reduction in crime, and I have not been able to do this alone. It's been through the help of you and others in the Senate, and I just wanted to thank you for what you're doing to help make Memphis matter. 38:42 P3 Well, I can appreciate what you're doing. And it's ironic because, Senator, you and I have something in common, because I represent one of the largest cities in the state that is heavily, heavily Democratic, and you represent a heavily Democratic city as well, one of the largest in the state. And I admire how you stand up and fight. You fight for law and order, you fight for what is right constantly, and we know that you are fighting hard to do what's right for Memphis. ● 39:08 P1 Well, I appreciate that, and I do, I anger a lot of purple-haired people down in Memphis, but uh, and but uh, we're doing what we can to try to make Memphis matter. And I wanted to give you, because of all your efforts in helping make Memphis matter by making Memphis safe, I wanted to give you your very own Make Memphis Matter baseball cap, and I hope you'll wear it with pride. 39:27 P3 Absolutely. I can just tell you as well, you keep up the fight. You are leading down here, you're leading not only for Memphis, for the entire state. You've already passed bills that are going to be affecting all of us in Tennessee, and keep up the great work you're doing. I just appreciate serving with you. 39:42 P1 Well, thank you, I appreciate it. And from Memphis to Mountain City, and from Turtletown to Tiptonville, thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the great State of Tennessee. 39:51 P4 And that's exactly where President Trump is on his way to Memphis, Tennessee, the Volunteer State, Shelby County specifically there in Western Tennessee. So we'll be seeing the President here in about an hour or so for that roundtable all about the Memphis Safe Task Force. Again, this is a multi-agency effort here, including the National Guard. If you remember, the National Guard in Memphis, the National Guard in Washington D.C. I believe the Governor of Louisiana also asking President Trump to have the National Guard down there in New Orleans as well. So we're tracking that meeting coming up here in just a minute. There's some more stories we're going to get to here in just a second as well. Let's go to Rumble Wallet first. 40:32 P4 You may have seen those conversations happening online lately. 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And on top of that, 100,000 people not getting their paychecks and still doing their jobs, a number of them are. And again, DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security Administration, well, it's still shut down at this point. We're going to get to some more of that in just a second. Also, when will DHS be funded again? So it looks like 62% are saying before April 8th of 2026, and 38% are saying before April 1st of 2026. And there's a lot of other questions on there as well. So check it out, kalshi.com/rsbn, great sponsor here at Right Side Broadcasting Network. 43:01 P4 If you'd like to follow us on Truth Social it's @RSBN. On X, it's @RSBNetwork. And if you'd like to follow me on X, it's @MatthewUSMedia, and also on Truth @MatthewAlvarez. You know, speaking of Truth Social, yesterday I posted a number of photos that were AI-generated from Grok. So I posted on X, posted some on Truth Social. We're going to go over some of those in just a minute. And it's all about the SAVE America Act. Sometimes you get the creative juices flowing and then you combine that with the fact of saving our country, those are pretty good things to have a one-two punch figuratively speaking and creatively speaking as well. Uh, again, here are some statements though. Let's do this first before we get to the SAVE America Act. 43:46 P4 Let's go specifically, I'm going to go to Rapid Response 47 if you'd like to follow along as well. This as we await the White House if they'll be posting that press gaggle from earlier today. If not, all good, we'll just read a number of posts that we see here for various topics that the President was asked about this morning as he was heading to Memphis for this event. So we're going to start with one of the latest posts and we'll go to the newer ones here in just a second. The President said on Iran, he said, 'We have had very, very strong talks. We'll see where they lead. We have major points of agreement. They went, I would say, perfectly,' the President says. 'I would say that if they carry through with that, it'll end that problem, that conflict.' Uh, the President also saying, 'We're dealing with the man who I believe is the most respected and the leader, it's a little tough, we've wiped out everybody.' Uh, the reporter asks, 'Is that the Supreme Leader?' The President said, 'No.' When the President's talking specifically about who they've been talking to in Iran. Also, uh, the question from a reporter about two hours ago posted on Rapid Response 47, 'What exactly are you looking for in these talks, Mr. President?' And the President said, quote, 'We want to see no nuclear bomb, no nuclear weapon, not even close to it. Low key on the missiles. We want to see peace in the Middle East. We want the nuclear dust. I think we're going to get that.' Uh, that's from the President from Rapid Response 47. 45:18 P4 Uh, and a number of other posts as well from Rapid Response, and we're going to get to some of them here on right side because he referred to ICE wearing masks, you know, saying he's a big proponent of that when it comes to mass deportations, but then at the airports he's saying he'd rather the agents take the masks off. So, uh, we're seeing some videos on breaking 911 and other places out there of various ICE agents at various airports already stepping in just as the President said just a few days ago, helping with the TSA problem, not because it's the TSA's fault, not because it's the Department of Homeland Security's fault. You gotta call a spade a spade, it's the Democrats' fault. They're the ones that have partially shut down the government and are not funding 100,000 workers across the country causing, as you guys have seen, hopefully, maybe you've seen it, these unprecedented lines at various airports throughout the country. We'll get into that in a second. 46:12 P4 Let's talk about the following as we get ready to go to Memphis, Tennessee. The SAVE America Act. So, specifically, the question facing our country is, what's at stake if we don't pass the SAVE America Act? How far left could our country go? What constitutional freedoms might we lose? That's again, if the SAVE America Act doesn't pass, then there are millions and millions and millions of people mailing in ballots, not because of medical, not because of military. There are millions and millions of people voting at the precinct, places that don't have maybe a photo ID, don't have proof of citizenship. This is if this doesn't pass. So, let's go to President Trump. He's the one that talked about this early this morning. Let's go to clip four here about it. He said, quote, 'I don't think we should make any deal with the crazy country-destroying radical left Democrats unless and until they vote with Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act.' ● 46:13 P1 following as we get ready to go to Memphis, Tennessee, the Save America Act. So specifically, the question facing our country is what's at stake if we don't pass the Save America Act? 46:24 P1 How far left could our country go? What constitutional freedoms might we lose? That's again, if the Save America Act doesn't pass. ● 46:54 P1 So let's go to President Trump. He's the one that talked about this early this morning. Let's go to clip four here about it. He said quote, I don't think we should make any deal with the crazy country destroying radical left Democrats unless and until they vote with Republicans to pass the Save America Act. 48:26 P1 Let's go to Cove Pure. So we're past all that new year new me stuff. This is the part where we either forget about it or we make it easy enough that we actually follow through. ● 51:26 P2 Hey y'all, it's Silk from Diamond and Silk Chit Chat Live. Look, don't forget to watch my show right here at Right Side Broadcasting Network and I want you to support Right Side Broadcasting Network. It's imperative that you do so, okay? Bye bye. 52:02 P1 Welcome back to Right Side Broadcasting Network. It is Monday, March 23rd and 12:19 on the East Coast. I believe that's what, 9:19 out there on the West Coast. 52:29 P1 We know the President on his way to Memphis, Tennessee. Speaking of on his way to Memphis, Tennessee, the White House has posted the press gaggle from within the past couple hours. 54:25 P1 So let's do this. Let's go over a few Grok images I posted on X and Truth Social last night. We're going to just page through a few of them, talk about a few of them as we get ready to go to the President for that press gaggle. ● 55:13 P1 that are supposed to vote in United States elections. Let's go to another clip. Let's see what we have here. Of course, our farmland around the country. I just thought, hey, why not put that in there too. Pass the Save America Act. I mean, this is something that people are saying, hey, this is not something to debate really. This is something that we should just get done. Nuke the filibuster if you have to. Let's move on to the next photo. 55:36 P1 Let's see. Okay, this one was interesting because obviously the Indy cars are going to be going around DC coming up in the near future for our 250th birthday here in the country. And the blue car there, it says Save America Act. And of course, you've got the patriotic car. And I typed 'pass' in quotes, 'pass the Save America Act'. Okay, there you go. So there's one. If it's corny, it's corny, but the point is, is really just keep the messaging going to make sure this thing gets passed. We're not just going to let this go. We see that this is a very important thing for our country. Let's move to another one. 56:11 P1 Save America Act. Now this one got the most likes I think on Truth Social because I said no vacations for United States Senators until this passes. And there you go, at the beach, beautiful weather there. Again, this is all because of Grok on X. Simply you type it in, you have a premium account there, you type it in and you check everything out and you're allowed to use these photos as you see there. Save America Act. No vacations for United States Senators until the Save America Act passes. I mean, think about it. If you're a boss and you have employees, right? The boss says, hey, do this. The employee says, okay, you know, you just kind of gotta roll with it, right? Well, it's the same thing with this. We the people are the boss. Last time I checked, the $174,000 that each member of Congress makes, I guess that's in the Senate and in Congress, I don't know. Those are our dollars. Like, you're representing all of us, you know? So please don't take a vacation until this thing's passed. You know what I mean? This is for our country. This is what we want. Really can't argue with that. 57:22 P1 Let's go to the next photo. Let's see what we see there. I love this one because I love hockey. I said passing the Save America Act is the goal. So put that on the jumbotron there. Pass the Save America Act. Let's see what else we have. Let's go to baseball. I said it would be a grand slam home run if we just pass the Save America Act in time for the 2026 midterms. So if you follow me on Truth Social, it's @MatthewAlvarez or on X @MatthewUSMedia. Thought it'd be fun to just show a few of those today. I don't think there's any more, right director? Is that it? I think that's it. All right, that's the last one. Anyway, hope you enjoyed that. I don't know, I had fun making those AI graphics just yesterday. This is as we get ready to see the President in Memphis, Tennessee. 58:08 P1 Let's go to a few of our sponsors in the meantime as we get ready to see the President as well from the press gaggle that happened earlier today. All Family Pharmacy, all about RSBN10, that promo code right there as you see, because most people, you know, it seems like you don't think about medications until you actually need them. Someone gets sick, the pharmacy's closed, the doctor's office is booked out, and suddenly you're scrambling just to get basic prescriptions. There's a better way to handle it. All Family Pharmacy is helping Americans take control of their healthcare by making it simple to get the medications families rely on every day. So you go online, you choose the medication you're looking for, and complete a short medical form. 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Let's go to President Trump now as he spoke to the press within the past couple hours. 1:00:52 P2 Let me just... move over... let's get out of the sun. Come on back. Is that more comfortable? 1:01:14 P3 Mr. President, Iran's foreign ministry says you're not telling the truth when it comes to productive conversations. ● 1:01:20 P2 Well they're gonna have to get themselves better public relations people. We have had very, very strong talks. We'll see where they lead. We have major points of agreement. I would say almost all points of agreement. Perhaps that hasn't been conveyed. Communication as you know has been blown to pieces. They're unable to talk to each other. But we've had very strong talks. Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner had them. They went, I would say perfectly. I would say that if they carry through with that, it'll end that problem, that conflict. And I think it'll end it very, very substantially. We have very much in mind our partners in the Middle East. We've had great relationships with a lot of them, as you know. A lot of them were surprisingly hit. And I was surprised to see it, and so was everyone else. But we have them very much in mind in the discussions. So the discussions took place yesterday. They went into yesterday evening. They want very much to make a deal. We'd like to make a deal too. We're going to get together today, probably by phone, because it's very hard to find a country, it's very hard for them to get out, I guess. But we'll at some point very soon meet. We're doing a five-day period. We'll see how that goes. And if it goes well, we're going to end up with settling this. Otherwise we'll just keep bombing their little hearts out. 1:02:53 P3 Who exactly are you speaking with in Iran? 1:02:56 P2 A top person. Don't forget, we wiped out the leadership phase one, phase two, and largely phase three. But we're dealing with a man who I believe is the most respected and the leader. You know, it's a little tough. They wiped out everybody. No, not the supreme leader. Well nobody's ever heard of the second supreme leader. Nobody, we have not heard from the son. Every once in a while you'll see a statement made, but we have not, we don't know if he's living. But the people that seem to be running it, and they seem that based on really fact, because things they've said have taken place. 1:03:39 P3 Can you say their name? 1:03:41 P2 I can't. Because I don't want them to be killed. Okay? I don't want them to be killed. Nobody wants to be that, nobody wants that job right now, you know. Nobody's exactly looking forward to being the head of that particular country. But perhaps we'll be able to solve that problem. 1:03:59 P3 Mr. President, you deployed ICE agents to American newsrooms. Who are you looking for? You deployed ICE agents to American newsrooms. ● 1:04:10 P2 You're not doing a good job. Did you hear me? Okay, go ahead. 1:04:13 P3 What exactly are you looking for in these talks, Mr. President? 1:04:13 P2 What exactly are you looking for in these talks, Mr. President? 1:04:16 P1 We're looking for all of the things that we've been talking about. We want to see no nuclear bomb, no nuclear weapons, not even close to it. Low key on the missiles. We want to see peace in the Middle East. We want the nuclear dust, we're gonna want that. And I think we're gonna get that. We've agreed to that. Yeah, we've agreed to that. 1:04:37 P2 You want to enrich uranium before... 1:04:39 P1 And we want no enrichment. But we also want the enriched uranium. If this happens, it's a great start for Iran to build itself back. And it's everything that we want. And it's also great for Israel, and it's great for the other Middle Eastern countries. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, all of them. Kuwait, and Bahrain in particular. So it's great for all of them. 1:05:07 P2 We're looking for all of the things that we've been talking about. We want to see no nuclear bomb, no nuclear weapons, not even close to it. Low key on the missiles. We want to see peace in the Middle East. We want the nuclear dust, we're going to want that. And I think we're going to get that. We've agreed to that. Yeah, we've agreed to that. And we want no enrichment. But we also want the enriched uranium. If this happens, it's a great start for Iran to build itself back, and it's everything that we want. And it's also great for Israel, and it's great for the other Middle Eastern countries. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, all of them. Kuwait, and Bahrain in particular. So it's great for all of them. 1:05:11 P1 It's always nice to have. It's always nice to have. It's a very inflamed world, and the Democrats inflame it. You know, largely the Democrats inflame it. Let me just talk about the other. So ICE has done very well. I've requested, now you know I'm a big believer that they should be able to wear masks when they go and hunt down murderous criminals and others. But for purposes of the airport, I've requested that they take off the masks. I don't like it for the airport. And I believe they are willing to do that. 1:05:43 P2 Why take off the masks not at the airport, but they need to do it when they're out in the field? 1:05:47 P1 Because the people coming into the airport, typically speaking, aren't murderers, killers, drug dealers, etc. There may be a few of them, but there aren't many. They're people that want to come into the country or they're people want to leave the country, go into maybe their home country. So I didn't think it was an appropriate look for an airport. I think it's a very appropriate look when they're out on the street trying to find one of the 11,888 murderers that sleepy Joe Biden let into our country. 1:06:16 P2 Last year you paid a $10,000 bonus... 1:06:19 P1 Sorry? 1:06:20 P2 Last year you gave a $10,000 bonus to TSA workers who kept showing up to work during the shutdown. Will you do that again? ● 1:06:25 P1 Well, it could happen. It's amazing the such, the people that are really, really loyal and great. And it's not easy for them. And this is all caused by the Democrats. Just so you know, all this money was approved. Everything was approved. This is done. The Democrats went in, and they want to have radical left lunatics come into our country. They want to have drug dealers. They want to have murderers come into our country. They want to have open borders. And we're not letting it happen. That's what this is all about. They don't want voter ID. They don't want proof of citizenship. They don't want... mail-in ballots. They're so corrupt. What they want, the only thing they want is mail-in ballots. So we also added, as you know, into the Save America Act, and it's called Save America, it's not the Save Act. But we added no transgender mutilation of our children, and no men in women's sports. 1:07:21 P2 Elon Musk... 1:07:25 P1 I don't think he's gonna be a newsmax fan. 1:07:28 P2 If he talks so well, and you reach a ceasefire deal with Iran, do you believe Israel would abide by that agreement? 1:07:35 P1 I think Israel will be very happy with what we have. We just spoke to Israel a little while ago. I think they'll be very happy. This will be peace for Israel. Long-term peace. Guaranteed peace. If this happens, I can't guarantee it, but I think it's going to. My life is a deal. That's all I do is deals, my whole life. I think this is something that's going to happen. And why wouldn't it happen? So tomorrow morning sometime, their time, we were expected to blow up their largest electric generating plants that cost over 10 billion dollars to build. It's a very good one, there was no dearth of money. And one shot, it's gone. It collapses. Why would they want that? So they called, I didn't call, they called. They want to make a deal. And we are very willing to make a deal. It's gotta be a good deal, and it's gotta be no more wars, no more nuclear weapons. They're not gonna have nuclear weapons anymore, they're agreeing to that. Any of that stuff, there's no deal. 1:08:43 P2 How are you going to get the enriched uranium? Are you going to send... 1:08:49 P1 Well, if we have a deal with them, we'll go down and we'll take it ourselves. 1:08:56 P2 The Treasury lifted sanctions on Iranian oil... do you criticize President Obama for giving Iran 1.7 billion... 1:09:03 P1 Well, I just want to have as much oil in the system as possible. And we don't even know if Iran gets that money. Frankly, I think it's very hard for them to get it. But you have ships that are out there that are loaded up with oil. Rather than keep it there, I would rather see it go to the system. Any small amount of money that Iran gets is not going to have any difference in this war. But I want to have the system be lubricated. 1:09:28 P2 Even 14 billion dollars... 1:09:31 P1 Where's the 14 billion? Because the inflated price, they get 14 billion dollars... 1:09:36 P1 I don't think they're getting the money. I could tell you, when this is all over, I will tell you who's getting the money. 1:09:42 P2 Mr. President, sending the Marines to California, given that it'll take them weeks to arrive, is the intention to police the streets or... 1:09:49 P1 Well, it's been reported that there are Marines that left California, left San Diego last week. Why are they headed there now? 1:09:57 P1 Well, let me ask you this. If you were in my position, and I asked you that question, do you really believe I'd give you the answer? It's a crazy question. We don't talk about strategy. Let in by Biden. A message for her family? It's devastating. These people were let in by Biden. We're getting them out, we're getting them out fast. That's why ICE is so important, they're doing such a good job. This animal, I saw the whole thing last night, they gave me a briefing. Came in through Joe Biden with his open door policy, and his border czar Kamala, who never saw the border. Never made one phone call to all the ICE people. You see, they all know me, everyone knows me, they like me, I speak to them all the time. Didn't make one phone call during four years. She was the border czar to anybody on the border. Never went there. This person came in through the open door policy of Joe Biden. And we have others. We're taking them out by the tens of thousands. We're doing a great job. But it's a shame. They've hurt our country. Just remember this. Joe Biden and that gang of radical left lunatics, some very smart, but radical left and bad ideology, sick people. These people have hurt our country very badly. 1:11:21 P2 Are we directly talking with Iran? How is that different from what Russia is doing in Ukraine? 1:11:30 P1 Well, I think it's a lot different. And if you look at the nuclear weapons that they wanted to have, that they wanted to possess, a lot of things are different. I'm not a fan of what Russia is doing either, just so you understand. Alright? But it's a lot different. You're talking about a country that has been evil for 47 years. They've been horrible. Death all over the world. Not just us. Look at the way they attacked unexpectedly all of those countries surrounding them. Nobody was even thinking about it. But they wanted to take over the Middle East, and they wanted to knock out Israel permanently. If they had a nuclear weapon, they would have been able to. 1:12:11 P2 Mr. President, talking to Iran... 1:12:15 P1 Look, I'm not a fan of the guy. ● 1:12:17 P3 Alright, so we're gonna go back to some of that press gaggle in just a second. We're seeing that live feed coming to us from Memphis right now as the President already appearing guys? Doesn't look like it at this point. It might be. Guys, do you want to go, let's go to Memphis, Tennessee at this point. Okay. Okay, let's go to that guys. We're just communicating right here. 1:15:20 P1 Well, that was a nice place with the best sound system. I don't know who did it, sounds like the finest opera hall in anywhere in the world. 1:15:31 P1 Let's come back here more often. So often you have sound systems that aren't the greatest. And there's nothing worse making a speech when nobody can hear you. This is beautiful, it's a great place. 1:15:42 P1 And Memphis has to like me, because I have a lot of friends here and they were not happy a year ago, two years ago, four years ago, and now they said we can't believe what's happened in terms of crime, in terms of what's gone on and the job that these people and some of the great people, many of the great people in the audience have done. And that's why I'm here today. 1:16:08 P1 In fact we were going to cancel because we have a couple of events going on as you probably noticed. So they said oh we'll cancel Memphis. I said we're not canceling Memphis for anything. We're not canceling. We're not going to cancel Memphis. But we do have some big things happening, and very positive I have to say. ● 1:16:31 P1 So before getting to our important discussion this morning, let me provide a brief update on Operation Epic Fury, which is a very good name as it turns out. That was a name they showed me 20 names, sir what name would you like, I didn't like any of them. And then I get toward the end, I said you gotta be kidding. What? Operation Epic Fury. I love that name. 1:16:55 P1 And it's very appropriate for what's taken place, as you know, in Iran, because we knocked out their Navy, we knocked out their Air Force, we knocked out their anti-aircraft, we knocked out everything. And we did it with fury, actually. 1:17:11 P1 As I announced earlier, based on preliminary conversations between the United States and Iran over the past two days, I've directed the Department of War to temporarily postpone planned strikes against major energy and electricity targets in Iran. They have very very big new actually and very expensive billions of dollars it cost to build them. One missile, one of our powerful ones, and it comes down to the ground like it was made out of dust. 1:17:40 P1 But to determine whether a broader agreement can be reached, we've had very good discussions, very very good discussions. And you have to understand, I know, my whole life has been a negotiation, but with Iran we've been negotiating for a long time, and this time they mean business. And it's only because of the great job that our military did is the reason they mean business. They want to settle and we're going to get it done, I hope. 1:18:11 P1 So hopefully this will be possible, but no matter what, we will ensure that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon. They can't have a nuclear weapon. They would have had one if we allowed the Obama deal to stand, that was the Iran nuclear deal they called it, they would have had one, March of 3... I tell you what, Martha, we would have nuclear weapons up there when, would you say two years ago, three years ago, four years ago? We would have been in a position that nobody wants to be in. We won't allow ourselves to be in that position. 1:18:46 P1 Over the past three weeks, the United States military and our partners have been decimating Iran's military capabilities with overwhelming firepower, skill, lethality, and force. And we're destroying their ballistic missiles and drones programs with launchers down by more than 90%. We're hitting their launchers at a level that nobody even thought of before. 90%. They can't launch them, and they don't have very many of them, because most of them have been annihilated. ● 1:19:19 P1 But we've annihilated their defense industrial base, eliminating their Navy. We had 158 ships went down. I said to my people, why didn't you capture the ships? I said, were they good or not? They said they were great sir. So why didn't you capture it, we could have used them. They said it's more fun to put them at the bottom of the sea. 1:19:40 P1 But they're not there anymore. So we eliminated their Navy, Pete, right? And that's gone. We eliminated their Air Force. We eliminated all of their air defense, everything. We eliminated everything there is to eliminate, and we eliminated them. We eliminated their leaders. ◆ 1:19:58 P1 We had, we had the first set of leaders, they're gone. Then they met, 88 people met, and it's sad, I mean it's sad they couldn't have made a deal. We could have made a deal with them a long time ago. Then the second set, 88 people met to pick a new leader, and they're now extinguished. And then they're meeting again, but now nobody wants to be the leader. It's one of the few political jobs that nobody wants anywhere in the world. Nobody wants it. It's a very dangerous job. My job is dangerous too, but their job is worse. 1:20:31 P1 In other words, we're systematically dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America. They're not threatening us anymore. As Commander in Chief, it's my sacred responsibility to protect our country from all threats. For decades, Iran refused every opportunity to renounce its nuclear ambitions, and in recent months its own negotiators bragged to our representatives about having enough material to make nuclear weapons. And that was supposed to deter me, but it didn't deter, it made me more anxious, and it just made it much more important this mission that we're all on together was much more important, and we did it quicker. 1:21:13 P1 Iran's missile capabilities were also growing so fast that it would soon have become virtually impossible to stop them. Once they have a missile, once they have what they were building, it was incredible. And you got a little glimpse of it by the fact that when they came out, they started shooting all of their neighbors. Their neighbors weren't fighting with them, they were getting along okay with their neighbors. And I was surprised, they were surprised, everybody was surprised, and it actually worked in reverse because their neighbors then turned against them. 1:21:43 P1 Now Iran has one more opportunity to end its threats to America and our allies, and we hope they take it. Either way, America and the entire world will soon be much safer, and will be a much more secure planet. 1:22:00 P1 In addition to all of this, we're working on so many different things. You know our economy was fantastic, we had a Dow at 50,000. They say it couldn't happen in four years, it wouldn't happen during my term, but we, if I got anywhere close it would be a great success. Well, in my first year we hit 50,000. And with the S&P they said even more difficult, they said it would be impossible to hit 7,000 on the S&P, and we hit that in our first term. 1:22:13 P1 but we if I got anywhere close, it would be a great success. Well, in my first year we hit 50,000. And with the S&P they said, even more difficult, they said it would be impossible to hit 7,000 on the S&P. And we hit that in our first term. 1:22:32 P1 And then unfortunately I called Pete, I called General Keane, I called a lot of our great people, we have great people, and I said let's talk. We got a problem in the Middle East. We have a country known as Iran that for 47 years has been a just a purveyor of terror, and they're very close to having a nuclear weapon. We can keep going and get that 50,000 up to 55 and 60, there's no end, or we can take a stop and make a little journey into the Middle East and eliminate a big problem. And Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up, and you said let's do it, because you can't let them have a... 1:22:33 P1 And then unfortunately I came, I called Pete, I called General Keane, I called a lot of our great people, we have great people, and I said let's talk. We got a problem in the Middle East. We have a country known as Iran that for 47 years has been a just a purveyor of terror. And they're very close to having a nuclear weapon. We can keep going and get that 50,000 up to 55 and 60, there's no end. Or we can take a stop and make a little journey into the Middle East and eliminate a big problem. And Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up and you said let's do it. Because you can't let them have a nuclear weapon. So we are now having really good discussions. They started last night a little bit, the night before that. And I think they're, you know, I think they're very good. They want peace. They've agreed they will not have a nuclear weapon, you know, etc, etc. But we'll see, you have to get it done. But I would say there's a very good chance. 1:23:44 P1 And it began when I said that I won't be, we were planning tomorrow on shooting down some of their power plants and we're not going to, we're going to hold that up. Hopefully we won't have to do it. And hopefully we can make a deal that's good for all of us, including the Middle Eastern allies that have been very good to us, including Israel that's been a great partner in this fight. They've really been a good partner in the fight. They fought hard. But we'll see what happens. I think there's a very good chance we're going to end up in a deal. And so we're giving it five days and then we're going to see where that takes us. And I would say at the end of this period, I think it could very well end up being a very good deal for everybody. As good as if we went all the way and just literally annihilated the place, which if we don't have to do that, that would be a good thing, not a bad thing. ● 1:24:33 P1 In addition, after the appalling lines and massive disruptions at major airports nationwide last weekend, I am again demanding that Democrats in Congress immediately end their disgraceful shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security and restore the full funding for airport security and the TSA. They are holding it up because they want to take care of illegal immigrants coming into our country. They want to take care of criminals that are in sanctuary cities. They want to take care of transgender for everybody, literally the mutilation of our children. Men in women's sports. 1:25:13 P1 But what they don't want to do is give us anything to do with citizenship for voting or voter ID. Can you imagine? We're the only country that doesn't do voter ID. Every country does voter ID. You know, brought to my attention today that we're the only country that doesn't, that does mail-in voting. Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating. And we got to do something about it all. And it's part of Homeland Security. And I'm suggesting strongly to the Republican Party, don't make any deal on anything. The most important thing we can have is what's called the SAVE America Act. Don't make any deal on anything unless you include voter ID and you have to be a citizen to vote. You have to show citizenship to vote. Very easy to do. It's very insulting when they say people can't do it because they don't know how to do it. Anybody that can't do it, I think it's a very insulting thing to say. 1:26:13 P1 The Democrats are fully to blame with the struggle the great American public is going through at the airports. They're going through a big struggle right now. And we just put ICE in charge and they're helping TSA, the agents, and they're working together so far very well. I actually suggested that in the airports they take off their masks, and they did that. In the airports I didn't like, I'm a big believer in the mask because we have, you know, Biden allowed hundreds of thousands of killers into our country. We're rapidly getting them out, by the way. But they would, they would go after these people if they knew exactly who they were. But in the airports it's different. I didn't like, I didn't love the look in the airport as you get off the plane. So I made a request and they agreed to it. So they're not going to be doing that. We would also bring out, if we don't have enough, we will bring out the National Guard in, you know, where we need it to help out at the airports. But we're not going to let this happen. It's extortion by the Democrats. They're holding up money that's already been approved. And now they're willing to go $5 billion reduction in ICE in order to get the approval on a deal that they approved, the great big beautiful deal, which is the biggest tax cut in history, the biggest regulation cut in history. They want to basically renegotiate a deal that they already approved. And they're doing it for largely for a criminal element. ● 1:27:43 P1 So also the Democrats are putting our country at great risk during this period of time, a period that they call a war. They call it a war, we call it a military operation. Their leaders during this time are as, you know, as as you want to say, they're in a never never land. Schumer is gone. I mean he's a Palestinian. He should be fighting on the side of Palestine. He's actually become a Palestinian leader. I don't know, I've never seen a man change so much. He used to be pro-Israel, now he's pro-Palestine. I've never seen anything like it. And you know he's worried he's going to lose his next election, which it only depends if anybody runs against him. If anybody runs against him, he'll lose. But he's gone very wacky and very very dangerous for our country. But we want all of those things. We have to have them. We want voter ID, we want proof of citizenship as part of our funding. We want to merge them so that we can get the great big beautiful bill in action. 1:28:43 P1 And we can get the America and SAVE America, you know they called it the SAVE Act. But nobody knew what the SAVE Act was. So I said you have to call it, you have to under any circumstances, you have to call it the SAVE America Act. Because everybody knows what that is. So they want funding taken away from the ICE patriots who are responsible for getting rid of the criminals that Sleepy Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country, and his gang of thugs in the White House. You talk about weaponization, they weaponized everybody. You know, when we even look, when Pam looks at somebody, oh it's weaponization. They've indicted me, they what they've done to me and everybody else, it's a disgrace. They're the weaponizers of what they've done to people. We can never let that happen again. We can never let them get away with it again. They are the greatest weaponizers. Fortunately it didn't work because here I am with you. So it didn't work out too well. Didn't work out too well. But they want to have people come into our country. So many of these people are murderers. They're drug dealers. They're the worst criminals anywhere in the world. They want them in our country. They don't want them to come out. They make it almost impossible, but we get them out anyway. 1:30:13 P1 They should have never been allowed to enter our sacred ground. These people should have never, they came from all over the world. They came from all over. They came from the Congo in Africa. They came from all over South America, Asia, everywhere. And they were from jails and mental institutions. They were drug dealers, they were murderers. 11,888 murderers. In any event, the Democrats are being blamed by the American people for the catastrophe going on right now at our airports and at other points of transportation and beyond. And we want the public to know we're not going to let them out of this trap that they created for themselves. And I'm suggesting very strongly that the Republicans in going for the SAVE America Act, that you you weld it into exactly this. Because voter ID is part of Homeland Security. Think of it. We're talking about two separate items, but they're really the same. Voter ID is part of Homeland Security. And citizenship, proof of citizenship is part of Homeland Security. So I think it should be welded in. I think it should be together. You should vote together. Because the public has not liked what they've done at the airports. And they've done it and the public understands it. They've gotten wise to them. Republicans do not settle with Democrats and let them out of this hole that they've buried themselves in. You have to take the votes in the Senate to approve. You need votes to approve. We have to get Democrat votes. And at a certain point, if you could get rid of the filibuster, it would be great. It would be great. Get rid of the filibuster and get it all done. So we'll get it done. We want another thing we can or we don't have to, add those other items. And by the way, they say they're 80/20 items. They're not 80/20, they're 90/10. 1:31:13 P1 think of it. We're talking about two separate items, but they're really the same. Voter ID is part of Homeland Security. And citizenship, proof of citizenship is part of Homeland Security. 1:31:25 P1 So I think it should be welded in. I think it should be together. You should vote together. Because the public has not liked what they've done at the airports, and they've done it, and the public understands it. ● 1:31:38 P1 They've gotten wise to them. Republicans, do not settle with Democrats and let them out of this hole that they've buried themselves in. You have to take the votes in the Senate to approve. You need votes to approve. We have to get Democrat votes. 1:31:54 P1 And at a certain point, if you could get rid of the filibuster, it would be great. It would be great. Get rid of the filibuster and get it all done. So we'll get it done. We want another thing, we can, or we don't have to, add those other items. 1:32:08 P1 And by the way, they say they're 80-20 items. They're not 80-20, they're 99-1. Men playing in women's sports is a 99-1. You look at transgender mutilation of our children, that's a 99-1. And we have that in the bill too. 1:32:27 P1 So they won't sign it, then let the people reject them. And what we have to do is we have to win the midterms. This is the most important election. Because all of the gains that we've made, we built the greatest economy, the greatest military. 1:32:43 P1 I built the military in my first term, and we built the greatest military in the world. We're showing it now with Venezuela, with Iran. Everybody knows we have the greatest, most powerful military in the world. 1:32:57 P1 And we're in a position that we haven't seen. We're respected. You know, our country now is respected all over the world. A year and a half ago, we were a laughing stock. 1:33:06 P1 We were a laughing stock. The King of Saudi Arabia told me a year and a half ago, he said, President, I can't believe what's happened to America. One year ago, you were a laughing stock. Nobody thought you could ever, ever survive. ● 1:33:22 P1 Now you're the hottest country. He used that expression. He said, now you're the hottest country anywhere in the world. And we are now. Congratulations, because we're all partners in this deal. You're the hottest country anywhere in the world. It's really amazing. So I congratulate you. It's a great feeling, because we were laughed at for four years with this guy that should have never been president. 1:33:44 P1 So I'm tying Homeland Security into voter identification with picture and proof of citizenship in order to vote. And those two items are the most important thing having to do with Homeland Security. So it should be part of the Homeland Security bill. 1:34:03 P1 And I'm requesting that the Republican senators do that immediately. You don't have to take a fast vote. Don't worry about Easter going home. In fact, make this one for Jesus, okay? Make this one for Jesus. That's what I tell them. That would be a damn good thing. 1:34:20 P1 The most important part of Homeland Security is voter ID and proof of citizenship. Nobody can vote on Homeland Security without voter ID or proof of citizenship. And you can't have Homeland Security without voter ID or proof of citizenship. So we're tying them together. 1:34:40 P1 So now, if you don't mind, let's get to the reason why I'm in Memphis and why you're doing so well. Because Fred Smith, everybody know Fred Smith? He was a friend of mine. 1:34:53 P1 And he created from a sort of failed report at like Harvard or whatever, he did a business report, a concept he had, that was his thesis. A concept he had to build a company. And it was FedEx. So he gave this thing where he takes packages, he delivers them, who the heck knows what he put down. 1:35:11 P1 Bottom line is they gave him a lousy mark. I don't know if they passed him or not, but they didn't give him a good mark. They said, this is the most ridiculous business plan we've ever seen. Fred, go back to the drawing board and try something else, because this won't work. Well, he decided to go for it, and he built FedEx, and it's an amazing story. 1:35:31 P1 And he was a very good friend of mine. But he would tell me that he didn't know what to do about Memphis. It was so dangerous that they would have a board meeting, and the board members would demand it that they could not walk one block to their hotel. You know the hotel I'm talking about. 1:35:48 P1 It was so dangerous. And now they tell me this is like an entirely different place. It's like Washington, D.C. In Washington, D.C., we had the same thing, and now it's amazing. It's such an honor to... 1:36:03 P1 If only more governors, your governor called, and he said, we love it. Your mayor has been terrific. Your mayor has been terrific. But look at the results that you've got. Look at the results. 1:36:20 P1 And everybody should do it. You know, if I were Chicago, Pritzker, the guy's a, he's a failed governor. All he has to do is say, President, we're having a problem in Chicago. Could you come in and fix it? We'd have it fixed in two months. It would be good in two months, it would be great in four months. You'd have almost no crime. But he can't do it. And it just keeps going the same way. 1:36:44 P1 So that's the reason I'm here, to tell you how well you've done, how well we've done. I mean, I just came in, and people greeted me, Sir, thank you very much for what you've done. I said, oh, where are you from? Memphis. What did I do? You stopped crime. And your sheriffs are so thankful. 1:37:03 P1 And oh, you haven't seen it yet. You know, we've just been here a short while. In another two or three months, you're gonna have like no crime. And you know, we take these criminals... 1:37:16 P1 Is that our handsome senator down there, Bill? Is that our handsome senator Bill? You got both of them down there. But you're gonna have a new governor here soon, I guess, huh? You're gonna have a very new governor. ● ● 1:37:30 P1 Would you two stand up? As senators, please stand up. Two of the greatest people. Two of the greatest people. They never let me down, you know? Some let me down. They never let me down. Thank you. 1:37:46 P1 Last September, my administration launched the initiative modeled on DC Safe Task Force in our nation's capital. One of the most amazing things. I mean, I hate to say it, now I can say it, but our nation's capital was one of the most dangerous places on earth. People were being killed that go in from Iowa, they go from Indiana to see the Washington Monument, and their parents would get a phone call they've been killed. 1:38:13 P1 And it was happening a lot. It was really bad. And like this, actually, yours was at a level higher, to be honest with you, it was really bad. But it was happening a lot. 1:38:26 P1 And now you walk down Washington, it's like, everybody that sees me in Washington, we've been doing that another couple of months longer. Everybody sees me in Washington, they say, thank you, sir. Thank you. And I immediately know what. You know, they could thank me for a lot of things. I said, are they thanking me for the economy? I know immediately. 1:38:43 P1 We have people working in the White House, young women, they walk, I would say normally beautiful young women, ever since I got elected, I don't like to say that, because usually when you say a beautiful woman, isn't she beautiful, that's the end of your political career. So I never say that. But young women coming up to me and they're saying, sir, thank you so much. I know immediately what they're talking about. 1:39:06 P1 I say, how big a difference is it? They say, we walk to work. We were afraid to walk into an Uber. We were afraid to walk into a car. The car would be, it didn't matter, the car was being robbed when we were in the car. And it was much more than being robbed. Being robbed was the least of it. 1:39:25 P1 And we took out over 3,000 people. And you know there's an expression that 90% of the crime is caused by 2% of the population. And when you hear that, you realize why we can do such a good job. 1:39:41 P1 We moved 3,000 people out, permanently out of, these were career criminals. Many of them came in through the Biden open border disaster. They came in, they weren't there, they came in, they said, we want to live in Washington, where they'll take good care of us, give us plenty of welfare. And we got them all out. We moved them back to their countries. Sometimes we put them in prison because they were so dangerous. We had one person killed four people in a short period of time. ● 1:40:13 P1 Many of the people, 11,888, 50% of them in our country, they came from jails. Other countries opened their jails and let them into our country because Biden and his great border czar, the border czar who never once went to the border, never once called Border Patrol. But his great border, perhaps you've heard of her, Kamala. Has anyone heard of Kamala? She was the border czar. That was like having nothing as a border czar. 1:40:43 P1 And they poured into our country, and they made our country very, very unsafe. And the job that ICE and Border Patrol have done, they don't get the appreciation they deserve. They are great American patriots, they're incredible people. 1:41:03 P1 So we brought together 22 federal agencies, state and local police, and 1,500 members of the incredible National Guard to smash the... 1:41:13 P1 So we brought together 22 federal agencies, state and local police, and 1,500 members of the incredible National Guard to smash the grip of the violent criminals on this iconic American city. The city is incredible, people love it so much but they're so... they're just fed up, they can't stay. And now they're staying. I had somebody backstage say sir I was ready to leave, and now we're staying. I said don't worry it's gonna get much better. Just takes a little more time. 1:42:00 P1 Like our DC efforts, the Memphis task force has been led by our director of US Marshal Services, Gaddy Seralta, who is incredible. Where is Gaddy? Gaddy, you are unbelievable. And I want to thank you for the work. He did a job in Washington. So when I heard Memphis, I said I want the same guy that did Washington. Cause that went... you're gonna tell us when you get up which was more difficult, alright? 1:43:00 P1 But Memphis, known all over the world as the home of Graceland. You know I'm going to see Graceland after this? I think, is that right? I love Elvis. I never met Elvis. Everyone said did you... I met 'em all. I met Sinatra, I knew all of 'em. I never met Elvis. Sometimes I feel I should tell a little fib, say I knew him well. I love Elvis, but I never met him. But I'm gonna go see Graceland after this I think. I'm sure it's not gonna be a very long stay, but I want to see that. 1:44:00 P1 But for years prior to our involvement, Memphis had become known for something else. Being the murder capital of the USA. That's not a good title. It was averaging far more than one murder per day, with a crime rate higher than Colombia, Mexico City, or Baghdad. In the year... I shouldn't be saying this, we're saying all this because... but here's the good news, it's been fixed. Alright? I hate to say this cause it's so negative. It's so negative. 1:45:00 P1 In the year before I took office, Memphis saw more than 12,500 violent assaults, 429 rapes, and 7,600 burglaries and armed robberies. And I mean it was... and getting worse. This catastrophe was the result of years of local politicians, judges, and prosecutors who decided with violent criminals over law-abiding citizens. Basically liberals, or now they like to go with the word progressives. You don't hear liberal, they're liberal. I don't like progressive cause it's a beautiful word. You know they use progressive cause that's the only thing they're good at, politics I guess. 1:46:00 P1 You know they're bad at policy. Because all these policies are bad. But they're great at politics. And they do stick together. They stick together, they're good at politics, but they're bad at policy. Because they can't sell open borders. They can't sell transgender for everyone. They can't sell men in women's sports. So they can be the greatest politicians in the world, and that's why I'm here instead of them I guess. ● 1:47:00 P1 But just as we have in DC, here in Memphis, we've achieved one of the largest, fastest declines in violent crime ever recorded. So that's something, right? Ever recorded. In fact, we're half a percentage point away from the record, so we'll catch 'em in the next month or two, alright? I think that's gonna happen. 1:48:00 P1 But that includes a 60% drop in robberies, a 74% drop in carjacking, and motor vehicle thefts. We have always achieved numbers that are good. These numbers are right in line to be among the best that we've done. And wherever we do this, we have very similar results. We were in New Orleans, where the governor called us as you know, and we went to New Orleans, they just had Mardi Gras. They said it's the first... it sounds terrible, but it's the first Mardi Gras we've ever had where there was no murder. Can you imagine? Doesn't sound too good, but you know, we're talking about the facts. And they said we had the lowest crime that we've ever had on Mardi Gras, which is almost... almost nothing. We went there about four months ago, we did a great job. 1:49:00 P1 So we've achieved a 70% reduction in murders from the peak in this place. In total, we've arrested 7,000 criminals, seized more than 1,100 illegal guns, taken more than 1,000 pounds of illicit narcotics, and rescued more than 150 missing children, making their parents beyond happy. 1:49:13 P1 General Warner Ross. You look, you guys look central casting. These are central casting people. What did you need us for? You didn't need us. Anyway, they had to let you do your job, right? They're letting you do your job now. Thanks as well to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee for the outstanding job. Thank you very much, Bill. We appreciated your call. Bill called me up, he said, 'We need a little help in Memphis, sir, would you get over here please?' He said, 'I have no pride, we just want this thing straightened out, right?' So thank you very much, I'm glad it worked out. Oh, you haven't seen, what do you see in 90 days from now? You're gonna see numbers that blow these off, you're down 70, 75%. You're gonna see numbers that you're gonna be very proud of. Senators Bill Hagerty and Marsha Blackburn. Great people. Great people. You have some real warriors too as your congressmen and women. David Kustoff, Andy Ogles, Diana Harshbarger, John Rose, Matt Gaetz, and Chuck Fleischmann. Would you all stand up? Warriors all. Everyone. Great, great people. You don't get better. It's not the easiest job, is it, huh? Speaker of the House, you know what I like about them? They're not at 3 o'clock in the morning. 'Sir, I got a call from Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House. Sir, we have a problem.' 'What time is it, Mike?' '3 o'clock, sir, morning. We vote at 9. We need, it's always the same, you know, it's like 8 or 9. Sir, could you call them for us and see if you can get their vote?' 'Ugh, 3 o'clock. Call them up. Hey Jim, how you doing?' 'Hello sir, I'm not there. I'm not there.' 'Well, you gotta get there, 9 o'clock you gotta vote. Sir, could I have a little breakfast so we could discuss this bill? You know, like a perfect bill, like voter ID or something. The bill didn't have to be too great to do it. He said, could we have maybe a little breakfast at the White House, sir? So, because I can get there, but I'm just not there. Come on over for breakfast, Bill.' You know, I got a lot of them too. I have about nine of them. But these are the people we love. These are the people we love. So I want to thank you all. Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and I hear this guy, I hear he's fantastic, Cameron Sexton. Where is he? I have heard such good things about you. And you're working on a very specific bill right now. I know all about you. That's great. Let me know when it's finished. You know, you gotta send me a copy, okay? That's great. Thank you, Cameron. You're doing a great job. Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner. Thank you, Floyd. National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, oh that's a big one, he gave me his endorsement, Patrick Yoes. Where's Patrick? He gave me his endorsement. I said, 'Well, what's your endorsement worth? How many members?' He said, 'Sir, we have 490,000 members.' I said, 'That's a good endorsement.' Patrick, do you think anybody outside of, within law enforcement, did anybody vote for Kamala that you know of? Don't, don't say it, you're gonna get yourself in trouble. Don't say it. But thank you, Pat, that's great. We had an unbelievable, I do believe we got 98, 99% with law enforcement. And why not? President of the National Sheriffs' Association, Chris West. Chris, thank you very much. Thank you, Chris. Stand up, Chris. Thank you. Why are you so far back there, Chris? You deserve to be in the front row. National President of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, Mat Silverman. Great guy too. All great guys, all guys we know. All guys, thank you, Mat. They're all guys that supported me, Pam, every one of them. For years, our leaders allowed entire cities in America to be destroyed by crime, drugs, and gang violence. Tolerating this violence was always a choice. 19 of the 20 most dangerous cities in America are run by Democrats. I'm surprised. I thought it was 20 of 20. I don't know why it's 19. I don't believe it. It's like, I heard it was 25 out of 25. Well, I'll find out about it because I don't believe it's right. Whoever wrote that statistic is wrong. But under the Trump administration, we believe that no city or neighborhood should be left behind. In Memphis, the crime became so horrible that residents were made prisoners of violence in their own community and their own home. But with the help of the great people right here at this table and right here, it's a whole different story right now. It's changing fast and it'll be record-setting in a very short period of time and I'll be here to celebrate it with you. You know, it's a very special state to me. I won this state, Bill, by numbers that nobody's ever won it before. We had the all-time record for votes. So I happen to like the state. I love Tennessee. Maybe someday I'll move to Tennessee. I might have to move here. No, I love it. You never know what that is, you know, you just have a relationship with a state. It's a lot safer than relationships with other things, I can tell you as a politician. But I especially want to thank Speaker Sexton who's working with the task force to pass model bills that will be tough on crime, to deliver permanent safety to the people of Memphis. And really, I don't know if you know, but they're looking at this all over the country, what you're doing. They're studying it, that's why I know your name so well. And all over the country they're studying it. And so I hope you do a great job, as simple as you can and as complex in the sense of we want to be tough, we want to be strong on crime because that's the thing. We want to have heart, we want to have fairness, but we have to be tough because some of these people are bad people that should have never been allowed to be here. Since I took office, we have successfully arrested or removed from the country over 500,000 hardline criminals. And under our leadership last year, the murder rate nationwide saw the single largest decline ever recorded, to the lowest level in 125 years. That's something. That's something. And this is despite the fact that they allowed 25 million people into our country, many of those people should never have been allowed into our country. So now I'd like to ask Director Gady Seralta, who's really a special guy, and I've lived with him because of Washington D.C., I saw what he did, but to say a few words. And congratulations for what you've done everywhere, but today we're only interested in one place: Memphis, Tennessee. Thank you very much, Gady. ● 1:49:30 P1 So I'd like you to please join me in thanking every single law enforcement hero here today. We have a number of 'em, a small number compared to what's doing the job, who helped make Memphis safe again. Memphis, just so you know, with all of the things we said, you have now developed a reputation as a city that's coming back stronger than any city in the country because of what's happened with crime, and because your political leaders had the courage to do what they did. So I'd like you to also say a special welcome and hello to the Tennessee National Guard, the Memphis Police Department, ICE, CBP, the ATF, DEA, Homeland Security Investigations, the US Marshals, the Tennessee Highway Patrol, and all of law enforcement. Everybody got together and they said we're gonna make Memphis great again. And they really did. It's so good. But you know, I talk about how good it is, we're at 75%, some people say 80, 81%. That still leaves 20%. You're gonna be down in another two months, three months I think Gaddy, we're gonna be down... we're gonna be down to almost no crime. You're gonna be an almost crime-free city. You're gonna be so proud of it, people are gonna stay, they're gonna actually come back cause you have everything going, but you had that one horrible cloud over your head. And essentially people know it's happening, but essentially in another two months you're not gonna have anything, you're gonna have a crime-free, virtually crime-free city. So today I'm pleased to announce that the Secretary of War, used to be the Secretary of Defense, we made a minor change, we like the sound of it better, that the Secretary of War has just signed a directive to ensure that all National Guard members serving on this task force, as well as in DC, New Orleans, and our border security missions, will receive the same benefits as active duty troops, because you deserve it. That's not bad. That's not bad. So before we leave I want to thank Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, these are great people. Chief of the National Guard Bureau General Steven Nordhaus, FBI Director Kash Patel, wonderful guy actually. You gotta get to know him. Once you get to know him he's a wonderful guy. I've known him too long right? He's a good guy. DEA Administrator Terri Cole, what a job he's done. Acting Director of ICE Todd Lyons, Todd great. Thank you Todd, good job. Head of the ATF Rob Cekada, Rob. Thank you Rob. Head of the Tennessee Highway Patrol Colonel Matt Perry. Thanks Matt. And head of the Tennessee National Guard Major General Warner Ross. Look, you guys look central casting. These are central casting people. What did you need us for? You didn't need us. Anyway they had to let you do your job right? They're letting you do your job now. Thanks as well to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee for the outstanding job. Thank you very much Bill. We appreciated your call. Bill called me up, he said we need a little help in Memphis sir, would you get over here please? He said I have no pride, we just want this thing straightened out right? So thank you very much, I'm glad it worked out. Oh you haven't seen, wait'll you see in 90 days from now, you're gonna see numbers that blow these off, you're down 70, 75%, you're gonna see numbers that... you're gonna be very proud of. Senators Bill Hagerty and Marsha Blackburn. Great people. 1:56:38 P4 Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you very much. Good morning to you and thank you, Mr. President. Today we celebrate the successes of this incredible mission and all our federal, state, local, and National Guard teammates who have contributed mightily to the Memphis Safe Task Force. Mr. President, it is an honor to be entrusted by you to lead this amazing task force as Director of the United States Marshals Service. Your decisiveness in responding to state and local leaders' requests for federal assistance is inspiring. It was just over six months ago when you signed the executive order restoring law and order in Memphis. At that point, the city of Memphis was overwhelmed with unprecedented levels of violent crime, to include some of the nation's highest per capita rates of murder, robbery, and aggravated assaults. Memphis residents could not safely enjoy a walk downtown. Parents were fearful of their children playing outside. And local businesses struggled to prosper. The mission you gave us was clear and concise: crime will not prevail in Memphis, period. The city will not be surrendered to lawlessness. President Trump, thank you for your leadership. We had a blueprint quickly restoring order and reducing violent crime given our success with Operation Make DC Safe and Beautiful that you mentioned. We began our deployment to Memphis and commenced operations on September 29, 2025, with 20 partner agencies and 200 task force members. Now we partner with 33 multi-agency teams throughout the Memphis area. We have the support of over 2,700 officers and National Guard members who comprise the Memphis Safe Task Force, most of which are out here in the audience. In just over six months, the Memphis Safe Task Force has made over 7,342 arrests, this is last week's numbers, with charges ranging from homicide... 1:58:14 P3 President Trump, thank you for your leadership. We had a blueprint quickly restoring order and reducing violent crime given our success with Operation Make DC Safe and Beautiful as you mentioned. We began our deployment to Memphis and commenced operations on September 29, 2025 with 20 partner agencies and 200 task force members. Now we partner with 33 multi-agency teams throughout the Memphis area. 1:58:48 P3 We have the support of over 2700 officers and National Guard members who comprise the Memphis Safe Task Force, most of which are out here in the audience. 1:59:00 P3 In just over six months, the Memphis Safe Task Force has made over 7,342 arrests. This is last week's numbers. With charges ranging from homicide, there was 44 of those, 812 drug offenses, and 757 gang-related offenses. 1:59:25 P3 We have seized over 1200 illegal firearms and located and returned 150 missing children. 1:59:34 P3 Each of these arrests and seizures of illegal contraband have a ripple effect, bringing justice to victims, relief to communities, and the prevention of future offenses or deadly accidents. 1:59:49 P3 Our work, however, has not just been about arrests and the seizure of illegal firearms and narcotics. Our Tennessee National Guard partners have made a significant impact while serving on the task force by administering several life-saving doses of Narcan to overdose victims, chasing down and detaining a fleeing murder suspect on Christmas Day, and providing immediate life-saving medical aid to the occupants of a vehicle collision on I-40. That's just a few of the things they've done. 2:00:23 P3 Similarly, our Health and Human Services tactical med, we call them TacMed, they're our doctors. Their team has treated almost 500 task force officers and related injuries during our operations. 2:00:40 P3 The fraud cell, the Memphis Safe Task Force fraud cell has been a key contributor in targeting federal benefits fraud, organized crime, and other complex fraud matters. The fraud cell has more than 80 open investigations, 33 cases active with the United States Attorney's Office. Their recent efforts have resulted in two indictments of convicted sex offenders living in housing paid for by Housing and Urban Development, and one indictment for stealing benefits from a Social Security beneficiary. 2:01:15 P3 I would also like to recognize the work of Attorney General Bondi's incredible staff at the Western District of Tennessee. Their stats tell a remarkable story as well. They have increased the number of defendants charged by 221% and the number of cases indicted by 204% when compared to the same operational period last year. ● 2:01:43 P1 I see you smiling Mike. Congratulations. 2:01:54 P3 Without question, the public safety outlook in Memphis has improved dramatically. In the past six months collectively, our efforts have resulted in a 43% reduction in total serious crimes, 37% reduction in murder, 40% reduction in sexual assault, 56% reduction in robbery, 68% reduction in motor vehicle thefts, and the most impressive of all is a 65% increase in the solvability of the crimes that have been committed. 2:02:29 P3 These numbers are so impressive that it's often easy to just recite them without reflecting on the significant positive impact that we have had on the lives of Memphis residents. The city's residents and visitors are now more likely to venture downtown, and local businesses are rallying back. Large-scale public events have shown improved safety outcomes, as demonstrated during the December 6, 2025 St. Jude Marathon, where 22,000 runners gathered without a single reported downtown burglary, compared to multiple incidents in the prior year. 2:03:13 P3 Perhaps the most telling of all is one of our Special Assistant United States Attorneys recently reported that a traveling emergency room doctor expressed his appreciation for all that the task force had done. You see, he said that in years past he would see three to five gunshot victims per shift, and now he sees an average of one gunshot victim every three or four shifts. 2:03:42 P3 Mr. President, the Memphis Safe Task Force underscores one simple truth: when federal, state, and local agencies work together as genuine partners, we can reclaim even the most troubled cities. I am extremely grateful to you for the opportunity, to all our partner agencies, it has been an honor to work alongside you, and I look forward to sustaining and building on these partnerships as we continue to make Memphis safe again. Thank you. 2:04:19 P1 Thank you Gaddy very much. And Pam, I think thank you, what a great job, and I think you know I see them sitting out there, your US Attorney and your Assistant US Attorney, you do a great job, would you please stand up? Michael Dunavant. Thank you Michael. Thank you both. Great job. Thank you. Pam Bondi, please. ● 2:04:46 P2 Thank you President Trump. You know, some people choose to tolerate crime, but you chose law and order. And that's why this task force worked. It was all of us, as Gaddy said, working hand in hand with my FBI, DEA, US Marshals, ATF, with Kash, with Terry, with Rob, with Gaddy, not only that, with Pete, with Department of War, with Homeland Security, with all of my agencies working hand in hand with the National Guard. When you went out there, when we came to Memphis, you could not tell who was with what agency because everyone was working so well together. Our US Attorney Mike Dunavant was out there, and not only does everyone need to know, we met with this President multiple times about this endeavor. The President knew what was going on here, the President cared. People like Alice Johnson sitting in the front row, who is a Memphis resident, she told us what a horrible crime problem there was. And I think the unsung hero in all of this is Stephen Miller. Stephen is the architect of making all of these plans work. Stephen, thank you. Thank you. And just two very brief examples. There was a horrible murderer, Arsenio Davis, who last October committed a gruesome double homicide. He killed his mother and dismembered another person. And based on this task force working hand in hand, he's off the street. Another example, a horrible monster who's charged with raping a small child. This task force, all of these members working together, arrested him. We can give you countless examples of that. 770, over 770 gang members off the streets. And we know there's no normal day for a law enforcement officer. We know it's so dangerous what our law enforcement officers do. But know this, Donald Trump and this administration, we have your backs. Thank you all and thank you President Trump. 2:06:46 P1 Thank you. Thank you Pam. And Pete Hegseth, who has been unbelievable at what he's doing, has nobody better, that was a wise choice. Pete, go ahead. 2:06:59 P4 Well thank you Mr. President. Thank you for your historic leadership on Operation Epic Fury. The success you've laid out is only possible because of the military you rebuilt, as well as the historic success here in Memphis. And I want to start by thanking every patriot in this room in law enforcement and the nearly 1500 National Guard members for your heroic efforts in this operation. You are, this is more than a task force, this is a statement. A statement not just in this city but across the nation. And when I look around this table, I'm looking at people that we work with every day. Governor, Kash, this team, the National Guard, Pam, Stephen, as was mentioned, Gaddy, the Speaker, at the federal level and the state level working hand in glove, it doesn't happen any other way. You see, before President Trump, our nation was set on a perpetual course of decline. Our defense industrial base had been hollowed out, our military had lowered its standards prioritizing equity over merit and lethality. And right here in cities like Memphis, our people were focused... 2:07:13 P1 want to thank by start by thanking every patriot in this room in law enforcement and the nearly 1500 National Guard members for your heroic efforts in this operation. 2:07:32 P1 You are this is more than a task force. This is a statement. A statement not just in this city but across the nation. And when I look around this table I'm looking at people that we work with every day. Governor, Kash, this team, the National Guard, Pam, Stephen, as mentioned Gaddy, the Speaker, at the federal level and the state level working hand in glove. It doesn't happen any other way. 2:07:56 P1 You see before President Trump, our nation was set on a perpetual course of decline. Our defense industrial base had been hollowed out, our military had lowered its standard prioritizing equity over merit and lethality. And right here in cities like Memphis, our people were focused on enduring just what seemed to be the status quo of rampant vicious crime. ● 2:08:19 P1 Well they let their cities burn to the ground literally. In the name of hollow humanitarianism, weak leaders, and that's what it is, it's weak leaders, previously provided sanctuary for hordes of dangerous illegal aliens who preyed on our most vulnerable. Soft on crime, defund the police nonsense tied the hands of our brave law enforcement heroes while the bad guys ran wild. And the most basic tenets of public safety, the foundations of any civilized society were labeled as too toxic to implement. Well not under President Trump. 2:08:55 P1 Such engineered chaos combined with a wide open border, by the way thank you for agreeing to sign that declaration for the Memphis troops, the DC troops, and the troops on our border, they'll now be paid and get benefits just like folks on active duty. Thank you for that Mr. President. It's an important step of demonstrating how serious this mission is to the Department of War. It's common sense. 2:09:18 P1 And it was that same common sense that brought President Trump back to the White House. People were sick and tired of the never-ending crisis. And under President Trump we will not allow depraved suicidal ideologies to destroy our great cities. No longer will we sit idly by while illegal aliens and savage criminals rape, murder, and poison the good people of this country. 2:09:43 P1 Because every American without exception is entitled to safe, clean, and beautiful cities. Cities where you can walk in peace, cities where law enforcement can do their job. And to that end, the Department of War stands shoulder to shoulder with state and federal partners so that our streets can be defended once again. Kind of like the visual I'm looking at right here. I see a lot of civilian leaders and police law enforcement leaders in the front, and who's behind you? Men and women in camouflage. 2:10:13 P1 Having your back every single day like we do in this mission. So thank you for working tirelessly to protect this state and restore law and order. And the results they speak for themselves. That your presence has led to a massive reduction in crime, a reduction the good citizens of Memphis deserve. So thank you Mr. President for your leadership in restoring street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, you are saving Memphis, Tennessee and the country. And we are grateful for it. Thank you Mr. President. 2:10:41 P2 Thank you very much. Thank you Pete. Mr. Governor, please. 2:10:50 P3 Yes sir. Welcome back to Tennessee, Mr. President. Especially to the iconic great American city that is Memphis. We oftentimes say Nashville is the heart of Tennessee but Memphis is the soul. And... ● 2:11:15 P3 Great businesses here, remarkable people. A true rich cultural history. But a serious problem. And I want to tell you even for me today is a very important day even personally. I'm a man who has loved this city all my life. My grandparents, my mom born and raised, my family here. As a young kid spent time with my cousins roaming the community, the neighborhoods in this city. But sadly for decades that was not possible for children to do safely anymore. And to watch this great city be plagued by crime like it has for decades was a very tough thing for Tennesseans to do. 2:12:06 P3 But as was said earlier, what's happened the last six months has changed that story entirely. And because of your leadership, Mr. President, putting together the Memphis Safe Task Force. Putting these people, this leadership team in place. Funding and making possible resources that have never before been made available to a city like has been made for Memphis. Because of that, and because of the leadership here, and these especially these men and women of law enforcement and the National Guard who have in fact gone shoulder to shoulder with not only the multiple agencies involved but with the people of Memphis. What has happened here has created generational change and will create generational change and it could not have happened except for what's happening and what we're celebrating here today. So the people of Memphis are grateful. This governor is grateful. I thank you for the work that's happened. 2:13:13 P3 And we are looking to the future. We believe that great things lie ahead for this city. There's a lot of work yet to be done. The General Assembly and we are working together with the General Assembly to create legislation that will make certain that this has a lasting effect for our city. I'm very hopeful for the men and women of Memphis that have prayed for a long time that the violence would stop. For the businesses that have held strong to create jobs and opportunity for Tennesseans. 2:13:43 P3 I have a lot of hope for the future. I do believe and have believed all my life that this is a great city and now it is on a trajectory of greatness beyond where it's been in the past. Thank you for that. And I will say, I want to introduce Stephen Miller to speak next. There is one person who showed up here early, actually multiple people at this table, but he said his commitment to whatever we needed for this city and for this task force to be successful, he committed that when this began and it has happened. And we're not done, but the statistics speak for themselves. What Gaddy just read out a while ago is hard to imagine when we first started this just six months ago that these were going to be the results. There's more to go but we're grateful for the work and Stephen your commitment to us Tennesseans truly are grateful for it. And your commitment to President Trump's strategy not just to make Memphis safe, not just to make Tennessee safe, but to make all of America safe again. So thank you sir. 2:15:03 P4 Thank you. First and most importantly, thank you to President Trump whose vision and courage and determination has achieved something that if you had predicted it 15 months ago, people would have said it was impossible. If you had said 15 months ago that we would achieve the lowest national murder rate not in five years or 10 years or 15 or 20 or 30 or 40, but in 125 years, nobody would have believed it possible. And President Trump did exactly that and it is a miracle. ● 2:15:43 P4 Just think about this for a second. Under President Trump's leadership, the largest reduction in murders in American history, the largest reduction in violent crime in American history, the largest reduction in drug overdose deaths in American history, the largest reduction in fentanyl in American history, the largest reduction in illegal immigration in American history, and the largest number of criminals arrested, removed, or deported in American history all done in one year. If I would just say this, if we had an honest media in this country, the statistics I just gave you would be 24/7 on the news. Nobody could have ever predicted such an achievement would be possible. 2:16:15 P2 I would just say this, if we had an honest media in this country, the statistics I just gave you would be 24/7 on the news. Nobody could have ever predicted such an achievement would be possible. The second thing I want to thank President Trump for is assembling the greatest national security and public safety team in American history. Because President Trump believes in merit, in competence, and people who get things done. So you look around the table of who President Trump chose for these jobs, you start with Rob, or Gaddy, or Pam, or Pete, Kash, Todd, Terry, the whole entire team. What President Trump put together has never been rivaled in history. That's how you get things done. He chooses people based on their skill, their competence, their ability, their determination, their dedication, their loyalty, and you're seeing the results. So I just want to again thank President Trump and of course thank the Governor as well, who picked up that phone, called President Trump, and said, I want you to help make Memphis safe. Although I bet the Governor would agree he could never have imagined this safe, this quickly, this many people behind bars. And let's just remember that because of the work that President Trump is doing, not only in Memphis, not only in Washington DC, but all over the country, ultimately, it will save and is saving tens of thousands of American lives. It is, I'll use that word again, what President Trump has done on border security and public safety is a national miracle that will be studied not only for generations but for centuries to come. Thank you President Trump. ● 2:16:28 P4 The second thing I want to thank President Trump for is assembling the greatest national security and public safety team in American history. Because President Trump believes in merit, in competence, in people who get things done. So you look around the table of who President Trump chose for these jobs, you start with Rob, or Gaddy, or Pam, or Pete, Kash, Todd, Terry, the whole entire team what President Trump put together has never been rivaled in history. That's how you get things done. He chooses people based on their skill, their competence, their ability, their determination, their dedication, their loyalty, and you're seeing the results. So I just want to again thank President Trump and of course thank the Governor as well who picked up that phone, called President Trump... 2:17:50 P1 Thank you Steve. So Kash, see if you can top that. I don't know, that's a tough one Kash. ● 2:17:56 P3 That is tough. You know Mr. President, as I look around this venue, I see and I'm reminded again why we have the greatest warriors on God's green earth. The men and women serving in uniform, the men and women serving and wearing the badge in law enforcement, our police, our sheriffs around the state of Tennessee. I'm reminded that Americans exist to protect this country day in and day out and they've done it like we've done it here. But what we didn't have was you. We didn't have a commander in chief who backed the blue, who resourced the blue, who funded the military, who did whatever it takes to safeguard every single life. And here in Memphis, Tennessee, you have put on a show for the world. You have allowed us to go out there and capture gangbangers, rapists, murderers, drug dealers at record historic levels. And for me, a first-generation Indian-American kid whose parents fled a genocide in East Africa to become the ninth director of the FBI, I'm living the wildest dream you could possibly imagine, sir. But it's thanks to you. But more importantly, what I see when I look out across our great partners here in the interagency and our great legislators and our great prosecutors and our great Attorney General who has the guts to go out there and make arrests, turn them into prosecutions and put people in prison, you are giving that dream to every single child in the state of Tennessee. You are inspiring the nation and law enforcement to come up and wear the badge and wear the colors of this country and safeguard our men and women for generations to come. This is an enduring mission Mr. President, because you have made it enduring. It is going to go on for generations to come. They are going to try to achieve what you accomplished here with Stephen said in just one short year and they're going to be doing it for decades because America was smart enough to elect you as our commander in chief. So while we're out there fighting for the dreams of our children, just know Mr. President, how many millions of dreams like mine are going to be lived thanks to your brilliant leadership. Mr. President, thanks for delivering America the safest, safest, safest country on God's green earth. Thank you very much. ● 2:20:04 P1 Thank you very much Kash. He did pretty good. Mr. Speaker, please. 2:20:08 P5 Thank you Mr. President. It's great to be here with you today. And obviously we're in the hottest country, in the hottest state, and now the hottest city thanks to you. So we appreciate your leadership in that endeavor. Also, it takes strong leadership Mr. President to do what you do. We thank you for that and have a strong team as well. But I'd like to say that I appreciate how resolute you are in your belief and in your attitude. And I think that's a testament to making America first. Also, I want to thank you for delivering freedom. When we talk about crime, a lot of times we talk about normalcy. But people get used to high crime. They don't understand what low crime is. And in this city unfortunately it became a normal thing seeing high crime. But you deliver freedom to the residents here in Memphis as well as Governor Lee did. And it's as little as watching a kid or a child who said they had a bicycle in their living room and now they're able to ride it outside. We take that for granted. We take that freedom for granted. But because of you, now here in the city of Memphis, kids can ride their bicycles outside, which they never had experienced before. And now what has happened when you have freedom Mr. President, you have opportunity. You now have hope. You get independence. And then comes prosperity. And that's what making America great is all about. They can be anything they want to be. It doesn't matter where you start out, you can end up wherever you want to be. And that's exactly what you're doing Mr. President. And we can talk about crime statistics, but I want to thank you for saving hundreds of lives. And I mean by saving hundreds of lives, it's those individuals who were not shot and killed in the city of Memphis. Those are saved lives that have something else that God's going to give them to do in their life other than be a crime statistic. In your short period with your team's approach, there are 10,000 less victims in the city of Memphis. Think about that. Hundreds of lives saved, 10,000 less victims. That is an accomplishment that you have never seen in this aspect. And I appreciate your strong team, all your individuals here, also brilliant mind in Stephen Miller who I've been able to work with. And we are working as you said on legislation not only illegal immigration that we're going to lead the country in which is working its way through the General Assembly, but we're going to Soros-proof the state of Tennessee once and for all. And we're going to take on bail, we're going to take on woke and soft on crime DAs. We've already done truth in sentencing, we're working on three strikes legislation. But we have a strong General Assembly that will support the Governor and me and Lieutenant Governor McNally who's a great advocate in this endeavor. And the last thing I'll say Mr. President is I appreciate your resolve to not allow people's words to distract you from your destiny. Stephen Miller just laid out what that destiny looked like which is untouched in our history. Thank you for being resolute and not allowing those who want to take you down or to cause you harm to allow you to continue fighting forward to make America what we know it can be as well as the city of Memphis. Thank you very much Mr. President. 2:23:36 P1 Thank you very much. And now we have the ICE Director, very important. He's done a fantastic job. Todd please. 2:23:43 P6 Thank you Mr. President. As a former law enforcement officer, thank you for letting us do our job again. That's the key thing. The men and women in this room that wear the badge every day, we know that we have a President that has our back. So because of you we can go out and we can make America safe again. But honestly sir, if you just look at what we did, this is what happens when strategy actually meets execution. Your model is delivering real results, securing communities and making neighborhoods safe. And if every, more cities would just take the lead and have the strength and constitution like the Governor does to make their major cities safe again, this is a prime example of how to do it. This is a direct reflection sir of the model that you put in place. This and the Homeland Security Task Forces that you put into action with your executive order are really what's going to make a difference to this country. You know one thing and Gaddy brought it up, was the Memphis interagency fraud cell. That's key to your promise to the American people that honest Americans that need that funding will get it. What we're doing is we're having a reduction in fraud when it comes to SNAP benefits, mail fraud, and Medicaid fraud. And that's key and important for true Americans that believed in you that you're going to make a difference to make this country great again. While this wasn't an immigration-led operation sir, we did have 619 illegal aliens arrested. Seven of those which were Venezuelans that were paroled into this country that are TdA gang members. One El Sal that raped a child, and another Honduran male that raped several children. Because of your leadership we were able to get these violent criminals out of our neighborhoods and serve Memphis going forward is going to be the example as Mr. Miller said for decades to come. So on behalf of the men and women of ICE and Special Agents of Homeland Security, we thank you for your leadership. Thank you very much Todd. And just if I might, so you're at the front of a storm, the Democrats have caused lots of problems at the airports and all other places too. We shouldn't be in this position especially when we're in conflict elsewhere. But how are you doing and how is ICE doing at the airports and helping out? Uh, you know sir, just having the opportunity to help our other fellow officers at the Department of Homeland Security, we're doing great. We're going to make sure that your promise is kept, that we're going to help those lines move and we're going to make people safe. No one should be nervous to go to the airport because we're going to make sure that every traveler on spring break has a safe journey. Great job, you're doing a great job. Thank you very much. 2:25:13 P2 violent criminals out of our neighborhoods and serve Memphis going forward is going to be the example as Mr. Miller said for decades to come. So on behalf of the men and women of ICE, especially agents of Homeland Security, we thank you for your leadership. 2:25:27 P1 Thank you very much Chad. And just... if I might, so you're at the front of a storm. The Democrats have caused lots of problems at the airports and all other places too. We shouldn't be in this position, especially when we're in conflict elsewhere. But how are you doing and how is ICE doing at the airports and helping out? 2:25:46 P2 Uh, you know sir, just to have the opportunity to help our other fellow officers at the Department of Homeland Security, we're doing great. We're going to make sure that your promise is kept, that we're going to help those lines move, and we're going to make people safe. No one should be nervous to go to the airport because we're going to make sure that every traveler on spring break has a safe journey. 2:26:08 P1 I appreciate it. Great job. You're doing a great job. Thank you very much. Rob C, please. ● 2:26:13 P3 Mr. President, thank you for your assembling of the Memphis Safe Task Force. The leadership empowered ATF and all of our state and local partners to focus on the most dangerous criminals operating in Memphis. Violent repeat felons, many walking the streets despite having three, four, five felony convictions, are no longer doing so. They're no longer walking these streets without the fear of federal and state and local law enforcement getting together and taking them off the streets. We focused our efforts on the most violent gang members operating in Memphis. So much so that we've decapitated the leadership of the Rich and Ruthless gang and the Vice Lord gangs operating here in Memphis. Their leadership, their membership is currently running the streets without any sort of direction. The gang members are falling apart. They're weak and their ability to coordinate and commit violent crimes are broken down because of the Memphis Safe Task Force. We've also been able to identify numerous firearms trafficking task force and the evidence items that you see here were recovered from violent gang members. Many of these firearms were converted from semi-automatic weapons to be able to accept machine gun conversion devices which now allow these rifles and pistols to shoot full auto. Those weapons were used by the gang members to terrorize this community and commit numerous homicides and numerous aggravated assaults. Those networks were identified and removed from operations. One in particular was operating three 3D printing machines making machine gun conversion devices in his house when search warrants were executed by ATF and our Memphis Safe Task Force partners. We are continually focused on preventing violent crime. In one instance while we were out on patrol with our state and local partners, our agents responded to a shooting that had just occurred. Located a victim that sustained serious gunshot injuries. Agents were able to render first aid on the scene and prevent that victim from bleeding out. Victim was transported to the hospital and ultimately survived because of the Memphis Safe Task Force being here. Our agents regularly talk to the members of the community. The community when we first arrived was in visible fear. They were afraid to walk out of their homes to the corner store. They were afraid to sit in their front yards because of being in fear of being victimized of a drive-by shooting. Those people are now approaching our agents and our partners thanking us every day for being out there and taking the fear away from them so they and their family members could walk their communities and sit in their front yards and talk to their neighbors without fear of being killed or shot. So thank you for your support of law enforcement and for creating the Memphis Safe Task Force. Thank you sir. 2:29:08 P1 Thank you Rob. You do a fantastic job. Thank you very much. One of the best crime fighters I know, really from personal experience because I've watched him more in DC than here, but I get the reports on what's happening in Memphis and Terry Cole, please say a few words. Great job. ● 2:29:22 P4 Mr. President, thank you for your leadership. It's given law enforcement the tools and the support to take this fight directly to the local street gangs, but also the cartels. The designated terrorists that are killing Americans. Your leadership is attacking not only the local street gangs here, but it's attacking the cartels in Mexico. It's attacking the cartels in Venezuela. It's attacking the cartels in Colombia and Ecuador. And it's setting the example for the world to see that they are designated terrorists. They are fueling the violence in our streets. The DEA along with our local task forces are disrupting the supply chain, dismantling networks, and saving American lives. This is America first. This is Americans first. The DEA is proud to stand along with our federal, state, tribal, and local partners here in Memphis with our amazing military and National Guard. The work has just started, Mr. President. We will take the battle wherever the battle leads us. But one thing can be rest assured. After you take Maduro out of Venezuela, after you take Mencho out of Mexico, after your diplomatic pressure forces the Mexicans to make a record seizure last week of 270 kilograms of fentanyl that was destined for the United States, this is truly due to your leadership. It's due to your partnership with law enforcement that enables us to do our job. A few small seizures from this task force is represented in front of you. Close to 190 kilograms of cocaine. Close to 50 pounds of methamphetamine. But more importantly, this task force seized enough fentanyl to kill in lethal dosages close to 20 million Americans. 20 million Americans. In a separate case just outside of Memphis working with our state and local law enforcement partners, we seized another 25 million lethal doses of fentanyl that was heading to our cities, heading to our streets. I will tell you Mr. President, in my three tours here to Memphis to put on the gun, to put on the vest and to go out in the community, I was welcomed. I was welcomed not only by the amazing Highway Patrol Colonel and his team, but I was welcomed by the community. I was invited to front porches. I was invited to an ice cream social. That was in between the hard work of the men and women of the DEA and this task force that we're conducting daily. See personally, I served four search warrants with the amazing men and women of DEA and the Memphis Police Department and Tennessee Highway Patrol because I believe in the mission of where you lead from the front. So thank you for giving us at the DEA the power to do our job again. Thank you for giving us these amazing relationships with these task forces and the Homeland Security Task Force and the Memphis Task Force and the Washington DC Task Force. There's no command we won't go out and complete Mr. President. We're here to execute your orders. Thank you for your leadership and thank you for this amazing opportunity to make America safe again sir. Thank you. 2:33:04 P1 Thank you Terry. Great job. So just in finishing up we have two great people that happen to live here. One's a business owner and a good one and one's a resident and we're going to ask you both to say a few words. Please. 2:33:20 P5 Mr. President, thank you for saving Memphis. And thank you for asking me to share my story. My name is Tim Pew. I'm a co-founder and president of Pew's Earthworks and Pew's Flowers. My brothers and I have two family-owned businesses in Memphis and this makes this year marks our 50th year in business. Since we started our American dream, my entire family including our new grandbaby is living and working in Memphis. We want our family to feel and be safe. We have many friends that have moved away and encourage their children to move away because of the escalating crime. We love Memphis and call it our home and would never want to move away. The crime in Memphis has affected my businesses. We've had several delivery vans full of flowers stolen as they're at the front door of someone's house delivering. Turn around and the van was gone. We've had landscape equipment stolen from job sites so now we have to lock each piece of equipment to the truck while we're working on a property. And because of multiple break-ins including one night we had five vans with the catalytic converters stolen on all five. Due to repeated theft we had to install an electric fence and multiple cameras around our main store to prevent this theft. All of this adds significant financial burdens and man hours. In the spring of last year, members of one of my landscape crews were robbed at gunpoint. This type of action became too normal in this city that I was raised in and honestly I felt that we were on a path of no return. How could we continue to operate our business when theft is rampant and God forbid lives were lost? Thankfully for you Mr. President, we don't have to live and operate that way anymore. We have a great police force in Memphis but they just needed reinforcements... ● 2:34:13 P3 landscape equipment stolen from job sites, so now we have to lock each piece of equipment to the truck while we're working on a property. And because of multiple break-ins, including one night we had five vans with the catalytic converters stolen on all five. Due to repeated theft, we had to install an electric fence and multiple cameras around our main store to prevent this theft. All of this adds significant financial burdens and man hours. In the spring of last year, members of one of my landscape crews were robbed at gunpoint. This type of action became too normal in this city that I was raised in, and honestly I felt that we were on a path of no return. How could we continue to operate our business when theft is rampant and God forbid lives were lost? Thankfully for you, Mr. President, we don't have to live and operate that way anymore. We have a great police force in Memphis, but they just needed reinforcements to get the crime under control. So thank you for bringing in those much-needed reinforcements. Our mayor is doing a good job, each week he's sending out emails of the progress, and just last Friday he reported that crime was down well over 40%. Honestly, Mr. President, I feel like crime is down 100%. And that is because of what you've done. We want Memphis to grow and prosper, and to do that you must have a low crime rate. People have to feel safe. That wasn't the case before, but now it is. Thank you to the task force and our city leaders for working together to make this happen. And thank you, Mr. President. Memphis owes you a lot of gratitude. Thank you. 2:35:59 P1 Thank you very much. Thank you. Great. And your business is doing well. That's great. It's going to get better and better, you watch. Thank you very much. Delicia? ● 2:36:13 P4 Thank you so much, Mr. President. It is a complete honor to be here with you today. Thank you for saving Memphis. My name is Delicia Ballinger, and I'm a lifelong Memphian, and I'm a mother. And I wanted to speak with you today not just as a citizen, but as a mom who's lived through what Memphis has become. I remember a different Memphis. I remember when the city felt alive, when families didn't have to think twice about safety. When kids could just go outside and just be kids. We had places to go, things to do, and a sense of pride about where we come from. But over the years, that Memphis has faded. And what it was replaced with was fear. Before the Memphis Safe Task Force, I just didn't hear about crime, I lived it. I watched friends and people that I love lose their lives to senseless violence. I've attended funerals that never should have happened. I've seen families torn apart, mothers grieving, and children growing up without parents. All because of violence that felt like it would never end. And those moments stay with you. They change how you see everything. But nothing's changed me more than becoming a mother. Because now, wasn't just my life that I was worried about, it was my children. There were days where I wouldn't let them go outside, not because I didn't want them to, but because I was afraid what would happen if I did. And the fear of stray bullets, the sounds of gunshots at night, constantly wondering if they were truly safe. And that fear became real in a way that no mother should ever have to experience. At just five years old, I could have lost my son. There was a drive-by shooting, and a random bullet came through my home and it sat in that very same space that my son played. And to that day, this bullet hole is still in my wall. A permanent reminder of how close I came to losing everything. My family and I, we are good people. We work hard every day to have everything that we have. Only to have it taken away from us. We've experienced multiple burglaries in our home. And it wasn't just the material things that were stolen, it was our sense of security, our peace, our livelihood. And that violence just wasn't inside of our home, it was all around us. Just literally four houses down from where I live, a grandmother and her child were shot. I remember what sounded like almost 30 gunshots ring out. Yellow tape covered the street. After that day, those neighbors never returned. Their home now with a for sale sign stands as a reminder of a fear so deep that they couldn't come back to the place where they almost lost their lives. And that feeling, that fear is something that my family knows all too well. That is not how families are supposed to live. That is not how children are supposed to grow up. We've reached out for help. For years we looked to our local leaders hoping that something, anything would change. But nothing did. And that was until you, my President, stepped in. I need you to understand what that meant for families like mine. Because in a matter of weeks, we felt a difference. Today, I can sit out on my porch and drink tea in peace. My children can go outside and play in our backyard again. And for the first time in five years, I don't hear any gunshots in my neighborhood. It's been almost six months, and it's like a whole new world. That silence means everything to me. It means safety. It means peace. It means that I can breathe again as a mother. What years of waiting couldn't fix, you did it in just three weeks. And I will never forget that. My family will never forget that. And what's even more powerful is that that impact did not stop there. Because of the Memphis Safe Task Force, it has sparked continued efforts right here at home like the Make Memphis Matter movement, led by the incredible, the most awesome State Senator Brent Taylor, starting in 2023, who is putting his best foot forward every day to continue the mission to make it a safer Memphis and to hold our Soros-backed DA accountable at a state level, and partnering with amazing Senators Hagerty and Blackburn on a federal level. And it's because of leadership like that, I believe that Memphis can become that place that I once remembered. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you for seeing communities like mine. Thank you for taking action. Thank you for putting Americans first, especially right here in Shelby County in Memphis. Because this isn't politics for me. This is my life. This is my, and this is for my children. In fact, President Trump, my son, my beautiful son is here today, and he would like to wave and say thank you, because now he's free to live a normal childhood. Braylon, stand up for me baby. And because of that change, we finally have a sense of normal again. Again, from the bottom of my heart, I truly don't have the words to share how much I appreciate you. Thank you so much, sir. Memphis loves you, President Trump. Thank you. 2:42:40 P1 Thank you very much. Wow. I don't know, Delicia, I think we're going to have to give her MVP, right? MVP, Delicia. That's a great job. Thank you very much. I think she has to run for office. Would you like to become a Republican? 2:42:50 P4 I am! 2:42:52 P1 She said I am a Republican. I love this. Anyway, great job. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Really beautiful. So, you're going to see some fantastic results, you already have, but you're going to see some numbers that are going to bring you into a level that few cities attain. I want to thank the governor, I want to thank the state. The state is just a fantastic state. The first day I stepped in it, we were leading by 30 points, and it never went down, it just only went up. So it's something special. We have a bond, we have a special bond. You know, you can be a politician, but when you win something in a landslide, landslide, landslide, you have a very, very great feeling. And I want to tell you this is a very, very successful, beautiful state, and I love Tennessee. Thank you very much, and congratulations to Memphis, and fantastic job. Thank you. Thank you everybody very much. Thank you.
