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July 1, 2025 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 4600: Trump Visits Alligator Alcatraz

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donald j trump

16:09

steve bannon

27:16

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joseph a lavorgna

04:35

kristi noem

03:17

ron desantis

01:52

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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, President of the United States, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, Christy Noam, and the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, getting into the vehicle with the President.
		They're going to go over together.
		I understand they have quite a ride from where they could actually land Air Force One.
		We are going to be, I think, in the caravan.
		Our own Brian Glenn is there.
		He was in the pool right there.
		Brian is with them, and we're going to get at least a video of the trek over there.
		I think you're going to see a lot of Everglades.
		I think you're going to see a lot of Florida swamp, not D.C. swamp, but the Florida swamp as we go over.
		We're going to have continual coverage of this as President Trump because this is what we voted for.
		This is a state.
		Remember the big fight we had down in Texas a couple of weeks ago during the legislature about, was it 287G and the local police, the folks in Texas, Abbott and these guys really were not pushing for their local police to be working with the federal authorities.
		In Florida, they've kind of worked this out, and here you're seeing the culmination of it, and we hope it inspires other states.
		The president just said Louisiana, Alabama, many others.
		Okay.
		As soon as we get up in the caravan, we're going to go and put a box in there.
		We also had the vote of the Great Big Beautiful bill.
		So, Joe, you're saying with a supply side cut, with things to energy, with deregulation, with the trade policy now having, it looks like I think you guys are calculating or CEA is calculating $3 trillion over 10 years, which is roughly $300 billion a year.
		And I think this year is actually projected to be $400 billion.
		When you add all this together and you have a growth rate that the Secretary of Treasury and the President have been focused on, and is the historic growth rate President Trump had in the first term, so this is just not saying, oh, it's some pie in the sky.
		I think the growth rate and the economy GDP growth was 2.8%.
		I think in the fourth quarter of 19, it actually broke 3%.
		So, Joe, all this combined is what gets the set of numbers that you guys feel very comfortable with, correct?
joseph a lavorgna ▲ ● ▼		Steve, the most important thing is growth.
		And we saw when we had good policies in the 90s, we were able to grow significantly and bring deficits.
		They actually even became surpluses.
		In this environment, we're starting from a much worse point because the prior administration, which goosed spending at an unprecedented pace, put us in a very bad position.
		Having said that, we can institute these policies that make us grow at a very quick rate, much faster than what we've seen.
		And the 2.8 is to me conservative.
		It could be much faster than that.
		It should be much faster than that because it was 2.8 in the first three years of President Trump.
		Now you've got the AI boom.
		This tax package does even more than what the 2017 bill did, especially on the small business side, which is where 40% of job growth is.
		And again, on the plant and the factory expensing, that's really, really important.
		That will create a tremendous amount of capital.
		Its capital ultimately drives productivity, profit margins, and higher wages, dovetailed with what's happening on the deportation front and this blue-collar boom we've been talking about, which in the first five months of President Trump's term seen the fastest growth in real wages we've had on record.
		Those should continue when the bill is passed.
		So this makes us very optimistic on the future.
		And these deficits are going to come from a near 7% handle, as Secretary Besson has suggested, something with perhaps much lower, the three handle on at some point.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I just want to take a second and go through that because these attacks by Elon Musk on the president.
		There actually is a plan, and the plan is, as Secretary Besson has said, including on the show for a year before he was nominated or selected by the president, nominated and then confirmed by the Senate, he talked about kind of the 333, but the big point was that, hey, hey, under Biden, we're at 6.5% to 7% of deficit to GDP, and that's not sustainable.
		We have to get a plan on a, because he kept saying this is the last chance we're going to get to really have a supply-side solution if we get too far down this path.
		The supply-side elements of this, right, are focused on taking that, you know, 6.5% or 7% overtime down to 3% of deficits to GDP, correct?
		That's what this plan is set up to do?
joseph a lavorgna ▲ ● ▼		That's exactly right.
		And not only is it going to help raise the revenues, Steve, but when you have supply-side policies, it also brings down inflation because President Trump's first term wasn't just about strong growth.
		It was also low and stable prices, something we did not have under the Biden administration.
		So that itself is very important.
		But also the people who are dooming about the debt, I would just simply say the following.
		What is the alternative to not pass this bill and have the largest tax hike in history and not pass all the great things that the bill has related to supply-side growth?
		Like there is no alternative.
		So either you have a very, very good policy or you have an unmitigated disaster where taxes for middle and lower income people are going to go through the roof next year and likely lead to a recession.
		So there's no alternative.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I want to go to that because I wouldn't say worms doomers when it comes to debt, but let's say we're closer to that than others.
		We're very concerned about the debt.
		We're very concerned about the interest payments and the deficits.
		But I want to go back.
		The markets today, I mean, it seems like the bond market is not.
		There was a story in the FT about having a difficult time selling long-term bonds, but the 10-year bond, the bond market seems to be accepting of this and understanding what the real plan is.
		The stock market, once again, is now under Trump and over the last couple of days is breaking all-time highs, particularly the S ⁇ P 500.
		So is it your belief and Treasury's belief that you've laid out this plan and the more you guys and CEA articulate what the real model is, all in, not just the CBO static model, but the dynamic model that you guys can do and put forward, that capital markets are starting to understand this and they're breathing a little bit of sigh of relief?
		Because if the capital Markets thought there was a problem here, the 10-year Treasury might be going crazy, right?
		Or gold might be going crazy right now.
		It seems like you have a little bit of stability and the equity market's on fire.
		Is that the way you guys look at the world?
joseph a lavorgna ▲ ● ▼		Yes, I've seen some of those FT pieces.
		I don't think those numbers that they've shown are consistent at all with what we've seen.
		The Treasury's own official data, among other sources, even a lot of private industry work.
		But yes, we've, I think, articulated the benefits of this bill.
		And certainly the capital markets are voting with their shares or their feet, so to speak.
		You've seen an equity boom.
		You've seen equity surge to all-time highs.
		You've seen credit spreads are very tight, meaning there's virtually no recession risk.
		The corporate market's very comfortable with corporate cash flows.
		And you've seen interest rates come down significantly, which will ultimately be a boon to U.S. households.
		You've not seen the playbook that so many argued that was going to happen back in April.
		You've seen quite the exact opposite.
		Surging equities, falling yields, a very strong dollar, especially when you look at it in a broad sense, not just focused on the Euro.
		That's something else the press, unfortunately, mistakenly markets is that somehow the dollar is weak.
		It's not the dollar is strong.
		The Treasury has a strong dollar policy.
		The dollar is the reserve currency.
		We've got the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world.
		And the markets, as you correctly said, Steve, are accurately reflecting that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Is this because now you guys have gone, Treasury particularly, you guys have gone on the offensive to actually explain this?
		Because the all-in model, when you look at every element of it, and these are not wishings, this is action that's being taken now.
		The trade deals, the commercial realignment with the world's happening now.
		The tariff money is coming in now.
		The new tariff deals are happening now.
		The investment, not by sovereign wealth funds, but by publicly traded, massive global corporations, including many domiciled in the United States, but a lot internationally, are making investment commitments of plant and equipment here.
		That you're addressing the bond market almost daily of what the plan is.
		So you've got equities on fire.
		You have tightening spreads in the credit market.
		Gold seems to have stabilized, although, look, it's much higher than it was a couple of years ago.
		You still have the BRICS Nations.
		They're meeting this week in Rio.
		There's still going to be a problem.
		They got a lot of issues, I think, geopolitically, maybe more than even financially with the dollar.
		The global south is trying to form a block.
		But in every aspect, the more you get out and tell the story, the more the capital markets seem to me to be saying, okay, I understand it right now, and I'm going to give these guys a shot.
		Joe, your thoughts?
joseph a lavorgna ▲ ● ▼		So, I mean, I think the only person that probably sleeps less than President Trump is Secretary Besson.
		It's trade deals, it's peace deals, and it's tax policy and economic deals.
		You're correct.
		People don't understand it.
		They don't understand the tariff because the tariff was combined with deregulation, energy independence, and low tax rates.
		That was going to create revenues, reindustrialize, and rebalance trade deficits.
		That's ultimately additive and positive for the U.S. economy.
		And we're going to continue to generate those type of policies with the results that we had under Trump 1.0 and even better.
		So you're exactly right.
		And I appreciate you, Steve, for highlighting that.
		You certainly have to get the message out because unfortunately, I think very often the narrative gets co-opted in a way that's not accurate or truthful.
		And we're trying to do our best.
		And I think the Secretary has done a phenomenal job in that.
		And of course, President Trump is the best marketer in the world.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		No, I think adding you and some others, like I tell people, it's not, you can't do these in 90-second sound bites.
		There's a sophisticated plan here that's been thought through by the President with the assistance of the Secretary of Treasury.
		And you have two very, you know, President Trump's one of the most sophisticated international businessmen in the world, plus a great marketer and knows how to communicate to people.
		Scott is someone that knows capital markets, you know, as good as anybody that's ever been Secretary of the Treasury.
		Those two combined in a complicated model can articulate it.
		And once people hear it and understand, they go, yeah, I see it.
		It's just not everything that it appears on the surface when Elon puts up a chart and says, I'm going to start a new political party if you don't vote for this.
		It's not that.
		And particularly as Secretary Besson would be the first, I think, to lay witness to this guy promised a trillion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse that never materialized, I think, because they didn't do their job.
		And then he quit and left really the House and the Senate with this situation of finding cost cuts.
		But that's something for another day.
		Joe, one more time.
		Where do people get you on social media?
		Because I think now more than ever, the more transparency, the more information, the more communication that CEA, that NEC, and that Treasury have, not just to the markets, but to the MAGA base and the American people, really, I think, is going to make things so much easier.
		People understand, hey, there is a big idea in back of this, the supply-side tax cut.
		It's about productivity.
		It's about growth.
		It's about our opportunity for growth, is vastly important.
		And people are hungry to understand it, sir.
joseph a lavorgna ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, Steve.
		And again, as you said earlier, the markets understand what we're trying to do and are reflective of the policies we're going to put in place.
		I could be found on Steve at Lavornianomics, at Lavornian Omics.
		So thank you very much.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, brother.
		Let's get that up there.
		Joe Lavorna, what a great pickup for the president.
		I got to give a hat tip to Alexander Preate that's built an extraordinary team.
		Our former comms director here at the War Room.
		You know, I don't know if Preate worked as hard at War Room as she's working at Treasury and if she did half as good a job for us as she did at Treasury, I don't know.
		Maybe we'd be four times the size of Joe Rogan.
		Just kidding.
		Alexandra's done a tremendous job and the team they've put together.
		And so I think this is the takeaway.
		There's risk to this plan, like there's risk to any plan.
		But the country had gotten so Wrapped around this idea of just no growth.
		If you're going to have an American economy and you're talking under 2% growth, you're talking 1.5% growth.
		And by the way, there we go right there.
		We finally got my photo.
		Oh, baby, look at that.
		If you're watching War Room Live or on our podcast, you're getting the video play right there.
		We have that is Brian Glenn, I take it.
		That's Brian Glenn's shot.
		We can't do audio because you're in the motorcade, I can't do audio.
		But there's the visual right there.
		And of course, I guess they're getting ready to leave and to take off.
		Everybody's ready because they're not there yet.
		You told me it's an hour to get there.
		I don't think it's that long, but is – Oh, fine.
		Okay, fine.
		So the president's going to go and address people in a medical tent and then maybe come back to the stakes.
		As you know, the president, there we have the other, there we have inside the medical tent where the president will talk.
		We're going to take all of these.
		We're going to take all of these.
		Yeah.
		If the president comes out, we're going to blow the break.
		If not, we'll go ahead and take the break.
		So I'm doing some producing, directing as we go.
		Can we take the smaller box and bring it up inside the tent for a second?
		I want to see where the president's going to be doing this right there.
		There we go.
		President's going to be making some remarks right there.
		He was very much, he was very excited about taking this trip, and here's why.
		Florida has done a really excellent job of working with local law enforcement, National Guard, all of that with federal authorities.
		This is the way it has to be done.
		And this is what I keep telling people and talking to people about this situation in L.A., in Chicago, and soon to be in New York.
		New York's bad, but soon to be worse.
		That the main front of the Third World War, of which we are in, and particularly in the Kinetic piece, is the front here in the United States of America.
		And that is the 10 million illegal aliens that are here and have to be.
		Can we put the president's other part in a small box in the middle?
		I'll do some more directing here.
		Let's put it in a small box.
		The other, yeah, right there.
		Let's get that.
		Or maybe we can take the whole picture of the president right there.
		He's outside the.
unidentified		Okay.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Guys, I can both host, I can talk, and I can direct at the same time.
		There we go.
		There's the president of the United States, President Trump.
		You know, he's loving this, right?
		That's with Governor DeSantis.
		There's Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Noam.
		That shot's going to come in and out as we have bandwidth to take it.
		They're outside the tent.
		President Trump's going to come in and say some remarks.
		We're going to blow as many breaks as we have.
		I want to thank Birch Gold, by the way.
		Philip Patrick and the team left yesterday from LAX.
		We covered that live.
		They're going to be in Brazil for the BRICS nations.
		Remember, the BRICS nations are throwing down hard about an alternative to the U.S. dollar, how that affects your life, how gold is a hedge against all that.
		I believe Joe's absolutely correct.
		A lot of that has, not a lot, much of it has been blunted by President Trump and Scott Bessant getting their hands around this situation, particularly the way that they're going to handle reinvigorating the American economy with growth.
		We've got a chance to grow our way out of here.
		That's the bet you're making with President Trump.
		It's a supply-side tax cut.
		It's about growing your way out of here.
		You've seen gold, although gold is still banging around, a little more stability than you've seen before.
		The BRICS nations are looking, and it's geopolitical as much as financial now.
		The BRICS nations, particularly with Russia and China and Iran, the Persians are hell-bent for leather from breaking the Americans' grip on kind of the global financial system.
		Hey, and maybe we want to have that grip broken over time at a time and place of our choosing.
		That's going to be the American people's choosing.
		You just can't have it.
		You can't have it go from a dollar-based system to something else overnight.
		That would kind of be catastrophic for the American economy, particularly for a debt.
		You think you've got a problem now?
		Wait till you have to, the people don't have to take it.
		Not looking for dollar-denominated bonds.
		Then you got a real problem.
		Then you could be Argentina.
		That's the whole reason we started into the dollar empire with birch gold.
		Make sure you go to birchgold.com.
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		You get all that information.
		You can be, and I've always told you, we didn't do this to make you the smartest person at the backyard barbecue, but since 4th of July is coming up, here's the motorcade right now with the president and the governor.
		They're leaving.
		Okay.
		On to hopefully the medical and President Trump to make his comments and his remarks.
		We're going to cover all that.
		That's in the lower box.
		President Trump, like I said, this was put up in eight days.
		I think Governor DeSantis is very proud of that.
		That's a big part of what the tour is going to be, is how they did it in eight days, how it can be expanded, et cetera.
		So there you have, we're going to cover this nonstop all the way into, I'm sure, Charlie Kirk show, President Trump down there, and Alligator Alcatraz.
		He really wanted to say, there we go, there's the press corps running over for a shot.
		Your favorite, the fake news getting in position.
		Folks, if you talk about the pool, the press pool, they rotate groups of all the hundreds of White House correspondents.
		There you see it right now.
		Our own Brian Glenn is moving right there with his camera.
		It's a very tough gig because you've got to be on the move constantly.
		You try to get in position to get a comment from the president, be able to toss out a question, particularly get photographs.
		Do we have any audio?
		If we have audio, I want to go to it.
		Do we have audio?
		If we do, let's go ahead and try to pick it up.
		Try to pick up.
		There's what's called the Wrangler.
		The Press Corps.
		There we are, right there.
		It's the Press Corps.
	The White House comm staff, which are always cutting edge, and the comm staff over there right now is fantastic under Stephen Chung and Taylor Bodowich.
	Just do an amazing job.
	What you have is what's called a wrangler.
	The wrangler is who basically wrangles the press and gets them into all those shots like you're doing the motorcade and you see right there, right up to the door.
	Looks like the president, the governor will walk out.
	They'll be perfectly positioned after doing a little tour of the space, so which they're not letting people in.
	They'll come out and they'll have the opportunity to both get a photograph of the president and a and a and a comment.
	And that's what makes it so tricks.
	And this is why we dedicate ourselves at War Room in Real America's voice to make sure we cover these non-stop because the president's kind of disintermediated what is called the disintermediated mainstream media from blocking him from talking to American people what he's done in these press avails in the Oval Office or Press Avail today.
	Like he came right off the plane, walked right up to the press, had to throw a bunch of questions out there.
	He on the way to, I think, Marine wanted to actually go to Andrews Air Force Base.
	They asked him a bunch of questions about Elon Musk had been tweeting some stuff.
	There we go in there right there.
	I've been treating, as soon as they get Gordon on discipline, they let them go in.
	Good order and discipline.
	Elon Musk had been really lighting the president Trump up overnight.
	And President Trump came out and said, hey, they asked him, hey, you think about deporting him?
	I think it's quite a weird looking.
	Elon Musk tweeted later, oh, well, you know, it's not, I don't want to continue this.
	I don't want to take it next level after the president kind of threw some here comes the president down with the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.
	Let's go ahead and cut the audio, see if we can pick up anything the president has to say.
unidentified		Let's go.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I thought this was so professional and so well done that you should come and look at it as opposed to standing around and not knowing where we are.
		And we're just taking tours through the areas where they stay and the areas where the medical ends and all.
		And they've really done between Christy and Ron and the whole group.
		It's really government working together.
		And congratulations, Chief.
		But I wanted you to see it as opposed to waiting for us and then say, how was it?
		It really is pretty amazing.
		Did they take the vote yet?
		How's the vote doing?
		I would normally be home waiting for the vote.
unidentified		Yes, we would.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Or be in Congress.
		But I want to come down.
		I hear the vote's going to be good.
		So you'll let me know.
		You'll let me know.
unidentified		I will let you know.
unidentified		Have they taken it?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		They're taking it now.
unidentified		I don't think they're comfortable.
unidentified		Not concluded, but they are confident.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Boy, wouldn't that be an upset, huh?
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		Are you confident that this could get to the House by anything?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		It's the greatest tax cut in the history of our country.
		And if it doesn't pass, it's the biggest tax increase in the history of our country.
		That alone, 68% increase as opposed to a massive cut.
		It's the biggest tax cut in the history of our country.
		And everybody gets it.
unidentified		CNN yesterday published an app that lets you track where ICE agents are.
unidentified		Tom Holmes was saying that perhaps CNN should be prosecuted for that.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we're working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that because what they're doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities, operations.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		And we're going to actually go after them and prosecute them with the partnership of PAM if we can because what they're doing we believe is illegal.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And they may be prosecuted also for having given false reports on the attack in Iran.
		They were given totally false reports.
		It was totally obliterated and our people have to be celebrated, not come home and say, what do you mean we didn't hit the target?
unidentified		We hit the target frequently.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		You know, the pilots came home and they said we hit the target frequently.
unidentified		So they may be very well prosecuted for that.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		What they did there we think is totally illegal.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Okay, let's go.
unidentified		Follow us.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Hi, Brian.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		How are you doing?
unidentified		Doing all right.
unidentified		Brian, this is the boyfriend very lucky of Marjorie Kelly Manny.
ron desantis ▲ ● ▼		Oh, really?
unidentified		He works for who?
unidentified		He works for Real American Players.
ron desantis ▲ ● ▼		Okay, good.
unidentified		Do you think it's easy to deal with Marjorie?
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		She was working out pretty hard this week.
unidentified		She was, wasn't she?
		Yeah, she was.
		I'm gonna hold right here if you don't mind.
		We're talking about a, I guess, the animal refugee that's what might sell you right here.
		Still seems so bad.
		I can't move into this area right here.
		Does he get cured?
		Get the vaccine for it, yeah.
		So we're actually going to have a problem back here.
		Better, better getting us like a 15 or 16 than we're there.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		One, right?
unidentified		I had to get a little more, you can take it, I can't get a job, but that's a good one.
		So you know that, you can get a little bit of a huge, it's just kind of too different.
		Now one in thirty-two versus one in twenty thousand.
		What the one in twenty thousand works.
		Do you guys have many days to do it?
		This is 29, 24 hours.
		I was really close.
		This is like a modest little.
		Yes sir.
		All day long.
		we did the modern chrono They actually did all the work.
		Thank you.
		Thank you guys for being in this.
ron desantis ▲ ● ▼		You got how many days to do it?
unidentified		Just a day.
ron desantis ▲ ● ▼		24 hours.
unidentified		I was really second.
		like a monophonial.
		Here's what we do all day long.
		Yes, I did work in it.
		Yes, really good.
		Okay, we're going on.
		Watch your step, please.
		Okay, let's try to be.
		See, the there you see the Wrangler.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		See her?
		She's wrangling.
		Now the media moves down.
		President's inside.
		Media moves down.
		They'll get him, I guess, on the coming out.
		So the Wranglers take it.
		Real America's voice, Brian Glenn.
		Absolutely amazing.
		President getting a full briefing right there.
		Remember, President Trump's a builder.
		He loves the details.
		Grinnell was telling me when he went to the and in fact, when I went to the No, I still want to get, yeah, let's get as good a shot as possibly we can.
		Grinnell told us, and then we went over to the Kennedy Center itself.
		The staff said, President Trump is the first president of the United States to go to the Kennedy Center, and he spent hours.
		He gave a building tour like it was a building that he had built, and he was talking about maintenance, talking about things that had to be done.
		This is why President Trump loves doing this.
		This was put up in eight days by Governor DeSantis and the team down in Florida.
		And you're seeing the president asking tons of questions about the flow of people, how it's going to go.
		And look, Ron DeSantis said, hey, we got another one, I think, in Northeast Florida that's 2,000.
		And they said, we'll build these as we need them to accommodate the deportations.
		One of the points of the big, beautiful bill, which is not perfect, far from perfect.
		One of the aspects of this, as you heard Joe say, besides the supply-side tax cut, you need this money now to actually expedite the deportations of 10 million people.
		And the deportations of the 10 million people are absolutely essential for stopping what is, I think, the most dangerous front on the Third World War, and that is the invasion of the United States of America.
		And if the Israeli first crowd and the globalists don't understand that, that's their problem.
		This should be the center of gravity and the focus.
		And you're seeing, let's see if we can cut, let's get audio again, see if we can get close enough to, do we have anything?
		Let's go ahead and ramp the audio.
		see what we got.
unidentified		Okay.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		What the president always does, they're just going to go meet the first responders.
		This is, I can tell you, first responders love this.
		Let's keep the audio going, see if we get anything.
		Let's get up there so we can hear the President.
		The first responders love this.
		The president acknowledging their work, says a few words to them.
		Normally, if there's time, he goes by and does a personal greeting.
		Okay, there's the Wrangler.
		They're wrangling.
		Okay, as soon as we get a shot back.
		I love this.
		This is real live television, folks.
unidentified		I love it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is what Real America is Voice in the Worm.
		We've dedicated ourselves now in President Trump's second term to make sure we get as much of this as possible so you can see it.
		Nobody else covers it, nor the channel, nor the network covers this like we cover President Trump's presidency.
		Why are we doing that?
		This is history in the making.
		Not only do you see where the rubber meets the roads on the important issues of the day, because remember, they're talking and it's theoretical and they're debating in the Senate.
		You hear all this, you hear the cable pundits all the time.
		I think our belief here is if you see it yourself, see what you see, if we show it to you, and sometimes all its grittiness and imperfection because it's live, you get a better sense of what reality is.
		When you talk about the mass deportations and you talk about how do we get this country set up again, from the coverage we did in the streets of Los Angeles and that battle they had a couple of weeks ago, to this deportation center in Florida.
		And the deportation center speaks a lot about the MAGA movement in Florida.
		People down there want, and remember, we have such a large community of Hispanic Americans, Hispanics and Latinos in Florida.
		These folks want the illegal aliens out of here.
		They want the criminals out of here.
		They want the bad Ombreys out of there.
		They want the mass deportations.
		And so Governor DeSantis and the legislature responding to that, and Governor Santos taking executive action, has taken initiative.
		And this initiative, President Trump wants to see because we should have these in Texas.
		You should have these all over the country, particularly in red states, as President Trump just said there a moment ago.
		Louisiana, Alabama.
		I would love to see Arizona step up and do this.
		California, probably not going to see that because of the politics of it.
		This whole controversy about the Big Beautiful Bill, the most controversial piece that, and they're doing the other votes right now, and hopefully in the wraparound, we don't let it sneak back in on the AI.
		One of the most controversial pieces is about illegal aliens in Medicaid and cuts to American citizens' Medicaid and maybe the parliamentarian, because, hey, I'm just saying she's a Harry Reid appointee.
		The parliamentarian, I think, ruled out the ability to cut Medicaid for illegal aliens.
		That is going to be a big bone of contention, and clearly that has to get sorted before anything gets done.
		Right here, you see the media and the press.
		We have Brian Glenn right there.
		Eric Bolling is also somewhere on the property.
		As soon as we can get Eric Bolling, we'll also get...
		I think they're coming.
		What the Wrangler does is pre-position the press so you get the best shots of the president and the entourage coming around and viewing it.
		And here they come right here, and they'll get the president asking questions.
		Of course, the president's always prepared.
		If the press throws a question out, you never know when the president's going to throw you a bomb, Like he did this morning.
		Go into Marine One on the south lawn of the White House.
		He just dropped a dime.
		Are you thinking of deporting, Mr. President, are you thinking of deporting Elon Musk?
		Well, you know, we're looking into that rattle.
		You notice that the president drove out a couple of comebacks of Elon's tweets.
		Elon was singing a very different song.
		Oh, I don't want to escalate this.
		I don't want to do it.
		There's members of right there, but the print media, the photographers coming in, they're going to camp out.
		Here we come right now.
		There's the president.
		There's Secretary, Christy Noam.
		And of course, one of the local supervisors explaining everything they're doing.
		They put this up in eight days.
		President getting a very detailed tour.
		Governor Gets answers for the background.
		The president, as soon as we go audio, let's go audio.
		I want to get everything the president's saying.
		But man, I will tell you, there's nothing Donald Trump loves better than doing something like this, taking a tour of something that's been manifested, something that's been built to execute a policy that he understands is one of his core policies.
		So this is fantastic.
		He's changed his schedule around today to do it.
		He's going to do a, I think on Thursday, we're going to, Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa, we're going to have a kickoff of the 250th and a birthday of the United States of America with a rally in Des Moines.
		We're going to cover that wall to wall.
		But as much as President Trump loves rallies and he loves rallies, I think this is the thing he loves the most, to go around and see things that have actually been built, actually been manifested on his policies to help the citizens of the United States.
		Because this is where it's action, action, action.
		And he realizes I think this opens up in a couple of days.
		And then they're going to have thousands of illegal aliens in here ready to be deported back to their home countries, which is what all the rallies, all the speeches, all the debates, all the polling, everything gets down to this is where the rubber meets the road.
		It's actually happening on a mass scale.
		Let's go and go to audio.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		See what I mean?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		It's an amazing job.
unidentified		Mr. President, Mr. Governor, what's a message to Governor Gavin Newsom inside of this facility?
unidentified		Well, the first thing you should do is come here and learn something.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Because they don't do this.
unidentified		They don't know.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		They were not where to begin.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And if they did, it would cost them a hundred times more.
unidentified		So I would say Eastern Paul, the government was interesting.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And I'm sure you'd give him a...
unidentified		I think you're a lot too.
ron desantis ▲ ● ▼		Well, they have the original Alcatraz, so you guys can approve him being able to set one of these up over there.
unidentified		I'm sure the Secretary would be happy to do that and provide some.
ron desantis ▲ ● ▼		My sense is he's probably not going to bite on that.
		But I don't know that they'd be able to come in at cost because they tried to do this high-speed rail.
		They spent like $150 billion, no tracks.
		We've got a privately funded rail in Florida from Miami to Orlando, cost the taxpayer zero, and it's very successful.
		So just a much different approach between states.
unidentified		Hey, Mr. President, when's the first person checking in this beautiful Alcatraz?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Well, it costs 100 times more going to be.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Now, he ought to really, he ought to come here and study this.
unidentified		When's the first person checking into the room, sir?
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		Tomorrow?
		Yeah, probably tomorrow.
		Within the next 20 minutes.
unidentified		We have the doctors.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		They have all the professionals.
ron desantis ▲ ● ▼		There's going to be a security suite because there have been civilians here, so they will sweep this multiple times to make sure there's nothing to be used as weapons or any contraband.
		And then once that's clear, then they'll do.
		So it's really up to Secretary.
		I know he's got people in the queue, and so they'll be ready to receive.
unidentified		I think our viewers at home should know that this is air-conditioned facility, so if any of the news claims are keeping them out in the hot, humid South Florida, that is wrong.
		It's probably 62 degrees in here for me.
		Or 72.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Biden wanted me in here.
		He wanted me.
		It didn't work out that way, but he wanted me in here.
unidentified		Mr. President, what's your expectation of what this will do for the speed and force of deportation?
unidentified		A lot of things that they're both telling me that these people come in here and they want to go home.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And they want to go home.
		So we immediately send them in a word appropriate.
		Now somebody's a real killer killer.
		Maximum security.
		Look, what we inherited from this guy, this incompetent man, and his administration, which wasn't incompetent, it was radical left, lunatic, communist, whatever you want to say.
		I know most of them.
unidentified		What we inherited should never, ever be forgotten.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		They made us do.
unidentified		This is all because of an open border policy where 25 million people float in.
unidentified		From all over the world, from prisons, all over the world they float in.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		For no reason whatsoever.
unidentified		You know, when I left, we had a very powerful border.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		He opened it up.
		Day one.
		He just opened the border.
		People couldn't believe it.
		They were standing there.
unidentified		What they're doing.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		They said, go in.
unidentified		If you look at the first day takes, they opened it up and they said, go and that's where all of this began.
unidentified		But this is an amazing thing that they've done here.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		But listen, people don't have to.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		They don't have to come here.
unidentified		If they self-deport and go home, they can come back legally.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		It will let them come back.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And there is a lot of self-deportation.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		But if you wait, if we bring you to this facility, you don't ever get to come back to America.
unidentified		You don't get the chance to come back and be an American again in the middle.
ron desantis ▲ ● ▼		They weren't with us when President and Secretary Kevin and I went through the intake.
		So right when you do the intake, they have the information about voluntary departure.
		They have the ability.
		Obviously, you guys are funding techniques.
		It's a lot cheaper to do it that way.
		So even if they get brought to the front doorstep here, they still have an opportunity to just go back voluntarily and then this way they're not going to go back.
unidentified		Once they can get a bit of like, hey, I want to stay here.
unidentified		I want to go back to the house.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		We can put them on a plane that day and take them home.
unidentified		We'll buy their plane ticket, go home, and then they get the chance to come back legally if they wait.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		They can come back legally after a period.
unidentified		Mr. President, you've talked recently about the idea of finding some way to get a farm workforce and service sector workforce.
		And I think you've discussed somehow a program of people leaving on a sponsorship and coming right back.
		Can you give us a little more detail about that and why, in the view of some hardliners, it's not a good thing.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		We take care of our farmers and hotel workers and various other people right now.
unidentified		Ron's going to be involved and you're involved.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		We have a case, a lot of cases, where I used to go into a farm.
unidentified		And these are guys working there for 10 or 15 years.
unidentified		The farmers go farmer responsibility or owner responsibility.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		But they're going to be largely responsible for these people.
		And they know these people.
		They've worked at the farms for 15 years, and all of a sudden, We have a great feeling for the farmer and for others in the same position.
		And we're going to give them responsibility for people.
		And we're going to have a system of signing them up so they don't have to go.
		They can be illegally.
		They can pay taxes and everything.
		They're not getting citizenship.
		But they get other things.
		And the farmers need them to do the work.
		Without those people, you're not going to be able to write before.
unidentified		Mr. President, you and the governor tangled pretty hard in the 2024 election.
		You stand here now.
		You stand here now as partners on this effort.
		How would you describe the relationship in what future does government?
		Excuse me?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I think it should 10.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Maybe 9-9.
unidentified		It might be a couple of little ones.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I think we have attended.
unidentified		Do you think his wife should run for government?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		We get along for it.
unidentified		Okay, she's not just run for government.
ron desantis ▲ ● ▼		The thing about it is, you know, I endorsed him immediately in January 2024.
		I raised one of his PACs, millions and millions of dollars.
		And obviously, we saved him a lot of money in Florida because Florida was a deep red state.
		He didn't even have to do a rally in Florida, whereas 2016 and 20 is just like ground zero.
		And so we've been really happy to do that.
		And then we've worked very well on this and other issues with Florida.
		You can call him at any time, and he wants to be helpful for governors.
		I mean, I can tell you that.
		We did Hurricane Melene last year.
		You didn't hear from the president at the time then.
		But with President Trump, we know immediately he just may make the phone call.
unidentified		Can we ask a Gaza follow-up question?
		I'm sorry, like another thing you inherited.
		How firm are you going to be with Metanyahu about ending the war in Gaza?
		Very firm.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		But he wants it too.
		He's coming here next week.
		He wants to end it too.
		We had a tremendous success with the Red.
		Somebody said, when are you going to sign?
		I said, sign?
		They are so bummed out.
unidentified		You see the report issued this morning, the place was decimated.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		It will be years before anybody even gets down there.
unidentified		So that's not a priority, but we'll have a report and we'll have whatever we want.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		We'll get whatever we want from Iran.
unidentified		And I think and I hope they will have a good recognition.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		It'll be very hard for them to do anything with those sanctions.
unidentified		And I look forward to maybe there'll be a time when we get along with them and they can reach the back.
		But is there a point where you tell Netanyahu, like, you've got to end this now.
		You've got to strike a deal.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		He wants to.
		He wants to.
		I think we'll have a deal next week.
unidentified		Thank you.
unidentified		Mr. President, do you intend to announce your pick for successor to Jay Powell earlier than, say, or as early as, say, this summer or this fall?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Well, I do something about who it's going to be.
unidentified		Yes.
unidentified		I don't know.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		She'd be a good candidate.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Anybody would be better than Jay Powell.
unidentified		No, it's going to be sufficient because he keeps the rate way up.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I think it's trumpet derangement center.
		But we have a very strong country.
		We're the strongest country.
		Look, our country right now is at a level that we haven't seen for 40, 50 years.
		What we're doing now is nobody's seen anything like it.
		I told you, I was with in the Middle East.
		The king of Saudi Arabia said to me very strongly, he said, you know what?
		A year ago you had a dead country.
		Now you have the hottest country in the world.
		We have the hottest country in the world.
		Thank you very much.
unidentified		Those things like Syria.
unidentified		What about other countries?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		We won't be seeing it over the next year.
unidentified		What about destruction?
		So those type of industries.
		Right this way?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I see right there the president.
		The president, can we keep the shot?
		I don't want to lose that shot unless he's got to take it down.
		The president having these impromptu press avails is what they're called.
		Press avails.
		You see the Wrangler.
		Her job is to keep them pre-positioned and incorporate everything.
		And that's why the president's continuing on the tour.
		What Governor DeSantis and Christy Noome says is starting tomorrow morning, the facility will be open.
		And what Christy Noam is saying is, hey, if you don't want to come to this facility, just do self-deportation.
		Just leave.
		The only reason they're going to use this as a congregation facility is to make sure they can expedite your leaving the United States because guess what?
		You're here and you're not a citizen.
		And if you're here illegally, if you come for the phony amnesty that Biden tried to set up, then you're going to go home.
		One of the key elements, I don't want to bury the lead, Governor DeSantis says that they're going to federalize, they're preparing and studying federalizing the National Guard to be deportation judges.
		Remember the phony scam of the Biden regime is, oh, we don't have any deportation, you know, we can't run these deportation courts.
		We can't run these amnesty courts to have people have due process.
		But Santa said, although I think the due process is grossly overstated, it ought to be get them on a plane and get them the hell out of here.
		Governor Santa is saying we're going to stand up the National Guard and stand up the National Guard and have them as these deportation judges stamp it.
		Okay, we heard you.
		Move on.
		Gone.
		This facility is going to open tomorrow.
		It's going to be a model.
		You heard the president saying that Governor Newsom should come out here immediately and meet with Secretary Noam and Governor DeSantis and learn something.
		We need California to get with the program.
		And this is this huge fight against the neo-Confederates, like Gavin Newsom, about this, about the as soon as we get more audio, as soon as we get a better picture, more audio, we're going to go right to it.
		The President thinks actually going to have a step in and have a real facility, not the best shot right there, Real America's voice.
		If we get that camera up.
		The president's going to a facility, and right there, you're going to have, you see, right there there at the bases, there's going to be a little press conference and some discussion right here.
		He's going to have officials.
		The president does this.
		It's a meeting where he has various officials.
		There's a president coming in.
		Let's cut to the audio, see what we got.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		They did a fantastic job.
		Even the microphone as well.
		Well, I'd like to just thank everybody for the incredible job they've done.
		I love the state.
unidentified		As you know, Ron and I have had a really great relationship for a long time.
unidentified		We had a little off curve for a couple of days, but it didn't let us love respect for each other.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And it's a great honour to be deep in Florida, the Florida Never Plays, to open America's newest migrant detention center.
		It's incredibly built and you're seeing that yourself.
		That's why I said, let the press join us and I'll walk so they can see you.
		That's why I said, let the press join us on our walk so they can see what's happening.
		It's known as Florida Everglades to open America's newest migrant detention center.
		It's incredibly built and you're seeing that yourself.
		That's why I said, let the press join us on our walk so they can see what's happening.
		It's known as Alligator Alcatraz, which is very appropriate because I looked outside and that's not a place I want to go hiking anytime soon.
		But very soon this facility will house some of the most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet.
		We're surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland and the only way out is really deportation.
		And a lot of these people are self-deporting back to their country where they came from.
		Quite a few were amazed at actually the number.
		We took the FEMA money that Joe Biden allocated to pay for the free luxury hotel rooms where he's paying hundreds of millions of dollars in New York City.
		And we used it to build this project.
		And Nirana was just a little fraction of that money.
		The money they spent on that project, I happen to know the real estate developer.
		He never really made that much, but he became very wealthy.
		With luxury, he didn't do well.
		With people that are not exactly luxury, he's made a fortune.
		I want to thank Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Secretary of Homeland Security Christine Noam and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier.
		Where is James?
		Where is he?
		You do a very good job.
		I hear good things.
		I hear good things about you from Ron, too.
		Now you really do.
		He's even a good-looking guy.
		That guy's got a future, huh?
		Good job, James.
		I hear you did really, really fantastic.
		Worked hard.
		You're like in the construction business for a few days, right?
		Congratulations for all the hard work to make this facility possible.
		It's amazing.
		Thanks as well to Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson.
		Where is Wilton?
		Where are you, Wilton?
		Hi, Wilton.
		It's been a long time.
		Thank you.
		Congressman Byron Donalds.
		Where's Byron?
		Hi, Byron.
		How are you?
		Good.
		Florida Speaker of the House, Daniel Perez.
		Daniel?
		Daniel, thank you, Daniel.
		Boy, you didn't want to sit up here with us, Daniel.
		Executive Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, Kevin Guthrie.
		Hi, Kevin.
		Good job.
		Acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons.
		Todd, great job.
		And Senator Joe Gruyters, he is a great guy.
		Where is Joe?
		We love Joe.
		Thank you very much.
		Thank you.
		Thank you, Joe.
		Joe is great.
		With the help of those incredible Border Patrol agents, we now have the lowest level of daily border crossings ever recorded.
		As you know, last month, the month of May, just got released two days ago, the number of illegal aliens into the United States was zero.
		Zero.
	Even I find that hard to believe that.
	Somebody must have gotten in, I think.
	I don't know, but they say zero, and the people that count them are radical left Democrats.
	So when a radical left Democrat tells me it's zero, I believe him.
	But there's still much work to do.
	In the four years before I took office, Joe Biden allowed 21 million people.
	That's a minimum.
	I think it was much higher than that.
	Illegal aliens to invade our country.
	He invaded our country just like a military would invade.
	It's tougher because they don't wear uniforms.
	You don't know who they are.
	More than the populations of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, and Philadelphia combined.
	That's what came into our country from prisons, from mental institutions, from street gangs, drug dealers.
	It's disgusting.
	This enormous country-destroying invasion has swamped communities nationwide with massive crime, crippling costs, and burdens far beyond what any nation could withstand.
	No nation could withstand what we did.
	And we're in the process of doing it.
	But we have some great people doing it now.
	And you see them up here with me.
	But I'd call it like an unforced era.
	It's sort of like men and women sports.
	It's sort of like transgender for everybody.
	How could they have Done this to our country.
	And we're never going to forget it.
	Last year, 15% of all the hotel rooms in New York City were used to house illegal aliens at costs that they never got for luxury.
	They never got this much for luxury people coming in from the wealthiest places on earth.
	They made more money with the illegal immigrants, with many rooms costing more than $300 a night, six times the rent of a typical American family.
	In Denver, Colorado, the city was forced to cut $10 million from its police and fire department budget as part of a $90 million plan to house illegal aliens.
	And it's a population that's growing and growing and destroying Denver and growing.
	And again, it's destroying Denver.
	And it's destroying many other cities too.
	Likewise, one of the city's largest hospital systems is drowning in unpaid medical bills, unpaid in the billions, after their emergency rooms were flooded with tens of thousands of illegals, leading to the closure of critical services.
	And these are really critical services.
	They can't even keep them open for American patients.
	The American patients were treated worse than any illegal immigrant.
	In Los Angeles, one in every four students in the public school system is from a household headed by an illegal, and most of them don't speak English, so they're in a school system, and they don't have interpreters, they don't have anything, they don't speak English.
	What a mess.
	What a mess.
	Unforced era.
	All these people allowed to come in.
	The United States is now spending $78 billion a year on translation.
	Okay, think of that.
	$78 billion a year on translation and smaller numbers on special education programs for non-English speakers in our public schools.
	So $78 billion, I think that's not a mistake.
	I would say million dollars maybe, hundreds of thousands of dollars, $78 billion, Joe, on translators and non-English speaking work.
	Federal government, the Justice Department, it's more than twice the cost of maintaining the United States Justice Department, what we're spending on translation and other things to help.
	In total, the average illegal alien costs American taxpayers an estimated $70,000.
	That's each.
	$70,000.
	I think that number is even low.
	If you care about balancing the budget, the single most impactful step we can take is to fully reverse the Biden migration invasion, one of the worst invasions we've ever had.
	We've never had an invasion like this.
	We've had invasions, but we've taken care of them.
	We've never had an invasion like this, and it's with us.
	And we have some very bad people out there looking to do big harm.
	That's why the one big, beautiful bill includes funding for 3,000 new Border Patrol officers and 10,000 new ICE agents.
	And I've gotten to know the Border Patrol and ICE very well.
	Unlike Kamala, she was the Border Czar, but she never saw the border.
	She never made one phone call.
	She was some border czar.
	She would have been some president.
	Probably would have been slightly better than Biden, though.
	I had a run against both of them.
	You know, the one guy, it's like a fighter.
	You knock out the one guy who's doing badly.
	Then they put somebody else in, but fortunately she was stiff also.
	Otherwise, I would have been very angry.
	I would have been extremely angry.
	The Heroes of ICE will also help round up and remove members of the savage drug cartels which are coming back into our country.
	And we got them out.
	Now some of them came back in.
	We just got them out again.
	And that's going to be a vicious cycle.
	But these are foreign gangs.
	They're horrendous people, killers, that have infiltrated our territory, including eight which we have designated as foreign terrorist organizations, which gives us a lot more power for speed and getting them out much easier.
	And we had a great court victory, as you know, on Friday, that allows us to do what we have to do from the Supreme Court of the United States.
	In five months, my administration has already arrested over 2,700 members of the murderous Venezuelan gang known as Trendiaragua, including a pack of these sadistic animals arrested last month with over 280 guns, and these are guns of the latest caliber.
	These are guns that were made over the last period of less than a year, getting brand new guns, the latest and the greatest.
	Every day our brave law enforcement officers are hunting down and deporting migrant criminals who have committed heinous crimes, including more than 13,000 murders.
	11,888 to be exact, but I'd probably say the 13,000 is right also.
	Think of it, 11,888, and more than half of them, they committed more than one murder.
	So, Ron, many of them are out of here already, but it's still a hell of a number to be confronted with.
	Just this year, ICE agents in Miami have apprehended illegals with arrests for murder, kidnapping, rape, child sexual abuse, and arson, people of the worst order.
	We're getting these monsters out of the United States, out of Florida, out of all the places that they're in.
	And on January 20th, I signed an executive order empowering governors and state police to be deputized to enforce federal immigration laws.
	And Ron's already taken advantage of it.
	It really, it's a tremendous advantage for the states.
	Most of them are doing it.
	Actually, the blue states tend not to do it.
	Even a couple of them have, though.
	And I want to express my tremendous thanks to the state of Florida for embracing this opportunity and being a true partner.
	They've worked so well with the federal government.
	It's been just a beautiful, beautiful partnership.
	So, Ron, I'd like to thank you personally.
	You are my friend, and you'll always be my friend.
	And we may have some skirmishes even in the future.
	I doubt it.
	But we'll always come back because we just seem to, we have blood that seems to match pretty well.
	We have a relationship that's been a very strong one for a long period of time, and I appreciate it, very much appreciate it.
	And also, Secretary Noam, I'd like to have you say a few words.
	You have been unbelievable, the job you've done.
	You and our favorite person, Tom, Tom Holman, have done, and your whole staff, because it's a lot of people.
	And Tom acknowledges it all the time.
	He respects you so much.
	He respects the staff that you both built.
	And you're really doing one of the great jobs.
	And it was great that you could work with Ron in Florida so well.
	Built such a great facility.
	So please say a few words.
	Thank you very much.
unidentified		Thank you.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		I don't know if this will work.
		Well, thank you, Mr. President.
		First of all, I want to thank you for putting the safety and the security of the American people first and the way that you never lose focus on making sure that America stays our priority and that the families that live here get the chance to grow up and to raise their children in communities that are safe and that give them an opportunity to pursue the American dream.
		This facility here is a fantastic representation of what can happen when all of government works together and when it's accountable to the taxpayers and to the citizens that live here.
		The president signed an executive order that allowed us to build partnerships with states and with local law enforcement officers, which is exactly how things should function in this country.
		More power, more authority given to people locally so that they can take control of their own destiny.
		And so we have already been working under the 287G program to deputize law enforcement officers, whether they be state highway patrol, local sheriff's departments in all of our states, and allow them to go out with our ICE officers, our border patrol officers, and make sure that we're getting the worst of the worst off of the streets.
		We also recognize that as we've been doing that and returning people back to their home countries, that we need detention facilities.
		We need bets to put them in place so that they can have their due process before they return home.
		And this facility is exactly what I want every single governor in this country to consider doing with us.
		What happened to start this conversation was that a young man named Jimmy Percival in my office, my general counsel, who came from Florida and used to work here, called up the Attorney General and the governor and said, hey, what do you think about partnering with us on a detention facility that we could put in place that would allow us to bring individuals there?
		There's an airstrip close by.
		You guys volunteered the assets that you have and the connections that you have and worked with Kevin extensively so that we could come here, have their due process given, and return them home to their countries.
		And in eight days, this facility has been stood up.
		And I want everybody to recognize the detention facilities that ICE adheres to is a higher standard than is required at state level.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		That's Christy Noam, Secretary of Homeland Security, addressing the press at the media with President Trump, Governor DeSantis.
		We're going to turn it over now to Charlie Kirk.
		The Charlie Kirk show.
		We're going to continue with this wall-to-wall coverage of the President's trip to Alligator Alcatraz in Florida.
		The war room will be live back here at 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time today.
		We will see you then.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		To bring individuals across the country that we are bringing in and incarcerating for violating our laws and immediately get them out of the country as soon as we possibly can.
		It's exactly what we need to be perpetuating in other states.
		And what I would say is, I want all of you to notice these flyers that we've got.
		Is that everybody who sees these flyers or anybody who sees these news clips should know you can still go home on your own.
		You can self-deport.

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