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Trump says the land is going to be next while speaking about U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Right now, President Trump is taking questions from reporters. He
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  Speaker 1: was asked about the alleged drug boat strikes. Let's take
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  Speaker 1: a listen.
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  Speaker 2: We've been capturing them for years.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like g let's capture one. We've been doing
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  Speaker 2: that for years, for twenty five years. We've been doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Not at a level like we're doing it now. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just with the hits we're hitting, but we have much
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  Speaker 2: more intensity than any administration's ever had. But we've been
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  Speaker 2: capturing these boats for years, and they get back into
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  Speaker 2: the system, and they do it again and again and again,
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  Speaker 2: and they don't fear that. They have no fear. The
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  Speaker 2: thing I can tell you right now, it's very hard
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  Speaker 2: to find any floating vessel right now on the Pacific
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  Speaker 2: or in the Gulf, and I I would like to
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  Speaker 2: call it by its official name, the Gulf of America.
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  Speaker 2: Another little triumph of the Trump administration. I said, for years,
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  Speaker 2: they said, why aren't we called what don't we call
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  Speaker 2: it the Gulf of Mexico. It's ninety three sent, the
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  Speaker 2: shoreline is ninety three percent. So I never understood that.
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  Speaker 2: So I made that change. I never realized how easy
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  Speaker 2: that was going to be other than I guess ap
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  Speaker 2: AP for us in court and the judge said, but
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  Speaker 2: that's the name, and actually they were sort of semi
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  Speaker 2: prohibited from even covering us after that. It was pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 2: But we have the Gulf of America and there are
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  Speaker 2: very few boats, very very few boats, not even fishing boats.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest, I don't want to do that to
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  Speaker 2: the fishing industry. But it's been so effective. And our
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  Speaker 2: sea drugs as they call them, they use the term
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  Speaker 2: sea drugs. The drugs coming in by sea are like
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  Speaker 2: five percent of what they were a year ago, less
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  Speaker 2: than five percent. So now they're coming in by land.
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  Speaker 2: And even the land is concerned because I told them
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be next. You know, the land is
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  Speaker 2: going to be next. And we may go to the Senate,
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  Speaker 2: we may go to the you know, Congress, and tell
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  Speaker 2: them about it. But I imagine that have any problem
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  Speaker 2: with it. I think, in fact, while we're here, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a good idea. You go to Congress, you
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  Speaker 2: tell them about it. What are they gonna do say
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  Speaker 2: to you, we don't want to stop drugs pouring in.
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  Speaker 2: They're killing three hundred thousand people a year. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the real number, three hundred thousand people a year.
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  Speaker 2: So between that and my discussion with Presidency, I think
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  Speaker 2: we're we have never made progress like we've made. The
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  Speaker 2: sea drugs are almost dead and they can't come in
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  Speaker 2: that fast from the land, and the land drugs are
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  Speaker 2: much more dangerous for them. It's going to be much
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  Speaker 2: more dangerous. You'll be seeing that soon. So that's the
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  Speaker 2: way it is. Yeah, go ahead, please, yeah, go ahead,
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  Speaker 2: Please with it. Lasses go ahead, Thank you, mister President.
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  Speaker 4: But I want to ask what's your reaction to Representative
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  Speaker 4: Dan Goldman calling on NYPD to arrest ICE agents who
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  Speaker 4: he says are acting illegally. He says they are illegally
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  Speaker 4: assaulting people and illegally detaining people at immigration courts in
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  Speaker 4: New York.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you and I know Dan, and Dan's a loser.
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  Speaker 2: You understand, He's a guy that and have what it takes.
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  Speaker 2: He's been trying so hard and they're exhausted. It's so ridiculous, right,
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  Speaker 2: a suggestion like that, So you know, they're just trying
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  Speaker 2: so hard and it's not working. They've even now started
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  Speaker 2: imitating me, of all people, they want to imitate me,
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  Speaker 2: and they start using foul language, but they use too
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  Speaker 2: much of it. You know, you can't use the F
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  Speaker 2: word seven times in one sentence. It doesn't work. It
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  Speaker 2: might work once every seven news conferences, but you can't
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  Speaker 2: do it. You can't do it seven times in one sentence.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know they're really they're in big trouble
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  Speaker 2: at that party.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Some alleged some alleged smugglers have survived some
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  Speaker 3: of these recent strikes have been sent back to their
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  Speaker 3: home country. If they're terrorists, why not just arrest and
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  Speaker 3: detain them?
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead?
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  Speaker 5: Two points on that. First, when I served in Iraq
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  Speaker 5: in two thousand and five and two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 5: we used to, instead of a gallows humor way, talk
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  Speaker 5: about the Iraqi catch release program, the reality that we
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  Speaker 5: would catch a lot of people, hand them over and
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  Speaker 5: then they would be recycled back through. We have to
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  Speaker 5: recapture them or attack them again. And that's why changing
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  Speaker 5: the dynamic and actually taking kinetic strikes on these boats
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  Speaker 5: ought changed the psychology of these foreign terrorist organizations. To
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  Speaker 5: those two that survived a shot on the semi submersible,
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  Speaker 5: it's I think again, compared to Iraq and Afghanistan, the
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  Speaker 5: vast majority of people that we captured on the battlefield
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  Speaker 5: we handed over to the home country. Did we always
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  Speaker 5: like how it shaped out? Sometimes we did, sometimes we
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  Speaker 5: did not. But ninety nine percent would go to the
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  Speaker 5: Afghan authorities of the Iraqi authorities. So in this case,
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  Speaker 5: those two, they were treated by American medics and handed
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  Speaker 5: immediately over to their countries where they came from, hopefully
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  Speaker 5: to face prosecution, which is a very standard way of
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  Speaker 5: handling something like this.
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  Speaker 1: This latest news conference and the sound you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: from the President, all coming after nine strikes on alleged
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  Speaker 1: drug boats coming from Latin America, and then some perspective
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  Speaker 1: here from our map, here's Venezuela and Colombia. Last two
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  Speaker 1: strikes happen on the Pacific side of Latin America. Will
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  Speaker 1: continue to follow this roundtable discussion and also the questions
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  Speaker 1: by reporters