“We’ll Hunt Them Like ISIS!” — Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth Declare All-Out War on Cartels | AC1G

To overdoses to these cartels That have proliferated that kind of a disease on our people and have gone to war with our next generation of Americans When you signed the executive order that was protecting the American people from invasion What you did is that you took these cartels and gangs that we've known for decades and you declared them to be what they really Are and that's terrorists you declared war on them and you didn't say we were just gonna fight them You said we are going to destroy them and everybody around this table Is so honored to be here to to work with you to destroy these terrorists that have been killing Americans for years and getting rich Off of it. I'm so proud of the work that was done just in the September surge you referenced that earlier We had over 400 operations that went down in those first first 43 days of the Homeland Security Task Force in operations that brought as Pam referenced 3,200 terrorists to justice got them off the streets, sir. We also have had over Precursors and chemicals that were brought in we've had the work at the southern border We've got Border Patrol here at the table with you Oh fentanyl has been cut down by 50% coming into this country over our borders We've continued to work not just nationally but internationally and on our maritime borders as well the ICE agents They have so much violence against them and threats against them, sir They get up every day ready to work with this task force to be able to keep people safe And then we've got Coast Guard who's been doing just a ton of our incredible interdictions out on the seas and the waters and cooperation with Operations that you've targeted in the Caribbean with a Department of War and sir I just want to thank you for the leadership you put at this table for your cabinet members for Stephen Miller For putting this in place to make sure that what you did when you consolidated the Homeland Security Task Force you took a thousand other task forces that were already established in the federal government and you streamlined them into this room Into this group right here so that we can look at each other in the face every day and say what's our problem? How do we address it? How do we fix it? And then we go to work together with our arms link to do exactly what you told us to do and that's not just protect The American people from invasion but to kill these terrorists you gave us the task to eliminate them destroy them So that they can't destroy the next generation of Americans. So, thank you, sir. Thank you for the people you put around Thank you very much. It's great job. Thank you, Pete. Yes, sir Well, thank you. Mr. President for your leadership chief likewise Tulsi and Todd and Dan and Pam and Christie and Stephen and cash and I could go around the table from the Department of War We are thankful and grateful for the incredible effort that your agency's put in and we could not be more proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you not Superficially not kind of over here But front and center on the homeland security task force right there with you because our department has spent over two decades Defending other homelands and we're very proud to be defending our own and if you talk to the troops down say on the southwest border Mr President morale is sky-high and continues to be because they're proud to be defending their own communities their own state and their own country So when that executive order was signed the mission was clear protecting the American people against Invasion and so the Department of War went straight to the southwest border. We still have 10,000 troops there. We have national defense areas We're standing alongside the Border Patrol and we've locked that border down 100% patrol the southwest border We stopped the invasion and then we're proud to be going on the offense counter cartel operations And it's not counter cartel as was mentioned. These are designated terrorist organizations Foreign terrorist organizations our generation spent the better part of two decades hunting al-qaeda Hunting Isis. Well as the president said, this is the Isis. This is the al-qaeda of the Western Hemisphere They intimidate they terrorize they extort they poison the American people the president's right Every boat we strike is 25,000 Americans whose lives are saved because of the drugs that were headed in our direction So our message to these foreign terrorist organizations is we will treat you like we have treated al-qaeda We will find you we will map your networks. We will hunt you down and we will kill you and You've seen that evidence in the maritime domain whether it's in the Caribbean or in the Pacific with the last two strikes We know exactly who these people are. We know what networks they work with what foreign terrorist organizations they're a part of we know where they're going where they originated from what they're carrying and they know we know and That will soon start to change the calculus of these boats So the critic the critique of this is of course as often is the case wrong We know our authorities. It's locked tight and we're gonna treat them like foreign terrorist organizations on the offense So the Department of War is not going to degrade Or just simply arrest We're gonna defeat and destroy these terrorist organizations to defend the homeland on behalf of the American people Making the jobs of law enforcement safer in the process making the communities of Americans safer in the process We think it's a very core mission of the Department of War and we're proud to be here. Mr. Thank you very much Thank you, Chelsea, please. Yes. Thank you. Mr. President The key reason that you are hearing about these incredible effects Is number one the team that you've assembled here in the leadership and the tone that you have set First and foremost about keeping the American people safe The intelligence community plays a critical role in being able to support our law enforcement the federal state and local level To make sure that they are armed with actionable intelligence to be able to actually go after those who threaten the safety and security of the American people Mr. President under your leadership for the first time there is a newly created national intelligence fusion cell at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence national counterterrorism That is a very simple purpose to make sure that we have two-way intelligence sharing of actionable information between the intelligence community and law Enforcement. I want to talk briefly about three Successes that we've had just here in the last few weeks. Mr President through the success of this inter-agency fusion cell just this last week our National Counterterrorism Center Supported through actionable intelligence to both US law enforcement as well as Mexican law enforcement the arrest of a Sinaloa cartel boss Tell Plato in Juarez Mexico as well as his top three money launderers in a separate and Recent successful inter-agency operation NCTC work closely with the US Marshal Service that led to the arrest of another dangerous Sinaloa cartel member responsible for tracking a huge amounts of cocaine and Hundreds of thousands of dollars in this single incident with drug proceeds through his network And I'll say the last example I'll share is is probably the most insidious was providing intelligence to the Mexican law enforcement that led to the arrest of CJNG cartel affiliated baby trafficker called La Diabla Her whole money-making operation was centered around luring pregnant women Performing illegal c-sections harvesting organs and selling newborn babies Mr. President, it's your leadership that has made all of this possible I can tell you in the midst of this government shutdown our folks like everyone around this table are working 24-7 without pay and Eager to get after this because they believe in your leadership and the mission that you have presented to them. Thank you, Mr President, I'll hand this off to my security adviser Stephen Miller the leader of this task force Let me just say mr. President that this country was going to die without you This country was going to actually die without you. That's what we were facing in 2024 We've been invaded for four years. Our communities were sinking our Public safety had gone to zero Cartels were running entire communities sex trafficking child trafficking labor trafficking was out of control overdoses were out of control The cartels were claiming more and more territory city services were buckling This was a country on the verge of dying and you alone saved it