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LIVE: President Trump holds news conference in the Oval Office with FBI Dir. Kash Patel

Published October 15, 2025 | Video Starts at 02:19

So we literally put them in our prison, which we don't want to do, but we bring them back to their countries. Working with state and local partners, The FBI arrested over 8,000 violent criminals during the course of this period. In major cities like in New Orleans, Nashville, we saw a 250% increase in arrests we got, and we really went after the bad ones. (02:19–02:25)

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“Russia has lost a million and a half people. Soldiers mostly.”
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“We have the strongest border of anybody. Nobody has a border. We have a border where the numbers just came out again. You saw zero people…”
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“We shot down thousands of drones and missiles also going into Israel.”
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“We just ordered about 20 brand new B2 bombers.”
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“We're taking in trillions of dollars [from tariffs].”
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“South Korea, $350 billion up front. Japan, $650 billion. And they've all agreed to it.”
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“We celebrated a historic agreement to end years of suffering and conflict [in the Middle East].”
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“Within 30 days, [Washington, D.C.]'s been as safe as any city in the country.”
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“Took out 1,700 people. Got them out. These are career criminals in many cases.”
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“In major cities like in New Orleans, Nashville, we saw a 250% increase in arrests.”
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“Since the start of the administration, the FBI has arrested over 23,000 violent criminals.”
LIVE: President Trump holds news conference in the Oval Office with FBI Dir. Kash Patel | Uploaded October 15, 2025 | 05:18-05:24
“The FBI has also destroyed or severely disrupted more than 170 organized criminal enterprises and gangs.”
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“Confiscated over 6,000 illegal firearms.”
LIVE: President Trump holds news conference in the Oval Office with FBI Dir. Kash Patel | Uploaded October 15, 2025 | 05:41-05:46
“Tracked down and arrested four fugitives on the most wanted list.”
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“Every American deserves to live in a community where they're not afraid of being mugged, murdered, robbed, raped, assaulted, or shot.”
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“We're going to save all of our cities and we're going to make them essentially crime free, like other countries have crime free.”
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“Our crime in certain cities is worse than anything they can even imagine [in Afghanistan and other places].”
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“We've been doing that [stopping Venezuelan boats] for 30 years and it has been totally ineffective.”
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“So much of the drugs, 25, 30%, would come in through the seas. Right now we have, I would say, none coming in through the seas.”
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“Every boat that we knock out, we save 25,000 American lives.”
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“We could have that [Chicago crime] done in a month if we had their cooperation.”
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“We have the right to do that with FIFA.”
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“India was buying oil, and he assured me today that they will not be buying oil from Russia.”
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“They have emptied their prisons into the United States of America.”
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“They have given us their worst. They've loaded up our country with prisoners, with mentally ill people that are seriously ill, criminally…”
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“They were loaded up with drugs. And that's the thing that matters. When they're loaded up with drugs, they're fair game.”
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“They raided illegally, my house in Florida, Mar a Lago.”
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“It's a war that he should have won in one week and he's now going into his fourth year.”
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“We got the people that we want paid paid. Okay? And we want the FBI paid, we want the military paid.”
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“We're terminating those programs and they're going to be terminated on a permanent basis.”
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“I won Georgia three times, but they say twice.”
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“There's never been anybody treated in the history of politics... worse than any third World, country, banana republic.”
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“My son Eric got more subpoenas than anybody in the history of our country.”
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“They made up [the Russia investigation] in order to explain why Hillary Clinton lost an election.”
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