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Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel

Published April 10, 2025 | Video Starts at 22:34

We are ahead of them, we are going to stop them, and whenever possible, we're going to lock them up forever or get them out of our country to keep Americans safe. That was Donald Trump's directive on day one when he got elected. Keep America safe. Make America safe. And that's what all of these people standing here today are doing. Is Mexico doing enough to prevent it from going in? Thank you. That concludes today's press briefing. (22:34–22:43)

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Asserts that Donald Trump's directive from day one of his presidency was to keep and make America safe.

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“These drugs are worth over half a billion dollars. 40. Almost 45,000 pounds of cocaine, pure cocaine, uncut, and 3,800 pounds of marijuana.”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 03:43-04:01
“Behind you is half a billion dollars of pure cocaine, uncut cocaine.”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 16:34-16:42
“Today's operation is an example of the unprecedented collaboration between the military and the justice of Department of justice components…”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 03:13-03:29
“This team, with all the agencies I just mentioned, used drones, aircraft and ships to interdict the traffickers off the coast of Peru…”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 04:12-04:28
“Eleven separate prosecutions will take place as a result of this and they will be prosecuted in the middle district of Florida.”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 04:42-04:52
“We believe two cartels, CJNG and Sinaloa, were heavily tied to these shipments.”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 05:13-05:22
“This is a major blow to their financial operations and their efforts to distribute drugs throughout our country.”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 05:21-05:31
“DOJ and all of the agencies involved will continue to dismantle this transnational criminal organization, lock these criminals up and keep…”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 05:41-05:57
“11 defendants are going to be locked up.”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 17:23-17:26
“They are tied to the two cartels that we mentioned.”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 18:18-18:22
“The 261 on that first flight are 261 reasons why. Why our country is safer.”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 18:48-18:56
“They are staying in a prison in El Salvador.”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 18:56-19:00
“They are not migrants. They are illegal aliens who are peddling drugs, guns, and illegal money in a very organized way throughout our…”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 19:00-19:10
“It's a multifaceted approach to catching them, as I said, using drones, using aircraft, using any technique available to our military, to…”
Press Briefing on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James' Maritime Narcotics Interdiction with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel | Uploaded April 10, 2025 | 22:08-22:25