During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Donald Trump spoke about the Defund the Police movement in light of deploying National Guard troops to Washington, D.C.
00:00In New York City, there are 500 people short on the police department, at least.
00:05In New York City, it's 3,000. In Chicago, it's 1,300.
00:09Would they have had to bring in troops from the National Guard if the police departments in this country were fully staffed, defund the police?
00:16How bad did that turn out for America?
00:18It's an interesting question. I found, I was surprised when I heard how many police were here.
00:23It's not a really big area. And I think they said they're down to 3,200 police or something like that.
00:30I said, that's a lot of police. And I was a little bit surprised because to me, that's a big force.
00:37And it's not a big area, but it is what it is. There's a lot of crime.
00:42You have a lot of, don't forget, you have a lot of police that weren't allowed to do their job.
00:46When I came in, as you remember, we made tremendous strides and a little conflict that we had going at the time
00:54because I allowed our military to make the decision.
00:58I said, you can make any decision you want. I gave it to the colonels in the field.
01:03I gave it to the captains in the field. You remember that where everything went through Biden, meaning one of the people.
01:12And everything went through Obama before him. Everything went through.
01:15They had to make the decision as to whether or not to attack the Taliban.
01:21So they'd find 30 people together. They'd call up Washington and they'd go to a political hack who knew nothing about it.
01:30My first night, I got that same call. They called me and they said, we have a few.
01:36I got a call at three o'clock in the morning because I listened to their system and they were calling me
01:42and they were asking me whether or not they could attack a group of people having to do with, you know, what war I'm talking about.
01:48And I said, I know nothing about this. Wait a minute. And then I said, who is he? Let me speak to the people calling.
01:57They're calling from Afghanistan. And I said, let me speak to the people. I want to speak to them.
02:03And it was a colonel. I said, where'd you go to school, colonel? I went to West Point, sir.
02:08Were you a good student? I was, sir. I was a very good student.
02:10So you're calling the White House to ask for permission to attack. And by the time you get the answer, how long does it take?
02:17Sometimes two or three weeks. So by the time you get the answer, the people that you want to attack have already left, right?
02:22He said, how did you know that, sir? I said, let me ask you. So you're a good student.
02:26You went to West Point and you love the military, right? Yeah. You make the decision.
02:31And I gave all those guys that went to all these great schools and they're all military people, I gave them the right to make their own decision.
02:40And we kicked ISIS's ass. Don't forget, ISIS was supposed to be, was supposed to take five years to terminate him.
02:50And we had a man named Raisin Cain who happens to have done the whole thing in Iran.
02:56He's a great general. And he's a wonderful guy, too, believe it or not. But he's a great soldier.
03:02We, we let them do their work and we defeated ISIS. We defeated everybody, everybody, every, every fight that we had militarily that I had, I won.
03:14And I let these great soldiers do, do some make a mistake, I guess.
03:19But like this colonel, I'll never forget it. Where did you go to school? I went to West Point, sir.
03:24I did ask him a question. I like good students as opposed to bad, sir.
03:28He said, I was a good student, sir. And I said, you do what's necessary.
03:32And, you know, I don't want to sound overly vicious, but he wiped out the entire group of very bad people that want to kill us.
03:39So you have to let them do their job. In Washington, they're not allowed to do their job. Okay?
03:45They're not allowed. You have, you have great police. You have great police, but they're not allowed. Hello. Go ahead.
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