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00:00Do you affirm the testimony you're about to give before this committee will be the truth,

00:08the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Please be seated and give us your

00:13opening statement. Thank you Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Durbin and every member of

00:26this committee. I'm grateful for the opportunity to testify in front of you today. First please

00:32join me in remembering, as you said Chairman Grassley, all the Jewish people who lost their

00:38lives in the October 7th attacks two years ago today. Also please let's pray for all the

00:44hostages and the families of all of those individuals. They are a critical reminder of our central

00:53mission here at the Department of Justice, protecting the safety and security of the

00:59American people. That is why even when the government is otherwise shut down because

01:05of the Democrats, the department's law enforcement officers and prosecutors are

01:09hard at work fighting crime, keeping our streets safe, and protecting you from the

01:15threats foreign and domestic. When I was confirmed as the 87th Attorney General of

01:21the United States, I took office with two main goals, to end the weaponization of justice and

01:27return the department to its core mission of fighting violent crime. As to ending the weaponization

01:33of justice, we learned that former FBI secretly investigated you and your colleagues. Why? They

01:40wanted to take President Trump off the playing field. They were playing politics with law enforcement

01:45powers and will go down as a historic betrayal of public trust. This is the kind of conduct that shatters

01:53the American people's faith in our law enforcement system. We will work to earn that back every single day.

02:01We are returning to our core mission of fighting real crime. While there is more work to do, I believe in

02:08eight short months, we have made tremendous progress towards those ends. Our federal surges in Washington, D.C.

02:16and Memphis are a perfect example of how the Department of Justice should operate. We created strong

02:22partnerships with local leadership, working hand in hand with both cities to send resources where they were needed

02:30most. The results speak for themselves. We have made more than 3,800 arrests here in Washington, while seizing

02:39more than 365 illegal guns. In Memphis, we have already made more than 300 arrests and close to 80 illegal guns in

02:49just a week. We are replicating that tough on crime approach throughout this country. Under the leadership of

02:57Director Cash Patel, the FBI is doing outstanding investigative work to keep American people safe.

03:03The FBI just conducted a months-long operation called Summer Heat, which resulted in over 8,600 arrests

03:10from June to September. More than 6,500 arrests fell under the FBI's violent crime and gang program.

03:19Under the leadership of Administrator Terry Cole, the DEA has seized 47.9 million fentanyl

03:27pills and 4,500 kilos of fentanyl powder. That represents 370 million deadly doses. 370 million.

03:40The DEA is dismantling violent cartel drug trafficking networks across this country, including the seizure of

03:46nearly 470 million in criminal assets. Under the leadership of Gadi Seralta, our U.S. Marshals have been the tip of the spear on

03:55federal surges and protecting judges and elected officials. Our marshals have arrested more than 51,000 fugitives

04:04nationwide since January 20th. Under the leadership of Acting Director Dan Driscoll, ATF has taken more than 23,000

04:13illegal guns off our streets. 3,400 of those guns have been linked to trafficking between the U.S. and Mexico.

04:20My attorneys have done incredible work advancing President Trump's agenda and protecting the executive

04:27branch from judicial overreach. We've been sued more than 400 times since January 20th. Judges have issued

04:34more than 90 temporary restraining orders against us, more than the previous several administrations

04:40combined. Despite the unprecedented degree of activism we've seen from the lower courts,

04:47we have never ignored a court order. And why would we? We have secured a historic 22 victories at the

04:53Supreme Court alone with more to come. Our civil rights attorneys are fighting discrimination and

04:59anti-Semitism. Our criminal attorneys are prosecuting violent criminals and foreign terrorists every single

05:05day. I look forward to continuing this work at the Department of Justice and I look forward to

05:11testifying before you today. Thank you, Chairman.

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