President Trump: This is a very special time, because we've worked very hard to put ourselves int this position to strike a righteous blow to the drug dealers, narcotic traffickers, and criminal cartels that we've all been hearing so much about for so many years, and very little has been done. We will take a historic step toward justice for every family touched by the Fentanyl scourge, as we sign the HALT Fentanyl Act into law. With this bill, we are officially and permanently classifying all Fentanyl-related substances as Schedule 1 Narcotics, which is actually a very big deal. Meaning anyone caught trafficking these illicit poisons will be punished with a mandatory ten year minimum sentence in prison.

President Trump: For four long years, Joe Biden surrendered our borders to the most evil and vicious traffickers, networks, and everything else on the planet Earth, allowing foreign drug cartels to carve out a massive footprint on American soil. We were doing nothing. This open borders nightmare flooded our country with Fentanyl, and people that shouldn't be here. Some of the worst people on Earth. And illicit drugs decimated American communities, and left us with the largest law enforcement challenge in our country's history.

President Trump: It's really just a fantastic bill, and it's about time that we're going to start, and we'll start talking about it, but once we do, I think we;re going to have the greatest midterm that we've ever seen.

President Trump: It also makes the largest investment in the U.S. Coast Guard since World War II, ensuring that we have assets, and all of the assets needed to vanquish the cartels from the waterways of North America. We're building a lot of Coast Guard ships that go very speedily along the water, and they're very lethal. They're very powerful. And that's what we need, 'cause a lot of it comes in; as we block up the border, they start using the water.

Reporter: Your attorney general isn't here, your FBI leadership; do you still have confidence in that team, sir?

President Trump: Total.

Reporter: Will you be appointing a special council to investigate the [inaudible] Epstein investigation?

President Trump: I have nothing to do with it.