FBI Director Kash Patel Delivers Remarks at Justice Dept. : CSPAN : March 17, 2025 6:08pm-6:25pm EDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive (2025)

international space station with astronauts sonny williams and mary whitmore who have been aboard the station since june when their state -- when their starling spacecraft was determined unfit to return to earth. all beginning tonight at 10:45 p.m. eastern. we will cover the landing on tuesday evening at about 6:00 p.m. online at c-span.org and on the c-span now free video app. >> next we will hear from fbi director cash patel at the justice department headquarters. this is his first public remarks since becoming fbi director.

>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the director of the fbi, cash patel. >> welcome everybody at the department of justice, it has been sometime since i've been in this room and it is one of the most special rooms in the halls of justice and it is a unique experience to be a part of the team delivering a singular system of justice for the american people with a complete and total annihilation of the weaponization of justice and the politicized asian of justice -- of intelligence. we have a new fbi and i am humbled and honored to be its leader. we have a courageous internal -- attorney general and we have incredible leaders throughout our law enforcement community whether it be at the fbi, the

dea, cbp, atf and the list goes on. i am privileged to have met so many of them in my first month on board. i see state attorneys general who have been doing the work hand in glove with local, state and federal law enforcement and our mission and my mission specifically is to tell you what we've been doing in this first month. i told you when i got this job that we would crush violent crime, that we would take the fight to anyone who wishes to do harm to our way of life and to hurt our citizenry. that we would go to the ends of the earth to bring them back to face american justice, produced right here in this very hall. to that effort we have done just that, and a special shout out, i know my boston contingent is here. thank you for the great work you have been doing, and across the rest of the fbi. right here in virginia, the fbi set up an interagency task force and in just two and a half weeks

we have arrested over 300 violent felony gang members including ms 13. we have taken seizure of hundreds of pounds of narcotics and hundreds of weapons and currency. that is just what you can do when you put the brave men and women of law enforcement in one room and get out of their way and we are going to do that in every state across this country. in massachusetts alone in the last couple of weeks, they have indicted federally, over 50 violent gang members and narco track figures, seizing almost 200 kilograms of fentanyl. [applause] there is no time for us to waste on this job and that is why under president trump's leadership and general bondi's leadership, we've been instructed to get after it and that is what we are doing. we have to especially get after it we lose an american citizen

every seven minutes to a drug overdose. we have to get after it when a man or child -- a woman or child is raped in this country nearly every six minutes and we have to especially get after it when there are two homicides every hour in this country. violent crime is exploding and it is a direct result of the border invasion that occurred. thanks to this administration and your relentless work on the field of battle to protect our citizenry, we are finally curbing those astronomical numbers and what that means is we are saving american lives. we are providing our children with safe schools and playgrounds so they can be educated and grow up in a fun neighborhood, like we all had the privilege of doing. when you go out there and you see your communities working with this interagency task force and you see our brave men and women of law enforcement, it is a team effort. this is not a one man, one group

operation. it happens at every single level . just yesterday i was honored to meet with hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the country and even more humbled to graduate 240 five police officers the fbi national academy presenting 48 states and 24 countries. that is how you bring the mission first, you bring these brave warriors who have dedicated their lives to safeguard our communities, you bring them together to do it again and again. the thing that inspires me most is that they have a relentless desire to make sure that they wake up and end the day in a community that is safer to you all and i just wanted to talk to you for a few minutes about that great work. just last night, seven narco trafficking thugs from columbia were extradited and returned to american soil to face american justice. 29 mexican narco traffickers

were repatriated to america to face american justice. in that group alone you are talking about over 5000 kilograms of narcotics that would have poured into our country, and you will see the type of damage that just a little bit of fentanyl can do to our children. we are talking about thousands and thousands of kilos. that is a national security crisis but the good news is the men and women of law enforcement in conjunction with the brave warriors we have in congress who have the courage to stand up and fight for their representatives and further constituencies are leading the funding and legislation we need to make sure we get this mission done. this is not going to be a short-lived process. certainly at the fbi it is something we wake up to every single day and the thought is singular. what is the best way we can safeguard our citizenry?

what are we doing worse, what are we doing better and what is in between? when we have those answers for you, you see them delivered in the halls of justice and the courts across this country and that is the great work that is the tip of the spear, but there is so much work behind it from state and local authorities. we are getting after it not just where the media normally covers, and i want to highlight that. the violent crime that plagues our country is also plaguing those on tribal lands and we are not going to treat them any differently. they live in the same america and they face the same crises that we face, so we will work with our state and local partners on all matters that are affecting tribal lands and indian reservations to make sure their children are no longer traffic, to make sure their women are no longer rate and go missing. this mission must be 24/7 from the atlantic ocean, the pacific

ocean but beyond that we must go extra territorially, we must go down to the furthest reaches of the planet to make sure that we bring you the justice that you have voted for in this new administration, we will never ever stop fighting violent crime . that is the priority of the fbi along with national security and we will put every resource on that mission. [applause] and lastly through this great work you will see tremendous oversight reforms which will unfold with our partners in congress over the coming weeks and months ahead. i want you to pay attention to what is going on in the halls of congress because they are providing us with the resources we need to combat the fentanyl crisis, and this administration

is providing us with the tools we need i designating the cartels foreign terrorist organizations because that is how they should be treated because that is who they are. in that pursuit -- [applause] in that pursuit i look forward to playing a very small part. the fbi will play a very large part in our -- and are interagency partners and local law enforcement officers will start putting more and more handcuffs on the bad guys and good cops across this country will be unleashed to be good cops on a daily basis, and the lasting promise that i will leave you with and this is a message to the law enforcement community. you have always had the backs of the american people, so the federal bureau of investigation and me as the director will have your backs. thank you. [applause]

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in history i wanted to make sure people understood why something happened and who was involved and make it more like a psychology class as opposed to a math class. i was elected to the statehouse in florida back in 2000. >> the first job i had out of college was working in the united states senate. i worked for two extraordinary senators. senator joe lieberman and senator john mccain. >> i am injured in mechanical engineering from 1981 to 1985. a business owner, me and my two brothers. i sold my ownership at the end of the year after becoming elected to congress, to my son who is now the third generation in our family business. we do a lot of commercial and industrial plumbing, hvac. i was co-owners with my brothers for about 20 years, and now my

nephew and my son have bought ownership of the company and i look forward to them continuing with great success. >> as a prosecutor it was interesting. i was a prosecutor from 2017 to 2022 and i worked on domestic violence cases, a lot of community-based cases but doing the trial work, it was a good way -- talking and communicating with the jury. >> this week, c-span continues our new members of congress series where we speak with republicans and democrats about their early lives, previous careers, families and why they ran for office. tonight at 9:30 p.m. eastern, interviews include arizona democrat yassamin ansari, the democratic freshman class president. >> i am the proud daughter of two iranian immigrants. my parents came here in the 1970's. my dad came to study civil

engineering at the university of oregon, with intention of going back home. my mom had a different story. when the revolution hit iran in 1979, they had grown up in a monarchy in iran but with more freedoms. a three acute -- a theocratic regime, the islamic republic took over and my mom's family was at risk. her father was imprisoned for supporting the prior government. so she fled iran by herself and was able to come to the united states. >> watch new members of congress all this week starting at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. on friday, starting at 8:00 a.m. eastern, join us on c-span2 three special 24 hour marathon featuring more than 60 of our exclusive interviews with the newest members of the 119th congress. >> tonight we will bring you nasa tv's live coverage as the

spacex crew nine departs the international space station with astronauts barry wilmore and sonny williams who have been aboard the space station since june after their boeing starliner spacecraft was determined unable to fly them back to earth. you can see the crew enter the return vessel followed by the undocking getting tonight at 10:45 eastern. we will also cover the landing at about 6:00 p.m. live coverage on c-span, streaming live on c-span nor -- c-span now and online on c-span.org. a discussion now on seniors and loneliness. witnesses and lawmakers discuss loneliness and how to respond to scammers. senator rick scott chairs the committee. it's about one hour 20 minutes. >> this is open to debate. in this episode, doge. the department of government efficiency. the elon musk's claim to be

cleaning house in the federal government. some people are cheering for him and many others are just outraged. are just outraged. there is a lot to say about doge, a lot to ask about it. this debate our question the most prominent constitutional scholars in the nation will argue from a strictly legal perspectives a strictly legal perspective the question is this, is elon musk doge dodging the law? i want to point out for this debate in the special streaming on x. welcome to those of the audience were watching us live. we're so glad to have you with business debate i want to say as usual air on public radio starting this weekend and will also be available on our podcast feet and youtube starting on friday who wanted to live stream on x today that is were so much of the conversation about musk and doge is happening. that said i want to note neither x nor musk are involved in this debate in anyway. so let's meet our debaters answer yes or question once

again is musk trent doge dodging the law? i want to welcome lawrence tribe you are a highly esteemed constitutional lawyer. you've taught law at harvard for many, many years at harvard you were named a university professor which is ranked the highest academic rank you can achieve at harvard also argued before the supreme court a most impressive 36 times. larry we are so delighted to have on the program. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> here to answer no to her question is mr. doge needs a judgeand currently teaching at stanford law school where he is the director of the constitutional law center and a senior fellow at the hoover institute previously served as a federal judge on the united states court of appeal in the tenth circuit which is one of the highest courts in the land. he is also a former incubator with us. so in your case michael i want to say welcome

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