Kristi Noem This threat is unprecedented

Let's bring in DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. She joins us now live on set here in New York. Good to have you, Madam Secretary. Good morning. Thank you so much for having me today. First off, the environment for these ICE agents, you know, we fear what may be coming next as we are not seeing the rhetoric toned down. No, in fact, it's getting worse. Some of these Democrat leaders in some of these communities and states are really, really elevating the emotion out there and lying and putting these officers' lives in jeopardy. So I'm hopeful that people will remember that they are just upholding the rule of law and remember what our streets were like under the last administration, how dangerous it was, and that President Trump and these ICE officers are going after murderers and rapists, people who are trafficking our children. In fact, since President Trump has been in office, we've located over 10,000 of these missing children and been able to return them back to their family members and to their loved ones, arrested over 400 different sponsors that were out there perpetuating this kind of activity. So these ICE officers are patriots, and they're going out every day and making our streets safer. Can I ask you a direct question? Yeah. Madam Secretary? Absolutely. How concerned are you? Because we now, what we saw in Alvaredo, Texas, that coordinated attack with AR-style rifles, one officer getting shot in the neck, body armor, this isn't just a protest that got out of control and passionate. How concerned are you that you may have to attend the funeral of one of your agents or officers? Oh, you know, I think about it every day. Every word that comes out of my mouth, I think, how can I protect these officers so they can do their jobs? What decisions can I make today? I think people recognize that when you're responsible for making decisions that puts people in a situation that could cost them their lives, that it's a heavy weight that sits on you every single day. So what these people that are political have done by elevating this to where we now have a 700% increase of violence against our ICE officers is really unprecedented. It really is unprecedented, this environment that we're in, and we need to do even more to tell their stories and about what they're doing and why they're doing it. So we want to be careful because we don't want to give too much publicity to this, but we have to ask you about it. There's this new website out that uses facial recognition and AI to identify the faces of ICE agents and then mix them with things like, you know, other things on the Internet, pictures on the Internet, to identify them and dox them. And the website says, why are we targeting individuals at ICE? Aren't they just doing their job? Answer. They answer it. Evil is built on the back of people doing boring jobs just following orders. How dangerous is this? It's extremely dangerous. And what you were talking about, Griff, is exactly what they're doing. They're not just threatening them and doxing them. They're ambushing them. They're threatening their families. They're talking about kidnapping their families. They're going after their colleagues. It's extremely dangerous. And the rhetoric has to stop. What is your reaction to one of the suspects involved in one of the attacks came in under the Biden administration? Yes, absolutely. Well, you know, the Biden administration let in people from all over the world that are horrible individuals, along with people who came here, you know, trying to be a part of America. But we have removed hundreds and hundreds of known and suspected terrorists through these ICE operations. We have tens of thousands of criminals that have perpetuated violence against Americans have been removed just since President Trump has been in office. So our communities are getting safer every single day. But these targeted attacks against these law enforcement officers is a disrespect and a dangerous situation that we're in, that I hope every American, if you know a law enforcement officer, go today and thank them, cook their family a meal, go support them and go talk about it on social media or go have their backs. I think that's been the most disappointing thing to me is people who are silent, because as loud as this gets, all of us who understand the work that they're doing and what they're what they're doing to make America safe, we need to push back and talk about how proud we are of them and what their families, spouses and children are going through. I want to just shift gears a little bit, Madam Secretary, because this weekend will mark the one year anniversary since the attempt on President Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania. We have a Fox Nation special now that people can watch and learn more from the Butler emergency services people, how they were dealing with it. And a lot of questions remain. It comes on the heels of learning that six Secret Service agents had been suspended. I want to get your reaction to that and your thoughts. Yes. So, you know, the Secret Service has a totally different leadership team now than what they did before and have gone through. And this report has now just been released. I know that President Trump has told me that he's satisfied with it. We've changed communication channels and protocols on how Secret Service works with local law enforcement and how they talk during these types of security events. And then, you know, the big, beautiful bill also gave them more resources that they needed. They needed more resources as far as training, but equipment, drone technology, counter drone technology. All of that was something that needed to be addressed that I'm so thankful that we now have the funding that we can. You have raised some concerns. Moving on to Texas, you've raised some concerns about the alert system in Texas. Where are you on that right now? And then how comfortable are you that the administration will be able to help with the recovery efforts? Well, we were there immediately. You know, as soon as the flooding happened, I went there and showed up. And it was devastating. The alert system went out from the National Weather Service, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the thousands of people that were camping along the river, you know, heard that alert. That could be changed. Well, I think that that is always a response that the local officials make a decision for each of their towns, each of their counties, what their alert system is. I know the governor's been talking about it down there about maybe potentially doing legislation in Texas that has some requirements to it. We certainly, as a federal government, will give them recommendations and support on what they could do, what other cities do. That's our role. And specifically with FEMA is to always come in when there is a situation like this, that we don't make the decisions for the local communities. We shouldn't make the decisions for the states because every state is different. Every town is different. What they need for sirens or sound alerts might be different based on their topography, on how the city is laid out. So we will give them recommendations and advice. But being there to allow the state to run the emergency response, but we come in and support it, is incredibly important. On that point, CNN has basically got a report accusing you of slowing the process. Would you like to respond to that? Well, there you go. Fake news. CNN, again, is absolutely trash what they are doing by saying that. Because our Coast Guard, our Border Patrol, BORTAC teams were there immediately. Every single thing they asked for, we were there. The governor and the emergency management director, Nim Kidd, are fantastic. And nobody there has said anything about that they didn't get everything that they wanted immediately or that they needed. And I'm proud of the work that we've done to support that. But you know, we've got flooding going on in New Mexico as well, North Carolina. So I've been visiting with their leadership team and spent quite a bit of time on the phone yesterday with the New Mexico governor, getting them resources as well. And that's what we do. And you know, the fact that CNN is continuing to be political and push out fake information and false information and lies is not shocking, but it's a disservice to the country. It's a real disservice to the country because people start to mistrust anything that comes out then over the news. And then, well, that's true. But they just don't trust anybody anymore. And that's not the kind of country. Certainly, we are praying for all those communities involved, obviously in Texas, but also New Mexico, as they continue to fight dangerous situations there. You did something early on in your leadership that affects the way we fly now. You held a news conference announcing the changes to TSA, what happens when we go through security at the airport. So now we leave our shoes on. We do. And I think everybody's excited about that. That was one of the first questions that I asked. You know, flying on our airline systems needs to be safe. We recognize what's happened in the past in this country. And my entire department was created after 9-11. It was put together in response to the attacks that we saw here in New York City and on our country. So, yes, questioning what we do as far as, are our security checkpoints doing the right protocols? But also, are we hospitable? Are we doing things that matter? All of those questions we asked right away. And one of the things I said specifically is, does it make a difference now with our layered technology, with the new training that we have, and also the new steps of security that we have implemented in the last 20 years? Do we still need to remove our shoes? And the answer was that it doesn't add a security benefit because of the new technology that we have and the new training. Why did it take so long? I don't think anybody asked the question. Right. You know, I guess that's the one thing that, I don't know if you remember who had the job before I did. He wasn't exactly a rock star. Well, we're glad you asked the question. Now we can all keep our shoes on. Challenging every single thing we do has to be done. And so there'll be more announcements coming. TSA has started family lanes. So if you've got kiddos, you have your own specific lane so that those individuals can have a special screening. Our military near air bases have their own screening lanes now so they can get through faster as well. Having a tailored approach to how we do security checkpoints, safe and secure, but also get people through the checkout line because everybody knows that traveling can be miserable at times. It shouldn't happen at the security checkpoint. And we're putting all of our TSA officials through hospitality training as well. We thank you for traveling to sit on the couch with us. Thank you for being here. Madam Secretary, thank you so much. Great to be with you. All right. Good to see you. Well, Fox News learning, one of the men charged after the ambush at an ice facility in Alvarado, Texas, entered the country illegally over 20 years ago and was granted a green card under the Biden administration. Meanwhile, four more people who tried to sabotage an ice operation with homemade tire spikes have been arrested in California. Here to talk about it, former Trump DOJ prosecutor, Jim Trustee. Jim, good morning. Let's go to this case in Alvarado, Texas. We're learning more and more, particularly about this individual that was a DACA recipient, green card holder. Where do you see this prosecution going and what do we need to know about it? Yeah, well, the DACA guy is a little bit of a separate strand. You know, you have 10 people that were engaged in a highly premeditated ambush of an ice facility and ice agents. They set up a lure by vandalizing, by shooting fireworks. When the agents started to come out, they shot 20 to 30 rounds with AR-15. So starting point on that part of the case is I'd very much like to see a plead to the sheep mentality by the prosecutors. In other words, saying, hey, you've got attempted murder charges, you've got firearm charges, you can plead guilty to everything and beg the judge for mercy, but you're not getting it from me. I think that might be the tone that gets taken by the U.S. Attorney's Office in North Texas. This guy Sanchez Estrada was kind of an outlier to it in that he was the spouse of one of the people involved in the ambush and the spouse called him and said, hey, they might be coming your way. And he apparently tried to get rid of a bunch of hateful literature that was inside the house. So he's charged with kind of a lower grade offense, an obstruction type offense. And the DACA stuff, you know, look, it's obviously newsworthy. He also renewed his DACA status a couple of times during other administrations. I don't think it rises to the level of the outrage you see in my state, Maryland, where, you know, young women are raped and murdered by illegal aliens that never should have been here. But that's obviously, you know, another yet another moment of the immigration system failing to protect the community. But again, the primary thing to worry about is the fact that 10 people would come together and decide it's time to murder ICE agents, shooting one in the neck. I'm very worried that Kristi Noem and Tom Holman are going to be attending a funeral if we don't find a way to change the mentality that's spreading around this country about ICE. That is absolutely the concern of every border and immigration official out there. And you know, specifically with this case, this was, was this, I'll ask you in your opinion, a coordinated premeditated attack. You had 10 individuals with AR style rifles, body armor. They had two way radios. They even had cell phones in a Faraday bag, which is used to conceal communication. Yeah, they had body armor, 12 suits of body armor for this group as well. And look, the actions tell you that it was coordinated, right? It makes sense. This was a lure, like, let's get these guys to come out and we're going to go after them. But beyond that, right now the investigation is undoubtedly going to recover communications between them, at least most likely. And those communications will kind of cement the deal that this was an absolutely coordinated premeditated heinous act by five men and five women in particular that knew exactly what they were in for when they showed up at that ICE facility. Jim, let me turn here a little bit to Kilmar Arbringo Garcia. Judge Paula Zenas expected today to weigh in on whether or not the DOJ must announce its witness to basically detail what the government, the administration plans to do with him should be released. Your thoughts? Yeah, this is more kind of judicially assisted lawfare chaos. That's the short version. The slightly longer version is this, you know, he has human smuggling charges in Nashville. The magistrate judge has basically said, I think we can actually cut him loose on these charges. Let him be on some conditions of home confinement, et cetera, where he'll show up for court without being incarcerated. But normally what that would mean in this case is that the ICE detainer kicks in, he's taken into ICE custody and quite possibly removed soon. Judge Zenas in Maryland has a kind of parallel fight going on where the ACLU lawyers are actually asking her, can you order Nashville to send him here because we're worried ICE is about to deport him. In fact, they've asked the judge to not release him too quickly from Nashville because they want to litigate a bunch of stuff in Maryland. And look, short version, in Maryland it looks like the judge is taking things very personally, that she's frustrated with the DOJ representation and the response. She's ordering things like an ICE official to come to court in Greenbelt, Maryland to explain what's going to happen next. I think this is the kind of stuff where the Supreme Court eventually, once again, might say, hey, look, we're not going to have 700 district court judges micromanaging the executive branch and shut it down. But in the meantime, plenty of litigation, plenty of chaos and kind of a tug of war between Nashville and Maryland about where this guy's going to be. Chaos, probably the right word there. We'll see where it goes. Jim Trustee, thank you.