President Donald Trump spoke from White House Rose Garden

I want to take you live to the White House right now where President Trump is in the Rose Garden speaking to reporters, just stepped out there, and we want to listen to what the president has to say. Well, in every single month that I've been in office and police officers' deaths in the line of duty have reached an 80-year low. That's so good. And we're bringing the death penalty back for anybody that kills a police officer, by the way, or anybody in law enforcement. And I will tell you, the drugs coming in by sea, by ocean, by sea, are down 97%. And we don't understand why it's not 100%. But, you know, for years, they would take somebody, indict, they like to say, they'd indict. They'd take somebody, bring them to a Miami or Texas court, and they'd be out of court in, you know, a couple of minutes. Go back to Venezuela or wherever they came from. And they'd be on the next boat bringing in millions and millions and even billions of dollars worth of drugs. And we were really in trouble. But now those drugs are down 64 percent coming in fentanyl. Oh, we haven't even said we haven't done the land full blast yet, but it's starting. We have to work. We're working with Mexico. But unfortunately, the cartels run Mexico. I tell that to the president of Mexico. She's not happy. She's a great woman, wonderful woman. But the cartels run Mexico. But we've we've hit them hard. And it's very, very we wanted to do the sea and the water first because the water that's harder to do. And people didn't realize that a big percentage of the drugs come in by the sea, by the water. So it's 97 percent. That means three percent are still bringing drugs in by boat. And we want to find them because we consider them to be the bravest people anywhere in the world. because anybody that gets on a boat and wants to try and make it and you see those missiles you ever see they never miss from 600 miles away sometimes they're closer and further but you have from the sky they come space force and those missiles come and they hit those boats dead center and you feel terribly for the people but you know every boat kills thousands of people think of it that way then you feel better but every one of those boats kills thousands and thousands of people and ruin families all across our country so we have it down 97 percent i mean the only bad thing about it is nobody wants to go boating anymore it's killed the fishing industry nobody wants to get into a fish let's go fishing darling no thank you just in case just in case somebody one of you guys has a happy trigger let's get a boat there's a boat out there going fishing they don't want to go fishing anymore i don't blame them actually but to fight the scourge of fentanyl. I proudly signed the SUPPORT Act to get more life-saving Narcan into the hands of our first responders. And we have some other Narcan type products coming out that are even more amazing. It's incredible. Problem is you revive them and then they go back in and they travel with Narcan themselves. It's a sad situation because yes, it is what it is. Not surprising though. So they're addicted and they'll take a drug and then they'll do the Narcan themselves or they'll have one of their friends give it and it's a very vicious cycle the best way to do it is not to take it if you don't take it if you don't I oh you know I'm fortunate I don't smoke and I don't drink and I have no longing to drink I have friends they drink and they have a real hard time you know they're addicted they have a real hard time staying away drugs probably even more so it's probably the same but as alcohol but if you don't drink or if you don't take drugs, or if you don't smoke, there's no problem. I have other problems. I have some very severe problems. But those are not one of them. I don't want to add them to the list. Do you understand that, Todd? I don't want to add them to the list. Because if I did, I guarantee I wouldn't be here right now. So it's three problems I don't have. And that's really good. Now the press is going to say, what problem does he have? Let's figure it out. I probably set myself up for that one, Todd. Todd's going to have to try and defend me because they're to say he said he's got some serious problems what are they which i i actually don't know i was just being i was just having fun to the media they're wonderful people but i've uh reduced the flow of fentanyl across our southern border by 67 percent which is amazing and the land is really just starting it started a few months ago we're hitting them very hard we know all the paths we know where all the bad guys are, the cartels. We know where they live, and we're hitting them hard, but it's going to be harder as we go along. They know they have a certain period of time to essentially give up. Mexico should be doing it, but honestly, they're not capable of doing it. I want to thank the heroes of ICE and Border Patrol. When you talk about people that are capable, you guys love to do it, right, Paul? And I just want to thank them for the job they do, the bravery they show. They have no fear and uh the they deal with the cartels like ho hum other people wouldn't they wouldn't want to deal they're rough so uh they've helped us achieve the most secure border in american history so we're actually now the most secure we've ever had it in history you know i did it twice i did it when i won in 2016 i campaigned on it and the border was very bad but nothing compared to what it was uh president trump speaking live from the rose garden at the white House right now talking about the focus on drug cartels, specifically those coming from the Caribbean Sea, trying to penetrate U.S. territorial space and the effort to combat the influx of drugs here and the treatment of folks that may be afflicted with drug use problems. The president, no doubt, will probably start elaborating on other topics as he begins to take questions from the press. We'll continue to listen to what the president is saying here in the Fox 5 Atlanta newsroom. And of course, if he speaks on any topical, timely news matters, we'll turn that sound around and bring it to you.