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july. live from the courthouse with breaking news as soon as we get it on the sentencing. >> john: a live look from the white house where president trump continues to follow through cracking down on illegal immigration. he's set to sign the first bill of his new term, bipartisan laken riley act during a ceremony alongside the family. emotional one. we roll into a second hour. i'm john roberts. >> shannon: gets to see you today. sandra smith is off so i'm subbing in. the laken riley act, any illegal, can be held in detention until deported. if it had been the law at the time of laken's death her killer would have been behind bars instead of on the streets. >> john: bret baier is here to break down trump's early flurry of activity in his new term as we say day in and day out, like drinking from a fire hose.

>> shannon: let's get to peter has the latest. >> president trump's first bill signing and first event in the east room since coming back to the white house. he's signed a lot of executive orders over the last week plus but this is the first time that he's signed anything passed by congress and we know that laken riley's name has been at the top, for folks behind this new strategy. >> not only are we going after those who are here illegally but we have to do due diligence making sure we have the resources to process paperwork in a timely manner. more immigration judges getting those kind of resources through congress is important. to make sure we're not just securing the border. >> 64 senators voted to pass the laken riley act and some of the democrats who voted yes want credit for it today. john fetterman says he's celebrating because he thinks a secure border creates a more secure nation and it's just

common sense. arizona's new democratic senator, a democrat, talking about it, too. >> i was also on this bill last year. really it's a reflection of what i heard on the campaign trail, and when i say what i heard from the campaign trail this is not going to kind of the white s areas. it's talking to lieutenants about causing some of these crimes. >> as camera shots come up from the east room, crews are on the lookout for democratic lawmakers. we know some who signed on to the bill were invited. i was just told by a white house official inside they know of at least one rsvping yes and that's john fetterman. shannon? >> shannon: all right, then, thank you very much. peter doocy live from the white house. we have a lot to chew on. >> john: lets be in chief

political anchor, this laken riley acts that the president will sign, big victory for the laken riley's family. big victory for the president as well and a lot of people would say big victory for common sense. >> it's also important to note this is the first piece of legislation he's signing and that's sit. he campaigned on fighting illegal immigration. he campaigned on getting tough on the border and having retribution for some of these families who have lost loved ones at the hands of illegal immigrants so it's significant. symbolically. it's also significant it was a bipartisan piece of legislation so he starts by signing something that was bipartisan, and i think what you're seeing with the ice deportations and the efforts around the country are also big picture, sending a signal that's bringing the numbers way down. if you look at the numbers on the border. >> shannon: yes, it's kind of shocking when you look at the numbers we've been dealing with for the last 48 hours to what we're dealing with now. we want to ask you about, we're

still trying to unpack the action with respect to the latest freeze. leaf individual says it's not a recension of the freeze, it's simply of the omb memo, but that ended in confusion. we're working on it. the president's view on federal funding remain in full force and effect and l be rigorously implemented. >> here's how i digest that and this is just my interpretation. the executive orders going after dei and that funding, that specifically he has a problem with, is still in place meaning they will scour all of these funds, and if anything deals with that it will be stopped. however, the blanket, where everybody thinks that the money has stopped and any of these organizations around the country, that they had a problem with, is gone, so they take the federal judge out of it. the injunction, they believe, stops, because the funding still flowing. here's the bottom line, though. this was handled pretty handily at the beginning.

they could have explained ate lot better. virginia governor had a big x post where he said this is what is not included, because of that democrats said this is it. let's jump on it. this is the thing that we can really take to the bank and really make a big deal out of. i don't know if they politically will be able to but right now there is still a little confusion about how it's going back and forth. >> john: there seems to be a lot of confusion. new york's attorney general tweeted this is more confusion and chaos. we'll be in court this afternoon. i want to ask you about the first week as we kick off the second week here. donald trump did more in a hundred hours than most administrations would ever do in a hundred days. leading the "new york times" to write this, "trump's flood the zone strategy leaves opponents gasping in outrage, as trump begins his second term he's enacted his agenda at break neck speed as part of an intentional plan to knock his opponents offbalance and dilute their response. the flood has had its intended disorienting effect.

how can democrats fight back when they can't catch their breath?" so much happening all at once, it's like, if you're the democrats and you try to find a rooftop to start slheiking from you've got to jump on five or 10 rooms at the same time. >> everything can't go to 11. you can't scream at everything. so i do think that that was part of the plan, to get everything moving. in that sense, they got a lot done there. were 39 executive orders and some 300 actions. but, when you're doing that, it's fast moving and you don't have all of your people in place. so you've got to make sure the eyes are dotted and tees are crossed. this signing, though is a significant step and it's something that we'll hear the president tout from the rooftops about his first bill being this laken riley act. >> by the way, i'm a guitar player and all my amps do go to 11. >> shannon: they have to go there. one of the things in watching this for the last few days is

they are talking about the response to everything that the trump white house is doing and also highlights the fact that democrats don't seem to have a leader. who is leading the party? who is leading charge against the 39 orders and everything else that's happening? >> bret: what i was really pointing to there seems to be the excitement. this is the thing we've been waiting for. this executive order freeze, this is it. there was this rise up and they had three press conferences, chuck schumer talked about it more than anything else. i don't know if it's going to be the political mania -- manna from heavien but they are working on it. >> thanks, bret. >> shannon: breaking, the federal reserve pressing pause on interest rate cuts. the decision to leave rates untouched comes as inflation remains elevated. it is the central bank's first key decision under trump and the markets now begin their reaction. >> down 163 points but as i mention to sandra every time she

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>> so levitt gave her first press briefing at the age of 27 doing what i thought, and i have seen many press sent over the years, a very good job but the ladies of "the view" reacting this morning to her first briefing that you saw live on this program yesterday. stirring the pot of controversy after saying this about carolyn. >> she's probably been put there because according to donald trump she's a 10. you know that's what it is. >> do you want to take this? >> shannon: you can't be attractive and smart? i will try to give joy the benefit of the doubt that she didn't see that briefing because if you saw that yesterday on numerous topics, no big binder. i think she might have had a different impression of this young woman who held her own. >> would you have to give her the benefit of the doubt that she did absolutely no research or reading about anything

dealing with caroline levitt before she made that remark because caroline levitt worked for wmur tv. >> shannon: ran for congress. >> she ran for congress at the age of 25. mutt on a very good campaign. she lost by eight or nine points but she still put on a good campaign and press secretary for the trump campaign. going on tv literally every day. >> shannon: heavily pregnant and a new mom. >> she's a new mother. and then she goes out yesterday, and givers -- and this, again, this is speaking very objectively, because i've watched every press second since, going back to marlin fitzwater, yes, i'm that old, and she went out there for her very first briefing at the age of 27, the youngest press secretary ever. and did a terrific job of, you know, talking about what the president's agenda was. >> shannon: there is no way me

at 27 would have tackled that. >> to the east room now, the president coming out for the ceremonial signing of the laken riley act. let's listen in. [applause] >> president trump: thank you very much. please. thank you very much. before we begin, i want to provide a brief report on the unprecedented success our country has been witnessing in recent weeks. since even before the election, we've been making extraordinary progress. the american people gave us a clear mandate to save our country and we won all seven swing states by large margins, historic, very importantly, we won the popular vote by millions and millions of votes. also, all 50 states, as you know, shifted toward the republican party and that's never happened before. all 50. every single one of them. in our first week in office, we set records taking over 350

executive actions. that's not been done before. and it has reportedly been the single most effective opening week of any presidency in history. we want to keep it that way. we want to keep it going. [applause] >> president trump: we want to keep it going. we've broken from decades of failed washington policies and restored common sense and sanity to our government. we've unleashed american energy and we've already achieved record low illegal immigration, as you see, nobody is trying to get in and that's what we've been waiting for, for a long wo ideologist out of our government. increasing the flow in california in the coming days. no one has seen anything like that and i've also taken strong action to regain control of the

washington bureaucracy. for clarification purposes, because it was incorrectly reported yesterday, we have informed the federal work force, which they have looked to do for many years, that if they are work for the federal government, they must show up to the office on time and on schedule. [applause] >> president trump: we don't want them -- [applause] >> president trump: we don't want them to work from home because as everyone knows, most of the time they are not working. they are not very productive. and it's unfair to the millions of people in the united states who are, in fact, working hard from job sites and not from their home, as federal employees, they must meet a high standard. they are relating our government. they are representing our country. if they don't agree, by february 6 to show up, back-to-work in their office, they will be terminated and we will therefore be downscaling our government,

which is something that the last 10 presidents have tried very hard to do but failed. most of the people we're talking about have not been going to their federal offices in many, many years, from even before covid. but they have nevertheless been paid. some have worked. some haven't worked and most of the studies say that some have just gone through the motions. we may ask these people to prove that they didn't have another job during their so-called employment with the united states of america because if they did, that would be unlawful as you understand, a lot of people are getting paychecks but they are actually working other jobs so they will have to prove to us that they weren't. in any event, we're requiring them to show up to work or be terminated. we think a very substantial number of people will not show up to work and therefore, our government will get smaller and more efficient and that's what we've been looking to do for many, many decades, frankly.

[applause] >> president trump: thank you. in addition, there was a short term pause, or a funding freeze on certain division their spending, payments such as government grants, only for us to quickly look at the scams, dishonesty, waste and abuse that's taken place in our government for too long. as was explicitly stated this in no way affected social security, medicaid, medicare or other entitlements that americans depend on. i have made it abundantly clear from the first day i ran for office, that was a long time ago now, 2015, if you think about it, i announced in 2015 and we won in 2016, we did very well in 2020 but we did really well just recently, and i'm restating right now to correct any confusion, that the media has

purposefully and somehow, for whatever reason, created social security, medicare, medicaid have not been affected by any action we're taking in any way, shape, or form. we're merely looking at parts of the big bureaucracy where there has been tremendous waste and fraud and abuse. and that process, we identified and stopped $50 million being sent to gaza to buy condoms for hamas. 50 million. and, you know what's happened to them? they have used them as a method of making bombs. how about that. we stopped an attempt to make an illicit payment for an illegal alien resettlement. we canceled $180 million in dei training contracts. this is just for the training of people in dei, which has been terminated and completely terminated and we paused $1.7 billion in unauthorized payments

to foreign organizations including stopping more than $40 million that was on its way out the door to the very corrupt world health organization, which has not done its job and not done it properly. [applause] >> president trump: thank you. we also blocked $45 million from our diversity scholarships in burma. 45. that's a lot of money for diversity scholarships in burma. you can imagine where that money went. [chuckle] >> president trump: these were the types of payments and many others i could stand here all day and tell you about things we've found and we have to find them quickly because we want the money to flow to proper places. but these were the payments and types of payments affected by the temporary freeze and the american people strongly support these efforts. i talked about it during the campaign. and they voted for us in record numbers. every single day we're now

putting america first and fighting to get the most out of every single tax dollar for our great citizens. we've gathered this afternoon to take another historic action. in a few moments, the laken riley act will become the very first bill that i proudly sign into law as the 47th president of the united states. [applause] >> president trump: laken was a brilliant and beautiful 22-year-old nursing student from georgia, the best in her class. she was always the best, they would say laken, how do you do this? and what do you do? they were always asking her questions. she was respected by everybody, even her teachers respected her so much from the time she was in

first grade, laken knew she wanted to spend her time caring for others. that's what she did. to her friends and classmates she was a light of warmth and kindness in every single room. to her parents and family, she was everything, in the world. they had a miserable period of time, just after 9:00 a.m. last february 22, laken went out for a jog on the campus of the university of georgia, but she was just -- never returned. she never came back. her parents are here. sister. all of her relatives. while running, laken was attacked, assaulted, beaten and brutalized, by someone who was set loose in the country by the last administration. we're deeply honored to be joined by her parents, and her sister lauren. thank you very much.

thank you. [applause] >> president trump: so sad. we were together right after that happened, and it's a tremendous tribute to your daughter what's taken place today. that's all i can say. but it's so sad we have to be doing it at all. thank you very much for being here. to laken's family we'll keep laken's memory alive in our hearts forever and everyone's hearts. with today's action, her name will also live forever in the laws of our country and this is a very important law. this is something that's brought democrats and republicans together. that's not easy to do. laken did it. laken did it. america will never, ever forget laken hope riley. the vicious criminal who murdered precious laken was an illegal alien member of the barbaric venezuelan gang known

as -- [inaudible] >> president trump: he trespassed across our southern border in 2022 and was apprehended by border patrol but under the cruel policies of the last administration instead of being deported as he should have been he was released into the united states, as were millions of other people, many of them very dangerous people. and you see what we're doing. we're getting the hell out of here. [applause] >> president trump: he was soon arrested again in new york city on charges of endangering a child but because of new york city's deadly sanctuary policies, as we have in california and in many other places, which we're ending, we're going to end them. he was released again to offend the. the biden administration provided they will legal criminal with a free taxpayer

funded flight from new york to georgia, where he was arrested yet again. constantly. this time for stealing from a wal-mart along with his gang member brother, who was a bad one. only after being released a third time by the u.s. law enforcement, did this cold bloodied criminal go out on that fateful morning hunting for women, on whom to prey. that's what he did. he hunted. he was like a hunter. we'll show who the hunter is. this horrific atrocity should never have been allowed to happen and as president i'm fighting to ensure that never tragedy like this ever happens again. we don't want this to happen. [applause] >> president trump: under the law, thank you, under the law i'm signing today the department of homeland security will be required to detain all illegal aliens who have been arrested

for theft, burglary, larceny, assaulting a police officer, murder, or any crime that results in death or serious injury and in addition for the first time ever this act gives state governments the ability to sue the federal government for immediate injunctive relief if any future administration refuses to enforce the immigration laws of the united states like what happened for four long years. [applause] >> president trump: and that was happening for four long years. frightful years, amazing. you would say how can people do this? how can they allow this to happen? how can they allow criminals to pour into our country and then try and defend it? and they are still trying to defend it. but they can't. that's why i'm here instead of somebody else actually. it's the biggest reason, i believe it's the single biggest reason. inflation was horrible, many

things were horrible during that administration. when you look at what took place in afghanistan, the way they got out. not that they got out but the way, so many things were horrible. but to me, this was the worst of all. it's landmark law that we're doing today. it's going to save countless innocent american lives. i want to thank every house republican, every senate republican as well as the 12 senate democrats and the 48 house democrats who voted to pass this vitally important bill, and many of them are with us today, and i really do appreciate it and i very much especially appreciate the bipartisan support. the democrats, a big percentage of them came through. they really wanted to. they don't understand, it would have made them a lot more popular, would have made them a lot better with their people, the ones that did, will be -- they are going to be sorry, because the people are not going

to forget that they wouldn't sign. this is a perfect incredible tribute to an unbelievable young lady, we're joined today by many great supporters of our new strong border policies and they are indeed strong including vice president vance. thank you, jd. the secretary just got approved. where is scott? he just got approved. scott, i'm very impressed. [applause] >> president trump: you got a lot of democratic votes. he got a lot of democratic votes. i don't know, is that a good thing or a bad thing? i'll have to think about that. secretary of homeland security, who is going to be fantastic, i know her so well, and i know it's probably not complimentary because she's a woman, but she's tough. where is he? where is christie? christie, christie? great. stand up, please. you have such an important job to do. pl

[applause] >> president trump: thank you very much. and don't let that look fool you. that look, she's tough. and she cannot stand what -- that she's having to sit here and even listen to this today. another one who has done a job like nobody that i have seen in a long time, tom holman, he's my friend but he's something special. he's something special. [applause] >> president trump: tom and christie, numbers are unbelievable what's happening. shutdown. nobody thought that was even possible. shutdown. they showed an area that a year ago had thousands and thousands of people rushing into our country. and today there was nobody there. it was like, beautiful sight. and also senate majority -- john -- great guy, great guy, thank you, john. [applause] >> president trump: i also want to thank the bill's sponsors,

senator katie brit, thank you, and congressman mike collins. mike, you were fantastic, from georgia. [applause] >> president trump: he loves his state and he took this very personally. so thank you very much, mike. >> president trump: as well as senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley. chuck is here some place. chuck, thank you very much. [applause] >> president trump: you look great. and house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan, who is a special guy. [applause] >> president trump: special man. and house homeland security committee chairman mark -- thank you very much. thank you, mark. and we have many other congressmen and senators but i'm not going to introduce because this is about your daughter. this is about something that's so important and we're going to just go along, thank you all. we have to say burt jones is in the room, and he's the

lieutenant governor and he was on this like you wouldn't believe. thank you very much. i see you sitting there. thank you very much. [applause] >> president trump: so we have state and local officials, we have law enforcement organizations, we have everybody, most of them are in the room or represented in the room and they are incredible people and i have never seen this come together like they have. i've done many of these, not of this kind but different business, different passages, having to do with many different things from homeland security to inner security to taxes, to 50 different items, i have never seen such support as you have today, and your great daughter. we have to thank your daughter for that because she's going to save a lot of lives. she'll be responsible for saving a lot of lives so, i would like

to say to the family, i have been with them and they have been with me from 2015, when i first got this crazy idea in my head when i decided to run for president because we could do better as a country, i want to thank so many of the people here, angel moms, we call them angel moms but they are angel families, fathers, sons, daughters, but they have suffered tremendously like you have for no reason whatsoever, and i want to thank alexis, the mother of 12-year-old joslin, murdered last summer by two illegal alien gang members, released into the united states, by joe biden's open border stupid policies. and thank you very much, alexis. i want to thank you very much. we had an amazing trip and it was really special to meet you and your family. appreciate it very much. so sad we have to be here, frankly. and joslin, as you know, is in our hearts as she was then. an amazing day we had, a great day. but it was a day of celebration

of somebody that unfortunately won't be with us but she's with us now, you know that. here also is pattie, the mother of rachel, killed two years ago by an illegal alien who was let into our country by the last administration's ridiculous weak policies. open border, can you imagine? when i heard open border, i said, oh, that's terrible, they are going to release their prisons into our country. that's exactly what happened. pattie is joined by rachel's brother, michael, rachel's daughter, clementine and sister in lawyer, shannon, thank you all for being here. appreciate it very much. thank you very much. thank you. with us as well is the loving family of kayla hamp hamilton - the gang member, was violent, vicious and they knew it and they didn't do anything about it and i want to thank you, her

mother, tammy, grandmother, and stepfather jeremiah. very much, and finally, i want to thank others who have also suffered this horrible scourge that goes on with young people being killed and other people, too, but largely young people being killed. thank you to scott, the father of sarah, killed at 21 years of age, think of that, 21, by an illegal alien, that shouldn't have been in our country. never would have been in our country if i were here. what a sad thing to each of these angel families, we love you and we stand in awe of your courage and your strength. it's the toughest thing anybody has to go through. many of the angel families here today were betrayed by the last administration, and with this heartless and foolish and really very, very arrogant and very, very dumb policies.

policies that aren't even believable when you talk about common sense. we're the party of common sense, but the democrats also, they have plenty of common sense, and that's why so many are here today and so many supported what we're doing. the very government that was supposed to protect their daughters instead opened our borders and transported the world's most dangerous criminals straight into their communities. they came from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions from all over the world. not just south america. people think south america. they come from all over the world. they come from every continent and they came here by plane and they were loaded on to buses and driven right up to our border and they drove right through the board and nobody even said a word to them. and in those buses and those cars and in those trucks were some of the meanest criminals anywhere in the world. as of last september, 425,000 illegal alien criminals were roaming free, including

13,000 -- 13,099 convicted illegal alien murders which about almost 50% killed more than one person and they were roaming all over the country, in our farms and our cities, under the trump administration, we're moving with urgency and speed to get these vicious and violent criminals to hell out of our country and to restore law and order to our suburbs, cities, and towns and we'll do with it tom and christie and all the people that are working so hard on this. this week compared to a comparable time a year ago, think of this, the number of illegal border crossers has already fallen by more than 100%. and because the election was coming, they started getting a little bit tougher on the border. though tried to follow our policies, and they did much better but it still was horrible. the numbers were still horrible, so it's a hundred percent. they only did it because of the election so they knew, they knew what they were doing was wrong. then those who do cross the

border, and you're seeing that every time, all you have to do is turn on your television set or pick up a newspaper, or read any form of new media because we have a lot of new media today fortunately, that's letting the word get out. but they are watching these people be captured and removed from our country. ice arrests have risen by 15 times, 15 times in just a short period. and over the past eight days, the heroes of ice and border patrol, we can never forget border patrol, those people have gotten so many of them. our borders are, as you remember, never went to the border, never made a phone call. she was the board czar, never made one phone call. they went to the heads of border, they went to the heads of ice, did you ever get a y'all. no she admitted she never made one call but she was the border czar. the heroes of ice have arrested thousands and thousands of illegal alien criminals including hundreds of gang members, traffickers, tried

predators, terrorists and murderers, for the first time in history, we're loading dangerous and illegal aliens into military aircraft and flying them back to the places in which they came. you probably read about colombia two days ago. they said, no we're not taking them. i said, you're going to take them. you're going to take them. you're going to like it, too. you're going to take them. [applause] >> president trump: we talked about we're not going to take people that are in shack buildings -- shackles, they are murderers, drug lords, tough people. they make our criminals look like very nice people. that's about the only thing that comes out of this, and i said, could you imagine you're a pilot on the plane and you have your co-pilot and sitting there, 150 people, no shackles, and they like to murder people. this would not be a good flight [laughter]

>> president trump: so actually colombia apologized to us profusely within an hour. based on something i said. meaning, you're going to pay tariffs like nobody has ever paid tariffs, but they actually wanted to terminate his position there, essentially congress met and they were very angry with them. but they actually said that we're going to send the presidential plane to pick up these criminals and to bring them because they didn't want to inconvenience us or have us do a second flight and that's what they did and i appreciate it and i do appreciate the people of colombia, they are wonderful people, and the representatives really acted well and i appreciated they took back that tough talk, but we may have tough talk from others but it won't mean anything. they are all going to take them back and they are going to like it, too. they are going to take it back and they are going to like it. today i'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person

migrant facility at guatanamo bay. most people don't even know about it. we have 30,000 beds in guatanamo bay to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the american people. some of them are so bad we don't even trust the companies to hold them because we don't want them coming back so we're going to send them out to guatanamo bay. this will double our capacity immediately, and tough. that's a tough -- that's a tough place to get out of. today's signings bring us one step closer to eradicating the scourge of migrant crime in our communities once and for all. and it was just a purely, just an unforced error that we even have to be doing this. now we need congress to provide full funding for the complete and total restoration of our sovereign borders as well as financial support to remove record numbers of illegal aliens, and these are illegal alien killers, criminals, at levels that nobody has ever seen before. and you would have known that,

and you were there when i said it, i said, everybody that's bad is going to be thrown -- if you look at venezuela, venezuela's crime is down 77% because they have taken their gang members, their prisoners, their drug dealers, their drug lords, and they have shipped them all into the united states. many other countries, their crime is way down and our crime is not doing well. but we're going to have it do really well very soon and we're shipping all of these people back where they came from. and now before i sign the laken riley act into law, i would like to ask laken's really incredible mother, who i've gotten to know, a very sad day i got to know her, but this is an amazing tribute to an amazing young person, and if you could come up, alison, and say a few words that would be great. thank you very much. pl [applause]

>> thank you. president trump. we would like to thank senator katie bret for her dillgent bipartisan work to get this bill through the senate. we would also like to thank congressman mike collins for his unwavering passion for leading on the laken riley act from the start. our family will forever be grateful for the prayers of the people across our nation, and for helping to get this legislation into law. we also want to thank president trump for the promises he made to us. he said he would secure our borders and that he would never forget about laken. and he hasn't. he's a man of his word. we trust that he'll fight for the american people. most importantly, i want to thank our lord and savior, jesus

christ, because without his sacrifices laken's story would have ended on that horrific day she was taken from us. but because of him, we can continue living knowing that we will see laken again. there is no amount of change that will ever bring back our precious laken, our hope moving forward is that her life saves lives, we're so thankful that her passion for helping others and her legacy for doing good in the name of jesus christ will carry on, thank you. [applause] >> president trump: thank you.

will you sign this in honor of laken rule -- i will sign this in honor of laken riley. come up here, so many people who were instrumental. >> president trump: okay. pl[applause] >> president trump: thank you. >> mr. president, government funding, can you take a quick question on government funding. >> president trump: i don't think this is an appropriate time. >> okay. >> president trump: i respect that but i don't think it's appropriate. the government is doing very

well and we're cutting way back, but this is not the appropriate time. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ music from god bless america ♪ >> there you have it, first legislative victory of donald trump's second term and it's a victory for all the nation, an act of congress that passed with bipartisan support. 12 democratic senators voting for this act. the laken riley act. she was killed february 22, 2024, on the grounds of the university of georgia, in

athens, by 26-year-old venezuelan illegal immigrant. this legislation now provides for deportation for anybody who is in this country illegally, who is convicted of a crime in memory of laken riley. >> shannon: just to hear from her mother, heartbreaking as president trump tried to reassure her family her death is not going to be in vain telling them your daughter is going to save other lives because of this piece of legislation that came together out of her case, but just beautiful to hear from her mother whose clearly emotional. if you don't feel some kind of heartbreak over this, listening to that mom, i don't know what else would move you, but a beautiful ceremony. >> we'll see what effect this has going forward as the president returns to the state dining room through the cross hall. again, his first big legislative event here in his second term. we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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>> for more on the passage of the laken riley act and for more on americans in peril around the world let's bring in ambassador adam. we were talking offline and you say the laken riley act and the

events that led up to its passage are very much indicative of things happening around the world as well when it comes to americans who are in peril. >> i'm sorry, john, i'm getting different audio right now. >> john: i'm sorry, adam, can you hear me now? now it seems as though we've got a little bit of a crossed wire. while we try to work that out, adam is going to be working diligently around the top of the world as his predecessor o'brian did to try to get as many hostages out of place like venezuela and russia and there are as many as 6,000 americans being held. >> shannon: it's a very heavy lift. >> john: we've got the right audio, comparison between the

laken riley about and the situation that led up to that and americans in peril elsewhere around the world which is your job to try to get them home. >> you know, i think it's amazing that this is the first thing he did for the angels and laken riley. one thing that's consistent is the president said he would never forget laken riley after all of this time and he did something bipartisan. the president also will never forget those americans that died abroad. and that could be in gaza, that could be in afghanistan, anywhere, and i think you saw secretary rubio's tweet, that's making sure that people know, everyone knows abroad that the president is strong and he'll never forget about any lives that die. people die. >> shannon: adam, science y-- since you bring this up, secretary mark owe rubio hearing the taliban are holding american hostages than has been reported

we will have to place a very big bounty on their top leaders, maybe even bigger than one we had on bin laden. that's a different strategy message force of language that we've heard in more recent years. >> the president has built a cabinet that underscores his strength and that will drive results. when rubio says that he means that. and if that's the case then the taliban should be on notice, not just the taliban, anyone anywhere is reachable by the united states and if they are not going to release people then we're going to take action and that's true and that's because the president of the united states said that. >> john: i think a lot of people at home would be surprised to find out exactly how many americans are being held against their will, or some just being held by foreign powers. what is the size of that number and what are you going to do about it in the four years ahead? >> it's all based on definition but i'll tell you something. it is at least hundreds of americans that sit in foreign prisons.

hundreds of americans. and i don't think that we're going to stand for that anymore. i don't think the secretary of state is. we're not going to be afraid of it. my job is to implement the policies of the president of the united states, of the secretary of state, secretary rubio. i will do whatever he says but the instructions i've been given is that we're going to every corner for americans. >> shannon: adam it's very difficult work, we're very glad that you're on the beat. grateful for these families and loved ones who are waiting sometimes years or more for any kind of progress on these cases. adam, we wish you all the best of success at this. >> john: we'll see you again soon. best of luck in your endeavors to get americans back home. that will wrap it up for us. thank you for being with us today. >> shannon: thanks for having me. it been a very busy day and there is much more to come. >> john: it's always like that 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. i'm john roberts. >> shannon: i'm shannon bream. more after a quick break. or ga. ga can be unpredictable—and progress rapidly—leading to irreversible vision loss.

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