Provider. President trump held a Conference Call with governors andiscuss the protests riots happening around the u. S. And what states should be doing in response. It shouldnt be hard to take care of it. Were going to take care of it. And weve got a number of people here that youll be seeing. General millie is here, whos head of joint chief of staff, a fighter, a warrior, had a lot of victories and no losses. And he hates to see the way its being handled in the various states. And i just put him in charge. States and i just put him in charge. The attorney general is here, bill barr, and we will activate bill barr and activate him very strongly. Were strongly the secretary of defense is here. Were strongly looking for arrests. You have to get much tougher. Youre gonna get overridden. I know gov. Walz is on the phone and we spoke and i fully agree with the way he handled it the last couple of days, i asked him to do that. You know, a lot of men we have all the men and women that you need. But people arent calling them up. You have to dominate. If you dont dominate, youre wasting your time. Theyre going to run over you, youll look like a bunch of jerks. You have to dominate, and you have to arrest people, and you have to try people and they have to go to jail for long periods of time. I saw what happened in philadelphia. I saw what happened in dallas where they kicked a guy to death. I dont know if he died or not but if he didnt, its a miracle, what they did to him, they were kicking him like ive never seen anything like it in my life. People dont talk about that, they talk about a lot of other things but they dont talk about that but i saw what happened in dallas and those kids, theyre all on camera, theyre wiseguys. And its coming from the radical left, you know it, Everybody Knows it, but its also looters, and its people that figure they can get free stuff by running into stores and running out with television sets. I saw it, a kid get a lot of stuff, he puts it in the back of a brand new car and drives off. You have every one of these guys on tape, why arent you prosecuting them . Now the harder you are, the tougher you are, the less likely it is that youre going to be hit. This is a movement. We found out theyre delivering supplies to various places in various states, your people know about it now. But we found out many things, its like a movement, and its a movement that if you dont put it down, itll get worse and worse, this is like occupy wall street. It was a disaster until one day, somebody said, thats enough and they just went in and wiped them out and thats the last time we ever heard the name occupy wall street, until today when i heard about it, i heard occupy wall street. I havent heard about it. I heard about it today for the first time in a long time. They were there forever it seemed on wall street. They closed up wall street, the financial district of the world, they had total domination, they were ordering pizzas, nobody did anything. And then one day somebody said thats enough, youre getting out of here within two hours, and then after that everything was beautiful and that was the last time we heard about it. These are the same people. These are radicals and theyre anarchists. Theyre anarchists, whether you like it or not. I know some of you guys are different persuasions and thats ok. I fully understand that. I understand both. Im for everybody. Im representing everybody, im not representing radical right radical left im representing everybody but you have to know what youre dealing with. But its happened before, its happened numerous times. And the only time its successful is when youre weak. And most of you are weak. And i will say this, whats going on in los angeles i have a friend who lives in los angeles. They say all the storefronts are gone. Theyre all broken and gone. The merchandise is gone. Its a shame. It didnt look as bad as that to me. Maybe it was the sunshine, i dont know. But in los angeles, the storefronts are gone. Philadelphias a mess, philadelphia, what happened there is horrible. And that was on television, theyre breaking into stores and nobody showed up to even stop them. There was nobody showed up to stop them. Washington, they had large groups, very large groups. They attacked the aflcio building. So they attacked [inaudible] friends, which is very interesting. But washington was under great control. But were going to have it under much more control. Were pouring in were going to pull in thousands of people [inaudible] of the dc police, the mayor, the mayor of washington d. C. And secret service did a very good job around the white house but their sole, their primary function is around the white house. And were going to clamp down very, very strong. And you better arrest people, you have to try people and put them in jail for 10 years, and youll never see this stuff again and youll have to let them know that. Theyre trying to get people out on bail in minneapolis. I understand theyre out there trying to get all these guys out on bail. So you have them on tape. You have them on television. In history, theres never been anybody taped so much committing a crime. You have these guys throwing rocks, they showed them last night on one of the stations on one of the networks throwing a big brick, and they had him in slow motion replay. Like its like a fielder. Catching a ball or throwing a catching a ball or throwing a ball, you have the slow motion replay. You see exactly who he is, Everybody Knows. You have everybody on tape, you gotta arrest all those people, you gotta try them. And if they get five years or ten years, they have to get five years or ten years. Theres no retribution. So i say that and the word is dominate. If you dont dominate your city and your state, theyre gonna walk away with you. And were doing it in washington, in d. C. , were going to do something that people havent seen before. Were going to have total domination. And then you have to put them in jail and you have to authorize whatever it is, whoever it is you authorize, and with that ill let bill barr say a few words and then ill let gen. Milley speak. Lets go, bill. Mr. Barr i know the situations vary around the country but it seems that some of the common dimensions are, you have control of protesters, you have opportunistic people like looters, but in many places, if not most places, you have this ingredient of extremist anarchist agitators who are driving the violence. Law enforcement response is not gonna work unless we dominate the streets, as the president said. We have to control the streets. If we treat these as demonstrations, the police are pinned back, guarding places and dont have the dynamic ability to go out and arrest the troublemakers. Theyre just standing in a line watching the events. Then when they disperse the crowds, the crowds go running off in different directions, and create havoc, there is looting and everything. We have to control the crowd and not react to whats happening. And that requires a strong presence. In many places, it will require the National Guard and when theres a strong presence, just an adequate presence to defend buildings, but a strong presence to control the crowd, things are quieting down, as in minneapolis. Some places may not require the National Guard and i think that new jersey so far has been doing a very good job working with state police and the new york police. And well see what happens there but the key is you have to have adequate force. That brings up law enforcement, even federal law enforcement, working with your state and local law enforcement, to be more dynamic and to go after the troublemakers. To go after the guys that are throwing the bricks and molotov cocktails. There are people running around starting fires. They have to be taken from the street and arrested and processed. The structure were going to use is the joint terrorist task force, which i know most of you are familiar with. Tried and true system, its worked for domestic and homegrown terrorists, and were going to employ that model. It already integrates your state and local people and its Intelligence Driven and it will go operational. We want to lean forward and charge federally anyone who violates a federal law in connection with this rioting. But we need to have people take control of the streets so that we can go out and work with law enforcement, say hello to the law enforcement. State and local the law enforcement. And identify these people in the crowd, isolate, pull them out, prosecute. Pres. Trump so the best example, i alluded to it a couple of seconds ago, is minneapolis. It was incredible what happened in the state of minnesota. They were a laughingstock, all over the world. They took over the police department. The police were running down the street, sirens blazing, the rest of them running, it was on camera. And then they wiped out, you probably have to build a new one. Ive never seen anything like it and the whole world was laughing. Two days, three days later, i spoke to the governor, the governors, i think, on the call and hes an excellent guy, and all of a sudden and i said you gotta use the National Guard and take numbers. They didnt at first, then they did, and ill tell you thats true, i dont know what it was those guys, third night, fourth night, they walked through that stuff like it was butter. They walked right through and you havent had any problems since and i mean they know theyre not going to go there, theyre going to go some other place. But once you called that and you dominated, you took the worst place and you made it they didnt even cover it last night because there was so little action. So, you dominated, you dominated. Now what happened in new york, i have to tell you, i live in manhattan. Whats going on in manhattan, i have no idea. New yorks finest, they gotta be they need to do their jobs. I dont know whats happening in manhattan but its terrible. And because its new york, because its manhattan, it gets a lot of press, so they really spend a lot of time on it. But new york is gonna have to toughen up and well send you National Guard if you want. You have the Largest Police force in the country, 40,000 people i understand, but whats going on in new york is terrible, its terrible. Of all the places. 40,000 people i understand, but whats going on in new york is terrible. Its terrible. Of all the places, what went on last night in los angeles with the stores and is terrible. Total domination, you have to dominate. Yeah, go ahead bill. Mr. Barr something the president said reminded me. The reason you know we have to control the streets is not just to bring peace to that town, but to give us the opportunity to get the bad actors because they are going to go elsewhere, were picking up information. And when they run into a tough nut, a Strong Police force and National Guard are looking for secondary targets. So they can go and overwhelm the local police force. So, in several of your states you know thats what were hearing. So, thats why its so imperative we cant play whackamole we have to take out the professional instigators to the leadership group. And the way to do that is to start with a strong statement. Pres. Trump if youre weak and dont dominate the streets, theyre gonna stay away from you until you finally do it, and you dont want that. Philadelphia, you better toughen up because whats going on in philadelphia like new york is terrible. Its terrible. You better toughen they never leave. I know you want to say lets not call up the guard, lets not call up 200 people. Youve got a big National Guard out there thats ready to come in a time like now. I tell you, what they did in minneapolis was incredible. They went in and dominated. And it happened immediately. All of the sudden my wife said to me, wow look at all these people. they got out and were wearing dark black uniforms. They got out and they were there in the houses and they walked right down the street, knocking them out with tear gas, tear gas. Those guys, they were running. And the next night it was much less and then the next night, its like you know what happened, they went to other cities. Theyre all looking for weak spots. Now what theyre going to do is theyre going to search out for perhaps smaller cities, smaller places. Youve got to arrest these people. Youve got to arrest these people and youve got to charge them, and you cant do the deal where they get one week in jail. These are terrorists, these are terrorists, theyre looking to do bad things to our country. Theyre antifa and theyre radical left. And the reason you have other radicals is because theyve been watching this for years, many years. And they dont like this. Go back and study occupy wall street because youll see the way that ended was a thing of beauty. Everybody said i cant believe how easy it was it was an hour of bedlam, and when it was all over it was a beautiful thing. And thats the way it has to end for you, alright secretary of defense. Sec. Esper thank you mr. President. If i could build on your comments and attorney generals comments to give some some quick stats. So, of course, the department of defense remains in full support of states, the state governors, department of justice law enforcement. Right now we 17,000 folks deployed in the National Guard in 29 states fewer than 200 people deployed in the baltimore state as well as their guard. So as the president and the ag have rightly pointed out, minneapolis, minnesota, has done a fantastic job. By saturday morning, after the chairman of joint chiefs of staff and i suppose the governor increased their presence 10fold and i think the evidence was clear from saturday night and sunday night. And so, in my urging i agree, we need to dominate the battle space. Resources in the guards. I stand ready the chairman stands ready, the head of the National Guard stands ready to fully support you in terms of helping mobilize the guard and do what they need to do. Again, most of the guard has not been called up. Theres only a few states two states where more than 1,000 troops have been called up. I think the sooner that you mask and dominate the battle space, the quicker this dissipates, and we get back to the right normal. Pres. Trump i dont know what it is, politically where you dont want to call out people. They are ready, willing, and able. They want to fight for the country. I dont know what it is. Someday youll have to explain it to me. But it takes so long to call them up. Were waiting for you, were shocked theres areas, la, were shocked youre not using the greatest resource you can use and theyre trained for this stuff and theyre incredible. Why youre not calling them up . I dont know, but youre making a mistake because youre making yourself look like, look like fools. And some have done a great job. A lot of you, its not, its not good. Its very bad for our county. You know what, other countries watch this, theyre watching us and they say boy theyre really a pushover. and we cant be a pushover. And we cant be a pushover. And you have all the resources, its not like you dont have the resources. So i dont know what youre doing. Well take some questions if you want. I think tim is on the phone now, tim walz. Again, i was very happy with the last couple of days. Tim, you called up big numbers and the big numbers knocked them out so fast it was like bowling pins. All right, anybody, i guess its two, right . The governors on audio, the governors on. Anybody want to speak . Brian is up there. Brian you want to speak . Georgia, brian kemp. Gov. Kemp hey, good morning, mr. President. I can just give you a quick update, ill talk through this as fast as i can from starting on friday night. We have been talking to the city of atlanta in preparation to support peaceful protest but also to protect lives and the property of the citizens in atlanta and around the state of georgia. But also, we have the mindset to take strong actions against the disruptors. We had 500 guard called up and ready to support, as well as the whole thing we had in our state Operations Center which we activated. We had the georgia National Guard, the department of Natural Resource team of rangers and then we used our department of corrections, department of juvenile justice, the department of community supervision, they all have certified officers. Two of those have instant Response Teams that they use to call up for prison disruptions. And those people are really good at doing that. We had all of those teams standing by to help friday night. It became evident that apd needed our help, and we went in there and i think did a good job in a really tough situation to calm things down. And then saturday we worked with their whole team we had a major from the Atlanta Police department embedded in our state Operations Center. We had one of our people in their Operation Center so we had constant communications and i was in the state ops center all three nights for a very long time so i got to see this firsthand. But that coordination that we were able to have with the locals, with the guard, the state patrol, and all our other resources, as well as having surveillance in the air, especially saturday night, was awesome. And we had a lot of people that did the right thing. We supported them in the peaceful protest. And when the curfew hit, they went home. And what we saw was the disrupters stayed. And so you knew those were the people that we were going to have to deal with. And thats what we did over the weekend. Just two other things real quick. We did see in savannah last night, we were getting intel that a lot of the instigators in charlotte, south carolina, on saturday night were coming to savannah on last night. We were watching that. We got in place early so the attorney general was correct in saying we could watch those folks that you knew were professionals, if you will. We knew that they were at Office Supplies and areas parks. We were surveilling that. They ended up moving those because they figured out we were watching them and just because i think we were there early and really, i think they only arrested 10 people. And the first person they arrested was was from out of state. The last thing i will tell you is this georgia National Guard medics team most likely saved an Atlanta Police officers life last night when he got rammed by a disruptor on a fourwheeler. And they put a tourniquet on him and helped him