Trump President Trump attended a briefing. [indiscernible] thank, everybody. Thank you very much. And thank you to our great admiral. All of thelso to exceptional leaders and talent we have in this room. U. S. Southern command is an Outstanding Group of people. Thank you very much. We are here to discuss our vital effort to keep deadly drugs out of our country and away from our children, and wow, are we making progress in a short period of time thanks to you. [applause] pres. Trump i wanted to make this trip personally. We were going to do a phoner, but i came to personally thank you for your valued fight to defend our borders and take our ofe traffickers out business, knock them out of business, the criminal cartels. We want to knock them out. You are on the front lines every day saving countless american lives and delivering the righteous under of american justice. No adversary can match the awesome power of the United States army, navy, air force, coast guard, marines. And very soon
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Just want to go over a few admin items before we get to the meat of the program. I i would ask everybody make sue cell phones are turned off or at least in silent mode and that apply to smartphones as well and any other Electronic Device that would make noise while were having our discussion. We will have a q a as we get close to the end of this and when that goes down ill ask folks to please wait to be called upon, wait for the microphone so everyone in the audience has an opportunity to hear you and that ill ask you to announce your name and affiliation. Our topic today is this particular outset absolute facd terrifying book, eyes in the sky the secret rise of gorgon stare and how it will watch us all by Arthur Holland michel. And at the point out a little digital version of what im calling from the lord of the rings, very, very apt for the content of this book of what well be discussing today. It was literally six years ago this month that an innocent contractor turned whistleblower