STEVE: MARK MEREDITH THANK YOU
VERY MUCH LET’S BRING IN WHITE
HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY KAYLEIGH
MCENANY WHO JOINS US FROM THE
WHITE HOUSE COMPLEX GOOD
MORNING TO YOU, KAYLEIGH.
>> GOOD MORNING.
STEVE: I SEE ON THE PRESIDENT’S
PUBLIC SCHEDULE, HE DOES HAVE A
VIDEO CONFERENCE WITH AMERICA’S
GOVERNORS TODAY TO TRY TO FIGURE
OUT WHAT’S GOING ON.
PEOPLE FROM ALL ACROSS THE
COUNTRY ARE LOOKING IN, THIS
IS THE TIME WE LOOK TO OUR
LEADER.
WE WANT THIS TO STOP.
HOW DOES THE PRESIDENT FIX THIS?
>> YEAH, THIS PRESIDENT HAS
BEEN VERY CLEAR THAT WE NEED LAW
AND ORDER IN THIS COUNTRY.
HE’S TAKEN EXTRAORDINARY ACTION
TALKING ABOUT ACTIVATING THE
NATIONAL GUARD AS WE SAW
HAPPEN IN MINNESOTA CRIMINALIZ
ING INTERSTATE TRAVEL
THAT IS GEARED TOWARDS INCITING
VIOLENCE, MAKING SURE THAT THOSE
INDIVIDUALS ARE PROSECUTED
LABELING ANTIFA AS A DOMESTIC
TERRORIST ENTITY THAT WILL BE
PROSECUTED AS SUCH THIS
PRESIDENT HAS TAKEN BOLD
ACTION THIS IS THE LAW AND ORDER
PRESIDENT GOING BACK TO HIS
CONVENTION SPEECH HE’S ALWAYS
BEEN ABOUT LAW AND ORDER IN THIS
COUNTRY AND HE’S TAKING
EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE ACTION TO
ENSURE THAT OUR STREETS ARE SAFE
BECAUSE WHAT THIS DOES, THIS DE
MEANS THE PEACEFUL
PROTESTERS WHO HAVE A LEGITIMATE
GRIEVANCE WHEN WE SEE ANGRY MOB
MENTALITY TAKE OVER IN THIS
HORRIFIC IMAGES OF
BUSINESSES BURNING AND FIRES IN
THE STREETS OF THIS COUNTRY.
AINSLEY: KAYLEIGH I KNOW MANY
ARE ASKING THE PRESIDENT TO
POLICE GIVE AN OVAL OFFICE
ADDRESS ON THESE RIOTS BECAUSE
OUR COUNTRY IS JUST EXPERIENCING
SO MUCH CHAOS RIGHT NOW.
HAVE THERE BEEN CONVERSATIONS
WITH HIM ABOUT THAT?
DO YOU THINK HE’LL SAY YES TO
THAT?
>> THE PRESIDENT HAS ADDRESSED
THIS REPEATEDLY SO I LOOK TO
GOING BACK TO THE FIRST DAY HE
SAW THIS VIDEO.
HE HAS ADDRESSED THE ABSOLUTELY
HORRIFIC VIDEO OF GEORGE FLOYD
ANDREW TEENLY ADDRESSED IN HIS
REMARKS LESS THAN 48 HOURS AGO
THE ISSUE OF LAW AND ORDER IN
OUR STREETS AND ISSUED SEVERAL
STATEMENTS BUT HERE IS THE THING
AINSLEY.
A NATIONAL OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS
IS NOT GOING TO STOP AINSLEY.
WHAT’S GOING TO STOP ANSWER IS
ACTION AND THIS PRESIDENT HAS
COMMITTED TO ACTION TO THAT AND
THAT’S HIS FOCUS IS ACTING AND
KEEPING OUR STREETS SAFE.
BRIAN: SO KAYLEIGH, JUST A
QUICK STATEMENT, OBVIOUSLY, WE
WATCH THE ANTIFA AND WE’VE SEEN
SOME OF THEIR ACTS AND WE’VE
SEEN THIS BEFORE WHEN THERE WAS
A TIME WHEN WE WHICH WEREN’T
WEARING A MASK THEY JUST WERE
AND NOW WE ALL ARE.
MARK BRAY, WHO WROTE A BOOK ON
ANTIFA IN 2017 SAYS "THE IDEA
THAT ANTIFA IS MASTERMINING
WHAT’S HAPPENING OVER THE LAST
FEW DAYS IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING
ABOUT THIS SUBJECT IS LUDACRIS."
IS
THIS AN AMORPHIS ORGANIZATION
INSTEAD OF JUST AN IDEOLOGY AND
ARE WE GIVING THEM TOO MUCH
CREDIT?
>> I DON’T THINK SO.
LOOK WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE
TWITTER FEED OF ANTIFA YOU SEE
THAT THEY ARE DIRECTING SOME
OF THIS , WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE
HORRIFIC GRAFFITI THAT I SEE IN
THE STREETS IT’S ABOUT OVER
TURNING CAPITALISM AND
REALLY CRUDE MESSAGES.
THEY ARE CERTAINLY BEHIND THIS ,
A.G. BARR MENTIONED TO THAT
EFFECT AND STILL HAS AMBASSADOR
O’BRIEN AND CRIMINALIZING MAKING
SURE THAT THEY ARE LABELED AS
DOMESTIC TERRORISTS IS SO
IMPORTANT BECAUSE AS I NOTED AT
THE TOP THERE ARE LEGITIMATE
PEACEFUL PROTESTERS OUT THERE
AND I’VE SEEN THEM.
I SAW A VIDEO HERE IN D.C. WHERE
A VIOLENT RIOTER WAS COBBELING
THE STREET IN AN
EFFORT TO THROW BRICKS AT
POLICE OFFICERS AND IT WAS
PEACEFUL PROTESTERS THAT STOPPED
THIS INDIVIDUAL SO WE’VE GOT TO
DISTINGUISH THIS VIOLENT ANTIFA
FROM THE PROTESTERS WHO DO HAVE
A LEGITIMATE GRIEVANCE.
STEVE: SURE.
WHERE ARE THEY GETTING ALL OF
THOSE BRICKS?
I’M JUST KIND OF WONDERING ABOUT
THAT.
OF COURSE YESTERDAY, THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES DID SAY THAT HE WANTED TO
DESIGNATE ANTIFA AS A DOMESTIC
TERROR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
BUT KAYLEIGH THE PRESIDENT ALSO
SAID DEMOCRATS ARE NOT TOUGH
ENOUGH ON THE VIOLENT PROTESTERS
, AND THE TROUBLEMAKER
S AND WHATNOT.
WHY DID HE DESIGNATE THE
DEMOCRATS ARE NOT TOUGH
ENOUGH?
>> YEAH, I THINK WHEN YOU LOOK
AT SOME OF
THE BEFUDDLING ACTIONS LIKE
RIGHT HERE IN THE MAYOR OF D.C.
DIDN’T ISSUE A CURFEW UNTIL 11
P.M.
WELL GUESS WHAT AT 10 P.M., YOU
HAD ST. JOHN’S CHURCH BURNING.
SEVERAL OTHER CITIES HAD CURFEW
AT 4:00 P.M., 5 P.M., 6:00 P.M.
AND SOME OF THE ACTIONS ARE
REALLY NOT TOUGH ENOUGH AS THE
PRESIDENT NOTED
PARTICULARLY WITH THE MAYOR HERE
IN D.C., AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT
THESE HORRIFIC ACTIONS I JUST
WANT TO NOTE HOW COMPLETELY
WRONG-HEADED THE FACT IS THAT
YOU HAD THE VETERANS AFFAIRS
DEPARTMENT DEFACED AND THE WORD
VETERAN COMPLETELY SPRAY PAINTED
OFF THE BUILDING, THE LINCOLN
MEMORIAL DEFACED A BEAUTIFUL
SYMBOL OF A PRESIDENT WHO OVER
CAME SOME OF THE DEEPEST
RACIAL DIVIDES IN OUR COUNTRY
AND TO HAVE THOSE INSTITUTIONS
DEFACED REALLY UNDERMINES THE
MESSAGE WE’RE TARGETING
ANTIFA AND IT’S VERY IMPORTANT
AND THE PRESIDENT WILL ALSO PUT
AN OWN US ON DEMOCRAT MAYORS TO
BE AS TOUGH AS HE HAS BEEN.
AINSLEY: ALL RIGHT SO BILL BARR
SAID THE DOJ IS USING ITS
NETWORK OF 56 REGIONAL FBI JOINT
TERRORISM TASK FORCE TOID THESE
CRIMINAL ORGANIZERS AND
INSTIGATORS.
HOW ARE THEY GOING TO BE ABLE TO
DO THAT?
>> YEAH, SO THIS TASK FORCE
WILL BE LOOKING INTO EACH AND
EVERY INCIDENT THAT COMES OUR
WAY, LOOKING AT IT THROUGH A
DOMESTIC TERRORISM LENS USING
TITLE 18 SECTION 2,331 THAT’S A
BIG PORTION OF THE DOMESTIC
TERRORISM STATUTE AND IT
BASICALLY WILL GIVE US BROAD
INVESTIGATE INVESTIGATING POWER
TO INVESTIGATE THESE ACTIVITIES
AND TO ENSURE THAT THE
INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE LOOTING
AND THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE
ANTIFA AND WHO ARE BEHIND
THE VIOLENT ACTIONS WE’RE SEEING
AND THE BURNING DOWN OF SOME OF
AMERICA’S BUILDINGS AS WE SAW
HERE ST. JOHNS THE BEAUTIFUL
HISTORICAL MONUMENT BURNING
THESE WILL BE PROSECUTED UNDER
THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.
BRIAN: KAYLEIGH, IT’S HARD TO
IMAGINE, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE
GEORGE’S DEATH AND THE PANDEMIC
HAVE BEEN OVERWHELMED BY THESE
RIOTS.
IN WAKE OF THE RIOTS HAVE THE
PRESIDENT TALKED TO MAYBE
SOME OF THESE GOVERNORS LIKE
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK WITH SADLY
56 DEATHS WERE DRAMATICALLY DOWN
FROM ITS PEAK TO RELEASE "THE
ROCK" DOWN AND ALLOW SOME PEOPLE
TO DEFEND THEIR BUSINESSES OR
GET BACK IN THE BUSINESS SO
WE’RE ECONOMICALLY NOT BACK
ALONG WITH WHAT GOES ON WITH
THESE PROTESTS THAT’S DESTROYING
THESE CITIES?
>> YEAH THE PRESIDENT WANTS TO
REOPEN THIS COUNTRY HE’S BEEN
CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
I SPOKE TO HIM ABOUT HALF A
DOZEN TIMES YESTERDAY AND TALKED
TO HIM HE’S BEEN ON THE PHONE
WITH GOVERNORS AND MAKING SURE
THAT OUR COUNTRY IS REOPENING
THAT WE DO SO IN A WAY THAT
PROTECTS OUR STREETS KEEPS OUR
STREETS SAFE AND IT’S IN EXCUS
ABLE WHAT WE’VE BEEN SEEING
PLAY OUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
STEVE: RIGHT AND KAYLEIGH THAT
CHURCH THAT THEY BURNED
YESTERDAY, DOWN TO THE BASEMENT,
IS JUST ONE BLOCK FROM WHERE
YOU’RE STANDING RIGHT NOW.
ALL THE VIOLENCE, A LOT OF IT IS
JUST OUTSIDE THE GATE.
HOW FREAKED OUT ARE SOME OF THE
PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THE WHITE
HOUSE ABOUT WHAT’S GOING ON JUST
OVER THE FENCE?
>> LOOK WE FEEL VERY PROTECTED.
SECRET SERVICE IS REMARKABLE AND
THEY’VE BEEN DOING REMARKABLE
WORK SO WE FEEL SAFE HERE BEHIND
THE WHITE HOUSE GATES BUT LOOK,
WE WANT AMERICA TO BE SAFE.
WE WANT TO COMING TOGETHER AS
ONE COUNTRY.
WE’RE BETTER THAN THIS.
AMERICA IS STRONGER THAN THIS
AMERICA IS ABOUT UNITY.
I SAW BEAUTIFUL VIDEOS OF POLICE
OFFICERS AND PROTESTERS HUGGING
THAT IS WHAT DEFINES US AS A
COUNTRY NOT THE BURNING OF ST.
JOHNS AND THE LOOTING AND
THE RIOTING WE’VE SEEN, SO WE’RE
COMING TOGETHER AS A COUNTRY AND
THAT’S OUR SINGULAR FOCUS AT THE
WHITE HOUSE AS WE GET BACK TO