In an Oval Office meeting, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele spoke to President Trump about tough-on-crime policies.
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00:00Well, thank you very much. It's an honor to have a friend of mine, because we went through this together and got along very well for my entire period of time.
00:13So I knew him as a very young man. Now he's just a young man.
00:17And he's done a fantastic job. Mr. President, it's an honor to have you.
00:21He's been doing incredibly for your country, and we appreciate working with you, because you want to stop crime, and so do we.
00:30And it's very, very effective. And I want to just say hello to the people of El Salvador and say they have one hell of a president.
00:39Okay? And I mean that. And I know him well.
00:41I know him as a very young man, Marco. Even younger than you. You know, he started pretty young.
00:48He'll always be younger.
00:51Young at heart. But I want to thank you for the great job you're doing. I appreciate it.
00:56Well, it's an honor to be here in the Oval Office with the President and Leader of the Queer World.
01:06We're very happy. And we're very eager to help.
01:09We know that you have a crime problem, a terrorism problem, that you need help with.
01:17And we're a small country, but if we can help, we can do it.
01:20And we actually turned the murder capital of the world, that was the Journalist College, right?
01:26Murder capital of the world to the safest country in the Western Hemisphere.
01:29And, you know, sometimes they say that we imprisoned thousands. I like to say that we actually liberated millions.
01:39So, you know, like, it's very good.
01:43Who gave him that line? Do you think I can use that?
01:46Yes, you can use it.
01:47And in fact, Mr. President, you have 350 million people to liberate.
01:54But to liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some.
01:58You know, that's the way it works, right?
01:59You cannot just, you know, free the criminals and think crime is going to go down magically.
02:03You have to imprison them so you can liberate 350 million Americans that are asking for the end of crime and the end of terrorism.
02:11And it can be done. I mean, you're doing it already.
02:14And I'm sure that people have seen the change in the streets.
02:18A long way to go because you're just initiating your second term.
02:23But it's clear that, you know, with the numbers at the border, you know, even in Democrat-run series,
02:30they get a help from the world you're doing.
02:34So I'm really happy to be here, honored, and eager to help.
02:39Well, we had a terrible thing happen.
02:41We had an administration that allowed people to come in freely into our country from not only South America,
02:50but from all over the world, many from the Congo and Africa, Asia, all over the world, Europe, rough parts of Europe.
02:59And they came from prisons, and they came from mental institutions,
03:02and they came from gangs, and the gangs of Venezuela and other places.
03:08And hundreds of thousands and even millions of them came.
03:1321 million people altogether, but many of the people that came, just a tremendous percentage of them,
03:18were criminals, in some cases violent criminals.
03:21We had 11,088 known murderers, half of them murdered more than one person.
03:30This was allowed by a man who, what he did to our country is just unbelievable.
03:36So we're straightening it out, we're getting them out.
03:38But what they did and what that party did to our country, open borders, anybody could come in.
03:42As soon as I heard that, I said, every prison's going to be emptied out into our country.
03:46That's what happened.
03:47And we're straightening it out.