Much of the media’s attention in recent days has zeroed in on the horrifying attack on National Guard members in Washington, D.C., and the growing questions surrounding the alleged shooter’s motive and background. Attorney General Pam Bondi joined Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday to break through the noise and lay out what investigators actually know — including how the suspect slipped through the cracks and what led to his radicalization.
During the segment, Bream pressed Bondi on the growing calls from Democrats for congressional “oversight” of U.S. military strikes on Venezuelan narcoterror vessels — strikes that are disrupting the drug pipelines poisoning American communities. Bondi didn’t flinch. She made it clear the administration is fully committed to protecting Americans from “the poison flowing into our country” and will use every legal tool at its disposal to shut these operations down.
And she had a blunt warning for the narcoterrorists themselves: this administration isn’t backing off — it’s just getting started:
BREAM: I want to ask you about something that developed overnight. We heard that (the) top Democrat, top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee are going to join what is happening in the Senate, a bipartisan call to — for more information on what’s happening with these strikes off Venezuela, off the coast there. We’ve built up a military presence, a very strong one there. There are a number of lawmakers asking for a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel that supposedly provides the legal justification for what’s going on — will that be declassified? Will you turn it over to lawmakers or make it public in any way so we can see the legal justification for what’s going on?
After circling back to the National Guard deployments — and the barrage of legal challenges the administration is fighting simply for trying to secure American cities — Bondi turned to the narcoterrorism issue. She didn’t mince words:
BONDI: We are committed to taking out these narcoterrorists. President Trump is, Marco Rubio is — our entire administration. And that goes back to Joe Biden letting these foreign terrorist organizations walk into our country, come into our country, through Mexico. They are narcoterrorists — what you’re showing on the screen right now (video from November 15 of a vessel being blown up in the Eastern Pacific) are terrorists, and they are being blown up.
We are not going to agree — you know, these Democrats don’t want to agree with us. It’s crazy. The drugs that are flowing into our country from these terrorists are killing our children. And…if the Democrats won’t protect our children, Donald Trump will — by any means we need to within the legal realm of our society, and that’s what we are doing.
As far as a classified memo, I’m not going to discuss that, but I will say Venezuelan drug dealers need to tread very, very carefully, because if you are a narcoterrorist, if you are a TdA, we are coming after you. President Trump has made that crystal clear: No more will they be coming into our country, thanks to Joe Biden; no more will they be killing our kids with this poison that is flowing into our country from Venezuela, from Mexico, from all of these other countries — fentanyl being made in China. That’s what this is about: protecting Americans every single day, Shannon. We have to.
There’s no doubt Congress and the administration are headed for a prolonged fight over this — especially with the fallout from the Seditious Six video still hanging in the air — but nothing suggests the administration is going to blink. If anything, they seem more resolved than ever.