Trump Outlines His Goals To Reunite The FBI And DOJ: ‘We’re Going To Build Another Big FBI Building’

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During President Trump’s speech at the Department of Justice on Friday, he discussed moving the FBI headquarters back to Washington DC.

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00:00We're going to build another big FBI building right where it is which would have been

00:03the right place because the FBI and the DOJ have to be near each other you can't every

00:08that's one thing I did learn from this persecution the FBI and the DOJ work together

00:13now in my case they work together for bad purposes but they do they were always together

00:17so how can you have one that's three hours away but one thing I said to

00:21Cash well we're going to get a great building built it's going to be a magnificent building

00:26he said sir we don't need that kind of room I said what do you mean he said I'm just going to

00:30take a old Department of Commerce building that's about 25 percent the size and that's what I need

00:36we're going to have the best staff that you've ever seen and that's what I need it's in a nice

00:40location but I don't need that big building why don't you just sell the site to somebody

00:45and we're going to be very happy and they they want to have far fewer people but we also want

00:51to have them in DC and if for no other reason we like having law enforcement walking the streets

00:58of our capital because when the bad guys are out there and they see there's an FBI agent that's

01:04the ultimate in law enforcement and they're not going to be acting so bad we're cleaning up our

01:09city we're cleaning up this great capital and we're not going to have crime and we're not going

01:13to stand for crime and we're going to take the graffiti down and we're already taking the tents

01:19down and we're working with the administration and if the administration can't do the job we're

01:24going to take we're going to have to take it back and run it through the federal government but we

01:28hope the administration is going to be able so far they've been doing very well the mayor's been

01:33doing a good job we've said there are tents galore right opposite the state department they have to

01:39come down and they took them down right away and so so far so good but we want to have a capital

01:46that can be the talk of the world when prime minister modi of india when the president of

01:52france and all of these people the head of prime minister of united kingdom they all came to see me

01:59over the last week and a half and when they come in i like to i had i had the route run i didn't

02:07want to have them see tents i didn't want to have them see graffiti i didn't want to have them see

02:11broken barriers and potholes in the roads and we had it looking beautiful and we're going to do

02:17that for the city and we're going to have a crime free capital when people come here they're not

02:22going to be mugged or shot or raped they're going to have a crime free capital again it's going to

02:28be cleaner and better and safer than it ever was and it's not going to take us too long there's a

02:33new phenomena that is taking place with these violent vicious lawyers that we have all over

02:39they play the ref you know what playing the ref is like the great bobby knight basketball coach

02:44he'd scream and scream at the ref he'd scream i watched him by the way i love bobby knight because

02:49he endorsed me and having having bobby knight's endorsement in indiana was an extremely good thing

02:56a friend of mine said i was running in indiana at the time this was early on 2016 and i was doing

03:03great but a friend came up and said do you know bobby knight i said no i don't but i hear he was a

03:10tough cookie he said he's not only tough he was beyond tough but uh he's the most popular guy you

03:15can imagine it turned out he wanted to endorse me he called me about two years before he said sir

03:21i'd like to endorse you i said is this really bobby knight said it's me i could tell it was bobby knight

03:26he had been known for throwing the chair across the court and slapping a player can't do things

03:31like that right and the man that came in fired him he was a new administrator for the couch that he

03:37that guy didn't last very long they were like 14 and 0 and they fired coach knight that was not good

03:44but he had a little chip in his shoulder but he loved trump and he came in and he he said i'd love

03:49to endorse he said if you ever run please call me so he said you know bobby knight i said well i don't

03:54know but he called me a couple of years ago it was an amazing phenomenon i took his number

03:59and on each side of my desk in new york i had stacks of paper like nice and neat but about two

04:07feet high each and i said you know i wrote his number down and i put it here two years ago

04:12and i said let me see if i can find it was almost like a miracle

04:15i had other miracles that happened too my ear is still throbbing that was a miracle

04:21oh that was a miracle also wasn't it that was a miracle also

04:31thank you thank you leo thank you

04:36thank you my man

04:40that was a miracle anyway okay that's it that's very nice thank you but so he said bobby knight

04:48so i said you know i put his name down and i wrote it down it's in one of these stacks let me

04:53i lifted up there would have to be two three thousand pages in each stack i lifted it up the

04:59first one had no idea and there was his name on the little card bobby knight with his number it

05:04it was like incredible i tell that story all the time and i called him and dialed the number he

05:11said i've been waiting for you to call and he went out and he made a speech for me in

05:18packed arena in indiana and it was over it was over he was uh he was a tough guy he actually uh

05:26went a little far you know if you were if you remember he made a great speech because he was

05:30actually a motivational type guy to put it mildly but he left the stage and then i'm talking and he

05:37walks back onto the stage i said oh this is trouble why is he coming back he was a big guy

05:42too why is he coming back he said may i say a few more words i said yeah go ahead bobby say a few

05:47more words a little different and he said let me tell you something about this guy trump this guy

05:53if he has to will use the nuclear weapons that we have he will use that he has no fear he's going to

05:59use and that's the kind of guy and he walked off the stage i said i think i'm i think i'm in big

06:04trouble pam that was not good but it worked out okay in the meantime in the meantime uh we won

06:11the state in a landslide and it was great and it was just an amazing period of time but but this is

06:17the most amazing period of time i think this is more amazing what's uh what's taking place is

06:22more amazing i think it's more consequential and uh if we do the job you know one of the big

06:28media outlets said uh what we did was the most consequential election in the last 129

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