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Roosevelt Room

9:49 A.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Oh, the sheriffs are great people. Well, thank you very much. Law enforcement was a big subject in the campaign and a subject that was very well received. You have no idea how respected you are, sheriffs and, generally speaking, the leaders of law enforcement. Anybody involved in law enforcement, you have no idea how respected you are -- you don\'t get the honest facts from the press -- if you don\'t know how respected you are. So I just want to say that upfront.

I’m honored to welcome the National Sheriffs\' Association. Your leadership is here, and I know the great job you do. I’ve known you and followed you for a long period of time. Your efforts and your officers are outstanding. I know so many sheriffs from my area -- some in particular -- and they\'re great friends and great people.

I just want to let you know that our job is to help you in law enforcement, and we\'re going to help you do your job. We\'re going to expand access to abuse-deterring drugs, which a lot of you have been talking about. They\'re out, and they\'re very hard to get. Stop the opioid epidemic. We\'ve got to do it. It’s a new thing. And, honestly, people aren’t talking about it enough. It’s a new thing, and it’s a new problem for you folks. It’s probably a vast majority of your crimes -- or at least a very big portion of your crimes are caused by drugs.

We\'re going to stop the border. We\'re going to stop -- we\'re not going to have the drugs pouring from the border like they have been. We will work with you on supporting your longstanding efforts to strengthen the bonds between the communities and the police, which is very important. And it’s sort a new phenomenon to a certain extent, and it’s happening more and more. And some great results out when you can strengthen the bonds.

We\'re committed to securing our borders to reduce crime, illegal drugs, human trafficking, especially in border counties. We have a lot of the border counties represented.

We\'re also committed to working with law enforcement to stop terrorist attacks. You\'ve been reading about that, been seeing about that -- they want to take a lot of our powers away. There are some people with a lot of the wrong intentions, and it\'s -- we\'ve got a lot of bad people out there.

And, Dana, I just want to thank you on behalf of the government, on behalf of our country for leading a strong, strong effort in the courts. We really appreciate it, believe me. Because as you know, we don\'t have an attorney general. We have somebody who\'s phenomenal -- Jeff Sessions. He’s going to be there hopefully soon. But I believe it’s about a record for the length of time that they’ve delayed the Cabinet. These are Cabinet members that are phenomenal people. And we haven’t had representation, and now we have excellent representation, fortunately, in Dana. And Jeff will be with you very shortly, hopefully. But we\'re having a hard time getting approvals. And it’s only a delay tactic -- it’s all politics.

One person came up to me, a senator, a Democratic senator who came up to me the other day and said, Jeff Sessions is a fantastic man. He’s fabulous. He’s a friend of mine. He’s a great, great man and a great talent. And we\'re lucky to have him. I said, oh, great, I guess that means you\'re voting for him? No, I won’t be voting that. (Laughter.) He said, politics doesn\'t allow me to do that.

I thought it was a disgrace. If the press talks loud and hard enough, I’ll have to tell you who said that to me. You don\'t want to hear it. You don\'t want to hear who said that? (Laughter.) I didn\'t think you’d care. I didn\'t think you’d care. I’ll probably tell you, actually. Anyway.

So we\'re going to be very tough on crime. So we\'re going to be very tough on the drugs pouring in, and that\'s a big part of the crime. We\'re going to be very strong at the border. We have no choice. And we\'re going to be building a wall. We\'re starting very soon. General Kelly will be working with a lot of you. And he’s fantastic. He was the one who got approved very quickly along with General Mattis. He’s very, very outstanding. And I very much appreciate that you\'re here today.

And, Sheriff, I really thank you for leading the effort. Your reputation is fantastic, and it’s a great honor to know you. Maybe we can go around -- we’ll let the press stay for a little while, unless you’d rather leave. Would the press rather stay? Just so you understand. This is a new phenomenon. You\'re on live television all over the world right now, so don\'t get nervous when you speak, okay? (Laughter.)
But I don\'t think these things have ever taken place before. But you are on live television, so if you don\'t want to say anything, you don\'t have to. But if you do, I think it’s a good thing to say. So maybe we’ll just go around the room.

SHERIFF WELSH: Well, Mr. President, thank you so much for having us here. I’m Sheriff Carolyn Welsh from Chester County, Pennsylvania, and proud to say Pennsylvania, the commonwealth, that put you over the top November 8th.

THE PRESIDENT: It’s true. (Laughter.)

SHERIFF WELSH: We\'re very proud of that. We don\'t stop bragging about that.

THE PRESIDENT: You were a great support.

SHERIFF WELSH: Thank you. And I just want to thank you for, during the campaign and since the campaign, being such a strong, courageous supporter of law enforcement on the national -- on the federal level with the Border Patrol, on the state level, and the counties, municipalities, boroughs, and particularly with the elected sheriffs of the counties -- because we are the sheriff, we are the people’s representative, and we are elected by the people, and we greatly appreciate your strong and continued support.

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Carolyn. There’s a new sheriff in town.

SHERIFF WELSH: That\'s right.

THE PRESIDENT: I hear this so much. (Laughter.) I hear this so much, Dana. They always use, \"there’s a new sheriff in town.\" So anyway.

SHERIFF EAVANSON: Sheriff Harold Eavanson from Rockwall County, Texas. We appreciate your support very much. Our county is probably about 85 percent Republican. So it was pretty easy for you --

THE PRESIDENT: They were very nice. I agree. They were very nice.

SHERIFF EAVANSON: And being in a border state, I have been to the border in Texas any number of times, been to the border in Arizona. I clearly understand the problem we have. And previously when we’d go to the border and hear what the ranchers and sheriffs have to say -- those border sheriffs and border ranchers, it was a 180 degrees from what we heard from the previous administration.