Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Administration Will 'Fight Back' After Judge Orders Reinstatement Of Workers

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Karoline Leavitt holds a press gaggle outside the White House.

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00:00A couple of questions, Caroline, can you give us a preview of the president's Justice Department

00:16speech?

00:17Sure.

00:18I'd be happy to.

00:19As you know, the president will be heading there later this afternoon.

00:21The attorney general will be there as well as the FBI director, Kash Patel.

00:25And the president is going to give a speech focused on restoring law and order to our

00:30country.

00:31In the last four years under the Biden administration, we unfortunately saw a Department of Justice

00:35that was weaponized against Americans for their political ideologies.

00:39It was not focused on fighting violent crime and restoring law and order and public safety.

00:45So the president will be talking about his intention to restore those very basic American

00:49values to our country.

00:51And he will also be there with fentanyl families and angel moms who have lost their children

00:57at the hands of illegal migrant criminals who the previous administration allowed into

01:01our country.

01:02And also, of course, to illegal Chinese fentanyl, which, as you all know, the president feels

01:06very strongly about cracking down on drug cartels, drug trafficking and human trafficking

01:10as well.

01:11So you'll hear about all that later this afternoon.

01:13I don't want to get ahead of the president any more than that.

01:15Caroline, do you think the president will talk to President Putin during the day?

01:19I don't have anything on the president's schedule, but that could obviously always

01:23change as you saw his truth social this morning.

01:25He is putting pressure on President Putin and the Russians to do the right thing.

01:30Yesterday was a productive day for the United States of America and for the world in terms

01:35of peace.

01:36We have never been this close to peace.

01:38You saw the NATO Secretary General in the Oval Office yesterday.

01:41You were there with us, who said that only because of President Trump are we here on

01:45the verge of brokering a peace deal.

01:48Did the president talk to President Trump last night on the phone?

01:52President?

01:53Did President Trump talk to President Putin last night on the phone?

01:57He did not.

01:58No.

01:59Steve Woodcock spoke to him yesterday in Moscow, as you know.

02:00Has the president spoken with the new incoming Canadian prime minister at all this week?

02:05I know earlier this week you said they hadn't yet spoken, but given everything that's going

02:08on between the United States and Canada, have they spoken yet?

02:10To my knowledge, they have not spoken.

02:12When they do, we can provide a readout of that call.

02:14Do you have any updates on the New York governor meeting?

02:17Yeah, I believe it's still ongoing, or it wrapped when I came out here, but the governor

02:23was here to talk about the pipeline that President Trump is very determined to get passed in

02:28the New England and New York area, and so that's as far as I know about the conversation,

02:34but I can get an update on it.

02:36Caroline, district court rulings about all the fired probationary workers use the same

02:40language here just now that was in the statement about fighting back against that ruling.

02:43Do you mean appealing or something else, and does the administration plan to comply

02:47with those orders in the meantime?

02:49Fighting back by appealing, fighting back by using the full weight of the White House

02:54counsel's office and our lawyers at the federal government who believe that this injunction

02:58is entirely unconstitutional, and it is for anybody who has a basic understanding of the

03:02law.

03:03You cannot have a low-level district court judge filing an injunction to usurp the executive

03:09authority of the president of the United States.

03:11That is completely absurd, and as the executive of the executive branch, the president has

03:16the ability to fire or hire, and you have these lower-level judges who are trying to

03:22block this president's agenda.

03:24It's very clear, and as I just cited, I was appalled by the statistic when I saw it this

03:28morning.

03:29In three, or in one month, in February, there have been 15 injunctions of this administration

03:36in our agenda.

03:37In three years under the Biden administration, there were 14 injunctions, so it's very clear

03:43that there are judicial activists throughout our judicial branch who are trying to block

03:47this president's executive authority.

03:49We are going to fight back, and as anyone who saw President Trump and his legal team

03:53fighting back, they know how to do it.

03:55He was indicted nearly 200 times, and he's in the Oval Office now because all of the

04:00indictments, all of these injunctions have always been unconstitutional and unfair.

04:04They are led by partisan activists who are trying to usurp the will of this president,

04:08and we're not going to stand for it.

04:10Thanks for your time.

Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Administration Will 'Fight Back' After Judge Orders Reinstatement Of Workers

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