{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-banks-on-fox-and-friends-president-trump-is-first-potus-in-40-years-serious-about-fighting-war-on-drugs/", "Senator Banks on Fox and Friends: \u201cPresident Trump is\u00a0First\u00a0POTUS\u00a0in 40\u00a0Years\u00a0Serious\u00a0About\u00a0Fighting\u00a0War on\u00a0Drugs\u201d", "2025-12-04", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Jim Banks", "B001299", "www.banks.senate.gov", "banks", "https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) joined Fox & Friends to discuss the recent Washington, D.C. shooting of two National Guardsmen by an Afghan national, and President Trump and Secretary Hegseth\u2019s efforts to protect Americans from narco-terrorists.\n\nClick the image above for the full discussion\n\nKey Excerpts:\n\nSen. Banks on Vetting Afghanistan Nationals: \u201cWhen Biden pulled out of Afghanistan disastrously, what happened there was a shameful moment in American history on Joe Biden\u2019s watch\u2026 Even worse now is finding out that Joe Biden and his administration allowed terrorists to come into our country. Three notable arrests, including the tragic killing terrorist act in Washington, D.C. a week ago. I think we\u2019re going to find out, sadly, a lot more cases, a lot more ties to ISIS -K and terrorist groups abroad, all on Joe Biden\u2019s watch\u2026 the blame falls at his feet for what he allowed to happen.\u201d\n\n***\n\n\u201cPresident Trump is serious about vetting these Afghan nationals. Tens of thousands of them we don\u2019t even know their first names, their last names, their birth dates. They were never properly vetted in the first place. And now it\u2019s time to make up for that mistake. And that\u2019s what President Trump is doing.\u201d\n\nSen. Banks on Secretary Hegseth\u2019s Narco-terrorist Strikes: \u201cWe want to learn the truth. And the more that we learn the truth, the more we realize that President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth are doing exactly what the American people elected them to do. And that\u2019s to protect America from narco-terrorists who are flooding our country with poisonous drugs. Over 70 % of Americans support President Trump striking these drug boats\u2026 Admiral Bradley did exactly what he was supposed to do to prevent these drug coming into our country. This was an active operation.\u201d\n\n***\n\n\u201cThe fact of the matter is under Joe Biden, the open borders, the poisonous drugs flowing into our country killed over 100,000 Americans a year that\u2019s more every year than who, than those Americans who died in the war in Vietnam. And now President Trump is the first president that we\u2019ve had in 40 years, who\u2019s been serious about fighting the war on drugs, and he\u2019s taking on the drug cartels exactly as we expect him to do. So the truth confirms that President Trump and Secretary Hegseth are executing the operation exactly as the American people elected them and expect them to do.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-banks-on-fox-and-friends-president-trump-is-first-potus-in-40-years-serious-about-fighting-war-on-drugs/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.296049915254116, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}