{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-banks-on-the-will-cain-show-americans-support-president-trumps-strikes-on-drug-boats/", "Senator Banks on The Will Cain Show: Americans Support President Trump\u2019s Strikes on Drug Boats", "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 The Will Cain Show to 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 Secretary Hegseth\u2019s Narco-terrorist Strikes: \u201cPresident Trump is doing exactly what the American people elected him to do. He\u2019s secured the border and now he\u2019s keeping us safe and stopping this poison from flooding into our country. He\u2019s the first president in my life who\u2019s been serious about the war on drugs, declaring war on the cartels. And Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is doing a great job, an exceptional job of executing President Trump\u2019s strategy to do that\u2026 71 % of Americans support President Trump and what he\u2019s doing to strike these drug boats and stopping poison from coming into our country. And that\u2019s what makes the Democrat position so ridiculous.\u201d\n\n***\n\n\u201cThe American people are on the president\u2019s side. They\u2019re on Pete Hegseth\u2019s side to stop the drugs and the poison from coming into our country\u2026 Tom Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, came out of that briefing today and said it was all justified. The attacks on these narco-terrorists was justified then\u2026 It\u2019s been justified every day since. And I hope President Trump and Secretary Hegseth keep up the good work and keep doing what they\u2019re doing to save the lives of so many American people. Under Joe Biden, we had hundreds of thousands of Americans who died of drug poisonings because of drugs flowing into our country. And Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth said, they\u2019re putting a stop to it.\u201d\n\n***\n\n\u201c\u2026 The President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief has Article II powers to protect the homeland, to keep America safe, and to stop the poison from coming into this country. He\u2019s entirely justified already\u2026 President Trump and Secretary Hegseth are doing exactly what the American people gave the President a mandate last November to do, and they\u2019re doing it in a very effective way\u2026 We\u2019re already seeing the number of drug overdoses in America decline.. And that number is going to keep going down because of these strikes on drug boats and the activities of this military and the Department of War going after these narco-terrorists. I\u2019m very proud of what they\u2019re doing, and again, I hope they keep it up\u2026 I\u2019m going to back him up in every way that I can.\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-the-will-cain-show-americans-support-president-trumps-strikes-on-drug-boats/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7399589996784925, "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"}