Thank you, President Trump!

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From the Principal Toyota Studios, it's Morning in Memphis with Todd Starnes.

Todd Starnes (0:07)

And a very good morning it is. Hello everybody, thank you for joining us today. We have a lot happening. Senator Marsha Blackburn is here today. Also, and just so you know, we are literally, every person running for governor has reached out to us. They've asked for airtime, sit down for an interview, and we have agreed to do that. So all of the candidates are going to be coming through the KWAM studios. It doesn't matter if they're running for Congress, local. We've got both candidates running for Lakeland Mayor that are going to be joining us in the coming days. So we've got a lot of political news happening. And again, this is why KWAM, the Mighty 990, is the number one news talk radio station in the Mid-South.

Our numbers just on streaming are off the charts. And it's because you folks want to hear from these candidates. So coming up in just a little while, Marsha Blackburn is going to be here.

As we go through the political season, Steve Gill, who is the publisher of TriStar Daily, he'll be joining us at least twice a week to break down a lot of the political news. And there really is a lot of political news. But Memphis was right in the middle of national headline stories yesterday.

And yesterday afternoon, the Attorney General Todd Blanch coming out in a Rose Garden press conference late yesterday and talking about the incredible, the incredible success story that is Memphis, Tennessee. And of course, President Trump bringing the National Guard to our city after we asked him about it right here on KWAM, on our airwaves in this very studio. And the president promised he would take a long, hard look at Memphis. And he ended up a couple of weeks later making the move to send in the National Guard. At the time, we were the nation's most violent city. We were the nation's deadliest city. And that was coming from the FBI director himself, Cash Patel. And now when you look at where we are, it is just truly remarkable. Here's the attorney general yesterday talking about Memphis on the national media. Cut 27, please.

Todd Blanch (2:25)

Done in Memphis. Today is the one year anniversary of us signing the Memorandum of Understanding with Memphis to do the great work that we've done over the past year. Nearly 13,000 arrests in the Memphis area. More than 2,000 illegal firearms seized and nearly 1,500 known gang members arrested over the past year. We also located more than 200 missing children.

St. Louis, over the past four weeks, our HSTF platform has been extraordinarily successful arresting over 250 violent criminals, many with outstanding warrants and extensive criminal history. And they've taken over 100 illegal firearms off the streets. That's just in the past four weeks.

And today, you may have heard Director Patel announce that the FBI has arrested 10 out of 10 of the criminals on the FBI's 10 most wanted lists in the first 18 months of the administration.

Todd Starnes (3:26)

I mean, it really is remarkable what this administration has done for Memphis. And you know, the carjackings, there was a time when you had to be very careful about going to get gas, very careful about going to the grocery store, especially if you were a woman, because you were targeted by these thug carjackers. And look, there's still a lot of work that has to be done. No doubt about that, no doubt about it. People are still getting shot. And what I love about the president is he did something that the Democrats in this town did not do. President Trump realized that most of the victims, most of the victims of these criminal thugs are black folks. And the president said, not on my watch. The Democrats in Memphis turned a blind eye as black people have been killed in the streets. They've been carjacked. They've been robbed. They've been beaten. And not a single, they did absolutely nothing to stop them. Nothing at all, nothing at all. Trump comes in and says, we're gonna do something about this. This is not right. This is not normal. People in America should not have to live like this. So I just say, and honestly, the NAACP and all of these race-baiting grifters out there, they really ought to thank President Trump for what he did. But they'll never do it. And honestly, City Hall ought to do it as well. But instead, Bill Dries has a piece up on the Daily Memphian today. Here's the headline. City Council members plan to ask the Memphis Task Force to leave.