First on Fox – Republican state attorney general previews upcoming meeting Friday Ministry of Justice President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi will discuss working with top state police officers to combat crime.
Fox News figures were told that most of the conversation is expected to focus on fighting the fentanyl scourge in the community.
Trump spoke with reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday to preview his Justice Department speech. He nodded, such as problems faced in cities, such as subway violence. “We don’t want to commit crimes on the streets. We don’t want people to be pushed to the subway and killed,” Trump said. “We want to have security in our cities and communities, and we’re going to talk about immigration. We’re going to talk about a lot of things. The full range.”
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares supports Bondy’s “active” approach, He said he received more calls from the Justice Department in the first 30 days of Trump’s tenure than during his three-year tenure in the Biden administration.
“They keep an open way of communicating. Given that the only time I heard from Merrick Garland was trying to sue Virginia for some reason,” Miyares told Fox News Digital.
Miyares said he believes the fentanyl epidemic is both a national security and domestic challenge, and how it is an average of addiction deaths every 12 months at the peak of the crisis. By comparison, over 50,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War over 15 years. “The Vietnam War happened every 12 months in this country, which was absolutely devastating. Virginia was not lost,” Mieres said.
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Miyares said that since 2021, Virginia’s addiction death toll has dropped by 40%, one of the most important declines in the country. He noted that Trump’s nominee leadership Drug Enforcement Bureau, Terry Cole, Currently serves as Virginia Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security.
Donald Trump spoke when he met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“He will be an extraordinary DEA chief,” Miyares said. “He knows what we’ve done in Virginia because he’s involved. I look forward to seeing him bring it nationwide.”
Miyares praised Trump’s Inauguration Day executive order for designating the cartel as a foreign terrorist organization. As for the Biden administration, Mieres said he “never felt they took it seriously.” He said a federal agent told him that the Biden administration discouraged online releases of drug ruptures, describing the attitude of the bureaucracy was a signal,[“Wedon’twanttoadmitthatwehavedrugproblemsinthiscountry”[“Wedon’twanttoadmitthatwehavedrugproblemsinthiscountry”[“Wedon’twanttoadmitwehaveadrugproblemthiscountry”[“我們不想承認我們在這個國家有毒品問題。”[“Wedon’twanttoadmitwehaveadrugprobleminthiscountry”
“It’s almost like an ostrich like an ostrich. Another problem is the border. More fentanyl crosses our southern border in a year and kills every man, woman and child in the United States three or four times. It’s amazing,” Miyares said. “The reality is that the Sinaloa cartel is the singlest. Dangerous criminal enterprises, I would argue that their influence has been astounding in the history of the world. ”
“It was President Trump’s announcement The cartel is a foreign terrorist organization. The Biden administration could have done that,” Mieres said, “These are criminal businesses, and I think these are doing chemical warfare against everyday Americans to a level where we are not even lost in the war, nor are we happening to our children, our friends, our friends and our neighbors. They are terrorist organizations. ”
As Democrats lose control of both houses in Congress, Democratic lawyers have taken charge of partisan agendas on many issues in the Trump administration, including immigration. Miyares urged “locking weapons and working together” in the fentanyl epidemic, urging senior national police to “locking weapons and working together” because “it affects every Republican or Democrat in the United States, red or blue state.”
“Make sure you have this partnership so that we can save lives because our real enemy is not another party,” he said. “Our real enemy is cartels and these dealers poison our children.”
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Authone told Fox News that bringing families together is a key component of public safety. He also said Republicans have a larger presence in inner cities that have long been controlled by Democrats.
“We maximize results to ensure the safety of people in this country is when we all work together. Having a Justice Department that is consistent with my philosophy of public safety, no safe community, nothing else important, puts us in a place where collaboration can be elevated to the next level,” said Sunday. “Citizens have an absolute right to claim their government work to ensure their safety.”
“I’m going to this meeting tomorrow when I’m at this meeting tomorrow, and I’m going to look at it with a positive lens. It’s an opportunity for us,” he told Fox News Digital. “This pandemic is not only killing people. It’s destroying our economy, and it’s ripping up families. It’s one of the worst parts of it. You know, American families are one of the most critical components of thriving communities and public safety.”
“When your addiction penetrates our community, it can tear the family apart. This is something I absolutely don’t want to see,” said Sunday. “Local law enforcement can’t do the job alone.”
He said from the experience of local prosecutors that some of the “most painful meetings I’ve ever had were with parents who were addicted to losing their kids.”
President Donald Trump speaks before he is sworn in at the Oval Office in the White House on February 5, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
He said: “The thought of having to watch your child slip into the addictive network and becoming the person you know is not alone.
The important part of conservatives for him was “keeping family together,” said Sunday, explaining that he saw his role as a father as “my most important job.” Fathers and family can apply through public safety lenses. “There are a lot of kids out there, especially in violent communities, without any guidance. They don’t have anyone to take care of them,” said Sunday.
Sunday praised the Trump administration for priorities for border security, noting that fentanyl encountered from Mexico “may take less than 24 hours to reach Pennsylvania.”
President Donald Trump will talk about crime at the Justice Department on Friday. (Brendab Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
When Pennsylvania experienced a red tide turn in the last election, it said Sunday that his focus as attorney general included internal cities that bothered the open-air drug market and other quality of life concerns. He spoke with Fox News Digital Digital from Philadelphia Thursday, and he was preparing to attend the mayor’s budget address: “People see Republican attorney general being part of Philadelphia.”
“I’m here, I’m not leaving, my resources will be here, and they’re not leaving because citizens of Philadelphia have the right to ask me to work hard for them, like anyone else,” said Sunday. “When you know, a Democrat to a party like a city like this, I’ll say, no impact, I’ll say, being a Republican attorney, will create the same situation as we’re dealing with.”
He said Sunday that he values holding people accountable and redemption plans. He said a former district attorney in York County, Pennsylvania, located outside Baltimore, Maryland, said he worked with the Black Secretary’s Association and Latino organizations every day “because they are victims of crimes, just as everyone is a victim of crime.”
“We live in this world now, you know, people judge other people, just based on their political parties,” said Sunday. “There are a lot of citizens here who may never have dealt with the Republican Attorney General, even physically…I’ve seen amazing things when people talk to each other.”
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey advocated for the Trump administration’s crackdown on China to fight the fentanyl crisis ahead of Friday’s meeting at the Justice Department.
“We must address the source of the fentanyl crisis and hold China accountable. They continue to provide Mexican drug cartels and terrorist organizations with the necessary components of fentanyl production, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and causing unknown suffering in our communities,” Bailey said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Our recent $25 billion verdict on China’s release of Covid-19 against the world is just one example of how lawyers nationwide start to fight against foreign actors who threaten our way of life.”
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch also praised Trump for “using tariffs as a tool to take decisive action on the fentanyl crisis and put Americans’ safety and our national security first.”
“In Mississippi, we are ready and ready to work with him,” Fitch told Fox News Digital. “We are increasing the dangers of fentanyl and equipping citizens with knowledge and tools to stop overdoses of medicinal use of our pills to kill the campaign. We are building a law enforcement network through the fentanyl strike force to get this deadly drug and its dealers out of the streets.”
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“Fentanyl kills hundreds of thousands of Americans and kills thousands of Tennessees every year, and this death toll demands an ineffective response,” Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in a statement to Fox News figures. He said he was grateful that Trump and Bundy “recognize the urgency of this crisis and effectively save lives.”
