Kash Patel on FBI Operation Blackout and International Scam Centers

Earlier today, the FBI director, Kash Patel, joined President Trump for a

roundtable on the administration's crackdown on cybercrime.

They touted the massively successful Operation Blackout.

Take a look at the numbers. They speak for themselves.

So far the bureau has seized nearly $17 billion,

arrested hundreds of these alleged scammers, freed thousands

of trafficked workers, prevented nearly $700 million

in more losses, and this week alone they have made 28

arrests, taken down nearly four million social

media accounts

tied to fraudulent activity, all thanks to a partnership with

Meta. They seized, seized over 350 devices,

identified over 100 scam victims.

The FBI director joins us more. I'm lo- I'm, I'm looking at these statistic.

I'm looking at the numbers. We just put it up there. $17 billion.

That's, that's being stolen directly from the

American people.

Uh, tell us more about it.

Great to be with you, Sean. And look, President Trump signed an executive order.

Finally, we have a president who backs law

enforcement, and finally he priorit- and

finally we have a president who prioritized these scam centers.

And look, for Americans that don't know, these scam centers are in Southeast Asia,

they're in Africa, they're in the Middle East.

They're literally towns where people, thousands of people, are forced

into labor to fleece American citizens of their hard-earned money,

and they're doing it through the phones, through the emails, and the internets.

And what President Trump's EO does, allows law enforcement to go on an

all-out assault and make sure that there is no sanctuary for anyone who

commits these types of nefarious criminal activities.

And thanks to President Trump's relationships with foreign governments

and the

private sector, companies like Meta, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and

X have come to the table with this FBI under Operation Blackout and

annihilated these scam centers. Sean, we literally go in there in these

cross-border regions and we di- disrupt them, dismantle them, and then we

demolish them, and that's how we go after these people,

and that's our message

from this FBI. But on the flip side on Operation

Blackout, we're also getting ahead

of it. Thanks to President Trump's initiative,

we're going out there and stopping

nearly 11,000 Americans from being fleeced of $670 million.

That's money before it even left their bank account, because we're taking an

offensive and defensive approach, and it's du-

it's due to the team effort under

the Trump administration