‘SERIOUS CHARGES’ against Iranian-Iraqi national in terror case

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch joins me now here in Dallas. Good to see you, Mr. Attorney General.

[00:00:04]>> Good to be here. Thank you.

[00:00:05]>> Um, let's talk about what's happening in New Jersey. Um, I know that this is a concern for the administration. I know you don't want to see a repeat of what happened in Minneapolis. What can be done to stop this from metastasizing?

[00:00:15]>> Well, first of all, what you just witnessed and what you just showed, that is not peaceful protesting. That is not protesting that's allowed under our Constitution, which everybody is is perfectly fine with people doing. And how we stop what you just saw, which is violence and crimes being committed, is is we have to have law enforcement.

[00:00:32]Remember, we're doing this with virtually no support from local law enforcement in New Jersey. So, this is just the brave men and women of the federal government of ICE, and they will be supported with other law enforcement tonight. And and the way that we stop it is by making arrests where appropriate, which is exactly what we will do. And you have some limitations in your capabilities literally over territory.

[00:00:53]You can defend your federal property, but without local authorities support, if these riers retreat into New Jersey across the street, what can you do?

[00:01:03]>> That's that's exactly right. Well, we we are limited. We're protecting our property. We're protecting our facilities, and we're making sure that no harm comes to our our law enforcement officers. But when you have no support from local law enforcement, then then the protesters and the rioters, which is what they are, they're rioters. they're able to to back up and and and kind of gather up and and then attack again. And so it makes it much more difficult, but it doesn't make it impossible. And and we're we've been on the phone. We've been working on a plan. And I I promise I promise you that those riers and the violence that we saw on our streets uh in in Jersey the last couple days is not going to be tolerated.

[00:01:40]>> Okay, let's talk about what you can and cannot tolerate. This is video from last night. This is one of those riers and him shouting death threats at ICE officers. Watch >> your whole family.

[00:01:55]>> Your whole FAMILY IS DEAD. YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR WIFE ALL DEAD.

[00:02:01]>> MY BOY, >> I HAVE YOUR FACE.

[00:02:04]>> You're dead. Dead.

[00:02:07]>> You're dead. Your children, your wife, your whole family. I'll kill them all.

[00:02:12]and then ironically says, "I have your face." We all have his face.

[00:02:17]>> Yeah. So do we. And and look, that's a federal crime. And and not only threatening the the ICE officer, but think about how disgusting this individual is threatening his family and his children with death. Um what is this man doing? He's just doing his job standing there. And so that this again, that is disgusting that what you just showed. And and and we see his face. And I promise you, we will find him. And when we find him, we will arrest him because it is a crime not only to to threaten law enforcement, but not surprisingly to threaten their family as well.

[00:02:48]>> All right, just in, this is breaking news you're prepared to share with us today here on the Will Kane Show. You have just indicted a terrorist overseas who's been coordinating to launch tacks back here in America. Yes, he's here and and the Southern District of New York uh charged him with a complaint and then he was just indicted a few minutes ago and and it's consistent with the complaint this as alleged in the indictment. This man was threatening um all kinds of of mayhem all over this country in Canada and elsewhere. And and this is the kind of of of real threats that that the the brave men and women of law enforcement are are prot are pro protecting us from every day is a very important case of very serious charges and and and it's a good thing that he's he's in jail. We have you here with us in person, but we'll still read from the press release from the DOJ where you guys have said, "Alsadi was allegedly involved in nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks throughout Europe and the United States.

[00:03:45]It included extensive international planning, coordination, and radicalization. Alsum Solommani, the longtime commander of the IRGC." In following up on this case, let me bring in as well the sort of landmark indictment of Rahul Castro in Cuba. Um, that was another similar moment for your DOJ. But both Raul Castro and Alsadi are not in America. So, what happens next after you indict?

[00:04:11]>> Well, for for Mr. Castro, like anybody that's indicted outside this country, which we do all the time, the goal of the indictment isn't just the paper it's printed on. It's to bring the person charged into this country in a court of law and have them face justice. And how we do that, I mean, Maduro is is is is an extreme example that that that happened on on January 1st, but how we do that normally is extradition. It's working with our international partners.

[00:04:34]And and so I I said this the day of the indictment when we unsealed the indictment, but we didn't do this for a show indictment. We did this because we because we we we really need Castro here to face charges. Um he was indicted again um by by a grand jury in in Miami.

[00:04:50]And and that's where he should be tried.

[00:04:51]Uh, and we're going to do everything we can to get him here.

[00:04:54]>> Okay. Um, a bit of disagreement within the administration as we sit here today.

[00:05:00]DHS and Secretary Mark Way have talked about stopping international flights, no longer providing customs and border patrol to international flights across the country that are located in sanctuary cities. As I understand it, that roughly corresponds to about 1,100 flights a day. That's 185,000 people daily coming in through these sanctuary city airports from overseas. Now, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy does not want to see this happen.

[00:05:26]Secretary Mullen has said this is an issue of priorities. If you don't support what we're doing, for example, in New Jersey, then we can't support your ability to conduct international traffic. Right. And I I actually don't think they're saying anything different.

[00:05:39]They're just they're just talking about um confronting a problem and how do you fix it? And so what we're talking about, what do you do when there's a sanctuary city, when there's where laws that are passed that don't allow law enforcement to help us in any way, shape, or form?

[00:05:52]That is that is terrible for this country. It is terrible for the safety of this country. And so, how do you fix it? And and what the secretary talked about doing as an option is is is is extreme and something that that we have to talk about all of our options. And and Secretary Duffy isn't isn't in any way saying we shouldn't. and and the answer will ultimately be what makes the most sense and what does President Trump think we should do about this because both are right.

[00:06:15]>> This is an ongoing problem. This is a problem that we have talked about throughout our own interview together here today. What do you do when you have local authorities at the behest of their political leaders who are unwilling to help you out whether or not that be in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Newark, New Jersey, or any of these sanctuary cities and in some cases get in the way of federal law enforcement. I mean, >> and that is a real predicament for you to figure out on an ongoing basis. What do you do with these states?

[00:06:41]>> It is. It is a predicament. And by the way, what to a person, most law enforcement, most of our local cops want to help. It's they're not allowed to.

[00:06:49]And so, it's not as if we have cops standing by saying, "Go do it on your own." We have cops who want to help, who want to be there doing what they signed up to do. They given their careers to to public service, but there's local leadership not letting them do it. And here's what we do. We just fight. We fight. We sue them. We do everything we can to to to embarrass them, to let them know they're doing harm to their citizens. We filed multiple lawsuits today against in four separate states because you have states that are not letting law enforcement, not letting ICE officers get get license plates where their their addresses are kept are kept secret so they don't get docks and their family doesn't get threatened. There is no rational reason for that in this country. So there's a governor, there's a mayor that these are citizens in their cities that can't go and get license plates to keep them safety, to keep them safe and and we're just fighting. So Mr. Attorney General, you sit in a unique position. Well, the audience and people like me do a lot of talking and hoping and wishing for accountability and politicians often give rhetoric to accountability. You are actually the mechanism. You are the muscle for accountability. So, for example, when it comes to fraud, um the vice president's task force can withhold federal funds, but ultimately if we're talking about in Minnesota or California, somebody who's committing fraud, it lands at your desk.

[00:08:00]It lands in the form of the a criminal or civil complaint. I understand that there's been 400 fraud related actions, enforcement actions in the last 51 days.

[00:08:11]Yep.

[00:08:11]>> So, what can you tell people about the kind of accountability? Because I will tell you when we talk about Minnesota, Tim Waltz not running for reelection is not enough of a form of accountability for the people out there that are having thousands, millions, hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from them through fraud.

[00:08:28]>> Yes, that's right. So, here's how we talk about accountability. We talk about um arrests. We talk about prosecutions.

[00:08:34]We talk about jail sentences. And that's what we're doing at the Department of Justice. We're working with Inspector Generals, FBI, DHS, and HSI agents. And just a few a few examples, a jury convicted a Florida man of over a billion dollars in Medicaid fraud, Medicare fraud just last week. There was a man sentenced in Minnesota to 41 years in prison for fraud. And these are fra these these cases are fraud of the worst kind. Fraud against our most needy are the people who deserve the money the most. Children who need money for their lunches when they're at school. Um elderly who who are having all kinds of medical procedures done in their name when they're not even asking for them.

[00:09:10]And this this is money coming from the federal government. It's your tax dollars. It's my tax dollars. The only way we can hold them accountable is by putting them in jail.

[00:09:19]>> Does that include politicians? I know that we're in the investigative process.

[00:09:22]And I know that your answer to me probably need will be you need to let the investigation play out. But if this lands and this is can be proven that politicians were in some way culpable, overseeing it, negligent in some way, political accountability just isn't enough for the American people. Uh that's consistent with the president's um absolute directive to his department of justice there. It does not matter if you're a politician or if you're a fraudster from Somalia. We cannot tolerate it. And and Governor Waltz is a great example. He has done nothing done nothing but sue us. Okay? Sue the Department of Justice for trying to get records to understand the fraud happening in his state. Okay? So that is that is his reaction to us trying to save the government's money and recover against fraudsters is filing lawsuits against us. And what's been the reaction of California Governor Gavin Newsome?

[00:10:10]>> Well, we've all seen it on on the one hand, he all of a sudden did a little bit of fraud, fraud arrests. He arrested he he arrested a little a few people for fraud. Otherwise, eerie silence from him. Eerie silence. And there's more money being spent in California from the federal government than any other place in this country. And the fraud is extraordinary. And so, at some point, politicians have to be held accountable.

[00:10:31]Whether it's through through me and through the grand jury process or through the voters, they have to be held accountable.

[00:10:36]>> All right. This has been great to have you on the show. Thank you for the long conversation. Great to be here. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch. Thank you.

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