WATCH LIVE: Attorney General Blanche joins GOP gubernatorial candidate Blackburn for Memphis event
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Language: English (original, Whisper AI)
[0:10] Good morning. Good morning. There we go. Hi, everybody.
[0:16] First of all, thank everybody for being here. I appreciate everybody that's at the table to my right and my left,
[0:23] and also all the folks that are sitting in the audience. Really appreciate everybody being here.
[0:28] I'm one of the few people out of Washington, D.C. that has not been to Memphis since the start of the task force until today.
[0:37] So the president's been here, the directors of all of our law enforcement agencies.
[0:42] Gaddy's basically lived here.
[0:44] I think he's going to be a resident by next year, probably.
[0:48] But it's so I'm really privileged and honored to be here today with everybody sitting at the table,
[0:55] especially our fantastic and amazing senator sitting to my right.
[1:00] So thank you for letting me join you today.
[1:02] Okay. We have Geddy Seralta to my left, who's our director of the U.S. Marshal Service, who's just been a great friend of mine for the past several years,
[1:13] but a great friend of Memphis in helping to lead the task force and the work, the successes that we've had over the past year are in no part, no small part, thanks to Director Seralta.
[1:28] So thank you, my friend, for being here.
[1:30] We have Congressman David Kustoff, who also was the U.S. attorney here a while back.
[1:35] So thank you for being here.
[1:37] I appreciate it.
[1:38] And we have our Marshal Tyrese Miller.
[1:40] Good to see you as well.
[1:41] C.J. Davis here as well.
[1:43] Good to see you.
[1:44] Thank you.
[1:44] Thank you for your work, that you're keeping us safe.
[1:47] We appreciate it, and it's great.
[1:49] So I w