JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: We take you live to hotel here in Washington, the Omni Shoreham, where President Bush is going to be talking about the Drug-Free Communities Act Reauthorization Bill.</s>GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Let me first say: We're winning.</s>BUSH: Now that you have your uniform on, go get them.</s>WOODRUFF: As the president prepares to sign a bill that will put more money over a period of five years into community programs to lead the war against drugs, he talked about the War on Drugs as virtually the domestic equivalent of the War on Terrorism. He said, we're winning the war overseas, but he said we have another war at home, and that is the scourge of drugs. He cited statistics showing that young people in the 12th grade, 10th grade, even in the 8th grade, are using drugs again in higher numbers, after those statistics went down from the 1980s to the '90s. He said drug use is up again among young people. In an interesting twist in all this, at one point the president said, talking how drug use hurts everyone in this country, it breaks apart families, it turns law-abiding citizens into lawbreakers. He went on to say it is also supports abroad the trafficking and finances, the work of terror. He said it sustains terrorists who use the drug profits to fund themselves and fund the violent work that they do. Again, we are watching pictures of President Bush as he just signed a piece of legislation that will put more money into community drug-fighting efforts. Just finally, he said to people, If you are using drugs, if you quit, then you join the fight against terrorism in America and everywhere. And just finally, the president talked about how much money this will mean. He said it'll go from $50 million to $100 million over the next five or six years. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
President Signs Drug-Free Communities Reauthorization Bill