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Bounties for ICE Agents as Trump mulls going after Cartels where they Live · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 3: First up, the drug cartels are now putting bounties on
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  Speaker 3: It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: The Department of Homeland Security is now saying there is
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  Speaker 3: credible intelligence the Mexican cartels have disseminated a bounty program.
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  Speaker 3: A bounty program incentivizing attacks on US federal immigration officers,
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  Speaker 3: media briefing subscribe payouts starting at around two thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: for doxing or surveillance, and rising to as much as
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  Speaker 3: fifty thousand dollars for assassinations of senior officials. The Department
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  Speaker 3: of Home in Security publicly condemning a surge in doxing
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  Speaker 3: and threats against ICE personnel and their families, and says
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  Speaker 3: it's coordinating with federal, state, and local partners to counter
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  Speaker 3: the threat. The Department of Homeland Security also announced the
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  Speaker 3: arrest in Illinois of a Latin King gang member accused
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  Speaker 3: of placing a hit on a senior US Border Patrol official.
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  Speaker 3: The Department of holyan security highlight the case is part
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  Speaker 3: of an escalating threat and the environment tied to the
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  Speaker 3: cartel line actors in the US. While the case involves
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  Speaker 3: border patrol, the Department of Home in Security we now
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  Speaker 3: know that this is a national security risk. Chicago, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, has been a focal point in recent coverage,
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  Speaker 3: with local outlets there reporting on federal briefings that cartels
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  Speaker 3: are working through the local gangs and offering the local
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  Speaker 3: gangs cash bounties scaled to the agent's rank and the
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  Speaker 3: level of harm done. This coming from Fox thirty two
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  Speaker 3: in Chicago. So how does the bounty system well work.
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  Speaker 3: It is a tiered system, very much like what they
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  Speaker 3: use in Mexico, a tiered incentive system for information gathering
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  Speaker 3: and doxing. There is also incentives for non lethal assaults.
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  Speaker 3: Kidnapping attempts get you more money, and lethal attacks get
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  Speaker 3: you paid big time, the payouts increasing as the chain
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  Speaker 3: gets bigger and bigger. The specifics coming from the Department
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  Speaker 3: of Holy in Security briefing and the Department of Holy
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  Speaker 3: in Security's own public statements emphasizing credible intelligence and a
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  Speaker 3: major spike in the threats and the doxing of our
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  Speaker 3: men and women in law enforcement. The tactics noted in
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  Speaker 3: coverage include doxing of the agents, surveilling the agents and
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  Speaker 3: their families, and attempts to ambush personnel, with the Department
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  Speaker 3: of Holy in Security warning of a hostile operating environment
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  Speaker 3: for ice and Customs and Border patrol in certain cities.
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  Speaker 3: Now there also going into what is being described as
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  Speaker 3: a protective posture and coordination. The Department of Homeland Security
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  Speaker 3: says it's working with the DOJ and local partners and
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  Speaker 3: is urging prompt reporting of threats. It has publicly condemned
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  Speaker 3: the docsing targeting of agents and families, and operational security
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  Speaker 3: steps are understandably not detailed publicly, But the bottom line
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  Speaker 3: is this we now know and multiple outlets are reporting
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  Speaker 3: that a cartel linked tiered bounty system targeting ICE and
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  Speaker 3: CBP officials, with the amounts reported up to fifty thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars for killing of high ranking officials is already in
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  Speaker 3: the marketplace. The Department has confirmed a credible threat environment
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  Speaker 3: and highlight at least one arrest tied to the solicitation
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  Speaker 3: to murder of a border patrol not just agent, but
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  Speaker 3: a border patrol leader. Expected heightened security measures and ongoing
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  Speaker 3: door investigations will be part of this. Here's more about
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  Speaker 3: what the Department of Homeland Security said and how Fox
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  Speaker 3: reported it.
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  Speaker 5: Twenty General pambam And says Facebook has removed the pays
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  Speaker 5: that was being used to target ICE agents in Chicago.
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  Speaker 5: The move comes as the DHS reveals cartels have issued
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  Speaker 5: bounties or hits on offices. Griff Jenkins joins US from
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  Speaker 5: Washington with the latest on this story.
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  Speaker 6: Griff, what do you know, Well, good morning, Lawrence. I
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  Speaker 6: know the threat to ICE and federal immigration law enforcement
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  Speaker 6: has never been higher. DHS says there's now this tiered
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  Speaker 6: bounty system set up by Mexican cartels. Take a look.
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  Speaker 6: They're offering two thousand for gathering intelligence or dotsing immigration agents,
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  Speaker 6: five to ten grand for kidnapping of standard ICE officers,
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  Speaker 6: and up to fifty thousand dollars for the assassination of
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  Speaker 6: a high ranking officer. This after an alleged Latin Kings
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  Speaker 6: gang member is accused of putting a bounty on Border
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  Speaker 6: Patrol's Commander at Large, Greg Bovino two thousand on info
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  Speaker 6: on him ten thousand if you can quote take him
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  Speaker 6: down now. The gang members attorney denies any ties to
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  Speaker 6: the Latin Kings and paints the man as a quote
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  Speaker 6: hard working family man, but Chief Bavino refused that claim
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  Speaker 6: and says things are actually getting worse.
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  Speaker 7: Riff The Latin Kings are associated with drug cartels to
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  Speaker 7: i terrorist organizations, so those bounties remain and in fact
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  Speaker 7: have actually increased because of this quote hard working man.
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  Speaker 7: It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 6: Meanwhile, in the wake of anti ICE riots in places
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  Speaker 6: like Chicago and Portland, A G. Bondi announcing Facebook has
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  Speaker 6: removed an ICE spotting group targeting officers. She writes on
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  Speaker 6: X The wave of violence against ICE has been driven
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  Speaker 6: by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put
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  Speaker 6: ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The
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  Speaker 6: Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate
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  Speaker 6: platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement. Now,
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  Speaker 6: as spokesperson for Facebook's parent company, Meta says, quote, this
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  Speaker 6: group was removed for violating our policies against coordinated harm.
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  Speaker 6: All of this, Lawrence comes Has says, you know, ICE
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  Speaker 6: continues to face a more than one thousand percent increase
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  Speaker 6: in assaults.
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  Speaker 3: Now, we've also learned more about what's happening in Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: For example, Harris Faulkner, I was actually in New York
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  Speaker 3: City with her on her show today and this is
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  Speaker 3: what I learned listening.
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  Speaker 8: Boxer's alert. Now, federal agents under siege. Immigration and Custom
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  Speaker 8: Enforcement teams are facing a new threat dished out by
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  Speaker 8: the drug cartels. First it was violent protesters rioting and
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  Speaker 8: attacking ICE agents on the streets. Now Homeland Security Department
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  Speaker 8: has announced Mexican cartels have put out bounties on agents
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  Speaker 8: in Chicago. DHS says those cartels are working with gangs.
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  Speaker 8: And extremist groups to deploy armed spotters to rooftops to
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  Speaker 8: track agent's movements. I'm Harris Faulkner. You are in the
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  Speaker 8: Faulkner Focus. DHS also revealed a tiered bounty system that
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  Speaker 8: cartels are using to incentivize violence. Now all of this,
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  Speaker 8: according to the DHS, here's the price. Cartels are putting
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  Speaker 8: out two thousand dollars to get information on ICE agents
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  Speaker 8: or to dos them, five to ten thousand dollars to
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  Speaker 8: kidnap or hurt the agents, up to fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 8: to assassinate senior officials. Meanwhile, the rioting heating up again.
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  Speaker 8: ICE and Border patrol were forced to use teargas to
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  Speaker 8: protect themselves from a large group of rioters in Chicago yesterday.
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  Speaker 8: Chicago Police Department confirming those rioters were throwing objects at
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  Speaker 8: the ICE agents, a serious federal crime. Still, Illinois Democrats
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  Speaker 8: are going after the ICE agents, maybe even fueling some
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  Speaker 8: of this violence we're seeing. One Democrat State senator posted
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  Speaker 8: ICE's behavior was unacceptable and that people in that neighborhood
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  Speaker 8: quote don't tolerate this kind of bs.
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  Speaker 7: End of quote.
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  Speaker 4: So there you have it.
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  Speaker 3: Democrats continuing to advocate for the assault, the doxing, the
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  Speaker 3: attacking of ICE agents.
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  Speaker 4: Now they're literally aligned with the cartels in Mexico now
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  Speaker 4: story number two.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump, after the doxing of ICE agents, is obviously
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  Speaker 3: not going to sit around and allow the cartels to
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  Speaker 3: put bounties on our men and women in uniform, our
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  Speaker 3: men and women protecting our border, our law enforcement officers,
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  Speaker 3: and think they can just get away with it, as
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  Speaker 3: they're now going to war with us. What is President
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  Speaker 3: Trump doing now, Well, he's next looking quote at land
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  Speaker 3: in Latin America, after the US military has conducted at
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  Speaker 3: least five fatal strikes against alleged drug boats in the
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  Speaker 3: Caribbean since September alone. Quote, we are certainly looking at
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  Speaker 3: land now because we've got to see very well under control,
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  Speaker 3: Trump told reporters on Wednesday. We've had a couple of
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  Speaker 3: days where there isn't a boat to be found, and
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  Speaker 3: I view that as a good thing, not a bad thing.
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  Speaker 3: Trump said he wasn't interested in having the Coastguard simply
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  Speaker 3: stop the elected drug boats because quote, we've been doing
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  Speaker 3: that for thirty years and it has been totally ineffective.
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  Speaker 3: They referring to the cartels have faster boats. Some of
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  Speaker 3: these boats are seriously, I mean, they're world class speedboats,
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  Speaker 3: Trump said. But they're not faster than missiles. But we've
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  Speaker 3: been trying to do that for years. The White House
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  Speaker 3: has not responded to requests for comment about what this
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  Speaker 3: means and details of the nature of a land operation
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  Speaker 3: that Trump is considering. Additionally, Trump confirmed that he has also,
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  Speaker 3: and this is big news, authorized the CIA to conduct
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  Speaker 3: covert operations in Venezuela, after The New York Times reported
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  Speaker 3: on Wednesday that he had a proved the order. According
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  Speaker 3: to Trump, he did so because Venezuela has released prisoners
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  Speaker 3: into the US and that drugs were coming into the
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  Speaker 3: US from Venezuela via maritime channels. Trump declined to answer though,
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  Speaker 3: when asked if the CIA had the authority to quote
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  Speaker 3: unquote take out the Venezuelan president Maduro, he's nothing more
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  Speaker 3: than a drug kingpin in that country. The Trump administration
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  Speaker 3: has said it does not recognize Maduro as a legitimate
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  Speaker 3: head of state, but a leader of a drug cartel.
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  Speaker 4: Quote.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to answer a question like that, Trump said,
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  Speaker 3: that's a ridiculous question for me to be given. Not
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  Speaker 3: really a ridiculous question. But wouldn't it be a ridiculous
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  Speaker 3: question for me to answer? But I think Venezuela is
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  Speaker 3: feeling heat now. The Trump administration has adopted a hard
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  Speaker 3: line approach to address the flow of drugs into the
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  Speaker 3: US and designated drug cartel groups like the Trende, Ragua, Sineloa,
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  Speaker 3: and other cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, doing this back
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  Speaker 3: in February. Additionally, the White House sent lawmaker a memo
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  Speaker 3: as well September thirtieth dated, informing them that the US
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  Speaker 3: is now participating in a non international armed conflict with
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  Speaker 3: drug smugglers. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have
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  Speaker 3: also voiced quote concerns over the legality of the strikes.
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  Speaker 3: Senator Adam Shift, a Democrat who's never met a drug
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  Speaker 3: dealer he didn't like, and Tim Kaine, the Democrat from Virginia,
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  Speaker 3: have filed a war powers resolution to bar US forces
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  Speaker 3: from engaging in hostilities against certain non state organizations, again
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  Speaker 3: defending the drug cartels that are killing Americans. The resolution
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  Speaker 3: failed in the Senate by a fifty one to forty
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  Speaker 3: eight margin. October eighth, Republican Ran Paul of Kentucky and
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  Speaker 3: Lisa Murkowski Alaska voted alongside their Democratic counterparts in the resolution.
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  Speaker 3: When asked about lawmakers' concerns about the legality of the strikes,
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  Speaker 3: Trump dismissed them and said that lawmakers were informed the
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  Speaker 3: vessels carried drugs. Quote, but they are given information that
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  Speaker 3: they were loaded up with drugs, and that's the thing
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  Speaker 3: that matters. The President said, when they're loaded up with drugs,
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  Speaker 3: their fair game. And every one of those ships were
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  Speaker 3: and they're not ships, their boats that were loaded up
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  Speaker 3: with drugs. So the President United States of America making
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  Speaker 3: it very clear he's not going to sit around and
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  Speaker 3: wait for more Americans to be killed by accidental overdoses
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  Speaker 3: from fetnel. He's not going to wait around while cartels
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  Speaker 3: are putting bounties on our American law enforcement heads. He's
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  Speaker 3: going to war with these cartels because he has designated
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  Speaker 3: them as terrorists organizations. And this is exactly what so
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  Speaker 3: many conservatives voted for in the last presidential election.
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