Latest / The Ben Ferguson Podcast / DEA Nominee Confirms MS-13 Gang Member's Identity while Most Americans Approve of Trump's Deportation Plan
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- 0:15Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
- 0:18Speaker 4: Good Monday morning. Ben Ferguson with you. It's so nice
- 0:20Speaker 4: to have you on the forty seven Morning Update. And
- 0:22Speaker 4: here are the three big stories we're talking about today.
- 0:25Speaker 4: First up, Lindsey Graham has some questions for the man
- 0:28Speaker 4: that's going to be leading the DEA and what he
- 0:31Speaker 4: had to say about Kamar Obrega Garcia, Well, it will
- 0:35Speaker 4: shock the media with their big lie and the Democratic Party,
- 0:39Speaker 4: and we have the audio for you here in just
- 0:41Speaker 4: a moment. Up next, it's not just about tariffs when
- 0:44Speaker 4: it comes to fighting with China. This after the Chinese
- 0:48Speaker 4: Foreign Ministry said the fetanel problem is a US problem,
- 0:52Speaker 4: not a China problem, even though the chemicals for fetnol
- 0:55Speaker 4: are coming from China. We'll have the latest on President
- 0:59Speaker 4: Trump's response on to the shocking move and admission by
- 1:02Speaker 4: the Chinese Communist Party that yeah, they are sending the
- 1:05Speaker 4: drugs that are killing countless Americans and finally, we're coming
- 1:10Speaker 4: for you. That is the message from the Trump administration
- 1:13Speaker 4: as major roundups of illegal immigrants happened over the weekend.
- 1:17Speaker 4: We'll give the details about where all this took place
- 1:20Speaker 4: and how they're saying.
- 1:21Speaker 2: This is just the beginning.
- 1:22Speaker 4: It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
- 1:26Speaker 4: Story number one, another media lie has exploded in the
- 1:30Speaker 4: face of Democrats and those in the media that we're
- 1:33Speaker 4: telling the story. President Donald Trump's pick to lead the
- 1:37Speaker 4: drug enforcement agency known as the DEA has blown up
- 1:42Speaker 4: the denials from liberal media outlets that purported that the
- 1:45Speaker 4: MS thirteen gang member Kilmar Obrego Garcia is not sporting
- 1:50Speaker 4: tattoos for the gang. The DEA administrator Terry Cole made
- 1:55Speaker 4: it very clear to the members of the Senate Judiciary
- 1:58Speaker 4: Committee that the media and demic crafts were long about
- 2:01Speaker 4: the tattoos of a man they described as just a
- 2:04Speaker 4: father from Maryland. He was asked about the tattoos during
- 2:09Speaker 4: the hearing from Lindsey Graham, and here is what he said.
- 2:12Speaker 5: Are you familiar with MS thirteen, Yes, sir, briefly, what
- 2:17Speaker 5: are they?
- 2:18Speaker 1: They're a terrorist organization?
- 2:19Speaker 5: Yeah, they've been designated a foreign terrorist organization. Yes, sir,
- 2:23Speaker 5: they're involved in drugs, fentanyl.
- 2:25Speaker 6: Extortion, kidnapping, drugs, intimidation, money laundering.
- 2:30Speaker 5: In your time in the DEA, do they have like
- 2:33Speaker 5: membership cards?
- 2:35Speaker 6: Not necessarily the membership cards, but they are well recognized
- 2:38Speaker 6: based on tattoos and different Do you.
- 2:41Speaker 5: Have a photo I think our office provided to you.
- 2:45Speaker 1: We spoke, Yeah, we spoke about it earlier. Yes, sir,
- 2:47Speaker 1: can you give this touff?
- 2:49Speaker 5: This is a photo of tattoos a mister Breo Garcia.
- 2:57Speaker 5: Much attention has been paid to his case. I think
- 3:01Speaker 5: he's in Venezuela. Can you see the photo here? Yes?
- 3:06Speaker 1: Sorry, Ken, I have a copy of it.
- 3:08Speaker 5: Okay. Based on your time and experience and expertise in
- 3:13Speaker 5: the DEA, what does that photo or those markings suggest
- 3:17Speaker 5: to you.
- 3:18Speaker 6: Well, they suggest that he's an MS thirteen member, that
- 3:20Speaker 6: those are his markings, that's his brand. Not only my
- 3:24Speaker 6: time at the DEA, but currently I participate.
- 3:28Speaker 5: The start with a leaf, what's that sign of marijuana? Okay?
- 3:34Speaker 5: The next one.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Is your smiley face.
- 3:37Speaker 5: Okay, and the next one is I.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Believe that's the one. I can't. It's a little burned
- 3:40Speaker 1: out from you, sir. And then the last one's a
- 3:42Speaker 1: three backwards.
- 3:43Speaker 5: Okay, So, based on your time as a DEA agent
- 3:47Speaker 5: in the field, particularly in Mexico, these tastoos are consistent
- 3:53Speaker 5: with MS thirteen associations.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Yes, sir, that's correct.
- 3:56Speaker 5: Do you know of any other set of combinations that
- 4:00Speaker 5: it suggests some other organization disrepresents with.
- 4:03Speaker 4: This particular one, No, sir, Yet again, it's very clear
- 4:07Speaker 4: the DEA nominee is the Democrats and the media's worst nightmare.
- 4:11Speaker 2: Quote.
- 4:12Speaker 4: Based on your time as a DA agent in the field,
- 4:15Speaker 4: particularly in Mexico, these tattoos are consistent with MS thirteen
- 4:18Speaker 4: associations the DA chief nominee.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Yes.
- 4:21Speaker 4: So why did the media lie to you? Why do
- 4:24Speaker 4: they say that the picture wasn't even real, that the
- 4:27Speaker 4: president was, you know, bamboozled? Well, ABC News even in
- 4:32Speaker 4: the one hundred day interview, try to imply that the
- 4:35Speaker 4: picture wasn't real. Not only is it real, but now
- 4:38Speaker 4: we know from the man who will be in charge
- 4:41Speaker 4: of the DEA that yes, this individual is an MS
- 4:44Speaker 4: thirteen gang member, not some father from Maryland. And just
- 4:48Speaker 4: think about it this way. This is the man that
- 4:51Speaker 4: Democrats flew down to hang out with, hold his hand
- 4:55Speaker 4: and desperately want to bring back into the United States
- 4:59Speaker 4: of America a man that two different courts have declared
- 5:03Speaker 4: a member of a terrorist organization. So if you think
- 5:06Speaker 4: democrats and the media are looking out for you, just
- 5:09Speaker 4: look at this new hoax that they've already been busted on.
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- 6:12Speaker 3: Next story number two.
- 6:13Speaker 4: The tariff war with China is continuing, and it's not
- 6:18Speaker 4: just about tariffs on goods. It's also about what China
- 6:22Speaker 4: is doing to kill Americans. The Chinese Foreign Minister spokesman
- 6:26Speaker 4: is now insisting that the fetnyl crisis is in fact
- 6:30Speaker 4: the US problem, not China's, even though the drugs and
- 6:35Speaker 4: chemicals are coming directly from China. In an actual statement
- 6:39Speaker 4: at a press briefing, this is what the Chinese communists
- 6:42Speaker 4: had to say, quote the US, and the US alone
- 6:46Speaker 4: has the responsibility to solve it, even though they are
- 6:50Speaker 4: the drug supplier. Despite the goodwill China has shown. They
- 6:54Speaker 4: went on to say the US slap tariffs on Chinese
- 6:57Speaker 4: imports and blame it on This is bullying, China said,
- 7:02Speaker 4: through and through and highly damaging to dialogue and cooperation
- 7:07Speaker 4: on counter narcotics. This is exactly why the President United
- 7:11Speaker 4: States of America is sticking it to China and not
- 7:14Speaker 4: backing down. China also wasn't done with their propaganda, They said, quote.
- 7:18Speaker 4: The US should know that vilifying others will not hide
- 7:22Speaker 4: its failed responsibility to punish those who try to help,
- 7:26Speaker 4: will not solve any problem, and intimidation or threats are
- 7:30Speaker 4: certainly not the right way to engage with China now.
- 7:33Speaker 4: The trade representative was also responding to reports about slow
- 7:37Speaker 4: progress and the talks between US and Chinese officials about
- 7:41Speaker 4: curtailing China's supply of the chemicals needed for the deadly
- 7:46Speaker 4: fetnyl drug. US officials have made it clear that the
- 7:50Speaker 4: Chinese are failing to negotiate in good faith now. These
- 7:54Speaker 4: officials also said that China is quote exchanging intelligence about traffickers,
- 7:59Speaker 4: but it's proposals to resolve the fetinl crisis have been
- 8:02Speaker 4: quote inadequate. Also, while China might be willing to share
- 8:06Speaker 4: intel about the traffickers, it rarely, unfortunately takes serious action
- 8:11Speaker 4: against the illicit chemical manufacturers in China that they clearly
- 8:15Speaker 4: know about. This is partly because fetanyl chemicals also have
- 8:20Speaker 4: quote legitimate uses and the Chinese government is reluctant to
- 8:24Speaker 4: compromise the profits of their huge chemical companies, even if
- 8:29Speaker 4: it means it's killing Americans. Start putting big important people
- 8:33Speaker 4: behind bars as a signal to the whole industry or
- 8:36Speaker 4: black market, we just haven't seen. That is what one
- 8:39Speaker 4: US officials said on the record. Now, the Trump administration
- 8:42Speaker 4: has made it clear they want China to stop killing Americans.
- 8:46Speaker 4: They want China to aggressively prosecute those who produce and
- 8:51Speaker 4: sell fetanyl chemicals, while China is merely offering to regulate
- 8:55Speaker 4: the chemicals a little more tightly. That's at least what
- 8:58Speaker 4: they're trying to sell the public. But the reality is
- 9:01Speaker 4: talk is cheap, and China has never done anything meaningful
- 9:05Speaker 4: to shut down the chemical pipeline, is what American officials
- 9:09Speaker 4: have said in the Trump administration. Now, Donald Trump's first
- 9:12Speaker 4: round of twenty percent tariffs on China in February was
- 9:16Speaker 4: presented as punishment for China failing to take the fetanel
- 9:19Speaker 4: crisis seriously. China responded by saying it would do nothing
- 9:23Speaker 4: further to address the fetnyl problem until the tariffs were lifted,
- 9:27Speaker 4: basically admitting that they know that fetnah is flowing into
- 9:31Speaker 4: America at a record pace. American officials have also noted
- 9:35Speaker 4: that China is a member of the UN Commission on
- 9:38Speaker 4: Narcotics and Drugs, which unanimously agreed to place tighter controls
- 9:42Speaker 4: on fetnel chemicals at a March twenty twenty four meeting
- 9:45Speaker 4: in Vienna. Well guess what China has done nothing since
- 9:49Speaker 4: then at all to stop the flow of drugs into America.
- 9:53Speaker 4: Now pressed on the issue, Chinese officials have lately been
- 9:57Speaker 4: repeating the Chinese communist talking point that fetanyl is entirely
- 10:01Speaker 4: an American problem, even though no one disputes that most
- 10:05Speaker 4: of the chemicals come from China for fetanyl in the
- 10:09Speaker 4: entire world. Now, the biggest change in fetnyl production since
- 10:12Speaker 4: the Trump administration's term has been that China no longer
- 10:15Speaker 4: ships the chemicals directly to American drug dealers. Instead, it
- 10:20Speaker 4: ships the chemicals to Mexican cartels. So it's fair to
- 10:24Speaker 4: say that China is now in business with the cartels
- 10:26Speaker 4: in Mexico, and then those cartels are manufacturing the fetanyl
- 10:31Speaker 4: and then smuggling it across the US border. Fetnyl users
- 10:34Speaker 4: and traffickers in the US say there has been very
- 10:37Speaker 4: little reduction in the supply of the drug since China
- 10:40Speaker 4: promised to crack down on chemical producers.
- 10:43Speaker 2: Obviously they were lying.
- 10:44Speaker 4: So if you want to know why Donald Trump is
- 10:46Speaker 4: standing firm, it is clear that he's standing firm to
- 10:50Speaker 4: protect our kids and grandkids, so many that are dying
- 10:53Speaker 4: from accidental overdose from fetanyl lace pills. At the end
- 10:58Speaker 4: of the day, the President isn't just fighting for better
- 11:01Speaker 4: deals on tariffs. He's also fighting to protect American.
- 11:04Speaker 2: Lie And finally, story number three.
- 11:06Speaker 4: CBS News poll is out saying this, do you approve
- 11:10Speaker 4: or disapprove of the Trump Administration's program to find and
- 11:15Speaker 4: deport immigrants who were in the US illegally? Fifty six
- 11:20Speaker 4: percent of Americans say yes and forty four percent disapprove,
- 11:24Speaker 4: meaning there is a twelve point advantage for Donald Trump
- 11:29Speaker 4: to do exactly what he's doing and what his promise
- 11:32Speaker 4: was to get rid of illegal immigrants that have flooded
- 11:35Speaker 4: this country, which.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Brings me to three different headlines.
- 11:39Speaker 4: Eight hundred illegal aliens were rounded up in a four
- 11:42Speaker 4: day Florida ice raid. US Immigration and custom Enforcement officers
- 11:48Speaker 4: and agents teamed up with Florida State police to round
- 11:52Speaker 4: up nearly eight hundred legal aliens during what they described
- 11:55Speaker 4: as a major operation. The roundup came as part of
- 11:59Speaker 4: a multi agency immigration enforcement crackdown, and they're saying that
- 12:03Speaker 4: this is just the beginning. Secretary of Homeland Security Christy
- 12:08Speaker 4: Nome put it this way, saying, quote, this is a
- 12:11Speaker 4: warning to all criminal illegal aliens. We're coming for you.
- 12:16Speaker 4: Our state partners will hunt you down, arrest you, and
- 12:20Speaker 4: deport you. Florida Highway Patrol troopers teamed up with the
- 12:24Speaker 4: federal Task Force as part of the Operation Tidle Wave.
- 12:27Speaker 4: Nearly eight hundred arrests took place during the four days
- 12:30Speaker 4: of the targeted enforcement operation. ICE officials called it a
- 12:35Speaker 4: first of its time partnership between state and federal authorities.
- 12:40Speaker 2: Florida Governor Rond De.
- 12:41Speaker 4: Santis commenting on social media, saying Florida is leading the
- 12:44Speaker 4: nation in active cooperation with the Trump administration for immigration
- 12:49Speaker 4: enforcement and deportation operations. Bill Malusion at Fox News reported
- 12:55Speaker 4: the arrest included Colombian murderers, plural Ms thirteen and eighteenth
- 13:00Speaker 4: Street gang members, and a Russian spy wanted by Interpol.
- 13:05Speaker 4: This is just part of Donald Trump paying off and
- 13:08Speaker 4: what he promised would be big action by his administration.
- 13:12Speaker 2: And that's not all. FEDS also busted.
- 13:14Speaker 4: One hundred and fourteen illegal aliens during a raid at
- 13:18Speaker 4: a Colorado underground.
- 13:20Speaker 2: Nightclub, all caught on tape.
- 13:23Speaker 4: More than one hundred illegal aliens busted during the raid
- 13:26Speaker 4: in Colorado Springs on Sunday morning. The operation, led by
- 13:30Speaker 4: the Drug Enforcement Administration DEA and the Rocky Mountain Division,
- 13:34Speaker 4: resulted in the arrest of one hundred and fourteen illegal aliens.
- 13:38Speaker 4: The outlet noted that authority said members of the violent
- 13:42Speaker 4: gangs trend' Ragua and MS thirteen frequented the venue. Video
- 13:47Speaker 4: footage from the DEA shared showing the raid and officers
- 13:52Speaker 4: swarming the building. One of them smashed a hole in
- 13:55Speaker 4: what appears to be a window where flashing blue lights
- 13:58Speaker 4: are seen inside monks. Later, a door opens and people
- 14:02Speaker 4: are seen pouring out. Many of them held their hands
- 14:05Speaker 4: up in surrender as officers confronted them and sirens began blaring.
- 14:10Speaker 4: Several women are also seen among the group. DEA Rocky
- 14:13Speaker 4: Mountain led the multi agency enforcement operation, along with local
- 14:17Speaker 4: and federal partners. The Department of Homeland Security has taken
- 14:21Speaker 4: more than one hundred legal aliens into custody. Drugs and
- 14:25Speaker 4: weapons were also seized at the underground nightclub in Colorado Springs.
- 14:30Speaker 2: So what is the point of all this?
- 14:32Speaker 4: The President is showing Americans that this is just the beginning,
- 14:36Speaker 4: and many state and local authorities are now more than
- 14:39Speaker 4: happy to be working with the Trump administration to get
- 14:42Speaker 4: rid of violent gang members and those that are killing
- 14:45Speaker 4: Americans with FETNO as well that they're putting onto our
- 14:48Speaker 4: streets yet again, another example of just one hundred days
- 14:52Speaker 4: in and Donald Trump, in many ways, is just getting started.
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