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Trump FAFO to Venezuela as Aircraft Carrier group heads to the Caribbean · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: They're not great. Questions to them, must say you know this,
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Monday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 4: the forty seven Morning Update, And we've got one big
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  Speaker 4: story for you. The US military is sitting an aircraft
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  Speaker 4: carrier fighter group to the waters off of South America,
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  Speaker 4: the Pentagon announcing this and making it very clear Donald
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: The US is now sending an aircraft carrier to South
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  Speaker 4: America as the Narco strikes are intensifying. This as Democrats
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  Speaker 4: are claiming that, well, we don't really know if the
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  Speaker 4: people on these boats are actually Narco terrorists. Congressman McCormick,
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  Speaker 4: who is a veteran that served as country, set the
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  Speaker 4: record straight on that on Newsmax with credevn Sustra. Listen
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  Speaker 4: to what he said about these strikes, including the submarine
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  Speaker 4: that was blown up earlier this week.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of this is due with our intelligence gathering capabilities. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we don't take out people just based on a hunch.
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  Speaker 1: They get confirmation from real intel on what these boats
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  Speaker 1: have on board, like he knew with the submarine, for example,
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  Speaker 1: had mostly fentanyl. Bad guys. We knew what gangs they
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  Speaker 1: belonged to, and we take out the bad guys. It'd
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  Speaker 1: be very careful in selection. When we used to be
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  Speaker 1: on floats and we'd have an idea what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to take out take down a ship like that, we
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even talk about we had real live intelligence. If
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  Speaker 1: we had any doubt at all, it'd be called off.
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  Speaker 1: So these are confirm targets. These aren't just we hope
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  Speaker 1: they're bad guys.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't we there's no effort to contact them and
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  Speaker 2: board them. I mean the old days you could contact
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  Speaker 2: if they have a flag from Venezuela called Venezuela and
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  Speaker 2: say can I board it? Or from Panama or you
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  Speaker 2: can ask to aboard it. But are we boarding? Are
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  Speaker 2: we attempting to board anyth these? Or we just make
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  Speaker 2: the determination these are bad and boom the.
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  Speaker 1: Guns and we've done it in the past. Two things
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  Speaker 1: can happen. First of all, they can run and they
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  Speaker 1: can get away and go back and they going back
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  Speaker 1: into the international while they're home free. Or they can
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  Speaker 1: shoot back and kill our marines and our sailors or
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  Speaker 1: seals or whomever is trying to board that ship. Now
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  Speaker 1: you have a very dangerous situation. The question is are
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  Speaker 1: you willing to risk lives to take somebody who you
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  Speaker 1: know is smuggling jail? Now you're got to put them
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  Speaker 1: in jail, in our jail system and eventually get them
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  Speaker 1: back there. The expense and the danger to our troops
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  Speaker 1: versus just taking out bad guys who are literally coming
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  Speaker 1: here that have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, more
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  Speaker 1: than all the wars we've ever fought together. When you
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  Speaker 1: start combining all the deaths that have happened from fentanyl
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  Speaker 1: and overdose and drugs in the gang wars and the
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  Speaker 1: inner cities, you look at the immortality morbidity of a
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  Speaker 1: male black man in America, And I got this from
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  Speaker 1: doctor Sache when I was a student at Morehouse. It
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  Speaker 1: declined dramatically with the cocaine wars. With crack cocaine is
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  Speaker 1: only escalated with this sort of warfare that they're basically
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  Speaker 1: having on us.
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  Speaker 4: You listen to Congress from McCormick there, he's absolutely right,
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  Speaker 4: and he's saying, why would we risk our lives knowing
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  Speaker 4: that these are bad guys that need to be taken out,
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  Speaker 4: Which brings us to the new point. The US military
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  Speaker 4: sending this aircraft carrier to the waters off South America.
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  Speaker 4: The Pentagon announcing this on Friday, in the latest escalation
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  Speaker 4: of military firepower in a region where the Trump administration
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  Speaker 4: has unleashed more rapid strikes in recent days against boats
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  Speaker 4: it accused of carrying drugs just like fetnyl. The Secretary
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  Speaker 4: of War Pete Edseth ordered the USS Gerald R Ford
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  Speaker 4: and its Strike Group to deploy to the US Southern
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  Speaker 4: Command region to quote bolster US capacity to detect, monitor,
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  Speaker 4: and disrupt illicit act and activities that compromise a safety
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  Speaker 4: and prosperity of the United States That coming from the
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  Speaker 4: Pentagon spokesman Sean Pernell. The USS Ford, which has five
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  Speaker 4: destroyers in its strike group, is now deployed to the
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  Speaker 4: Mediterranean Sea. One of its destroyers is in the Arabian
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  Speaker 4: Sea and another in the Red Sea. A person familiar
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  Speaker 4: with the operation told the Associated Press as a Friday,
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  Speaker 4: the aircraft carrier was in port in Croatia on the
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  Speaker 4: Arctic Sea. The person, who spoke on condition of amininity
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  Speaker 4: to discussions of military operations, would not say how long
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  Speaker 4: it would take for the strike group to arrive in
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  Speaker 4: the waters off South America, or if all five destroyers
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  Speaker 4: would make that journey while deploying an aircraft carrier would
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  Speaker 4: surge major additional resources to a region that has already
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  Speaker 4: seen an unusually large US military build up in the
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  Speaker 4: Caribbean Sea and the waters off Venezuela. The latest deployment
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  Speaker 4: and the quickening pace of the US strikes, including one
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  Speaker 4: on Friday, raise new speculations about how far the Trump
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  Speaker 4: administration may go in operations it says are targeting drug trafficking,
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  Speaker 4: including whether it could try to topple the Venezuelan president Maduro,
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  Speaker 4: who already has a massive bounty on his head now
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  Speaker 4: he faces charges of narco terrorism in the United States
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  Speaker 4: of America. There are already more, by the way than
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  Speaker 4: six thousand US sailors and marines on eight warships in
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  Speaker 4: the region. If the entire USS Ford Strike Group arrives,
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  Speaker 4: that could bring nearly four thousand, five hundred more sailors,
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  Speaker 4: as well as the nine squadrons of aircraft assigned to
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  Speaker 4: the carrier. Complicated the situation is also tropical store Melissa,
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  Speaker 4: which has been nearly stationary in the Central Caribbean, with
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  Speaker 4: forecasters warning it could soon strengthen into a powerful hurricane.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Hours before Parnell announced the news, the Secretary of War
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  Speaker 4: Headsets said the military had conducted the ten strike on
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  Speaker 4: a suspected drug running boat, leaving six people dead and
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  Speaker 4: bring the death count for the attacks that began in
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  Speaker 4: early September to at least forty three narco terraces. Head
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  Speaker 4: Sets set on social media that the vessel struck overnight
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  Speaker 4: was operating by the trend de Iragua gang. It was
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  Speaker 4: the second time the Trump administration has tied one of
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  Speaker 4: its operations to the gang that originated in a venezuela
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  Speaker 4: in prison. The strikes have ramped up from one every
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  Speaker 4: few weeks when they first began last month to three
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  Speaker 4: this week alone, killing a total of at least forty
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  Speaker 4: three terrasts Now. Two of the most recent strikes were
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  Speaker 4: carried out in the Eastern specific Ocean, expanding the area
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  Speaker 4: where the military has launched attacks and shifting to where
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  Speaker 4: much of the cocaine from the world's largest producers is smug. Quote.
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  Speaker 4: If you're a narco terrorist smuggling drugs in our hemisphere,
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  Speaker 4: we will treat you like al Qaeda. Heads has said
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  Speaker 4: in a post Day or night. We will map your networks,
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  Speaker 4: track your people, hunt you down, and kill you. The
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  Speaker 4: strike drew parallels to the first announced by the US
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  Speaker 4: last month by focusing on the trendy Ragua, which the
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  Speaker 4: Trump administration has designated as a foreign terrorist organization and
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  Speaker 4: blame for being the root of the violence and drug
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  Speaker 4: dealing that plagues some of the cities. While not mentioning
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  Speaker 4: the origin of the latest boat, the Republican administration now
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  Speaker 4: says at least four of the boats it has hit
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  Speaker 4: have come from Venezuela. On Thursday, the US military flow
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  Speaker 4: a pair of supersonic heavy bombers up the coast of
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  Speaker 4: Venezuela in a show of strength. Merduro argues that the
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  Speaker 4: US operations are the latest efforts to force him from office.
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  Speaker 4: Maduro on Thursday praise security forces and a civilian militia
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  Speaker 4: for defense exercises along some one thousand, two hundred miles
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  Speaker 4: of coastline to prepare for the possibility, he says, of
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  Speaker 4: a US attack, saying in the span of six hours,
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  Speaker 4: one hundred percent of all the country's coastline was covered
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  Speaker 4: in real time, with all the equipment and heavy weapons
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  Speaker 4: to defend all of Venezuela as coast if necessary, Morduro
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  Speaker 4: said during a government event shown on state television. The
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  Speaker 4: US military presence is less about drugs than sending a
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  Speaker 4: message to countries in the region aligned with the US interest.
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  Speaker 4: According to the International Crisis Group, Senior analysts for the
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  Speaker 4: ANDRES Regent Elizabeth Dickinson, an expression that I'm hearing a
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  Speaker 4: lot of drugs are the excuse, and everyone knows that,
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  Speaker 4: Dickinson said, And I think that message is very clear
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  Speaker 4: in regional capitals. So the messaging here is that the
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  Speaker 4: US is intent on pursuing specific objectives and it will
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  Speaker 4: use military force against leaders and countries that don't fall
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  Speaker 4: in line. That is what the left is obviously trying
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  Speaker 4: to get you to believe. But Headset's remarks around the
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  Speaker 4: strikes have recently begun to draw a more direct comparison
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  Speaker 4: between the war on terrorism that the US declared after
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  Speaker 4: nine to eleven and the attacks and Donald Trump's administration's
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  Speaker 4: cracked down now on the drug traffickers whose drugs are
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  Speaker 4: killing countless Americans. President Trump this month declared drug cartels
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  Speaker 4: to be unlawful combatants and said the US was in
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  Speaker 4: an armed conflict with them. Relying on the same legal
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  Speaker 4: authority used by the Bush administration after nine.
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