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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: A bounty program incentivizing attacks on US federal immigration officers,

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Speaker 6: Griff, what do you know, Well, good morning, Lawrence. I

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Speaker 6: They're offering two thousand for gathering intelligence or dotsing immigration agents,

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Speaker 7: Riff The Latin Kings are associated with drug cartels to

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Speaker 6: Meanwhile, in the wake of anti ICE riots in places

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Speaker 3: Now, we've also learned more about what's happening in Chicago.

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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: Faulkner Focus. DHS also revealed a tiered bounty system that

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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: 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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