1 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: You never heard of the opium wars. I bet you've 2 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: at least heard the name. The general idea this took 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: place in China is that, hey, we want to soften 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 1: this population up so we can take advantage of it. 5 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: So let's let's get them on drugs. Let's drug them up. 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: You know, people on drugs. Maybe you yourself have struggled 7 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: with drugs in the past, but it's a form of warfare. 8 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,160 Speaker 1: In the United States of America, we're drowning in drugs. 9 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: I want to give all the credit in the world 10 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: before we get to a bunch of cartel stuff to 11 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: the Trump administration for pointing out things like fentanyl and 12 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: what it's doing to us. 13 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 2: Today, I'm taking one more step to protect Americans from 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 2: the scourge of deadly ventanyl flooding into our country with 15 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 2: this historic executive order I will sign today with formably 16 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: classifying ventl as a weapon of mass. 17 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 3: Destruction, which is what it is. 18 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 2: No bomb does what this is doing. Two hundred to 19 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 2: three hundred thousand people die every year that we know. 20 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 2: So we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. 21 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: It is. It's a weapon of war. There are countries 22 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 1: at war with us, and you can argue, and you're 23 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 1: correct that the Democrat Party and some losers in the 24 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: Republican Party are helping, they're collaborating with other countries. But nevertheless, 25 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 1: it is a war and it is done with intent. 26 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: Maybe you remember it was kind of a news story 27 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: that came and went, but you remember it wasn't long ago. 28 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: We woke up one morning and we found out that 29 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: the airspace over El Paso, Texas was closed down. And 30 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: then but hold on, they were telling us that it 31 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: was a drone. Well, here was Army Secretary Dan Driscoll 32 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: talking about drone. 33 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 4: This problem is different from nearly anything we faced in 34 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 4: a long time. It is a flying ID and so 35 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 4: this ID ied ID in promised explosive device. They're cheap, 36 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 4: you can three D print them at home, and they 37 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 4: cross borders incredibly quickly. And so what you basically need 38 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 4: is a digital layer to exchange information and exchange sensing 39 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 4: and allow the closest person on the ground, of the 40 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 4: closest effector on the ground to be able to take 41 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 4: out a drone. And Senator Cotton is right, I mean, 42 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 4: this is the threat of humanity's lifetime. What's occurring in Ukraine, 43 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 4: what's happening in Russia. If you look at the speed 44 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 4: and scale of the devastation that can come from drones, 45 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 4: we as a federal government have got to lead on it. 46 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 4: But I'm really optimistic this is actually something we are 47 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 4: doing right. 48 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: And here's the thing about drones. Everyone can have one. 49 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: It's a frightening thing when you get a weapon that 50 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:55,359 Speaker 1: is capable of such destruction. But it's cheap relatively, It's 51 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: easily available. Everyone. You can have one. I can have one. 52 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: I can go down to Radio chaf Wait, I think 53 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: they went out of business. I'm really old. I can 54 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: go down to Best Buy right now and I can 55 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: buy a drone and I can attach whatever I. 56 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:07,239 Speaker 3: Want to what. 57 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: Everyone can have one. End, we have a border with Mexico. 58 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: The Mexican cartels run at least half of the states 59 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: in Mexico, and we have to acknowledge that there is 60 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 1: a deep, deep evil there. How evil are these cartels? 61 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: Listen to this story from Tom Holman. 62 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 5: So we just found one two days ago, an example, 63 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 5: fourteen year old little girl living with two adult males 64 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 5: who trafficked her, and we found it. She pregnant from trafficking, 65 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 5: being forced in the prostitution fourteen years though. So we're 66 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 5: taking care of her well physically and mentally. Despite what 67 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 5: the media says, we're not heartless. We carved it because 68 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 5: I'm my father, and the reason I'm so emotional and 69 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 5: so hard headstronger this issue because I dealt with dying 70 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 5: children throughout my career. I've held dying children. 71 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 3: I've held doubt children. 72 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 5: I taught to the little girls, the youngest nine, they 73 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 5: were rate multiple times by the criminal cartels. I'll never 74 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 5: forget it when you get on your knees to talk 75 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 5: to nine. 76 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 3: You're a little girl. 77 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 5: Everything innocent and purest rip from her and she don't 78 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 5: believe in humanity anymore because you had a bunch of 79 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 5: animals crawling on her and taking everything pure from her. 80 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 5: You'll never forget it. That's happening every day to just trafficking, 81 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 5: and we're going to putting that to it. 82 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 1: It's hard to listen to these people are around us. 83 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: They're not just down in Mexico. They're not just down 84 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: on the Texas southern border. These people are all throughout 85 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: the United States of America. The cartels are something that 86 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: has to be taken seriously. Drugs are something that has 87 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: to be taken seriously. The threat of drone warfare has 88 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: to be taken seriously. The Trump administration what we finally 89 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: have administration that is taking this stuff seriously. But this 90 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: is a threat, a significant threat. And I'm a husband, 91 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: I'm a father that that could be the people I love, 92 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: could be the people you love tomorrow today some drugged 93 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: out maniac on the highway, some homicidal free company. I 94 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: don't know, you don't know. This is a problem that 95 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 1: is deadly, deadly serious. The cartels are not going away. 96 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: When there's this much money in something, They're never going 97 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: to go away. So we're gonna dig into this. We're 98 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 1: gonna have a chat about it. Amman Blair is here, 99 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: He's a wealth of information on this stuff. Board of Patrol, 100 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: Forever Army Intelligence, John Solomon is here. We have an 101 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: incredible special for you tonight, and I'm right, we'll be back. 102 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: I can't stand the big mobile companies, Verizon AT and 103 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: T and T Mobile. And it's not that I have 104 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: a problem with the phones they sold me or the 105 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 1: service necessary. It's not that I'm so tired of giving 106 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: my money to companies that hate me and companies that 107 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: use my money for these disgusting communist social causes. Do 108 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: you remember all those Black Lives Matter protests? That was 109 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: all corporate funding. They got corporate funding. Go look up 110 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: your mobile company and see what they've done with your money. 111 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 1: That money doesn't come from the clouds. They take your 112 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: money and they send it to these dirty comedies. Pure 113 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: Talk doesn't do that. Whenever you read about pure Talk 114 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: giving back, you find out, oh wait, they helped the 115 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: veteran back on his feet. 116 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 6: Remember last Independence Day? They sent American made flags to veterans. 117 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 6: That's what Pure Talk does when they give back. That's 118 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 6: the kind of company I like being part of Switch 119 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:50,239 Speaker 6: to Save Money, Puretalk dot com, Slash Jesse TV. 120 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: The cartels are movie characters for most people, to be 121 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: honest with you, that's what they are. You know, we've 122 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: all seen Sakario eight thousand times, at least all the 123 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: dudes have. 124 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 3: But they are. 125 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: Real and there are people who know a lot more 126 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: about them than you and I do. With one of 127 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: those people, he's one of my favorite guests. He's become 128 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: one of my favorite guests on this show. Emmon Blair 129 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: Senior fellow at the wonderful Texas Public Policy Foundation. I 130 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: so so adore them all. Right, emmon, before we get 131 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: to the cartels, what is your background? 132 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 7: Sure? 133 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 8: So, I served a little over ten years in the 134 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 8: Department Home Own Security with Board of Patrol in South Texas, 135 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 8: and then I served a little over twenty years in 136 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 8: the US Army, both as enlisted soldier as an officer, 137 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 8: so in marine talk, I was a Mustang. And then 138 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 8: I also worked in the private sector for a private 139 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 8: intelligence firm where we analyzed all the threats emanating from 140 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 8: Mexico and around the world that now occupy not only 141 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 8: our border but internally here in the United States. 142 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: Eman, you call card teles hybrid war operators, the term 143 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: I'd never heard before you started using it. It's your term, 144 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:17,239 Speaker 1: explain yourself. 145 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 8: Sure, So you know, there's actually a really good news 146 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 8: article for or an assessment on a small wars journal, 147 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 8: So if your audience would like to go there. This 148 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 8: term is actually a military term when talking about threats hybrid, 149 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 8: meaning say like, if you have an insurgency, well, what 150 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 8: if they also aren't just doing tactics that fall in 151 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 8: the realm of insurgency? What if they're also terrorist organizations. 152 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 8: What else, what about if they're also conducting political warfare. 153 00:08:56,280 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 8: What happens if they're also involved in the economies of 154 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 8: the local area in terms of both licit and illicit. 155 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 8: So what if this organization has the control and grasp 156 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 8: or governance of every form and facet of a society, Well, 157 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,079 Speaker 8: then it's not just an insurgency, it's not just a 158 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 8: foreign terist organization. 159 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 7: It is a hybrid. 160 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:24,959 Speaker 8: Threat where they control every aspect in terms of the 161 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 8: public safety as well as the local military, as well 162 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 8: as the local economics of a region. And so that's 163 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,559 Speaker 8: what the Mexican cartels are. Well not every Mexican cartel organization. 164 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 8: There are a multitude of them. So you have like 165 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 8: the Gulf Cartel that's in the South Texas. You have 166 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 8: Cartel de l Noteste, which is in mid Texas by Laredo. 167 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,679 Speaker 8: You have the Wires Cartel La Linia, which is there 168 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 8: in Wuarez in the south of El Paso, and then 169 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,319 Speaker 8: Sina Cartel and so forth, and then the largest cartel, 170 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 8: Cartel Holisco New Generation, with its base of operations in 171 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 8: Meat and Hollisco. Now you and I talked, I think 172 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:05,959 Speaker 8: my first episode with you and I got a lot 173 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 8: of hate mail from it about how the cartels control 174 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 8: agriculture and how we are indebted to the country of 175 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 8: Mexico in terms of our ability to feed ourselves and 176 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 8: our ability to produce the fruits and vegetables that are 177 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 8: now on the new pyramid that was placed by our 178 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 8: cag Junior, and that we are beholden to the government 179 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 8: of Mexico and the farmers and ranchers there to be 180 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 8: able to feed ourselves well. Since farming and agriculture is 181 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 8: a major part of our society. We all of us 182 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,199 Speaker 8: have to eat, all of us have to drink water. 183 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 8: So in order to control all of us, or to 184 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 8: control their forms of society, the Mexican cartels or any 185 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 8: hybrid threat would also need to control all the natural resources, 186 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 8: and food is just one of them. 187 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: All right, let's tick down a few of these. You 188 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 1: mentioned their terrorist organizations. Now, it's not going to shock 189 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: a single person watching that cartels would commit horrible acts 190 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 1: of violence. That's just part and parcel for the drug trade, certainly, 191 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: and parcel for the cartels. But terrorist organizations, why do 192 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: you use that term? 193 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's because of their actions. So when you look 194 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 8: at what they're doing in Mexico, whether that's decapitating bodies, 195 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 8: chopping them up, whether that is coercing local officials, assassinations, 196 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 8: whether that is complete subversion of the local government themselves 197 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 8: from the lower levels, whether that's your mayor all the 198 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 8: way up to the president Shibalum herself. You know, being 199 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 8: a mayor in Mexico is probably the most dangerous job there. 200 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 8: And so that's why I based off of current US code, 201 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 8: they meet the statutory definition of what a foreign terist 202 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,199 Speaker 8: organization is. Now, the problem that we have is everyone 203 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 8: thinks that the Mexican cartels are not terrorist organizations because 204 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 8: of ideology, that they don't have the same ideology as 205 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 8: ISIS or al Qaeda or HOMAS or has Bela, all 206 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 8: the terrorist organizations in the Middle East. However, they do 207 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 8: have an ideology as well. If you look at their 208 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 8: ability to coerce or to influence the populations in their 209 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 8: area via whether that's worshiping las anthan what do they 210 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 8: the death Saint or even worshiping idols such as Malverde 211 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 8: or even Choppa Guzma. Placing a being or a known 212 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 8: entity at the head of your organization for the protection 213 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 8: of your criminal activity organization. A lot of times you 214 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 8: can use this form of religion or cult to coerce 215 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 8: or influence many portions of the population to work for you. 216 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 8: And and that's why there's a there was a study 217 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 8: that came out recently that showed that the Mexican cartels 218 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 8: in their organizations, are the fifth largest employer in Mexico. 219 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 8: And I would say that's actually conservative that the majority 220 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 8: of the numbers that they used were those that are 221 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 8: in the battlefield, in the front lines, the sagadios, those 222 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 8: that are conducting drug warfare or drone warfare inside of Mexico, 223 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 8: not the farmers and ranchers that are cultivating their crops, 224 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 8: not their businessmen or accountants. Not there the students that 225 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 8: they kidnap to to conduct whether that's for cyber warfare, 226 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 8: uh the their warfare within the electromagnetic spectrum. 227 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 7: Or or or what have you. 228 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 8: And so the cartels, because they're in every single facet 229 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 8: of our society, both in Mexico and along our border. 230 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 8: That's why we stayed at Texabook Policy Foundation, that they 231 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 8: are hybrid threats. 232 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 1: Students that they kidnap, cyber warfare. I can already see 233 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: those bells going off in people's heads, like what's he 234 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: talking about? What are you talking about? 235 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 7: Yeah, So when you look at. 236 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 8: The evolution of technology, everyone's talking about artificial intelligence now, 237 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 8: and the evolution of how powerful technology is in your 238 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 8: ability to either conduct simple tasks or to launder money 239 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 8: or to move money itself, whether that's through blockchain technology, 240 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 8: what have you. 241 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 7: So every foreign test organization or criminal. 242 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 8: Organization worldwide also has these capabilities and capacities, and they're 243 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 8: going to utilize technology to make sure that they can 244 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 8: either launder the money, whether that's the proceeds from narcotics 245 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 8: here in the United States through Chinese banking apps and 246 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 8: other apps, but also to conduct cyber warfare US like 247 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 8: what Iran in their proxies or China their proxies are doing. 248 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 8: And in Mexico they call them the cyber cartels. In fact, 249 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 8: the amount of money that they're making conducting cyber operations 250 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 8: inside of Mexico may surpass what they're making in terms 251 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 8: of narcotics, and so this is a really big threat. 252 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 8: But it's a really big threat worldwide. We just always 253 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 8: simplify the cartels as just mere criminals. We never look 254 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 8: at them as some global or international foreign terist organization, 255 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 8: and so we put them in this little box and say, no, 256 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 8: you guys are only car you're only criminals. Therefore you 257 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 8: only have the capabilities and capacities of say, like you're 258 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 8: mafia back in the nineteen twenties. 259 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 7: No, they are in. 260 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,359 Speaker 8: Forty to sixty five different countries. They're operating every capacity 261 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 8: and capability that a terrorist organization has in Middle East, 262 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 8: every capability and capacity that Mexico's a state has in 263 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 8: terms of their level of our ability to collect intelligence, 264 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 8: their ability for spyware, you name it, their international telecommunications. 265 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 8: They have everything that a nation state has. 266 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: Can we talk for a few about their involvement here 267 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: and what we think their involvement or no, their involvement 268 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 1: may be with American politicians, mayors along the border all 269 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: the way up. I mean, are we talking senators, members 270 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: of the House of Representatives. Obviously, when you have that 271 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: much money and you want American policy to be friendly 272 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: to you, you're going to toss some of it around 273 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: or maybe it's threat to What do we know about this? 274 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 8: Yeah, you know this is kind of sad. I mean, 275 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 8: as a border of patrill Agian Many, border of trill 276 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 8: agients know this, or if your local law enforcement on 277 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 8: the southern border, some guys to your left and right 278 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 8: are working for the enemy, and we would end up 279 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 8: having to work operations on the border on encrypted apps, 280 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 8: not utilizing our radio systems because we knew that there 281 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 8: were dirty agents. And we call this trust be traded. So, 282 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 8: if you think about it, the Mexican cartels inside the 283 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 8: United States run more like an intelligence agency. They're foreign 284 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 8: Intelligent Service agency. They run through corruption, co option, and 285 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:24,360 Speaker 8: coercion that way. They do that for a reason. They 286 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 8: don't want the US military going out there and completely 287 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,399 Speaker 8: wiping them out. They don't want the Trump administration to 288 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 8: go there and completely drone strike them and completely destroy 289 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:37,239 Speaker 8: every bit of their operations. And so what they do 290 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 8: is they would do it just like China does, and 291 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 8: it works by their proxies. 292 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 7: So in order to move their products. 293 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 8: From point A to point B, they have to corrept 294 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 8: local officials, border patrol, national Guard, the military, active duty 295 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 8: military judges, local officials, elected officials, your mayors, your governors, 296 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 8: your sheriffs, everyone, so that they can move whatever they 297 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 8: need to move across the international border. But it's more 298 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 8: than that. It's also so that they can gain control 299 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 8: of territory. Whenever you fought Jesse overseas, the whole idea 300 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 8: and concept was for the military to gain control of 301 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 8: a territory or terrain. Right, the control of terrain is 302 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 8: vastly important. Even in today's battlefield on Ukraine and Russia, 303 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 8: the ability to control the ground terrain is important. You 304 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 8: and I know that as infantrymen, how much terrain or 305 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 8: control train is so important to the battlefield. Same thing 306 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 8: with the cartels. The control of terrain is so important 307 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 8: that they're going to co opt and coerce and corrupt 308 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,239 Speaker 8: every form and fashion of our society, to include our 309 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 8: youth in high schools across the border so that they 310 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 8: can move their interior. Now, once they're in the interior, 311 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 8: they're going to do the same things in our interior. 312 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 8: So whether that is in Houston, whether that is in Chicago, 313 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 8: New York, or your suburbs, even your rural areas, they 314 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 8: need to maintain control of that territory so that they 315 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 8: continue their illicit and listed operations on US sovereign soil. 316 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 8: So I would recommend your audience going with you. There 317 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 8: is a great documentary done by National geographic back in 318 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 8: twenty fifteen called Underworld Incorporated, and they had an episode 319 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 8: called Human Cargo where they followed a group of illegals 320 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 8: from Mexico into Texas to Houston where they were embedded 321 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 8: in a stash house in Houston. 322 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 7: So they were able to go there. 323 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 8: The stash house was controlled by sina loa cartel, and 324 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 8: they were able to interview them, and the cartel there 325 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 8: themselves said that they controlled every form, every fastive society 326 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 8: in that neighborhood, from the local store, the community members, 327 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 8: just you name it. That way, they can control or 328 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 8: govern or completely operate with impunity in those regions. And 329 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 8: this is on USI this was over a decade ago 330 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 8: that this film was made, and so. 331 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 7: That'st Forard today. 332 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 5: All we. 333 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 8: Because we view the cartels as criminals and not as 334 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,400 Speaker 8: a hybrid THEED or foreign terist organization, A lot of 335 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:35,679 Speaker 8: our investigations really end at the person involved, at the 336 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 8: lowest level. 337 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 7: Of the crime. 338 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 8: What do I mean by that, Well, when people smuggle narcotics, 339 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 8: say like in a truckload at our port of entry, 340 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 8: a lot of times we end up just apprehending and 341 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 8: detaining and arresting the driver a lot of times, the 342 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 8: investigation doesn't go further into that on what organization that 343 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 8: they are working for, what smuggling organization, and what cartel 344 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 8: do they typically belong to, because that a lot of 345 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 8: that takes a lot of time, and unfortunately, our system 346 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 8: that our current law enforcement have doesn't really have the 347 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 8: capability or capacity to do that. We run on the 348 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 8: National Incident based Reporting System, and before that it was 349 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 8: the Uniform Crime Report System that was created the nineteen twenties, 350 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 8: and so because of the outdated information and the lack 351 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 8: of resources and capabilities and capacities in training that our 352 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 8: local law enforcement have when they're conducting operations, it usually 353 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 8: our investigations usually end at the point of arrest. It 354 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,120 Speaker 8: typically doesn't go any further than that, and when it does, 355 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 8: it takes years. For example, there was a case recently Houston, 356 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 8: this was under the bad administration, where they indicted over 357 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 8: forty members that were linked to the cartel helliscun New Generation. 358 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 8: That investigation took sixty two months for them to indict 359 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 8: those members. Sixty two months. So you got to think 360 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 8: they're operating that entire time in Houston while we're conducting 361 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 8: this investigation. Because we only see them as criminals, and 362 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,919 Speaker 8: then it ends there. So when you ask what elected 363 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 8: officials are currently worked from, the only way that we 364 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 8: can tell now because usually the buck stops there is 365 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 8: by their actions in Congress or in action in terms 366 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 8: of border security going after the cartels. So then US citizens, 367 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 8: you as journalists then have to look and you have 368 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 8: to piece it together. Are these elected officials, both at 369 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 8: the Congress all the way down making statements that the 370 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 8: cartels are not a threat, that they're just criminals. Are 371 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 8: they blocking our border security efforts? Are they refusing to 372 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 8: acknowledge every facet or every illicit commodity that they're in 373 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 8: to include human trafficking, sex trafficking, narcotics trafficking, Are they 374 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 8: involved in agriculture? If these if you're congressmen and women, 375 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 8: are refusing to acknowledge the intelligence that's given to them 376 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 8: instead are enacting open borders, then you know that they 377 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,880 Speaker 8: have an agenda, and they could be I'm not saying 378 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 8: they are. They could be in bed with organizations such 379 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 8: as the Mexican cartels. 380 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: How and I'm sure that the answer to this obviously varies. 381 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: As you mentioned, it's an intelligence organization. But when people here. 382 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: Border patrol agents are bent, you know, local cops things 383 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 1: like that. That begs the question of how they accomplish this. 384 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,399 Speaker 1: Is this as simple as a briefcase full of cash 385 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: under the table? Is it a gun to your head? 386 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,439 Speaker 1: You work for me? Now? How do they take a 387 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 1: border patrol agent and turn them a sheriff in? How 388 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 1: do they do this? 389 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 7: Yeah? 390 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 8: So if you remember, you probably remember from your training 391 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 8: in the Marine Corps whenever we'd go overseas, you'd had 392 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 8: to have this training from our intelligen division saying okay, 393 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 8: the certain forms of espionage are going to try to 394 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 8: target certain soldiers, whether that's through money bolt cash like 395 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 8: you said, whether that's through honeypop we have a problem 396 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 8: with that, or like a in Congress, we have some 397 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:10,159 Speaker 8: members that uh have been with spies. They do the 398 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 8: same thing. We we call them on the boarder, we 399 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 8: call them narco barbies. If you're if you're if you're 400 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 8: a border of Trilejan and you're a two and you 401 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 8: have if you have this uh narco barbie, who's a 402 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 8: ten coming in approaching you? 403 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 7: There there could be a reason. 404 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 8: And so they use the same way that the Chinese 405 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:36,400 Speaker 8: or foreign intelligence service agencies use for in terms of espionage, 406 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 8: to turn someone that they can utilize, whether that's information gathering, 407 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 8: whether that's for security reasons or anything else like that. 408 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 8: The Mexican cartails are going to utilize the same way. 409 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:47,680 Speaker 8: They're going to go to a border of Trilogan, they're 410 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 8: going to go to a National Guard, They're going to 411 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 8: go to a local law enforcement and based off of 412 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 8: the value that you offer to their organization, whether you 413 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 8: can tell them where to go to smuggle so that 414 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 8: the cameras can't see them, whether you can bypass them 415 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 8: at their port of entry because they're running a lane, 416 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 8: whether they're a National Guard soldian, they can use their 417 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 8: their uniforms and smuggled human beings passed border til checkpoints 418 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 8: that these organizations will seek after certain personnel, just like 419 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 8: a nation state is say, what does that person offer 420 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 8: for us? What exactly what powers, duties and responsibilities do 421 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 8: we do they have that if we gain access to 422 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 8: then we can continue with our operations. And that's how 423 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 8: they see it. They see it just as a transactional 424 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,120 Speaker 8: piece in order to further their operations, and that's how 425 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,399 Speaker 8: they get bordertial agents. And we call it We have 426 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 8: an entire page called trust Betrayed Agents who work with 427 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 8: the Mexican cartails and smuggling organizations and work with the enemy. 428 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: Gosh, that's amazing. It's so dark. All right, I'm gonna 429 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 1: ask you this. You've mentioned several times illicit andlicit activities. 430 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: A lot of people people don't grasp this concept at all, 431 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 1: that the cartells essentially are the government in places in 432 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,919 Speaker 1: Mexico when it's not all cocaine and narco Barbie's. What 433 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 1: are these lisit activities? 434 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 8: Yeah, think about what we need as a society. Do 435 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 8: we need water? Well, yes, all of us need to 436 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 8: drink water. Now, when while I was in Iraq, all 437 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,119 Speaker 8: of us drank rippets right and you were forced to 438 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,719 Speaker 8: hydrate with water. But so like in Mexico, you think, Okay, 439 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 8: if the populace needs to drink water, then I'm going 440 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 8: to gain access in control of that water. Whether that's 441 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 8: to grow opiates, or whether that's to like your opium fields, 442 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 8: or whether that's to grow just your agriculture water. They 443 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 8: control water. Talk about telecommunication systems or Internet based systems, 444 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 8: They're going to control that. That's also lisit. That's a 445 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 8: commodity that we use that is legal, that the Mexican 446 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 8: cartels then either co opt, coerced themselves in there, or 447 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 8: corrupt their way in there to gain control of that. 448 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 8: So think of any other ways and means that they'll control. 449 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 8: I mean the reason why I bring up water so much. 450 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 8: Look the nineteen forty four treaty, we're allowing Mexico to 451 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 8: completely dictate how much water they're giving to us. Inside 452 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 8: in Texas, we've lost our sugarcane operations there in South Texas. 453 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 8: But on the south side, what's not talked about it it's 454 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 8: not just the river flow, but the direct access to 455 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:34,439 Speaker 8: the aquifers, and the aquifers have so much water reserve that, 456 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 8: but we share those aquifers when the Mexican cartels illegally 457 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 8: tap into those or they control those areas those regions 458 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 8: to dip or create wells, to dip into those aquifers 459 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 8: and using them for their other means. Also within inside 460 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 8: the United States, think about the illicit trade of say 461 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 8: like general contractor work. We all need general contractors to 462 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 8: build our homes and build our buildings. What if that 463 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 8: contractor was actually a front network for the Mexican cartels 464 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 8: who only hired illegal aliens so that way they could 465 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 8: outbid every other domestic contractor so that contract themselves are 466 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 8: now hiring the people that they brought over that now 467 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 8: are indebted to them, paying them pennies through labor exploitation, 468 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 8: outbidding American companies, and then so that way those American 469 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,199 Speaker 8: companies can't compete, they go out of business, while the 470 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 8: Mexican cartels thrive, not just thrive, but expand their business 471 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 8: inside the United States. They're doing this everywhere, whether that 472 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 8: is in think of every every every aspect that the 473 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 8: Mexican cartels are utilized, or where illegal aliens are really present, 474 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 8: whether it's all all of our blue collar trade, whether 475 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 8: that is in our agriculture, you name it. The Mexican 476 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 8: cartels are going to create actual legitimate businesses, are going 477 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 8: to trade legitimate commodities because under the USMCA agreements, they 478 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 8: are protected and there's no level of investigation right now 479 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 8: to show that hey, the cartels are actually controlling these 480 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 8: in Mexico and that they're bringing them into the United 481 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 8: States protected by our own federal policies, and then they 482 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 8: are completely disrupting and destroying our local domestic supply because 483 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 8: we can't compete with their formed or cheap labor, we 484 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 8: can't compete with their regulations in Mexico, we can't compete 485 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 8: with anything. And so we've offshored a lot of our 486 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 8: companies because they go bankrupt in the US. We've offshored 487 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 8: them into Mexico where they can completely use cheap, cheap labor, 488 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 8: they can use zero regulations where they control your local population, 489 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 8: that you can control your local governance systems in civil society, 490 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 8: and unfortunately, we've created a system them where we've now 491 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 8: decreased our ability inside the United States for domestic production. 492 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 8: You can think of every single thing that we're importing, 493 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 8: whether that is automotive parts, whether that is our tech industry, 494 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 8: whether that is our agriculture, everything that we are importing 495 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 8: and have offshore to Mexico. The Mexican cartels now have 496 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 8: control over think about oil. Just recently, we helped Senator 497 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 8: Sparks create an oil task Force at the state legislature. 498 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 8: We helped them pass that bill. Because now that the 499 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 8: Trump administration is here and is focusing their efforts on 500 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 8: fentanyl and focusing their efforts on illegal immigration, the Mexican 501 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 8: cartels are like, Okay, our numbers are decreasing fentanyl, So 502 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 8: we're just going to increase our listit commodities, whether it's 503 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 8: agg or now oil, and focus our efforts there. And 504 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 8: so now we're seeing a massive increase in the amount 505 00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 8: of Mexican cartel control over the oil industry, so much 506 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 8: so that we had to build our own task force 507 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 8: in the state of Texas under the Texas Department Homeland Security, 508 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 8: which is also another new initiative that we helped draft, 509 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 8: the SB thirty six that passed this last session, in 510 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 8: order to combat the level of illicit commodities, your oil, 511 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 8: your agriculture, everything that you can think of that you 512 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 8: need as a family inside the United States, if it 513 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 8: is imported from Mexico, you know that the Mexican cartels 514 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 8: now have their hands in it. 515 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. Eman, I'm sorry, but we're fresh out of time 516 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: with you. I could go another twenty minutes. Man, come 517 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 1: back soon. I appreciate you as always, Thanks for making 518 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: a smarter brother. Come back, all right. Drone warfare. Everyone 519 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 1: everybody by now understands that drone warfare is going to 520 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 1: be part of warfare for the foreseeable future. John Solomon 521 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: the great John Solomon joins us next to give us 522 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 1: some other things that might make our eyes go What. 523 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: I want you to feel full of energy in a 524 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,479 Speaker 1: good mood. But what does that mean in a good mood? Well, 525 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: let me ask you something, especially for the guys. Do 526 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: you feel down inexplicably? You're driving home, you're sitting around 527 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: you at work, you just kind of feel melancholy and down. 528 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: You understand that we're losing one percent of our testosterone 529 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 1: a year, and it's not our fault. The estrogens in 530 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: the friggin waters we shower in it, We're drowning in estygen. 531 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: It's dropping our te levels. And now guys are getting depressed. 532 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: Guys are getting down, Guys are losing energy, Guys are 533 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 1: losing focus. 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But we all Russia, Ukraine. 542 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: Everybody who's paid attention for five seconds knows that drone 543 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: warfare is taking place in Russia Ukraine. You've heard about 544 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: drones taking place over there. They're coming from Yemen, but 545 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 1: it's happening here right here as well. Joining me now, 546 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 1: the wonderful John Solomon, founder of Just the News. They're 547 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: just out there doing the best stuff all the time. 548 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 1: John el Paso. We woke up one day, we all 549 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: rolled out of bed, and we got on our phones 550 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: like everybody does, and we saw the airspace and el 551 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: Paso was closed. What what happened? 552 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty big deal. 553 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 9: Well, we have these new drone detection capabilities that find 554 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 9: penetrations quicker and faster than Lord knows Joe Biden did 555 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,840 Speaker 9: when he let that Chinese balloon traverse across the country 556 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:14,320 Speaker 9: for a week. They alert us quicker to unidentified flying objects, 557 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,280 Speaker 9: and then if they meet a certain shape or size, 558 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 9: there is an opportunity to blow them out of the 559 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 9: sky with non missiles, things like lasers and other capabilities, 560 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,840 Speaker 9: and so something that resembled a drone or a balloon 561 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 9: tipped off the sism. We immediately closed down the airspace. 562 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 9: A laser was used to disable that drone and bring 563 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,240 Speaker 9: it down to the ground. It really was a balloon 564 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,239 Speaker 9: out a drone, but it looked like it, and then 565 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 9: the airspace was reopened. That is the sort of rapid 566 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 9: response that we want in America, not the sort of tortured, 567 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 9: excuse making response we saw with the Chinese spy balloon 568 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 9: a couple of years ago. Why are we this reactive now, 569 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 9: Why do we have this capability Because in the first 570 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 9: three days of the second Trump presidency, President Trump signed 571 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 9: a series of executive orders and told the National Security 572 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,879 Speaker 9: Council and the FBI, you take the lead, and let's 573 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,919 Speaker 9: not have any more drones traversing our skies. And that's 574 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 9: what happened. All of a sudden, the FBI created a 575 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 9: counter drone school. All of our major intelligence agencies and 576 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,800 Speaker 9: our FBI law enforcement and now local law enforcement getting 577 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 9: trained how to detect and to disable a dangerous drone 578 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,799 Speaker 9: in real time. And then a task force led by 579 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,880 Speaker 9: doctor Seb Gorka, who's the counter Terrorism Director in the 580 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:29,279 Speaker 9: White House, has been meeting weekly to get all of 581 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,160 Speaker 9: the components of government to come up with a comprehensive 582 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,120 Speaker 9: strategy and a comprehensive defense system so that what we 583 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 9: saw happen on October seventh, twenty twenty three in Israel 584 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 9: when that extraordinary terror attack occurred by Hamas. One of 585 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 9: the first signs of that terror attack were some drones 586 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,439 Speaker 9: that were used by Hamas that disable listening and watch 587 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:54,160 Speaker 9: posts of the Israeli military. Donald Trump doesn't want that 588 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:56,080 Speaker 9: to happen, and we are now in a position in 589 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,640 Speaker 9: real time to detect and disable anything that looks something 590 00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:00,080 Speaker 9: like that. 591 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,480 Speaker 1: John, can you help me understand, at least from the 592 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 1: people you talk to, how many entities out there are 593 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 1: using these things potentially for nefarious purposes. As you mentioned Hamas, 594 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,239 Speaker 1: everyone's gonna know that cartels. We all know that now 595 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:20,040 Speaker 1: Russia is Ukraine. Who else using this stuff? 596 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:21,880 Speaker 3: Well, the hoodies for sure. 597 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 9: For a long time, hoodies in Yemen would only fire missiles, 598 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,440 Speaker 9: and then they watch what Ukraine and Russia were doing, like, hey, 599 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,200 Speaker 9: missiles are expensive, drones are cheap, and then they began 600 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,120 Speaker 9: going to these more inexpensive drones to create the same 601 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,799 Speaker 9: sort of capabilities. And also they realize, at least during 602 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,280 Speaker 9: the Biden years that our drone detection was not nearly 603 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,279 Speaker 9: as comprehensive as our missile capabilities were. 604 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,879 Speaker 3: And so what's happening now. 605 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,560 Speaker 9: And by the way, you can pick something up tomorrow 606 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,560 Speaker 9: at a Best Biden or at a Walmart or at 607 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,880 Speaker 9: Amazon across one thousand bucks that can carry a small payload. 608 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 3: Like maybe some germs. 609 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:59,880 Speaker 9: How about that biolab that was recently uncovered in Vegas. 610 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,000 Speaker 9: What if someone want to take some nefarious pathogen, put 611 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,480 Speaker 9: it on the drone, fly it over farmfield, killed the crops, 612 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,680 Speaker 9: or sick in a whole town or a Disney World. 613 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 9: That is the capability that it does exist today. Fortunately, 614 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,840 Speaker 9: we haven't had a lot of those episodes yet in 615 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,400 Speaker 9: the world, but we know it's very possible, and the 616 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,960 Speaker 9: bad guys are thinking that way. And that's why we've 617 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,600 Speaker 9: created a what I would call a mini Golden Shield, 618 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,120 Speaker 9: and we got the Golden Dome project, which is the 619 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:31,320 Speaker 9: Reagan fulfillment of Star Wars to protect us from missiles, 620 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,480 Speaker 9: but we've created a much more rapid responsing to protect 621 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 9: these little, tiny drones that can create big arm All. 622 00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 1: Right, you brought up Disney World before we move on 623 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,320 Speaker 1: to other things. I have to ask, I'm thrilled to 624 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 1: the United States of America credit to the Trump administration 625 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,720 Speaker 1: is taking this threat seriously. But I mean, it doesn't 626 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,319 Speaker 1: exactly take a genius to figure out, Wow, we have 627 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,240 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people who gather to watch college football 628 00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 1: games on Saturday. God knows how many people pass through 629 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: what is the world on any given day. Are private 630 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:10,200 Speaker 1: companies being proactive about this or are they lagging seriously behind? 631 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,040 Speaker 3: That is a great question. 632 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,719 Speaker 9: So let's break them down into three categories, because we 633 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,000 Speaker 9: are seeing threats in all three categories. There are public 634 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:23,239 Speaker 9: operators of pipelines, which could create a catastrophic incident if 635 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,800 Speaker 9: a drone blew up a little section of a pipeline 636 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,920 Speaker 9: and we started spilling masses of a mounth oil and 637 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,360 Speaker 9: gas or cut off energy supply to a part of 638 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,960 Speaker 9: our country. Those companies are right alongside the FBI and 639 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,600 Speaker 9: the Homeland Security right now in upping their game on 640 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,200 Speaker 9: a daily basis. And in fact, those companies use their 641 00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,600 Speaker 9: own drones to fly over the pipelines and look for 642 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 9: instant threats and try to detect them in real time. 643 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,960 Speaker 9: So infrastructure is one category. There is a really good 644 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:57,040 Speaker 9: strong sign of due diligence in preparation and preactive, proactive planning. 645 00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,839 Speaker 9: Then there are major events, the Super Bowl, the Oscars, 646 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:06,200 Speaker 9: the Olympics. We're going to have the big fife A 647 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,240 Speaker 9: World Cup here in America this year. Those are getting 648 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,120 Speaker 9: high priority because the FBI, the Homeland Security Department reached 649 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,359 Speaker 9: those private partners weeks and months in advance, and they 650 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,920 Speaker 9: plan for not only to have the normal screening of terrorists, 651 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 9: but now the counter drone capabilities, which didn't exist very 652 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,319 Speaker 9: well in the Biden administration. Then go downstream from there, 653 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,359 Speaker 9: what about the local theater, what about the shopping mall. 654 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:30,360 Speaker 3: They're the soft targets. 655 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,400 Speaker 9: They've always been the biggest concern that the FBI and 656 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,279 Speaker 9: Homeland Security Department have. I remember covering a congressional hearing 657 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,160 Speaker 9: two decades ago when Bob Muller was still the FBI 658 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 9: director and they asked him, Director, what keeps you open 659 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,240 Speaker 9: up awake at night? And he said, terrorists finally deciding 660 00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,040 Speaker 9: that with backpacks and drones they could attack a soft 661 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,120 Speaker 9: target like a mall and a church. And we went 662 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 9: and got there. That is a place where we're growing 663 00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:00,080 Speaker 9: in our capabilities, but we're not as strong now as 664 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,720 Speaker 9: far as drones are concerned. One of the great things 665 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,040 Speaker 9: is that wherever a drone takes off, our shield now 666 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,600 Speaker 9: can detect something that isn't declared as an FAA device. 667 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,480 Speaker 3: And so even if. 668 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,279 Speaker 9: You're a mile from the school and you want to 669 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,080 Speaker 9: blow up a school in real time, now our infrastructure 670 00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:17,840 Speaker 9: is able to detect that drone when it starts to 671 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:19,440 Speaker 9: take off and say, that's not a declared drone? 672 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:19,800 Speaker 7: What is that? 673 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,080 Speaker 9: And you can scramble things in real time to even 674 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,960 Speaker 9: something that's a soft target like a school. But when 675 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,279 Speaker 9: you get down to the smaller targets, the malls and 676 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,040 Speaker 9: schools and places like that, that is still an area 677 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,959 Speaker 9: of concern and there is not one hundred percent coverage yet. 678 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,120 Speaker 9: But that's what that task force is meaning to try 679 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,719 Speaker 9: to get better and better at defending it. By the way, 680 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,719 Speaker 9: this thinking didn't exist eighteen months ago the Biden administration, 681 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,120 Speaker 9: but is pretty much to sleep in the switch. 682 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,360 Speaker 1: John, Are there foreign countries getting involved in our elections 683 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:49,680 Speaker 1: to make sure Democrats win? 684 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:52,239 Speaker 3: Oh? 685 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,279 Speaker 9: You asked, that's a leading question that I know I 686 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,560 Speaker 9: want to answer more. I'm working very hard to answer 687 00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,839 Speaker 9: that question in a very comprehensive way. But let us 688 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,960 Speaker 9: let me give you two data points that we weren't 689 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,200 Speaker 9: given in the twenty twenty election, when Chris Ray, the 690 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,279 Speaker 9: FBI director, said no foreign intrusions, When Chris Kreb said 691 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,239 Speaker 9: it was a perfect election, when the Georgia official said 692 00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:16,560 Speaker 9: everything was fine. We now know with absolute certainly because 693 00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,880 Speaker 9: I've made the documents public that the Iranian government and 694 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:26,800 Speaker 9: two hackers hacked into a one battleground states a voter database. 695 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,239 Speaker 9: We still don't know the state publicly, but we know 696 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,920 Speaker 9: it's a big state, and more than one hundred thousand 697 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,600 Speaker 9: voter IDs were downloaded by these Iranian hackers, and then 698 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,359 Speaker 9: those IDs were used for what the government now says 699 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,239 Speaker 9: in an indictment, we're from align influences. I want to 700 00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:44,560 Speaker 9: tell you that that indictment didn't get unsealed until a 701 00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,600 Speaker 9: year after Joe Biden was president. Most media have never 702 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:51,879 Speaker 9: covered that case, but it completely contradicts what we were 703 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,120 Speaker 9: told in twenty twenty. There was no foreign intrusions, and 704 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,239 Speaker 9: we know that the FBI and the Homeland Security knew 705 00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,120 Speaker 9: about it because the indictment refers to the government's awareness 706 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,400 Speaker 9: all the way back to May of twenty twenty. So 707 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,040 Speaker 9: that's one instance we were not told about, and most 708 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,200 Speaker 9: people still don't know about it, except for those who 709 00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:09,040 Speaker 9: read our site. 710 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:10,840 Speaker 3: Were the few places I've reported on it. 711 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,960 Speaker 9: More recently, we obtained FBI documents showing that the FBI 712 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,960 Speaker 9: discovered that China had sent tens of thousands of drivers 713 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:24,040 Speaker 9: licenses to Chicago Airport in August of twenty twenty in 714 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,680 Speaker 9: a plot to help Joe Biden get more votes counted 715 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,759 Speaker 9: in absentee ballance. They were fake driver's licenses. They were 716 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,160 Speaker 9: going to go to some destination, probably a voter mill 717 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:35,760 Speaker 9: or a voter registration mill. 718 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:36,960 Speaker 3: To create that. 719 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:38,680 Speaker 9: That is something that you're not going to read in 720 00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:40,920 Speaker 9: the New York Times and Washington Post. But those documents 721 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:44,160 Speaker 9: are now in public thanks to Tulsea Gabbart and to 722 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,440 Speaker 9: a cash Ptel and a couple of others. Pambond, you've 723 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,600 Speaker 9: gotten them out. I believe that those two incidents are 724 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,000 Speaker 9: not the only polls to that story. I believe in 725 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,399 Speaker 9: the next few weeks, I know from my reporting, we're 726 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:59,239 Speaker 9: going to learn of a series of other massive intrusions 727 00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:02,000 Speaker 9: that have put many state databases at risk and for 728 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,440 Speaker 9: which the United States government has been silent for the 729 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,480 Speaker 9: last five years. I think when we get those data points, 730 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,040 Speaker 9: we're going to know a little bit more about just 731 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:13,319 Speaker 9: how active our government has been in knowledge and how 732 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,880 Speaker 9: little they've actually told even the States and all of 733 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,360 Speaker 9: us in the American public. And I think these new details, 734 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:23,240 Speaker 9: these new intercepts, these new intrusions that have been detected, 735 00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,640 Speaker 9: are likely to raise the question that these foreign actors 736 00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:31,080 Speaker 9: are working with operatives Americans on the ground in America 737 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:32,760 Speaker 9: to try to achieve these plans. 738 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,880 Speaker 3: Whether they succeed it still to be determined. 739 00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,400 Speaker 9: But the idea that a foreign power is working with 740 00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,960 Speaker 9: Americans to create some sort of intervention in our elections 741 00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:42,000 Speaker 9: should scare all of us. 742 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:46,680 Speaker 3: Doesn't matter your political stripe, John. 743 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,760 Speaker 1: I'll let you go. No more leading questions for me today. 744 00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:56,919 Speaker 1: I'll find out myself. Let's see your brother, all right, 745 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:03,279 Speaker 1: have some final thoughts next. A huge weight, that's what 746 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,640 Speaker 1: That's what high interest debt feels like. You know what 747 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,640 Speaker 1: I'm talking about, don't you. Well, hopefully you don't, but 748 00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,520 Speaker 1: maybe you're in the middle of it right now. Carrying 749 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:16,120 Speaker 1: this twenty thirty percent interest rates. It takes over your 750 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,839 Speaker 1: everything you think about, going out to eat, you think 751 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:20,279 Speaker 1: about your debt. You wake up in the morning, you 752 00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,080 Speaker 1: think about your debt, You think about the interest on 753 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,799 Speaker 1: your debt, and what it feels like is there's no 754 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,000 Speaker 1: light at the end of the tunnel. It's just a 755 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,680 Speaker 1: black hole of bills for the rest of your life. Well, 756 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,920 Speaker 1: that's where American financing comes in. You have a mortgage, 757 00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:39,799 Speaker 1: you have high interest debt. American financing is here with solutions. 758 00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,840 Speaker 1: Have you actually reached out to them yet to figure 759 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 1: out what your solutions are? It's time. There is a 760 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,080 Speaker 1: light at the end of the tunnel. Get a hold 761 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:54,240 Speaker 1: of them American Financing dot net slash jesse. The tunnel 762 00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,319 Speaker 1: is not never ending dark, I promise call them eight 763 00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:12,439 Speaker 1: six six eight nine to one two eight two one. Yes, 764 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,640 Speaker 1: we have domestic problems here. We have, let's be honest, 765 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,799 Speaker 1: domestic enemies here. They're called democrats, there's no question about that. 766 00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,600 Speaker 1: But we also have to be aware we do have 767 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:26,040 Speaker 1: foreign enemies who work with our domestic enemies. It's a 768 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,560 Speaker 1: lot to take in. But there are a problem over there, 769 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,719 Speaker 1: but also there are a problem right here. This is 770 00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,920 Speaker 1: why we have to have these conversations about cartels, about 771 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,480 Speaker 1: who's getting involved in our elections. We have to have 772 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:41,040 Speaker 1: conversations about drones, drone warfare. We're gonna keep having these 773 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,479 Speaker 1: chats on this show because I learned. When you learn, 774 00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:45,479 Speaker 1: all right, we'll do it again.