1 00:00:11,697 --> 00:00:14,977 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure 2 00:00:14,977 --> 00:00:17,977 Speaker 1: you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 3 00:00:18,017 --> 00:00:22,497 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Trump waging an actual drug 4 00:00:22,537 --> 00:00:27,257 Speaker 1: war against the cartels this time around, blowing up the 5 00:00:27,657 --> 00:00:32,737 Speaker 1: tenth that's right, the tenth drug vessel. These are boats, 6 00:00:32,777 --> 00:00:36,337 Speaker 1: including submersible, which is really like a submarine, although it 7 00:00:36,377 --> 00:00:38,617 Speaker 1: doesn't go deep. It just goes below the surface of 8 00:00:38,657 --> 00:00:42,337 Speaker 1: the water to evade detection. But the Trump Department of War, 9 00:00:42,497 --> 00:00:45,177 Speaker 1: led by my friend Secretary of Defense or Secretary of 10 00:00:45,177 --> 00:00:49,217 Speaker 1: War rather heg Seth, has been taking the fight, truly 11 00:00:49,297 --> 00:00:52,337 Speaker 1: taking the fight to the drug cartels in Venezuela. And 12 00:00:52,337 --> 00:00:53,217 Speaker 1: here's what Trump says. 13 00:00:53,217 --> 00:00:56,297 Speaker 2: I think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. 14 00:00:56,337 --> 00:00:59,137 Speaker 3: I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing 15 00:00:59,217 --> 00:01:00,457 Speaker 3: drugs into our country. 16 00:01:00,897 --> 00:01:02,297 Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna kill them. 17 00:01:02,577 --> 00:01:05,537 Speaker 1: You know they're gonna be like dead. Yep, he says 18 00:01:05,577 --> 00:01:08,497 Speaker 1: it pretty straightforward. We're gonna kill them. You know, they're 19 00:01:08,537 --> 00:01:13,257 Speaker 1: gonna be like dead. The President has decided that after 20 00:01:13,337 --> 00:01:18,857 Speaker 1: designating these groups like Trenda Aragua as narco terrorists, they 21 00:01:18,937 --> 00:01:23,577 Speaker 1: will be treated as terrorists and therefore this will actually 22 00:01:23,617 --> 00:01:27,057 Speaker 1: be something much more like a war than the so 23 00:01:27,217 --> 00:01:29,897 Speaker 1: called war on drugs has been in the past. No 24 00:01:30,057 --> 00:01:37,217 Speaker 1: more cartel boats full of fentanol and other drugs flooding America. 25 00:01:37,617 --> 00:01:40,497 Speaker 1: And not just remember it's not just that it kills 26 00:01:41,137 --> 00:01:44,257 Speaker 1: people in overdoses, which is the thing that is the 27 00:01:44,817 --> 00:01:47,977 Speaker 1: gut punch for everybody in communities all across the country, 28 00:01:48,737 --> 00:01:53,137 Speaker 1: losing loved ones, losing young people, moms, dads, husbands, brothers, sons. 29 00:01:54,497 --> 00:01:57,657 Speaker 1: That's going on to the roughly about one hundred thousand 30 00:01:57,697 --> 00:01:59,537 Speaker 1: a year number. I think last year it went down 31 00:01:59,577 --> 00:02:02,097 Speaker 1: to the nineties, but it's been well over one hundred 32 00:02:02,137 --> 00:02:06,497 Speaker 1: thousand in recent years. But there's also the degradation of 33 00:02:06,697 --> 00:02:10,017 Speaker 1: society that occurs because of this. For example, we often 34 00:02:10,217 --> 00:02:13,297 Speaker 1: talk about the war on not just the war on drugs, 35 00:02:13,297 --> 00:02:15,817 Speaker 1: we talk about the war on crime, or rather, Trump 36 00:02:15,857 --> 00:02:19,297 Speaker 1: wants to limit crime and bring down the number of 37 00:02:19,377 --> 00:02:24,737 Speaker 1: murders in this country substantially, as certainly a very worthy goal. Well, 38 00:02:25,177 --> 00:02:29,857 Speaker 1: what are most shootings? Most shootings involve what in America 39 00:02:30,737 --> 00:02:34,297 Speaker 1: gang related activity. That's if you go to inner city 40 00:02:34,377 --> 00:02:38,937 Speaker 1: anywhere in any major metropolitan area, A lot of the homicides, 41 00:02:38,977 --> 00:02:42,137 Speaker 1: even a majority of the homicides involve Sure, there's some 42 00:02:42,217 --> 00:02:44,937 Speaker 1: that are armed robbery and just that kind of criminality, 43 00:02:44,937 --> 00:02:46,617 Speaker 1: but a lot of the time it is drug turf 44 00:02:47,457 --> 00:02:51,737 Speaker 1: and it is people shooting each other over gang related incidents. 45 00:02:52,297 --> 00:02:55,057 Speaker 1: These gangs really only are able to fund themselves through 46 00:02:55,057 --> 00:02:59,857 Speaker 1: the sale of drugs. So if you can dramatically pull 47 00:02:59,937 --> 00:03:03,737 Speaker 1: back their ability to get drugs like fentanylsso obviously cocaine, heroin, 48 00:03:03,777 --> 00:03:06,137 Speaker 1: other things, but if you can get their ability to 49 00:03:06,137 --> 00:03:08,497 Speaker 1: get their hands on those drugs to be substantially less, 50 00:03:08,977 --> 00:03:13,017 Speaker 1: you are cutting off the funding and really the incentive, 51 00:03:13,057 --> 00:03:16,337 Speaker 1: in many ways, the financial incentive for this kind of 52 00:03:16,377 --> 00:03:20,617 Speaker 1: criminal activity. And then there's also on the user n 53 00:03:20,737 --> 00:03:22,777 Speaker 1: side of this, the people who are the drug addicts, 54 00:03:23,577 --> 00:03:26,777 Speaker 1: they commit crimes. This is what happens, say in a 55 00:03:26,817 --> 00:03:29,177 Speaker 1: city like San Francisco, where I know they're turning it 56 00:03:29,217 --> 00:03:33,577 Speaker 1: around now, but they had largely decriminalized drug use in 57 00:03:33,657 --> 00:03:37,297 Speaker 1: certain places in the public, in public squares and parks. 58 00:03:37,897 --> 00:03:40,697 Speaker 1: What you have is people then just are doing these drugs. 59 00:03:40,737 --> 00:03:46,057 Speaker 1: They're incredibly addictive, and fentanyl is both very deadly and 60 00:03:46,217 --> 00:03:49,977 Speaker 1: very addictive, very easy to overdose on and incredibly hard 61 00:03:49,977 --> 00:03:52,777 Speaker 1: to get off of and so they just become these 62 00:03:53,297 --> 00:03:57,817 Speaker 1: addict zombies who will do anything. They will give up 63 00:03:57,817 --> 00:04:01,817 Speaker 1: the rest of their lives, whatever relationships and whatever aspirations 64 00:04:01,817 --> 00:04:03,697 Speaker 1: they have, they give up the rest of their lives 65 00:04:03,697 --> 00:04:05,657 Speaker 1: in order to feed the habit. And that can involve 66 00:04:06,097 --> 00:04:10,897 Speaker 1: usually does involve criminality. They'll start to steal, they'll sell 67 00:04:10,977 --> 00:04:13,857 Speaker 1: drugs themselves so that they can feed their drug habit. 68 00:04:14,417 --> 00:04:19,577 Speaker 1: It's just all spirals. So illegal drugs are terrible for 69 00:04:19,657 --> 00:04:24,977 Speaker 1: this country in a whole range of ways, and specifically 70 00:04:26,177 --> 00:04:28,337 Speaker 1: fentanel needs to be treated as something very serious. And 71 00:04:28,497 --> 00:04:32,857 Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, Senator marcro Rubio is not backing 72 00:04:32,857 --> 00:04:35,297 Speaker 1: off this. I'm sorry, I said. Senator Secretary of State 73 00:04:35,417 --> 00:04:38,017 Speaker 1: Mark or Rubio is not backing off this at all either. 74 00:04:38,017 --> 00:04:39,177 Speaker 1: Here's what he said online. 75 00:04:39,217 --> 00:04:41,817 Speaker 2: These are drug boats. If people want to stop seeing 76 00:04:41,857 --> 00:04:44,657 Speaker 2: drug boats blow up, stop sending drugs to the United States. 77 00:04:44,537 --> 00:04:46,337 Speaker 1: Doesn't matter i's in the United States. 78 00:04:46,337 --> 00:04:47,777 Speaker 2: Well, these are all in international waters. 79 00:04:47,817 --> 00:04:49,937 Speaker 1: The boat in the United States or. 80 00:04:50,457 --> 00:04:52,057 Speaker 2: Well, that's a different manual. You're talking about a law 81 00:04:52,097 --> 00:04:54,697 Speaker 2: enforcement matter. In this particular case, there are people traveling 82 00:04:54,697 --> 00:04:57,857 Speaker 2: on international waters headed towards the United States. With hostilities 83 00:04:57,857 --> 00:05:01,377 Speaker 2: in mind, which includes flooding our country with dangerous, deadly drugs. 84 00:05:01,697 --> 00:05:04,137 Speaker 2: And they're going to be stopped. And that's what's happening. 85 00:05:04,257 --> 00:05:06,537 Speaker 2: And in the case last week you saw there was 86 00:05:06,577 --> 00:05:08,697 Speaker 2: a submarine, it was a submarine. It was a submersible. 87 00:05:08,737 --> 00:05:10,377 Speaker 2: That's a drug boat all the way through. We know 88 00:05:10,417 --> 00:05:12,457 Speaker 2: what these boats are, the President just said it. We 89 00:05:12,577 --> 00:05:14,617 Speaker 2: tracked them from the very beginning. We know who's on them, 90 00:05:14,697 --> 00:05:16,497 Speaker 2: who they are, where they're coming from, what they have 91 00:05:16,617 --> 00:05:19,577 Speaker 2: on them. And you know, if you're running drug boats, 92 00:05:19,577 --> 00:05:20,777 Speaker 2: you're and you're in grave danger. 93 00:05:22,057 --> 00:05:25,697 Speaker 1: Yeah, people want to stop seeing drug boats blown up, 94 00:05:25,737 --> 00:05:29,897 Speaker 1: stop sending drugs to the United States. You know, the Democrats, 95 00:05:29,937 --> 00:05:31,457 Speaker 1: I understand, are going to make a big deal of this. 96 00:05:31,497 --> 00:05:35,097 Speaker 1: Some Republicans are starting to make a big deal about this. 97 00:05:36,377 --> 00:05:40,057 Speaker 1: But here's the problem Democrats have. They blew up a 98 00:05:40,137 --> 00:05:43,697 Speaker 1: US citizen without trial who was not engaged in any 99 00:05:44,817 --> 00:05:49,657 Speaker 1: imminent lethal activity with anwor alackey. And they blew up 100 00:05:49,657 --> 00:05:52,217 Speaker 1: his son too, sixteen years old, also a US citizen, 101 00:05:53,217 --> 00:05:57,337 Speaker 1: So they've they've the obamaministration set the precedent for under 102 00:05:57,337 --> 00:06:02,417 Speaker 1: a covert action authority killing killing Americans without trial and 103 00:06:02,457 --> 00:06:04,857 Speaker 1: who were not an active combatant. Now I understand you 104 00:06:04,857 --> 00:06:07,777 Speaker 1: could say they were plotting and they were doing bad things. Okay, yeah, 105 00:06:07,777 --> 00:06:11,097 Speaker 1: but they weren't about to fire a rocket at somebody. 106 00:06:11,177 --> 00:06:13,177 Speaker 1: They weren't about they didn't have a gun in their 107 00:06:13,177 --> 00:06:17,777 Speaker 1: hands taking part in active operations when they were killed. So, 108 00:06:18,537 --> 00:06:23,257 Speaker 1: and I'd also remind everybody that the decision to have 109 00:06:23,337 --> 00:06:26,817 Speaker 1: their raid on Bin Laden, I mean, and I think 110 00:06:26,857 --> 00:06:30,137 Speaker 1: it was the right move, but Steel Team six went 111 00:06:30,217 --> 00:06:32,577 Speaker 1: in there and it was a it was a kill mission. 112 00:06:33,177 --> 00:06:37,697 Speaker 1: They killed Bin Laden and that was on presidential authority 113 00:06:37,737 --> 00:06:42,697 Speaker 1: as well. So let's not pretend like everybody in every 114 00:06:42,737 --> 00:06:46,657 Speaker 1: circumstance all over the world, all the bad guys, even 115 00:06:46,657 --> 00:06:49,537 Speaker 1: when Democrats are in charge, get to have you know, 116 00:06:49,577 --> 00:06:53,257 Speaker 1: ACLU provided attorneys and get to drag everything out and 117 00:06:53,257 --> 00:06:57,497 Speaker 1: make it No, it's actually not the way things have worked, 118 00:06:57,617 --> 00:07:00,257 Speaker 1: or rather not the way things have worked even when 119 00:07:00,297 --> 00:07:04,097 Speaker 1: Democrats were in charge. So I think that's very important. 120 00:07:04,177 --> 00:07:10,177 Speaker 1: I think it's it's notable that the Democrats have the 121 00:07:10,217 --> 00:07:12,777 Speaker 1: ones that set this precedent, and so can I will 122 00:07:12,817 --> 00:07:18,257 Speaker 1: continue to point this out. Our sponsor is preborn. 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We 148 00:08:39,257 --> 00:08:42,657 Speaker 3: are constantly not doing our job, which is not a 149 00:08:42,657 --> 00:08:46,337 Speaker 3: partisan one. It is to hold this president and check 150 00:08:46,737 --> 00:08:54,257 Speaker 3: that no one operates without accountability and without transparency. Because 151 00:08:54,497 --> 00:08:57,777 Speaker 3: power is corrupting. And when you let someone do what 152 00:08:57,857 --> 00:09:00,937 Speaker 3: they want to do, when they want to do it 153 00:09:00,977 --> 00:09:03,697 Speaker 3: without a check or a balance, it is corrupting. 154 00:09:03,737 --> 00:09:10,217 Speaker 1: And we so we need to have accountability. He says, Okay, 155 00:09:10,337 --> 00:09:14,457 Speaker 1: what is that going to be. We're supposed to now 156 00:09:14,577 --> 00:09:18,097 Speaker 1: have these individuals who are bringing these this fentandel into 157 00:09:18,137 --> 00:09:22,777 Speaker 1: the country. They're going to get a tax payer funded trial, 158 00:09:23,257 --> 00:09:25,657 Speaker 1: or maybe they're just going to plead and this is 159 00:09:25,697 --> 00:09:28,937 Speaker 1: going to keep happening. Here's the problem that Democrats face 160 00:09:29,017 --> 00:09:31,737 Speaker 1: with this. I understand that it can seem harsh, and 161 00:09:31,857 --> 00:09:35,257 Speaker 1: it is. It's it's taking life. It's very serious business. 162 00:09:36,137 --> 00:09:39,497 Speaker 1: But remember we were taking a lot of lives in 163 00:09:39,577 --> 00:09:43,337 Speaker 1: the Northwest Frontier Province with drone strikes based upon plotting 164 00:09:43,937 --> 00:09:52,217 Speaker 1: plotting against America again. Obama administration strikes. Obama dramatically ramped 165 00:09:52,297 --> 00:09:57,177 Speaker 1: up the drone program in the places like Waziristan, Northwest 166 00:09:57,177 --> 00:10:03,177 Speaker 1: Frontier Province, quite a these places in Pakistan where there 167 00:10:03,217 --> 00:10:09,937 Speaker 1: were these extremists operating, and they were they were to 168 00:10:10,057 --> 00:10:12,937 Speaker 1: well where some of the strikes, some of those places 169 00:10:12,937 --> 00:10:15,377 Speaker 1: were just were extremists word, they weren't anyway. The point 170 00:10:15,417 --> 00:10:19,257 Speaker 1: is they were doing strikes in these areas and they 171 00:10:19,257 --> 00:10:21,457 Speaker 1: weren't given trial. They were treated as combat they were 172 00:10:21,537 --> 00:10:25,177 Speaker 1: treated as as a clear and present danger and there 173 00:10:25,177 --> 00:10:28,217 Speaker 1: were lethal orders given in it to strike people in 174 00:10:28,257 --> 00:10:32,057 Speaker 1: a country with which we were not at war. Okay, 175 00:10:32,257 --> 00:10:34,937 Speaker 1: we were taking people out in Pakistan under the Obama 176 00:10:34,937 --> 00:10:39,537 Speaker 1: administration for years, years and years, And I'm gonna tell you, 177 00:10:39,897 --> 00:10:42,697 Speaker 1: I actually don't disagree with what he was doing. Just 178 00:10:42,697 --> 00:10:44,737 Speaker 1: because Obama did it didn't make it wrong. Just because 179 00:10:45,097 --> 00:10:47,537 Speaker 1: Obama gave the order for the bin Laden raid, obviously 180 00:10:47,537 --> 00:10:51,137 Speaker 1: that was the right move. And using drones in the FATA, 181 00:10:51,257 --> 00:10:54,737 Speaker 1: the Federally Administered Tribal Area of Pakistan and the Northwest 182 00:10:54,817 --> 00:10:58,977 Speaker 1: NWFP the Northwest Frontier Provinces along the border with Afghanistan. 183 00:10:59,697 --> 00:11:01,417 Speaker 1: It was the right move. It was effective. Actually, you 184 00:11:01,457 --> 00:11:03,537 Speaker 1: don't hear about this a lot, but killed a lot 185 00:11:03,577 --> 00:11:08,457 Speaker 1: of al Qaida. It's true, we did. Now, why is 186 00:11:08,497 --> 00:11:12,057 Speaker 1: that so different than Kartel designated and told you were 187 00:11:12,057 --> 00:11:15,177 Speaker 1: not allowed to keep bringing drugs into this country because 188 00:11:16,217 --> 00:11:18,897 Speaker 1: the people that will overdose from one of these drug 189 00:11:19,377 --> 00:11:24,457 Speaker 1: one of these drug they're trafficking boats aren't to be 190 00:11:24,577 --> 00:11:28,817 Speaker 1: considered of this of the same urgency as people that 191 00:11:28,857 --> 00:11:31,017 Speaker 1: were trying to avoid getting blown up on a plane 192 00:11:31,097 --> 00:11:33,537 Speaker 1: or something from the terrorist maniacs of al Qaida. I mean, 193 00:11:33,737 --> 00:11:35,937 Speaker 1: the more you think this thing through, the more clear 194 00:11:36,017 --> 00:11:39,777 Speaker 1: I think it becomes that the war on drugs has 195 00:11:39,817 --> 00:11:43,737 Speaker 1: to actually be more like a war. Everything else is 196 00:11:43,777 --> 00:11:45,697 Speaker 1: not going to stop them. I a long time ago, 197 00:11:45,777 --> 00:11:48,417 Speaker 1: I went to briefings with the DEA when I was 198 00:11:48,417 --> 00:11:52,337 Speaker 1: a CIA officer, and obviously they're briefing itself. They were 199 00:11:52,337 --> 00:11:54,817 Speaker 1: giving us very tactical stuff was classified back then. But 200 00:11:54,857 --> 00:11:58,897 Speaker 1: I can tell you the broad, the broad spectrum unclassified 201 00:11:59,737 --> 00:12:02,497 Speaker 1: reality of the DEEA then and it has always been 202 00:12:02,497 --> 00:12:07,817 Speaker 1: the reality of the Drug Enforcement Administration is as long 203 00:12:07,857 --> 00:12:11,497 Speaker 1: as people are able to become very very rich selling 204 00:12:11,537 --> 00:12:14,017 Speaker 1: this poison into America and the worst thing they really 205 00:12:14,057 --> 00:12:18,497 Speaker 1: face is going to prison in an American jail. They're 206 00:12:18,497 --> 00:12:23,177 Speaker 1: going to keep doing it. And these cartels which are 207 00:12:23,257 --> 00:12:26,097 Speaker 1: now operating really at nation state level in the case 208 00:12:26,137 --> 00:12:29,057 Speaker 1: of Venezuela where you have the narco traffickers run the 209 00:12:29,137 --> 00:12:34,057 Speaker 1: count in fact that people in the government are narco traffickers, president, 210 00:12:34,097 --> 00:12:36,417 Speaker 1: the vice president, they're dictators. But you know, these are 211 00:12:36,417 --> 00:12:41,577 Speaker 1: the titles they use. So they're funding their oppression and 212 00:12:41,617 --> 00:12:45,817 Speaker 1: their tyranny of people in Venezuela through the drug trade. Yes, 213 00:12:45,897 --> 00:12:47,937 Speaker 1: also oil, but the drug trade is a big is 214 00:12:47,937 --> 00:12:50,337 Speaker 1: a big part of it too. That's ready cash that 215 00:12:50,337 --> 00:12:54,777 Speaker 1: they have access to. 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That's Insider twenty twenty five 249 00:14:36,457 --> 00:14:43,337 Speaker 1: dot com. Now we have the possibility here which we 250 00:14:43,377 --> 00:14:46,497 Speaker 1: have to take. I think very seriously of the Trump 251 00:14:46,537 --> 00:14:53,937 Speaker 1: administration not only striking in international waters these cartel drug boats, 252 00:14:54,777 --> 00:14:59,137 Speaker 1: but also that this may escalate. I mentioned Mexico before, 253 00:14:59,537 --> 00:15:02,577 Speaker 1: this may get involved with the Mexican cartels, who are 254 00:15:03,057 --> 00:15:05,737 Speaker 1: very sophisticated, share a border with US, a lot of money, 255 00:15:06,097 --> 00:15:09,337 Speaker 1: a lot of influence, and ruthless and violent on the 256 00:15:09,377 --> 00:15:12,377 Speaker 1: same level as al Qaeda. Different goal than al Qaeda, 257 00:15:12,457 --> 00:15:15,817 Speaker 1: but they'll murder anybody. They'll saw if anybody's head on video. 258 00:15:15,857 --> 00:15:20,057 Speaker 1: I mean, they are absolutely brutal. We haven't really gone 259 00:15:20,137 --> 00:15:23,297 Speaker 1: after the Mexican part of this equation, and that's going 260 00:15:23,337 --> 00:15:28,137 Speaker 1: to be the big turning point. I think it's one 261 00:15:28,257 --> 00:15:32,097 Speaker 1: thing to blow up a NARCO vessel in international waters. 262 00:15:32,177 --> 00:15:37,217 Speaker 1: Venezuela is far away from US. Venezuelan government cartels which 263 00:15:37,257 --> 00:15:40,297 Speaker 1: is the same thing. Really, their ability to hit back 264 00:15:40,337 --> 00:15:46,057 Speaker 1: at us is very limited. If we start going after Sinaloa, Jalisco, 265 00:15:46,297 --> 00:15:52,057 Speaker 1: New Generation or Nuevo Generation cartel, the golf cartel. Some 266 00:15:52,097 --> 00:15:53,977 Speaker 1: of these have been long standing players, and there's other 267 00:15:54,017 --> 00:15:56,497 Speaker 1: new cartels, and there's even independent little cartels. They're all 268 00:15:56,537 --> 00:15:58,697 Speaker 1: fighting it out for turf and territory in Mexico. It's 269 00:15:58,697 --> 00:16:02,097 Speaker 1: the multi billion dollar industry of the illegal drug trade. 270 00:16:02,097 --> 00:16:04,457 Speaker 1: And now you have to remember they the human trafficking 271 00:16:04,497 --> 00:16:07,497 Speaker 1: part of this is way down because Trump has secured 272 00:16:07,497 --> 00:16:11,497 Speaker 1: the border. So with that, the illegal drug sales component 273 00:16:11,577 --> 00:16:16,337 Speaker 1: is only even more fiercely contested, right because the plotza 274 00:16:16,577 --> 00:16:19,457 Speaker 1: the place along the border that's controlled for human trafficking 275 00:16:19,497 --> 00:16:23,217 Speaker 1: purposes now is the drugs are what's going to make 276 00:16:23,257 --> 00:16:25,737 Speaker 1: the money, not just letting illegals come into our country 277 00:16:25,737 --> 00:16:28,617 Speaker 1: and they pay a essentially a fee almost like a 278 00:16:28,737 --> 00:16:33,097 Speaker 1: tax to the cartels to cross. So this is the 279 00:16:33,097 --> 00:16:35,977 Speaker 1: big interesting moment I think that we see ahead of 280 00:16:36,057 --> 00:16:39,857 Speaker 1: us here, which is are is the same counter terrorism 281 00:16:39,897 --> 00:16:42,257 Speaker 1: apparatus that we used against al Qaeda that is now 282 00:16:42,257 --> 00:16:45,097 Speaker 1: being used to track and destroy cartel boats in the 283 00:16:45,217 --> 00:16:48,017 Speaker 1: Caribbean in international waters. Is that going to be used 284 00:16:48,057 --> 00:16:50,297 Speaker 1: to go after the cartels in Mexico? Are we going 285 00:16:50,377 --> 00:16:53,777 Speaker 1: to have tier one military assets that are doing raids 286 00:16:53,937 --> 00:16:57,017 Speaker 1: on senior cartel bosses? We're gonna be using drones armed 287 00:16:57,057 --> 00:16:59,777 Speaker 1: with hell fires. 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