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Speaker 1: On January the twentieth of this year, President Trump signed

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Speaker 1: an Executive Order fourteen fifteen seven establishing a process to

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Speaker 1: designate international cartels as foreign terrorist organization also known as

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Speaker 1: ftos or specially designated global terrorists, recognizing them as national

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Speaker 1: security threats. One month later, on February the twentieth, the

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Speaker 1: US Department of State officially designated eight Latin American criminal groups,

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Speaker 1: including major Mexican cartels like the Sinaloa Cartel, the Gulf Cartel,

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Speaker 1: Northeast Cartel, United Cartel, to name a few, as terrorist organizations. Now,

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Speaker 1: these designations allow for intensified legal actions, including sanctions, asset freezes,

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Speaker 1: and broader enforcement under anti terrorism laws. This is something

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Speaker 1: that the President is saying he's going to start using

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Speaker 1: to his advantage. We are now getting reporting from Ken

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Speaker 1: Klippenstein that the military is preparing attacks on Mexican cartels.

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Speaker 1: In fact, he's claiming now they are secret orders that

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Speaker 1: are being worked up to directly target cartels as the

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Speaker 1: new terrorice frontier. His reporting says this Trump administration has

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Speaker 1: now directed the military to prepare for lethal strikes against

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Speaker 1: cartel targets inside Mexico. Three military sources are now confirming

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Speaker 1: to them. The top secret planning order issued in late spring,

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Speaker 1: they say, directs the Northern Command known as Northcom to

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Speaker 1: The US Mexican military relations are broad and cooperative. Any

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Speaker 1: military action south of the border is considered extremely sensitive for

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Speaker 1: both Washington and the Mexican federal government and is rarely

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Speaker 1: discussed in public. Not only is Donald Trump uniquely focused

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Speaker 1: having designated them terrorists in one of his first executive orders,

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Speaker 1: unilateral action despite potentially negative political ramifications with Mexico. That

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Speaker 1: He and other sources say the military action could be unilateral,

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Speaker 1: that is, without the involvement or even the approval of

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Speaker 1: the Mexican government, and that would make sense because the

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Speaker 1: and is extremely extremely corrupt and infiltrated with cartel influence

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Speaker 1: everywhere the government goes. Now, the unprecedented order was discussed

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Speaker 1: apparently at a July meeting at NORTHCOM headquarters, in Colorado Springs.

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Speaker 1: The reporting is now saying that was led by Colby Jenkins,

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Speaker 1: the unconfirmed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and

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Speaker 1: Gregory Gullett, commander of Northcom, hosted the two highest ranking

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Speaker 1: Mexican military officials and made sure they knew what was

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Speaker 1: going on with our problems with the cartel, saying this today,

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Speaker 1: more than ever, the challenges we face demand a joint,

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Speaker 1: coordinated and adaptive response. That's what Morales said after the

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Speaker 1: let any potential operation be conducted by two nations together.

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Speaker 1: Now again, why would this come from one of the

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Speaker 1: top officials in Mexico, Because they don't want America actually

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Speaker 1: going after the terrorists. To address extreme political sensitivities and

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Speaker 1: to honor, the report says Mexico sovereignty. Operations inside Mexico

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Speaker 1: have previously been conducted by the CIA and the Joint

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Speaker 1: Special Operations Command known as JAYSOK, the clandestine arm of

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Speaker 1: for operations quote. NORTHCOM was previously sidelined in any Mexico planning.

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Speaker 1: The conventional special operations components mostly involved in joint training

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Speaker 1: in a much larger magnitude. That is what one senior

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Speaker 1: intelligence officialist said now. One reason is that prospective attacks

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Speaker 1: have also have to be court with intelligence communities at large,

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Speaker 1: for example, the FBI and various homeland security agencies such

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Speaker 1: They can now go back to this job. We also

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Speaker 1: are being told that NORTHCOM is already involved in Mexico

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Speaker 1: a recent testimony, saying that yes, there is cooperation with Mexico.

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Speaker 1: It is already closer than any point in history. Quote unquote,

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Speaker 1: so here we are, and that looks like the president

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Speaker 1: reporting when Donald Trump and his administration labeled the Mexican

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Speaker 1: drug cartels as domestic terrorist organizations. Now you'll understand more

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Speaker 2: Take a listen of an now to a monumental moment

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Speaker 2: and the war on drugs. The Trump administration has officially

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Speaker 2: Justice correspondent, Scott MacFarland, Scott, thanks so much for being

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Speaker 3: His name is Derek Maltz, and he is making this

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Speaker 3: argument that this new designation that Latin American drug cartels

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Speaker 3: slow some of the drug trade into America, into American

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Speaker 3: communities where fentanyl is killing users. It's killing innocent victims

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Speaker 3: Even killing babies and law enforcement officers who come near

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Speaker 3: the stop. So they're trying to get aggressive about this,

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Speaker 3: But among them is that foreign terrorist organizations are not

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Speaker 3: a bit. But there's concern, Liz, that if you make

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Speaker 3: it a crime to give money to a drug cartel,

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Speaker 3: you could be knocking down those who are victims of

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Speaker 1: So now the big question is what will this look

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Speaker 1: like moving forward. Well, let me give you a couple

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Speaker 1: preparation of the battle space inside Mexico to set the stage,

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Speaker 1: they say, for future military operations and to prepare cartel

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Speaker 1: major difference when it comes to Mexico, the political sensitivities involved.

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Speaker 1: We share a border with them. Mexico is a very

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Speaker 1: US cooperation in many ways with Mexico. So here we are,

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Speaker 1: and the reality is Donald Trump has said it's time

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Speaker 1: it looks like the planning is well underway. We have

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Speaker 1: new breaking news and it deals with former President Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: He ignored. We're now being told the Department of Justice's

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Speaker 1: former President Joe Biden approved for thousands of federal convicts

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Speaker 1: in his final days and final hours in office, and

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Speaker 1: Project and reviewed by The Washington Examiner, now reveal that

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Speaker 1: former Associate Deputy Attorney General, the department's top career official

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Speaker 1: at the time, Bradley Weinsheimer, raised alarms immediately after, Biden

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Speaker 1: issued three autopin sign warrants on January seventeenth, covering only

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice Office of the Partner Attorney, Weinsheimer wrote

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Speaker 1: lawfully even carried out quote unquote. He went on to

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Speaker 1: adding that to interpret the document properly, we will need

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Speaker 1: that Biden provide quote a list as to each inmate

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Speaker 1: listing the offenses that are covered by the commutation, which

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Speaker 1: he described as the clearest and least problematic alternative. Moving forward,

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Speaker 1: Weinsheimer and Biden needed to clarify the meaning of the

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Speaker 1: Here is an exact quote from the email. It said this,

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Speaker 1: email says communication about the commutations, the White House has

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Speaker 1: it is untrue or at least misleading. As you know,

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Speaker 1: for commutation action, we initially identified nineteen that were quote

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Speaker 1: highly problematic. That was based only upon running our initial

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Speaker 1: clemency petitions, a small percentage of the overall total from

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Speaker 1: the White House. Even in that number, we identified violent offenders,

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Speaker 1: including those who committed acts of violence during the offense. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is a screen shot of a much longer email

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Speaker 1: exchange that came from Weinsheimer on January eighteenth. This email

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Speaker 1: Weinsheimer also warned the ambiguous order could unintentionally wipe away

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Speaker 1: convictions for many violent felons. He pushed back against the

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Speaker 1: White House messaging that the clemency recipients were only nonviolent

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Speaker 1: drug offenders. That's not true. Among them, for example, was

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Speaker 1: Russell McIntosh. Now, this is not someone you would ever

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Speaker 1: describe as a quote nonviolent drug offender. How do we

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Speaker 1: know this? Russell killed a woman and her two year

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Speaker 1: enforcer tortured an informant with a butty torch, and Plays Anderson,

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Speaker 1: a gangster's disciple member, was implicated in multiple murders and

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Speaker 1: multiple kidnappings. This according to a commutation's receipt page from

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Speaker 1: the Department of Justice. Now all of the people I

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Speaker 1: just named those are not nonviolent drug offenders as the

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Speaker 1: White House claimed. And despite these warnings, the White House

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