February 22, 2025 • 27 mins
1. Untraceable Government Spending
- The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) discovered $4.7 trillion in Treasury Department payments that are almost impossible to trace due to the lack of an identification code linking payments to budget line items.
- The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is now required to increase transparency and traceability of payments.
- The discovery was made during a DOGE audit aimed at identifying and cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending.
- There was significant opposition from Democrats and some state attorneys general, who argued that DOGE should not have access to sensitive taxpayer data.
2. CIA Operations Against Mexican Cartels
- President Trump directed the CIA to use surveillance drones to gather intelligence on Mexican drug cartels, specifically targeting fentanyl labs.
- The drones, currently unarmed, are part of an effort to gather intelligence and potentially lay the groundwork for future strikes against the cartels.
- The CIA's increased drone activity began during the Biden administration but was intensified under Trump's directive.
- There is a debate about whether the Mexican government will act on the intelligence provided by the CIA, given the cartels' influence over the government.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
DOGE has now discovered four point seven trillion of Treasury
Department payments that are quote almost impossible to be traced.
You got to ask yourself the question, why why would
the Treasury Department send four point seven trillion dollars of
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payments without an identification code that links a Treasury payment
to a budget line item. That is what DOGE has announced,
making the payments quote impossible, almost impossible to trace.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Doage said. The identification payment.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Code called t AS for Treasury Access Symbol is now
required as of Saturday to increase the insight into where
money is actually going, because well, we don't know where
four point seven trillion dollars of your tax dollars actually went.
The Treasure Access Symbol TASK is an identification code linking
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Treasury payments to a budget line item. This is in parentheses,
Dade said standard financial process in the federal government. The
TAS field was optional for four point seven trillion, not
billion million, four point seven trillion in payments and was
often left blank, making traceability, as they described it, almost impossible.
(01:31):
Think about that, like, why would you not want to
trace four point seven trillion in payments? Because you don't
want the people to see what's happening. That's the only
reason why you do this. This isn't by like, This
isn't some random accident of like four point seven trillion
dollars disappearing. This is a deliberate abuse of four point
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seven trillion dollars in payments so that you couldn't ask
questions about it now.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Fox News also reported.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
On the tas R Task Payment Code system, saying, quote
according to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which is
under the Treasury, TAS codes are used to describe any
one of the account identification codes assigned by the Treasury,
and is also referred to as the quote account. All
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financial transactions made by the federal government are classified by
TAS when reporting to the Treasury in the Office of
Management and Budget. You may have heard of thatmb The
discovery was announced on the same day, by the way
that DOGE appeared to have populated the doge dot gov
savings page, which as of Monday evenings said the total
(02:43):
estimated savings since the establishment of the department is now
totally about fifty five billion dollars. Quote Major Improvement and
Treasury Payment Integrity going live must posted on x saying
this is This was a combined effort of DOGE, the
US Treasury, and the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Nice work by all. Now, the absence of the code.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Was discovered during a DOGE audit of the Treasury Department
to find and cut waste, fraud, and abuse. Democrats oppose
the audit.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Let me say that again.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Democrats oppose the audit on the grounds that DOGE, a
department within the federal government, should not have access quote
to taxpayer's sensitive data. Attorney general's all lefties from fourteen
different states even sued to block DOGE from accessing the data,
alleging what they described as quote executive overreach. So if
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you want to know what states are probably getting the
most of this money, it's probably the same fourteen states
that sued to block us from seeing where our tax
dollars are going.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Quote. This is not some roving band.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
This is methodical, and it is going to yield big savings.
That is what the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bennett said in
a TV interview about the DOGE audit. Now, the left
is just enraged by this. They don't understand why they
have to deal with accountability. They don't like that all
their money is drying up at a pace, and I
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don't think they ever thought this would happen. I don't
think they ever thought there'd be a day, at least
while they're alive, where the US government would actually have
to answer to the American people because it had gotten
so big and the waste was well in the trillions
of dollars as we are now seeing, which brings me,
by the way, to another point I want to make.
Carolin Levitt, White House pressyent Terry was on Shohn Handy's
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show last night, and this is what she had to
say about the White House, saying, Look, we are instructing
Musk to probe anything that's fraudulent. Whether that's so Security payments,
whether that's Treasury Department payments, whether that's DoD doesn't matter,
because our job is to save taxpayers money.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Here is part of her conversation with Hannity.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
President Trump has directed Elon Musk in the JOJ team
to identify fraud at the Social Security Administration. They haven't
dug into the books yet, but they suspect that there
are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving
fraudulent Social Security payments, and so their goal and going
into the Social Security Administration is to identify three things.
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Number one, to identify duplicate payments and to end them.
Number two, to identify payments that are going to deceased
people who are no longer living and should no longer
be receiving that money. And number three, to protect the
integrity of the system for hardworking Americans who have been
paying into.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It their entire lives.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So rest assured to all of the people watching your
show tonight, if you paid into the system honestly, you
will continue to receive your Social Security checks. Do not
buy into the lies from the legacy fake news media
who are trying to fear you and scare you into
believing otherwise. This is what we've seen them do about
President Trump for year, with every promise that he has made,
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and he's going in there to protect your hard earned money.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
That is the ultimate goal. Okay.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
They have apparently found eight point seven million Americans who
are listed. Now that doesn't mean that we don't know
if they're being paid, but they're listed and they're on the.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Social Security role.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Their names are there that are over one hundred and
thirty years old. Eight point seven million Americans listed and
as Elon said, far more eligible social Security numbers than
they're actual citizens in the US. But we don't know
yet if checks are being sent to either individuals that
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are dead or maybe family members that are receiving them.
We just know their names are still on the list.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Right, Yes, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
There are a lot of unanswered questions, but that's exactly
why the Social Security employees, I may add, are digging
into the book books and going line by line because
past administrations have refused to do this very time consuming
but necessary work. And I want to emphasize that these
are Social Security political appointees. With every change of a
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new administration, you have new political empointees just like me
and my colleagues at the White House, who onboard to
serve the elected president. That's called a democracy. And for
far too long we've had a bureaucracy that has been
running these agencies, and look at what has resulted in
tens of billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse
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every single year that we know of. And so these
DOGE employees, these Social Security employees, are onboarding as Social
Security Administration employees political appointees, and they have every right
to administer President Trump's agenda, and that's their main focus
with this effort, not just at Social Security, but of
course at every agency.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
As you know, let's talk about the social security story,
because this is another part of the corruption that we're witnessing,
and so you understand just how much fraud there could
actually be that you're paying for. This for me is
all about the cash, right, like every aspect of this
is to me, it is about the money. And DOGE
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is now investigating a potential social security fraud millions aged
one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Thirty plus on the rolls.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The Department of Government Efficiency is investigating potential soci security fraud,
and its head Elon Musk posted startling information about its database, saying, quote.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Social Security database, these are the numbers.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Of people in each age bucket with the death field
set to false. Must began, posting an image of a
chart with an age bracket going all the way up
to three hundred and.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Sixty nine years old.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Indeed, the infos showed millions of individuals listed in some
of the more unlikely brackets. For example, there are four
point seven million that were listed between the ages of
one hundred and one hundred and nine. I think we
can all agree there's not four point seven million people
in America that are on Social Security between the ages
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of one hundred and one hundred and nine.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
It gets worse.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
There are three point six million on the Social Security
roll list that are aged one hundred and ten to
one hundred nineteen.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It gets worse.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
There are three point four million recipients in the age
bracket of one hundred and twenty to one hundred and
twenty nine. What's even more shocking is the numbers about
to go up. Okay, I just told you there's three
point four million people on the rolls. From the ages
of one hundred and twenty one hundred and twenty nine.
That number jumps from three point four million to three
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point nine million for the age group one thirty to
one thirty nine. What's even more shocking is from the
age age one hundred and forty to one hundred and
forty nine, there is three point four million in that
age group list. And finally, from the age one fifty
to one fifty nine, there's one point three million. The
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figures continue. Okay, this is insane. There's even one age
bracket between the ages of three hundred and sixty to
three hundred and sixty nine years old. So according to
the Social Security Database, these are the numbers of people
in each age group with the death field set to fosse.
(10:32):
So there's a lot of quote vampires, as must put it,
collecting social Security, not a few, a lot. Yes, there
are far more eligible Social Security members, by the way,
than there are citizens in the US of A.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Is something else that must add it.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
This might be the biggest fraud in American history. We
have got some major movements coming from the White House
on the issue of how we're going to deal with
the drug cartels down in Mexico. Two different reports are
now coming out, and I think they are incredibly exciting.
So let me break down part one before we get
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to part two, which could be action taken against the cartels. Now,
the CIA, we are being told, is flying surveillance drones
over the cartels now in Mexico. This is part one
because without intel then it would be much harder for
us to then go after.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Them or take them out. Right.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well, now, multiple news outlets are reporting that the CIA
is now stepping up their drone flights over Mexico. The
currently unarmed flights are said to be searching for fetnal
labs that are run by Mexican cartels designated by President
Donald Trump as foreign terrast organizations. The US officials told
The New York Times the flights go well into sovereign Mexico. Now,
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the flights reportedly began during the quote Biden administration, but
we're stepped up by CIA Director John Radcliffe after President
Trump made the foreign terrorist designation. So if liberals want
to freak out saying we're flying over Mexico, just know
they were doing a little bit of this when Joe
Biden was president. That's why I wanted to give you
that information. Now, the flights are not quote authorized to
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use lethal force at this time. This is all about
intelligence gathering. The CIA officers are just gathering the intelligence
data and then they're passing it along to quote Mexican officials.
The Times is also reporting, in other words, we're saying
to Mexico, you better do some of this for us. Now,
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that is the risky part of the game, because many
believe that if you give this intel to Mexican officials,
nothing is going to actually happen. I'm going to deal
with that in a moment, but I wanted you to
understand the structure of this now. Tuesday afternoon, CNN reported
that the CIA is flying the Reaper drones, the same
ones you've heard about, those MQ desh nines, the ones
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that you're familiar with that are used in Iraq, Afghanistan,
the Middle East. Now, these drones are equipped to deliver
lethal payloads, but are not currently armed.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
This is all about surveillance.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Quote the mqdashline drones used for the mission are not
currently armed, CNN said, but they can be equipped with
payloads to carry out precision strikes. The US regularly uses
these to target suspected terrafts in Syria, Iraq, and Somalia.
CNN even added some current and formal officials say designating
cartels as terrorist groups could potentially lay the groundwork for
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direct US strikes against the cartels and their drug labs
in Mexico. It is not clear if the US notified
Mexico of the surveillance flights prior to entering Mexican air
space well on February the thirteenth. We also have been
told now that the US Department of State was expected
to designate certain factions of Mexican cartels as quote, foreign
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terrorists organizations. Now, many of these cartels that are being
distinguished now as these foreign terrist organizations are cartels that
you may have heard of. For example, the Sineloa Cartel
is one that a lot of know about. The Golf
Cartel is another one, Zidas is another. It's a northeastern cartel.
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There are quite a few others now that I've been
told that you may not be familiar with, that are
very powerful in Mexico that are also being designated as
foreign terrast organizations. Now there's another part of this reporting
that's also important, and I want to read this from
Breitbart Texas. Okay, Breitbart Texas has done an incredible job
of covering these types of stories. In Breitbart News Foundation
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have reported extensively on the Golf Cartel, the reign of
tear that they have unleashed on northern Mexico, and the
protection that they've received from Mexico's government all right, as
well as Mexico's federal government. So local and federal are
protecting them in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
In addition to mass killings, widespread kidnapping, and torture, each
of these six cartels that have now been designated by
Trump as a foreign terrorist organization, have also been linked
to the indiscriminate use of explosives and some of them
the use of land minds to even protect their territories.
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All of those organizations have a long history of receiving
government protection as well as legal protection, with Mexican judges
routinely released and captured cartel figures. This is all documented
and well stated if you've read some of these reports.
Now it appears the government of Mexico is denying quote
overflight in Mexican airspace. That is part of what CNN
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reported saying, quote we cannot roll out espionage because we
do not know exactly what was done. Is what the
Mexican Defense minister said about America doing surveillance. However, they
did not violate national airspace yet, so they're playing still
both sides of this because the entire government down in
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Mexico is completely controlled by the cartels, make no mistake
about it.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
The CIA also has not publicly addressed the issue of
Mexican airspace. A spokesman said, quote Countering drug cartels in
Mexico and regionally is now a priority for the CIA
as part of the Trump Administration's broader efforts to end
the grave threat from narco trafficking. The director John Radcliffe
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is determined to put CIA's unique expertise to work against
this multifaceted challenge. Now you may say, all right, how
are the cartels going to sleep well at night knowing
that this is happening. I think it's pretty clear the
Mexican government is going to protect them, because the Mexican
government controls all of this, Which brings me to part
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two of the story. If this is about intelligence gathering
and these drones are not equipped in any capacit right
to actually make strikes, and that's what we are being
told that there is very simply put, this is all
about intelligence gathering and some of the intelligence they're going
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to give to Mexico.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
There's two parts to why this may work.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
One, if you're giving this to Mexico and they're not
acting on it, then it's going to give you more
of the ability to say, Okay, we tried to work
with you. You guys aren't doing anything to stop these
the fetnyl flow into this country, and so now we
have to make take matters in their own hands.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That's number one Number.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Two, it also tells you that we are building an
intelligence network so that we understand where the drugs are
going from, where they're starting there, where the trafficking's happening,
who's buying them, who's selling them, who's bringing them across
the border, and you can trace the drugs out from
the jungle or from these labs wherever we are monitoring
them with these drones. Then the third question that everyone
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is asking is an important one. Are we actually going
to hit them? Are we going to hit where these
distribution centers are from the sky. Are we going to
hit where these labs are maybe in the middle of
nowhere in the jungles.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It's a great question.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Now, there's two things here that I want you to
understand about what could come next. Number One, Tom Holman
said that we are working on striking cartels in Mexico.
He also gave some new information that interior arrests by
ice have increased by more than one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Thirty seven percent under President Trump.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Arrests of aliens with criminal convictions has doubled under President
Trump in the last month. The arrest of illegal alien
gang members has also doubled. Our streets and neighborhoods are
that much safer under President Trump, he said, and said,
we are less than a month into this and have
done more than the Biden administration ever did in four
years because we know what they were doing. So this
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brings me back to, Okay, we get intel on these cartels,
we are to understand where their network is. We're doing
all that with these reaper drones right now. I think
a lot of people say, look, when are we going
to hit them? Right It's a fair question. President Donald
Trump declared that the drug cartels were foreign terrorist organizations.
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That was massive on his first day in office, he
said it. And now the borders are Tom Holman says,
there are quote active discussions about US military strikes on
terror targets in Mexico. So you can start celebrating because
this is about to get real.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
While all this is happening, there's a side story that's
exploded from this, and it deals with AOC. AOC is
like obsessed now with crying. I guess again, you know
at the wall, remember when she did that photo op
where she said there's kids in cages that were actually
built by Obama. She went down there and fake cried
and the media picked it up. She's now attacking Tom
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Homan and any American that wants to get rid of
these violent criminals in America or go after them New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And I want you to hear this real quick. Take
a listen, Tom.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Holman, who's the head of who's the head of who's
directing a lot of these ice operations nationally, et cetera.
He went on TV practically crying. This dude was winding
his ass off because I went into the city of Chicago,
and Chicago had prepared for them their mayor and local
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elected officials who were solid on this issue. They educated
the city on their legal rights.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
For more, let's welcome in the person that she was
referencing there Trump administration borders are Tom home and Tom
good to see you. I know you've been asked this
question before, but.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
How do you respond to that? But what do you
make of that that an elected official is saying that
kind of thing?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Well, first of all, I think she's you know, I
won't I won't go.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I want to go, Tom, Please do, please do what
you're on your mind. It's a holiday.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Look, she's the dumbest congresswoman ever, he listened to the Congress,
and she proves that every day. And look, bottom line is,
I can't believe any member, any member of Congress, Republican, Democrat, independent,
would want to educate criminal illigal aliens who are in
the country legally, been convicted of a violent crime and
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have been ordered to remove by an immigration judge after
due process at great tax payer expense. You got a
congressman or congresswoman that does not want ICE to do
the job that Congress has mandated them to do and
funds them to do. So she doesn't want if she
doesn't want, the ICE to enforce the laws they enacted,
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and what the hell is Congress doing. I gotta they
can spend their time doing better things rather than the
writing laws they didn't wanted some force. President Trump and
me have been clear from day one, we're concentrating in
public safety, trust and national security threasts. She can call
it educational constitution rights all she wants, but we all
know what she's doing. She's out there telling people how
they enforcement, how do you evade ICE arrest? And again,
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the most dangerous are the illegal aliens in the country.
Giving them heads up, and I'll say it again. I
hope she's not educating the next murderer of a college
nursing student, or not educating the next illegal alien is
going to burn a woman alive on a subway. That
is my concern.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Yes, I hope she's not educating the next Jose Ibarra
who killed Lake and Riley.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's such a good point.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And this is where we are now in this debate.
They don't care if you die by an illegal immigrant.
They don't care if you are killed or your kids
are killed, your grandkids are killed by an axonal overdose,
which is fetnyl coming across the border. They don't care
that these cartel members are human trafficking and sex trafficking
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and abusing women and children and locking them up and
murdering them.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
They just don't care.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And so when you hear AOC say what she just said,
this is still where the left is even after election day.
This is also, I think the reason why they're losing
the cun Now you go and you listen to that,
and then let's go back to the strikes on Mexico.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Could that actually happen? All right?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Tom Holman says, Look, this is something that we're working
on now all right, like this is a real conversation
we're having.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
All of it's on the table.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Even though we have not actively used militaries as a
strike plan yet, it is something that we've talked about.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
He said.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Well, striking a target in Mexico also require work with
the Mexican government and its military. Homan suggested there might
be a an override over fair warning if American border
patrol agents are under an active threat, saying this, but
I can tell you President Trump has made Mexico cartels
who put a death threat against border patrol agents or
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our military. If they harm a border patrol agent or
the military, then President Trump will wipe them off the
face of the earth.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Now why did he make that statement.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
The reason why is because there have been active threats
against border patrol agents coming from the cartel.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
We know this.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
They have been reaching out and saying, if you keep
doing your job this way, we will kill you and
your family. A lot of times. They have great intelligence.
They know where the family where these border patrol agents live.
They know where their families live. I mean, it's next level.
The cartel does their research. They have family and friends
in America, people that come across the border legally, They've
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got their apparatus set up here and this is a
multi billion dollar industry for them. Now, Trump quote is
not likely to overstep a military action barring an immediate threat,
because relations are in a good spot. That according to
Homan as well, he said, quote, I think President Trump
is has them where he wants them. They're now putting
military on their northern border and our southern border. They
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are now participating and beginning to participate and remain in Mexico.
President Trump is demanding they take action, and we're monitoring them.
President Trump, you know, he's a game chain. President Trump
has already got Mexico to where he wants them, and
he's going to force more out of them in the
near future. So again, this is Donald Trump, I think,
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saying pretty clearly like, look, I don't think you want me.
And he also understands the reality of the situation on
the ground. You guys can either stop this flow or
I'll stop it.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You pick now.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
He knows that when he's talking the federal government, he's
talking directly to the cartels because the cartels are running
the federal government.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
They're propping up the federal government.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
So when he says what he says to them, they
immediately are telling the cartels. So his response is actually
very simple, Hey, you guys better do what I'm telling
you to do, and if you don't, then it's going
to be hell to pay. And I don't think you
guys are going to enjoy it, and it's going to
be a lot worse for you. So he does have
them where he wants it. Now, can you overthrow the
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Mexican government?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Should we know? Do we want to invade know? Do
we want to protect American citizens from fetnol?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And the illegal immigrants come across. Yes, And so there's
a choice to be made here. Do I believe that
all the drugs are going to stop coming across the
southern border?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Okay, I do not for a second think that all
the drugs are going to stop coming. Can you drop
them down to you know, ten percent of what they
were before? I think that's a fair plan, a realistic initiative,
just like we have border crossings that are down over
ninety percent right now, just because of the change in president.
So is there a chance that we could strike the
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cartels if the government doesn't do their job? Yes, If
the Mexican government doesn't do what they need to do
and the cartels know what that is, then they're all
bets are off. And that is exactly why the President
is doing what he's doing, flying these reaper drones over
Mexico right now, spying on, I would argue, probably the government,
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and spying certainly on the cartels.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
And the military. This is a good day for all
of us.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Make sure you share this podcast wherever you can on
social media, and I will see you back here tomorrow.
DOGE has now discovered four point seven trillion of Treasury
Department payments that are quote almost impossible to be traced.
You got to ask yourself the question, why why would
the Treasury Department send four point seven trillion dollars of
(00:24):
payments without an identification code that links a Treasury payment
to a budget line item. That is what DOGE has announced,
making the payments quote impossible, almost impossible to trace.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Doage said. The identification payment.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Code called t AS for Treasury Access Symbol is now
required as of Saturday to increase the insight into where
money is actually going, because well, we don't know where
four point seven trillion dollars of your tax dollars actually went.
The Treasure Access Symbol TASK is an identification code linking
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Treasury payments to a budget line item. This is in parentheses,
Dade said standard financial process in the federal government. The
TAS field was optional for four point seven trillion, not
billion million, four point seven trillion in payments and was
often left blank, making traceability, as they described it, almost impossible.
(01:31):
Think about that, like, why would you not want to
trace four point seven trillion in payments? Because you don't
want the people to see what's happening. That's the only
reason why you do this. This isn't by like, This
isn't some random accident of like four point seven trillion
dollars disappearing. This is a deliberate abuse of four point
(01:53):
seven trillion dollars in payments so that you couldn't ask
questions about it now.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Fox News also reported.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
On the tas R Task Payment Code system, saying, quote
according to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which is
under the Treasury, TAS codes are used to describe any
one of the account identification codes assigned by the Treasury,
and is also referred to as the quote account. All
(02:22):
financial transactions made by the federal government are classified by
TAS when reporting to the Treasury in the Office of
Management and Budget. You may have heard of thatmb The
discovery was announced on the same day, by the way
that DOGE appeared to have populated the doge dot gov
savings page, which as of Monday evenings said the total
(02:43):
estimated savings since the establishment of the department is now
totally about fifty five billion dollars. Quote Major Improvement and
Treasury Payment Integrity going live must posted on x saying
this is This was a combined effort of DOGE, the
US Treasury, and the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Nice work by all. Now, the absence of the code.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Was discovered during a DOGE audit of the Treasury Department
to find and cut waste, fraud, and abuse. Democrats oppose
the audit.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Let me say that again.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Democrats oppose the audit on the grounds that DOGE, a
department within the federal government, should not have access quote
to taxpayer's sensitive data. Attorney general's all lefties from fourteen
different states even sued to block DOGE from accessing the data,
alleging what they described as quote executive overreach. So if
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you want to know what states are probably getting the
most of this money, it's probably the same fourteen states
that sued to block us from seeing where our tax
dollars are going.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Quote. This is not some roving band.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
This is methodical, and it is going to yield big savings.
That is what the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bennett said in
a TV interview about the DOGE audit. Now, the left
is just enraged by this. They don't understand why they
have to deal with accountability. They don't like that all
their money is drying up at a pace, and I
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don't think they ever thought this would happen. I don't
think they ever thought there'd be a day, at least
while they're alive, where the US government would actually have
to answer to the American people because it had gotten
so big and the waste was well in the trillions
of dollars as we are now seeing, which brings me,
by the way, to another point I want to make.
Carolin Levitt, White House pressyent Terry was on Shohn Handy's
(04:33):
show last night, and this is what she had to
say about the White House, saying, Look, we are instructing
Musk to probe anything that's fraudulent. Whether that's so Security payments,
whether that's Treasury Department payments, whether that's DoD doesn't matter,
because our job is to save taxpayers money.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Here is part of her conversation with Hannity.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
President Trump has directed Elon Musk in the JOJ team
to identify fraud at the Social Security Administration. They haven't
dug into the books yet, but they suspect that there
are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving
fraudulent Social Security payments, and so their goal and going
into the Social Security Administration is to identify three things.
(05:19):
Number one, to identify duplicate payments and to end them.
Number two, to identify payments that are going to deceased
people who are no longer living and should no longer
be receiving that money. And number three, to protect the
integrity of the system for hardworking Americans who have been
paying into.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It their entire lives.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So rest assured to all of the people watching your
show tonight, if you paid into the system honestly, you
will continue to receive your Social Security checks. Do not
buy into the lies from the legacy fake news media
who are trying to fear you and scare you into
believing otherwise. This is what we've seen them do about
President Trump for year, with every promise that he has made,
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and he's going in there to protect your hard earned money.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
That is the ultimate goal. Okay.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
They have apparently found eight point seven million Americans who
are listed. Now that doesn't mean that we don't know
if they're being paid, but they're listed and they're on the.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Social Security role.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Their names are there that are over one hundred and
thirty years old. Eight point seven million Americans listed and
as Elon said, far more eligible social Security numbers than
they're actual citizens in the US. But we don't know
yet if checks are being sent to either individuals that
(06:43):
are dead or maybe family members that are receiving them.
We just know their names are still on the list.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Right, Yes, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
There are a lot of unanswered questions, but that's exactly
why the Social Security employees, I may add, are digging
into the book books and going line by line because
past administrations have refused to do this very time consuming
but necessary work. And I want to emphasize that these
are Social Security political appointees. With every change of a
(07:13):
new administration, you have new political empointees just like me
and my colleagues at the White House, who onboard to
serve the elected president. That's called a democracy. And for
far too long we've had a bureaucracy that has been
running these agencies, and look at what has resulted in
tens of billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse
(07:34):
every single year that we know of. And so these
DOGE employees, these Social Security employees, are onboarding as Social
Security Administration employees political appointees, and they have every right
to administer President Trump's agenda, and that's their main focus
with this effort, not just at Social Security, but of
course at every agency.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
As you know, let's talk about the social security story,
because this is another part of the corruption that we're witnessing,
and so you understand just how much fraud there could
actually be that you're paying for. This for me is
all about the cash, right, like every aspect of this
is to me, it is about the money. And DOGE
(08:17):
is now investigating a potential social security fraud millions aged
one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Thirty plus on the rolls.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The Department of Government Efficiency is investigating potential soci security fraud,
and its head Elon Musk posted startling information about its database, saying, quote.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Social Security database, these are the numbers.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Of people in each age bucket with the death field
set to false. Must began, posting an image of a
chart with an age bracket going all the way up
to three hundred and.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Sixty nine years old.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Indeed, the infos showed millions of individuals listed in some
of the more unlikely brackets. For example, there are four
point seven million that were listed between the ages of
one hundred and one hundred and nine. I think we
can all agree there's not four point seven million people
in America that are on Social Security between the ages
(09:14):
of one hundred and one hundred and nine.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
It gets worse.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
There are three point six million on the Social Security
roll list that are aged one hundred and ten to
one hundred nineteen.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It gets worse.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
There are three point four million recipients in the age
bracket of one hundred and twenty to one hundred and
twenty nine. What's even more shocking is the numbers about
to go up. Okay, I just told you there's three
point four million people on the rolls. From the ages
of one hundred and twenty one hundred and twenty nine.
That number jumps from three point four million to three
(09:52):
point nine million for the age group one thirty to
one thirty nine. What's even more shocking is from the
age age one hundred and forty to one hundred and
forty nine, there is three point four million in that
age group list. And finally, from the age one fifty
to one fifty nine, there's one point three million. The
(10:12):
figures continue. Okay, this is insane. There's even one age
bracket between the ages of three hundred and sixty to
three hundred and sixty nine years old. So according to
the Social Security Database, these are the numbers of people
in each age group with the death field set to fosse.
(10:32):
So there's a lot of quote vampires, as must put it,
collecting social Security, not a few, a lot. Yes, there
are far more eligible Social Security members, by the way,
than there are citizens in the US of A.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Is something else that must add it.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
This might be the biggest fraud in American history. We
have got some major movements coming from the White House
on the issue of how we're going to deal with
the drug cartels down in Mexico. Two different reports are
now coming out, and I think they are incredibly exciting.
So let me break down part one before we get
(11:10):
to part two, which could be action taken against the cartels. Now,
the CIA, we are being told, is flying surveillance drones
over the cartels now in Mexico. This is part one
because without intel then it would be much harder for
us to then go after.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Them or take them out. Right.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well, now, multiple news outlets are reporting that the CIA
is now stepping up their drone flights over Mexico. The
currently unarmed flights are said to be searching for fetnal
labs that are run by Mexican cartels designated by President
Donald Trump as foreign terrast organizations. The US officials told
The New York Times the flights go well into sovereign Mexico. Now,
(11:54):
the flights reportedly began during the quote Biden administration, but
we're stepped up by CIA Director John Radcliffe after President
Trump made the foreign terrorist designation. So if liberals want
to freak out saying we're flying over Mexico, just know
they were doing a little bit of this when Joe
Biden was president. That's why I wanted to give you
that information. Now, the flights are not quote authorized to
(12:16):
use lethal force at this time. This is all about
intelligence gathering. The CIA officers are just gathering the intelligence
data and then they're passing it along to quote Mexican officials.
The Times is also reporting, in other words, we're saying
to Mexico, you better do some of this for us. Now,
(12:37):
that is the risky part of the game, because many
believe that if you give this intel to Mexican officials,
nothing is going to actually happen. I'm going to deal
with that in a moment, but I wanted you to
understand the structure of this now. Tuesday afternoon, CNN reported
that the CIA is flying the Reaper drones, the same
ones you've heard about, those MQ desh nines, the ones
(12:59):
that you're familiar with that are used in Iraq, Afghanistan,
the Middle East. Now, these drones are equipped to deliver
lethal payloads, but are not currently armed.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
This is all about surveillance.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Quote the mqdashline drones used for the mission are not
currently armed, CNN said, but they can be equipped with
payloads to carry out precision strikes. The US regularly uses
these to target suspected terrafts in Syria, Iraq, and Somalia.
CNN even added some current and formal officials say designating
cartels as terrorist groups could potentially lay the groundwork for
(13:32):
direct US strikes against the cartels and their drug labs
in Mexico. It is not clear if the US notified
Mexico of the surveillance flights prior to entering Mexican air
space well on February the thirteenth. We also have been
told now that the US Department of State was expected
to designate certain factions of Mexican cartels as quote, foreign
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terrorists organizations. Now, many of these cartels that are being
distinguished now as these foreign terrist organizations are cartels that
you may have heard of. For example, the Sineloa Cartel
is one that a lot of know about. The Golf
Cartel is another one, Zidas is another. It's a northeastern cartel.
(14:16):
There are quite a few others now that I've been
told that you may not be familiar with, that are
very powerful in Mexico that are also being designated as
foreign terrast organizations. Now there's another part of this reporting
that's also important, and I want to read this from
Breitbart Texas. Okay, Breitbart Texas has done an incredible job
of covering these types of stories. In Breitbart News Foundation
(14:38):
have reported extensively on the Golf Cartel, the reign of
tear that they have unleashed on northern Mexico, and the
protection that they've received from Mexico's government all right, as
well as Mexico's federal government. So local and federal are
protecting them in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
In addition to mass killings, widespread kidnapping, and torture, each
of these six cartels that have now been designated by
Trump as a foreign terrorist organization, have also been linked
to the indiscriminate use of explosives and some of them
the use of land minds to even protect their territories.
(15:18):
All of those organizations have a long history of receiving
government protection as well as legal protection, with Mexican judges
routinely released and captured cartel figures. This is all documented
and well stated if you've read some of these reports.
Now it appears the government of Mexico is denying quote
overflight in Mexican airspace. That is part of what CNN
(15:40):
reported saying, quote we cannot roll out espionage because we
do not know exactly what was done. Is what the
Mexican Defense minister said about America doing surveillance. However, they
did not violate national airspace yet, so they're playing still
both sides of this because the entire government down in
(16:01):
Mexico is completely controlled by the cartels, make no mistake
about it.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
The CIA also has not publicly addressed the issue of
Mexican airspace. A spokesman said, quote Countering drug cartels in
Mexico and regionally is now a priority for the CIA
as part of the Trump Administration's broader efforts to end
the grave threat from narco trafficking. The director John Radcliffe
(16:28):
is determined to put CIA's unique expertise to work against
this multifaceted challenge. Now you may say, all right, how
are the cartels going to sleep well at night knowing
that this is happening. I think it's pretty clear the
Mexican government is going to protect them, because the Mexican
government controls all of this, Which brings me to part
(16:50):
two of the story. If this is about intelligence gathering
and these drones are not equipped in any capacit right
to actually make strikes, and that's what we are being
told that there is very simply put, this is all
about intelligence gathering and some of the intelligence they're going
(17:13):
to give to Mexico.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
There's two parts to why this may work.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
One, if you're giving this to Mexico and they're not
acting on it, then it's going to give you more
of the ability to say, Okay, we tried to work
with you. You guys aren't doing anything to stop these
the fetnyl flow into this country, and so now we
have to make take matters in their own hands.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That's number one Number.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Two, it also tells you that we are building an
intelligence network so that we understand where the drugs are
going from, where they're starting there, where the trafficking's happening,
who's buying them, who's selling them, who's bringing them across
the border, and you can trace the drugs out from
the jungle or from these labs wherever we are monitoring
them with these drones. Then the third question that everyone
(17:54):
is asking is an important one. Are we actually going
to hit them? Are we going to hit where these
distribution centers are from the sky. Are we going to
hit where these labs are maybe in the middle of
nowhere in the jungles.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It's a great question.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Now, there's two things here that I want you to
understand about what could come next. Number One, Tom Holman
said that we are working on striking cartels in Mexico.
He also gave some new information that interior arrests by
ice have increased by more than one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Thirty seven percent under President Trump.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Arrests of aliens with criminal convictions has doubled under President
Trump in the last month. The arrest of illegal alien
gang members has also doubled. Our streets and neighborhoods are
that much safer under President Trump, he said, and said,
we are less than a month into this and have
done more than the Biden administration ever did in four
years because we know what they were doing. So this
(18:53):
brings me back to, Okay, we get intel on these cartels,
we are to understand where their network is. We're doing
all that with these reaper drones right now. I think
a lot of people say, look, when are we going
to hit them? Right It's a fair question. President Donald
Trump declared that the drug cartels were foreign terrorist organizations.
(19:15):
That was massive on his first day in office, he
said it. And now the borders are Tom Holman says,
there are quote active discussions about US military strikes on
terror targets in Mexico. So you can start celebrating because
this is about to get real.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
While all this is happening, there's a side story that's
exploded from this, and it deals with AOC. AOC is
like obsessed now with crying. I guess again, you know
at the wall, remember when she did that photo op
where she said there's kids in cages that were actually
built by Obama. She went down there and fake cried
and the media picked it up. She's now attacking Tom
(19:54):
Homan and any American that wants to get rid of
these violent criminals in America or go after them New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And I want you to hear this real quick. Take
a listen, Tom.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Holman, who's the head of who's the head of who's
directing a lot of these ice operations nationally, et cetera.
He went on TV practically crying. This dude was winding
his ass off because I went into the city of Chicago,
and Chicago had prepared for them their mayor and local
(20:25):
elected officials who were solid on this issue. They educated
the city on their legal rights.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
For more, let's welcome in the person that she was
referencing there Trump administration borders are Tom home and Tom
good to see you. I know you've been asked this
question before, but.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
How do you respond to that? But what do you
make of that that an elected official is saying that
kind of thing?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Well, first of all, I think she's you know, I
won't I won't go.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I want to go, Tom, Please do, please do what
you're on your mind. It's a holiday.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Look, she's the dumbest congresswoman ever, he listened to the Congress,
and she proves that every day. And look, bottom line is,
I can't believe any member, any member of Congress, Republican, Democrat, independent,
would want to educate criminal illigal aliens who are in
the country legally, been convicted of a violent crime and
(21:20):
have been ordered to remove by an immigration judge after
due process at great tax payer expense. You got a
congressman or congresswoman that does not want ICE to do
the job that Congress has mandated them to do and
funds them to do. So she doesn't want if she
doesn't want, the ICE to enforce the laws they enacted,
(21:41):
and what the hell is Congress doing. I gotta they
can spend their time doing better things rather than the
writing laws they didn't wanted some force. President Trump and
me have been clear from day one, we're concentrating in
public safety, trust and national security threasts. She can call
it educational constitution rights all she wants, but we all
know what she's doing. She's out there telling people how
they enforcement, how do you evade ICE arrest? And again,
(22:04):
the most dangerous are the illegal aliens in the country.
Giving them heads up, and I'll say it again. I
hope she's not educating the next murderer of a college
nursing student, or not educating the next illegal alien is
going to burn a woman alive on a subway. That
is my concern.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Yes, I hope she's not educating the next Jose Ibarra
who killed Lake and Riley.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's such a good point.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And this is where we are now in this debate.
They don't care if you die by an illegal immigrant.
They don't care if you are killed or your kids
are killed, your grandkids are killed by an axonal overdose,
which is fetnyl coming across the border. They don't care
that these cartel members are human trafficking and sex trafficking
(22:45):
and abusing women and children and locking them up and
murdering them.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
They just don't care.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And so when you hear AOC say what she just said,
this is still where the left is even after election day.
This is also, I think the reason why they're losing
the cun Now you go and you listen to that,
and then let's go back to the strikes on Mexico.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Could that actually happen? All right?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Tom Holman says, Look, this is something that we're working
on now all right, like this is a real conversation
we're having.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
All of it's on the table.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Even though we have not actively used militaries as a
strike plan yet, it is something that we've talked about.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
He said.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Well, striking a target in Mexico also require work with
the Mexican government and its military. Homan suggested there might
be a an override over fair warning if American border
patrol agents are under an active threat, saying this, but
I can tell you President Trump has made Mexico cartels
who put a death threat against border patrol agents or
(23:47):
our military. If they harm a border patrol agent or
the military, then President Trump will wipe them off the
face of the earth.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Now why did he make that statement.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
The reason why is because there have been active threats
against border patrol agents coming from the cartel.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
We know this.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
They have been reaching out and saying, if you keep
doing your job this way, we will kill you and
your family. A lot of times. They have great intelligence.
They know where the family where these border patrol agents live.
They know where their families live. I mean, it's next level.
The cartel does their research. They have family and friends
in America, people that come across the border legally, They've
(24:26):
got their apparatus set up here and this is a
multi billion dollar industry for them. Now, Trump quote is
not likely to overstep a military action barring an immediate threat,
because relations are in a good spot. That according to
Homan as well, he said, quote, I think President Trump
is has them where he wants them. They're now putting
military on their northern border and our southern border. They
(24:50):
are now participating and beginning to participate and remain in Mexico.
President Trump is demanding they take action, and we're monitoring them.
President Trump, you know, he's a game chain. President Trump
has already got Mexico to where he wants them, and
he's going to force more out of them in the
near future. So again, this is Donald Trump, I think,
(25:10):
saying pretty clearly like, look, I don't think you want me.
And he also understands the reality of the situation on
the ground. You guys can either stop this flow or
I'll stop it.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You pick now.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
He knows that when he's talking the federal government, he's
talking directly to the cartels because the cartels are running
the federal government.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
They're propping up the federal government.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
So when he says what he says to them, they
immediately are telling the cartels. So his response is actually
very simple, Hey, you guys better do what I'm telling
you to do, and if you don't, then it's going
to be hell to pay. And I don't think you
guys are going to enjoy it, and it's going to
be a lot worse for you. So he does have
them where he wants it. Now, can you overthrow the
(26:03):
Mexican government?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Should we know? Do we want to invade know? Do
we want to protect American citizens from fetnol?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And the illegal immigrants come across. Yes, And so there's
a choice to be made here. Do I believe that
all the drugs are going to stop coming across the
southern border?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Okay, I do not for a second think that all
the drugs are going to stop coming. Can you drop
them down to you know, ten percent of what they
were before? I think that's a fair plan, a realistic initiative,
just like we have border crossings that are down over
ninety percent right now, just because of the change in president.
So is there a chance that we could strike the
(26:42):
cartels if the government doesn't do their job? Yes, If
the Mexican government doesn't do what they need to do
and the cartels know what that is, then they're all
bets are off. And that is exactly why the President
is doing what he's doing, flying these reaper drones over
Mexico right now, spying on, I would argue, probably the government,
(27:04):
and spying certainly on the cartels.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
And the military. This is a good day for all
of us.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Make sure you share this podcast wherever you can on
social media, and I will see you back here tomorrow.
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