Cabinet Meeting on Narco Trafficking Attacks

President Trump held a Cabinet meeting regarding attacks on drug trafficking boats. Fox News Radio's Eben Brown joins us with the details. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let us talk about yesterday's cabinet meeting. This you probably
saw headlines on Dave Wheaton talking about it as well,
a mid eight crackdown and drug narco trafficking attacks the
president yesterday. Well, look, all I.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Know is this every boat that you see get blown up.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
We saved twenty five thousand dollar average lives. Twenty five
thousand lives. They've been sending enough of this horrible fentanyl
and other things like cocaine and other things.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
But fenmol right now is the leader of the pack.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
A lot of questions too about a second strike. Evan
Brown and Miami with Fox News Radio, Good morning. Thanks
for doing this today.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
So what do we know about this cabinet meeting yesterday?
What new information did we get? What are they trying
to find?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well, I don't know if we saw really much in
the way of new information. There's been a lot of
criticism that the US military in this strike against one
of these so called drug boats in the Caribbean on
September second, it conducted the strike, then the military then
realized some people had survived, and it went back for

(01:09):
a second strike to eliminate them. And apparently such an
act is according to some anyway a violation of international
law because a survivor isn't supposed to be attacked. Apparently,
now there's some real good question as to whether or
not such so called international law, which is in and

(01:31):
of itself, something to question whether or not the US
is bound by that. But the US, of course is
bound by its own laws and rules, and Pentagon manuals
do talk about not having to go back for a
second strike on these things. But at the same time,
there is I think a big disparity in how people

(01:52):
view these drug runners and the boats that they're using
to bring dangerous, deadly drugs to the United States. There's
still a larger swath of policymakers who are viewing this
as a law enforcement operation, and they like to attach
the word allegedly to the drug runners and the drug

(02:15):
boats and all of that stuff, as if we were
dealing with people who should be charged with crimes and
tried in the court of law, or are we dealing
with combatants. And the US under President Trump has declared
these drug gangs like Trendy Aragua and MS thirteen and
others to be terrorists. Well, we've been through twenty eight

(02:38):
plus years of legal wrangling to consider terrorists to be
enemy combatants who aren't necessarily entitled to due process of
law in terms of trials and lawyers and things like that,
although some are sort of stuck in this ongoing military
tribunal in Gitmo in terms of the al Qaeda terrorists,

(03:00):
but all of that has kind of fallen by the wayside.
So I think the administration is sticking by their assertion
that they have every legal right to eliminate these now
called terrorists, and if they don't get all of them
on one strike, they're going to go back for a
second strike. They don't necessarily see anything wrong with it.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Have they uncovered any bad intelligence? Have we blown anything
up that shouldn't have been according to what we thought
we had so far?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
No, there were some complaints from the Venezuela inside that
the Americans were striking as fishing boats. I don't really
think that that's taken seriously though.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
That has Evan Brown with Fox News Radio this Morning
and Miami Thank you, You're welcome.