Ann Fundner lost her son, Weston, to an overdose in February of 2022. She is an advocate for stopping the flow of fentanyl across the U.S. border with Mexico, and fighting against the war on drugs. In this episode, Ann tells us about her son's tragic death, and how she and her family are doing all they can to stop it.
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00:02:59.000In February of 2025, seizures plummeted to just 590 pounds in 45 seizure events.
00:03:08.000To put this in perspective, that is countless, tens of thousands, if not 100,000 or more lives saved just in the drop of fentanyl at the border.
00:03:20.000And to help me describe all of this and to put a Personal story on it is Ann Fundner, who is a mom and she is an advocate for the stopping of fentanyl crossing our borders and poisoning our children.
00:03:36.000Ann, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show.
00:05:44.000He always stood up for what was right and wasn't afraid to tell people, you know, that, you know, just to cut it out if they were, you know, not being nice to someone.
00:05:54.000He always stood up for what was right, even if it was against one of his friends picking on someone.
00:07:28.000Not a chemist that works for Merck or Pfizer.
00:07:32.000It's somebody who probably has no idea what they're doing, sprinkles it into a bunch of blue pressed powder, and they press it with the exact markings of pharmaceutical pills.
00:07:44.000From there, it comes over our open borders.
00:07:47.000I think you mentioned that under Joe Biden, they were seizing about 2,000 pounds a month.
00:07:53.000That's not nearly what comes over here.
00:07:58.000So, you know, it comes over through that.
00:08:02.000It also comes over through the de minimis loophole.
00:08:04.000President Trump just put triple tariffs on Timu and Sheen because anything under $800 does not have to be inspected when it comes from overseas.
00:08:15.000And, you know, Timu and Sheen being somewhat social media, kind of like a little bit of an Amazon one, you know, one's for fashion, one's like Amazon.
00:08:23.000They have private senders shipping things over.
00:08:26.000And fentanyl bricks were coming over that way.
00:08:30.000And so those are the two main ways it comes over.
00:08:34.000But it's still coming over in ways we don't know.
00:08:37.000And that's what we're getting to the bottom of.
00:08:40.000So it's not going to stop all of a sudden.
00:08:43.000Multi-billion dollar corporations called the cartels don't shut down overnight.
00:08:48.000And neither do the thousands of factory workers in China.
00:08:53.000So this is a business, make no mistake, these are CEOs making a lot of money, and they don't intend to shut down anytime soon.
00:09:01.000So we still need to fight every single day.
00:09:04.000Absolutely. Well, we've got to root out all these loopholes.
00:09:06.000This is, you know, please, and we want to be a part of that, so please message us after this segment of what we need to be focusing our attention on, because we want to advocate on behalf of families like yours, on behalf of families like mine.
00:09:20.000And you made this point, I think, so beautifully, both here but also at the RNC, how you guys did everything you could to love your children so well.
00:10:10.000The amount of border crossers that were coming over were overwhelming our border patrol agents, so they weren't able to do searches and seizures like they normally would or would want to do.
00:10:21.000And now we have the numbers at such a place, and you can see how they plummeted under President Trump, where there is enough personnel to do more searches.
00:10:31.000So we're going to be getting more of this fentanyl.
00:10:34.000Per search, per seizure, per operation than we would have before when they were completely overwhelmed and overrun at the border.
00:10:45.000Todd Bensman, who comes on this show often, has done reporting of this in the Daily Wire, that the cartels are actually realizing they're not able to smuggle as much of this fentanyl across the border.
00:10:57.000Unfortunately, they're turning their sights on Europe.
00:11:00.000And other countries, they're now shipping it abroad to those countries, which, thank God it's not in our country, but this needs to be rooted out where it originates, and that's China, that's with tariffs, and so much more.
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00:12:11.000And I want to get to sort of a second wrinkle in this topic.
00:12:16.000You pointed out in your speech, Gavin Newsom, all the Democrats, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris.
00:12:22.000That did nothing as young Americans and old Americans, by the way.
00:12:28.000One of the producers on this show knows two people that lost children to fentanyl poisoning.
00:12:34.000But we see this dichotomy with the way Democrats react to the illegal immigration problem.
00:12:41.000And they seem to have so much compassion.
00:12:45.000For this Kilmar Abrego Garcia guy that is likely an MS-13 gang member who apparently beat his wife, who lied to immigration courts, and he's been deported to El Salvador, his home country.
00:12:57.000They're getting on planes right now, flying to go get him.
00:13:02.000And they say bring him home, even though his home is El Salvador.
00:13:05.000But they don't seem to care about people like Rachel Morin or your son.
00:13:11.000And I want to play this clip from Patty Morin.
00:14:04.000We're angel parents together, and we've done some things together in this fight.
00:14:11.000So she's a wonderful person with an incredible, compassionate and warm heart.
00:14:17.000You know, to see her up there upset with one of her own senators who was flying over to El Salvador to try to get someone to come back who is here illegally, who happens to probably be part of a gang, who does have two orders of protection against him for who knows what.
00:14:35.000And I'm hearing some other things come out today that he's been involved with that just...
00:14:40.000It's disgusting the way these Democrats protect people that aren't supposed to be here, and you have to question why.
00:14:47.000With the open borders, what I used to call it was the Future Voters of America program.
00:14:53.000How many people can they get over here to show allegiance to them for letting them come over to vote for them in the future?
00:14:59.000And I believe that's what it's all about.
00:15:00.000And that's why Democrats are so open to all of this.
00:15:05.000Open border and all these illegal immigrants coming over, unchecked, unbedded.
00:15:09.000Whether or not they want to come here for the right reasons or not, they're here illegally.
00:15:12.000And that's not part of what America is all about.
00:15:15.000Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty transparent too.
00:15:17.000And you've seen what Doge has uncovered as far as how many of these illegals have gotten Social Security numbers and how many have gotten welfare benefits and they just get...
00:15:27.000Smuggled into the system, laundered into the system, and the amount of work that the Trump administration has before them to unravel the tangled web and the destruction that's been sown by the Democrats in four small years,
00:15:44.000four short years, they were able to do so much damage to this country and to rip apart families like yours.
00:16:05.000So this message is winning with real Americans, even as the legacy media tries to trumpet up rage and outrage through their through their shrinking size of the Anne,
00:16:25.000I just want you to give one message to the Trump administration, to our leaders.
00:16:30.000Give them the encouragement that only somebody like you could, Anne, who's gone through what you've gone through.
00:16:37.000Well, first of all, I would love to say thank you, which I actually got the opportunity to do a few weeks ago on stage with President Trump because he's doing all the right things.
00:16:46.000There's been a 98% drop in border crossings.
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00:19:02.000I want to get to Iran because this is a massive, massive story that's going to continue on.
00:19:11.000The drums of war are beating in Washington, D.C., Blake, and we have some new intel, if the reporting's correct, that there's some very specific people within the administration that have worked to...
00:19:29.000So this came out yesterday, late yesterday.
00:19:32.000And what the story is, is it says that basically since last fall, there's been the development of plans for a series of airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.
00:19:45.000As described in the reporting, I think the New York Times had it first, or at least with the most detail.
00:20:35.000And they said that, first, I'll read directly from the New York Times.
00:20:40.000Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, presented a new intelligence assessment that said the buildup of American weaponry in the Middle East could potentially spark a wider conflict with Iran that the United States did not want.
00:20:54.000And then it goes on to say that Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Vice President J.D. Vance all voiced doubts about the attack.
00:21:04.000And so, certainly for us, this feels like a great vindication.
00:21:08.000We were big supporters of J.D. Vance as Vice President, and of course Trump's picks for Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth.
00:21:16.000And I think, you know, we just said a moment ago on Twitter that...
00:21:20.000Could you imagine the people in those exact jobs before where we had John Kelly as chief of staff, we had James Mattis as secretary of defense, we had Mike Pence as vice president.
00:21:30.000Could you imagine any of those guys stopping a march toward war with Iran?
00:21:38.000President Trump's first director of national intelligence stepped away because he thought we weren't hawkish enough on Iran.
00:21:45.000So we're really seeing the difference in the personalities, the difference in perspectives that we've brought to the second administration on this extremely important topic.
00:21:54.000Well, Blake, you know what this made me think of is the signal gate, right?
00:21:58.000Where you saw J.D. Vance weigh in and basically say, listen, you know, do we have to really do this now?
00:22:04.000You know, maybe we need to build up the PR for this, the messaging for this.
00:22:51.000In that instance, they decided to move forward.
00:22:53.000But I love that there is this initial skepticism from the traditional, you know, drums of war, Washington, D.C., you know, military industrial complex, business as usual, and that you're seeing this play out in such a way that gives us more time with Iran.
00:23:13.000For example, We've been told all week that there's going to be this meeting in Rome, I believe, with Iran to see about peace talks.
00:23:23.000And President Trump has said that he wants Iran to be a great country, a great place to live.
00:23:30.000He wants the people to thrive, but they will not have a nuclear weapon.
00:23:35.000And so you see these dynamics within this administration.
00:23:39.000And Trump 2.0, though, to your point, Blake, you couldn't imagine.
00:24:12.000I think, to your point, I think Americans should look at this and be very, very grateful that we have prudent, thoughtful people in leadership.
00:24:24.000There's so many times where when you look at it in the past...
00:24:27.000I was just reviewing the other day the process that led us towards the Iraq War.
00:24:32.000And what popped up so often was that they, it was this lack of willingness to question things too much.
00:24:42.000In fact, the funny thing was, is I was reading that like the British government, which was helping us with that, they were tricked by an intelligence estimate of Iraq's WMDs that was based on a guy watching the Michael Bay action movie, The Rock, which
00:26:11.000Honestly, I just hope everyone's okay, and I hope that, like, we can just do better precautions so this doesn't happen again.
00:26:19.000And I just feel awful for the students on there having to go through these emotions right now, dealing with the, like, dealing scared for their lives, honestly.
00:27:32.000And again, I want to caution and just say these are initial reports from local news sources that are saying five students dead, or at least people dead, could be non-students on campus.
00:28:44.000With Florida, I know they have very...
00:28:46.000Very pro-Second Amendment laws, concealed carry as well.
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00:29:53.000Blake, this is a very bizarre ongoing story.
00:29:57.000So Carmelo Anthony is at a press conference that's being hosted by this, you know, what is this, Dominique Alexander or whatever his name is.
00:30:10.000And first of all, they're just like, why are you having a press conference?
00:30:15.000And then Austin Metcalf, the young man that was stabbed to death, his father Jeff shows up and is getting escorted away.
00:30:26.000So it's still emerging a bit, and we can probably show clips after the jump, but it seems, yeah, that they are holding a press conference, the attorney and the defendant, which, you know, that happens.
00:30:38.000But what's shocking is, yeah, apparently Austin Metcalf's father...
00:30:44.000He showed up at the event, at the press conference, and we don't know precisely the chain of events, but we have footage that I believe we're showing on screen right now that police spoke with him.
00:30:58.000Some people are saying that they called the police.
00:31:04.000And then it seems that he was escorted out or asked to leave.
00:31:08.000And then they held the press conference where we also have footage where this Dominique Alexander blasts Jeff Metcalf and said it was disrespectful for him to attend this press conference.
00:31:20.000Let us remind everyone his son was murdered.
00:31:22.000His son was murdered, and I'm not going to judge how he chooses to react to that, but we'll be getting a lot more of this.
00:31:30.000This is clearly inflaming a lot of passions, and I don't think it's going to slow down anytime soon.
00:31:36.000Because, well, we have an entire murder trial in front of us over this.
00:31:40.000Well, and I want to just make one other point here.
00:31:43.000It's almost like they're intentionally inflaming racial tensions here because Dominique Alexander, the guy representing the family when Trump won, said that white supremacy had won.
00:31:54.000And Carmelo Anthony stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalfe at a track meet at Frisco High School in Texas over a seating dispute.
00:32:05.000And all of these people are coming out of the woodwork, raising all this money for his family and his legal defense fund, which they've apparently used partly to buy a new home in a gated community, a $900,000 new home.
00:32:17.000And now they're doing a press conference.
00:32:19.000And out of, apparently unbeknownst to Carmelo Anthony's family and Dominique Alexander, Jeff Metcalf, the father, shows up, and it looks like chaos ensues.
00:32:58.000And so I say to people, actions speak louder than words.
00:33:05.000What he has failed into is the political operatives that want to make this thing a political thing of hate, yet bigotry, and yet racism.
00:33:20.000We have conservative operatives that have been posting non-stop about this case.
00:33:29.000Blake, what on earth is he talking about?
00:33:31.000First of all, I'm trying really hard to place that accent that he had.
00:33:34.000But, no, that's what we have here, is we have what should be a pretty straightforward tragedy of a violent individual wildly escalates and stabs somebody to death because, I believe the detail was, he was under the tent of an opposing team at a track event.
00:33:53.000He was told he had to leave, and he basically said, like, touch me again and see what happens.
00:33:57.000And then Austin Metcalf grabbed him, allegedly, and he replied by pulling out a knife and stabbing him to death.
00:34:04.000And now it's just become this cause celeb.
00:34:07.000They've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:34:10.000Some people believe it was self-defense, but you also find comments that are just people saying, man, he was disrespecting him.
00:34:19.000I'm so mad that I would have had to leave.
00:34:23.000It really is this attitude that because Oscar Metcalf angered him or imposed him in any way, he deserved to get stabbed to death.
00:34:32.000And by the way, I'm sorry, I just have to say, this was not self-defense.