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00:01:53.000Just for the uninitiated listening in our audience, what's going on?
00:01:57.000Been working that border since 1999, never seen anything like it.
00:02:00.000If you look in the sheer volume and numbers of people crossing in the last three months, over 900,000 people according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
00:02:41.000You know, and that's the story, though, Charlie, that's not told to the American people.
00:02:44.000Because when you see most of the media, what do they show you?
00:02:46.000They show you these big groups crossing.
00:02:48.000But that's by design with the cartels, because they send those big groups.
00:02:51.000And then from there, that's where they open up to move fentanyl, deadly drugs, and the high values have been crossed.
00:02:56.000And one of the things that's really important for the folks to understand is that in the old days, our border was a U.S.-Mexico-Central American problem.
00:03:13.000I've been on your border for the last seven days straight down in Lukeville trying to understand that.
00:03:18.000And according to Border Patrol, they started first seeing them about six months ago.
00:03:23.000And that directly linked to the Sinaloa cartel, specifically an individual by the name of Palone who runs the Sonoya as the plaza boss down there and the long-haul smugglers moving them in.
00:03:34.000But the problem you have here now in Arizona is that now they're moving that over towards Sassabi.
00:03:39.000They started seeing them two months ago there as well.
00:03:41.000I was just in Sassaby day before yesterday and I can tell you, you know, Arizona, if you live here in this great state, get ready because the fentanyl problem coming in is directly linked to that Sinaloa cartel and that's why you're feeling it the way you are here.
00:04:10.000And so the worst part of this, too, is now they've not only regular fentanyl, they've created parafentanyl, serafentany, and now mixing in xylosine.
00:04:18.000So when you hear the weaponization of fentanyl and wonder why so many Americans have died, you know, we lost 112,000 Americans to deadly drugs in one year.
00:04:27.000We have never been here in this nation's history.
00:04:31.000So I have to tell you, and I will say it again and again, that if this nation doesn't take on the cartels, if you think it's bad now, I know them very well.
00:05:07.000We should definitely be afraid of them.
00:05:09.000And that's coming from somebody that built programs with the Texas Department of Public Safety and worked closely with U.S. intelligence agencies to crush them.
00:05:18.000And the reason I came public after retiring to designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, I'm the guy that started that whole initiative.
00:05:34.000Today, what has happened is that we went through a major shift with them: that we went from organized crime into an insurgency in Mexico into terrorism, and now where we truly see them today as a parallel government.
00:05:46.000And I was working that, screaming at the U.S. intelligence agencies the entire time, saying we've got problems down here along the border, as the Zetas, known as one of the most hyper-violent cartels in Mexico, really, Charlie, changed the game.
00:05:59.000That is now why they're so violent across the entire nation.
00:06:02.000So, help me understand, but what makes the cartels different than the Taliban or ISIS is I'm lacking to see an ideological component.
00:07:12.000We have some like a great example of that, there's a lot of fighting going on in Mexico right now.
00:07:17.000But if you ever notice, it's the underlings fighting at the bottom.
00:07:20.000The thing to watch for the folks at home right now is when you see the bosses and the families start getting hit, that's when the real wars start.
00:07:27.000This stuff you're seeing right now down there along our border.
00:07:30.000So, in some ways, it's almost the godfather crime families that are experiencing a detente where they're saying, why would we fight?
00:07:38.000Let's continue our most profitable enterprise, which is the movement of drugs and people.
00:07:42.000People right now along our southern border.
00:07:44.000But one of the things you've got to think about with these cartels is that they're global.
00:07:48.000It's not a U.S.-Mexico problem anymore.
00:07:49.000Sinaloa cartel we know is in 54 nations.
00:09:03.000So I'm infinitely curious about the cartel because I know so little about it.
00:09:08.000Again, my understanding is Narcos Plus, Marty Bird, and Walter White.
00:09:13.000Like just kind of like how it's portrayed.
00:09:15.000And there is some sophisticated elements in at least how those motion pictures present the cartels, but I don't know next to anything more than that.
00:09:27.000I can tell you that if we continue down the road of a law enforcement mission and not designate them and get new authorities to go after them, just look at the capabilities.
00:09:36.000You know, they're leveraging everything from 40 millimeter grenades, hand grenades, 50 caliber belt-fed machines.
00:09:44.000First, second, third, and fourth generation.
00:09:46.000I mean, we seized our first surface terror missile in Mexico from the Waddes cartel in 2016.
00:09:52.000I mean, this thing has spun rapidly out of control.
00:09:55.000And they get their training from terrorist organizations around the world like the FARC.
00:09:58.000I mean, this has been going on for a decade.
00:10:00.000So the thing that I have really had an issue with, Charlie, is why is the American people not been told by the Homeland Security Enterprise?
00:10:08.000So I went public, decided we're doing it ourselves, and enough's enough.
00:10:42.000And our whole goal there, we've united with Tom Holman, Mark Morgan, the best of the best in the business, Rodney Scott, Sarah Carter.
00:10:49.000And we're doing everything we can to illuminate what's happening out there.
00:10:57.000Hi, I'm Adriana, a politics major at Hillsdale College.
00:11:01.000Here's Hillsdale President Dr. Larry Arn with a Constitution Minute.
00:11:04.000America's founders recognized an obvious fact of life.
00:11:07.000Human beings differ in terms of physical attributes and talents.
00:11:11.000Because of this, some people will be better at some things than they are at others.
00:11:14.000But they also recognize that the tall and the short among us, the swift and the slow among us, are still human beings if we are recognizable as human beings.
00:11:22.000And therefore, we are equal in terms of the rights that pertain to human beings.
00:11:27.000Rights attached to human nature, rights that come from God.
00:11:30.000The Declaration of Independence names three of the big ones.
00:11:33.000Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:11:36.000Exercising these rights is necessary if we are to be truly free.
00:11:39.000In our own time, many influential people believe that only government can decide what our rights should be.
00:13:55.000Via the Walmart currency counter, you're going to be sending 25% either back home or to the cartels, and it almost operates as an annuity to the cartels.
00:14:07.000Because from their standpoint, you're just going to pay until they decide you're not.
00:14:11.000This is the story that's not getting out.
00:14:13.000So what the buried lead here is, but the cartels probably have a better idea of where these people are than their own government because they want their money.
00:14:19.000So if all of a sudden, if Juan Hernandez stops paying, how do they find him?
00:14:24.000They had the drug trade down in this country.
00:14:27.000What they didn't have was this human smuggling into the trafficking trade.
00:14:31.000And when the Biden administration opened up this border, they sent their operatives across into the country.
00:14:38.000They sent their operatives into the interior and they rode buses that we shipped people all over the nation.
00:14:43.000And those people's jobs, every two weeks to a month, depending upon the alien smuggling organization they work with, that's how they get the money back.
00:14:50.000And here's the worst part: every federal law enforcement agency knows it.
00:14:54.000Many of these people don't have critical skills, right?
00:14:57.000Well, they're going to get into the drug trade.
00:14:59.000They're going to get into the sex trade.
00:15:01.000And this is how, and this is why I've warned about public safety and the threats to this country based on what the Biden administration is.
00:15:07.000Yeah, I mean, you have to repay a debt.
00:15:08.000You're going to go steal a catalytic converter or you're going to go break into a home.
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00:19:07.000And people looked at it, and there were things we expected.
00:19:10.000We saw how the D.C. Guard responded to the George Floyd riots, responded to protect the White House.
00:19:17.000We've seen the National Guard respond to riots and civil disturbances and emergencies across the country.
00:19:24.000And so why did the Guard not show up until it was dark?
00:19:28.000And frankly, when I spoke to Colonel Earl Matthews, he told me when he arrived with General Walker, the commander of the DC Guard, the New Jersey state troopers had arrived at the Capitol before the D.C. Guard.
00:19:42.000And the D.C. Guard Armory is two miles from the Capitol by design because you want that response.
00:19:48.000The DC Guard does not have a governor because it's a direct report to the Pentagon.
00:19:55.000And so, my source, Colonel Matthews, told me that it was Mark Milley, General Mark Milley, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who stepped outside of his legal authority using his sort of the force of his personality and his relationship with the other general officers who, over the years, he had promoted and nurtured and sort of built this cadre around him.
00:20:19.000So that even though he had no legal authority and no role in the chain of command, these generals were listening to him.
00:20:26.000And he's the one who told the DC Guard to back off.
00:20:30.000And in fact, at one point, they were ordered not to cross North Street, which, as you know, here in DC, that's where the FBI building is.
00:20:40.000So, how far away was the National Guard on January 6th?
00:20:44.000Are you saying that they were just a couple blocks away?
00:20:47.000Well, they were given orders not to cross ninth.
00:20:50.000But in fact, what Matthews told me is that anticipating that there would be trouble at the Capitol, the riot gear and instructions were given to the DC Guardsmen who were tasked with responding so that they had all their gear and everything at their homes so that when the call went out, they would report directly to the Capitol.
00:21:12.000So there was testimony in the official Army narrative that they were concerned that people would have to go to the armory and then come back to the Capitol and there would be some kind of delay.
00:21:49.000You know, and another thing, Charlie, is that in that insurrection, I don't want to really call it a trial, but whatever that proceeding was in Colorado, there was testimony saying that Trump was, in effect, an insurrectionist, but that testimony relied on the DOD Inspector General's report, and it relied on the official Army narrative, which Colonel Matthews says is flawed.
00:22:15.000So it's one thing to have a disagreement about what happened that day, January 6th.
00:22:20.000But now that false narrative is being extrapolated and metastasizing into having constitutional effects, where someone could be actually taken off the ballot based on a false narrative.
00:22:33.000Yeah, I mean, this is incredibly important.
00:22:36.000So what do we have to do to get to the bottom and the truth of this?
00:22:40.000Or is it, unfortunately, do you think that they have sufficiently covered this up?
00:22:45.000Well, it's like somebody once told me they said, yeah, I hope we find out what happened to JFK before the last person who knows what happened died.
00:22:53.000You know, it's like I said that too many people are still alive, and that's why we don't know what happened to JFK.
00:23:00.000I think what we have to do is let's propose that we have a Republican majority in the House and they could have a committee, maybe they could call it a J6 committee, and they could investigate what happened and they could haul people in and they could demand those documents that are sealed up at the National Archives and they could actually find out once and for all what happened because the left is dominating this discussion of J6 because they are literally keeping the rest of us in the dark,
00:23:33.000And there's aspects of this that I think will continue to come out.
00:23:38.000And so your reporting at redstate.com has been focused on this particular aspect.
00:23:45.000Are there other ones where you think that we have not received sufficient clarity regarding January 6th that we need to keep the pressure on, get certain answers from?
00:23:54.000Or do you think we're close from getting the truth?
00:23:59.000Do we even know if the pipe bomb was real?
00:24:01.000Now, the pipe bomb, having the pipe bomb there and having the vice president, the vice president elected there, that's all wrapped up in this predicate that the Capitol became a restricted area and that there was, and that the pipe bomb is shown as evidence that there was a terrorist threat.
00:24:19.000And this is being used to take, send all the grannies to jail and people who are, you know, people who, if they were convicted, they'd spend three months in jail, but they're spending two years in pre-trial confinement.
00:24:31.000It's, we have no idea what's going on.
00:24:35.000And it's so insane that three years later, that this thing would be such a huge mystery, especially when the Republicans control the House of Representatives.
00:24:44.000And you would think that the Republican leadership, or at least the staffers and the consultants and the people who are running that party, would know that it's being used against Republicans politically all over the country.
00:24:57.000And candidates and campaigns need to be able to respond.
00:25:11.000I don't have a read on what's going on inside Johnson.
00:25:15.000My only, just speculating as someone who's covered Capitol Hill, I think that he's inherited a lot of McCarthy's staff and McCarthy's fundraisers.
00:25:25.000And he basically allowed himself to be plugged into that infrastructure.
00:25:29.000And he has the idea that if I can ride out this cycle, then I can, maybe I can reboot things later.
00:25:37.000But this is the same old trick leadership plays, you know, and that's why he concedes on the budget.
00:25:42.000You know, it's you talk to leadership staffers and they tell you, no, no, Neil, we just want to get this off the table and move on.
00:25:49.000And it's like they're just conceding things because they don't want to fight.
00:25:52.000And this is what we're seeing with the budget.
00:25:54.000And Johnson, Johnson is worried about his majority.
00:25:58.000But remember, Charlie, Nancy Pelosi had a five-seat majority last session.
00:26:02.000And look at all the stuff she was able to do without a problem.
00:26:10.000Well, Blaze, I mean, it's like, listen, I can disagree with Pelosi and still respect her as a phenomenal political operative.
00:26:19.000She ran that majority in such a way that you would, frankly, if you're familiar with how Cicero whipped votes in the Roman Senate, she did it the same way Cicero did.
00:26:29.000And he cut deals and he got to, you know, Pelosi gets to 218.
00:26:47.000We haven't had a Republican whip who's been able to figure that out since I don't know when, maybe since the 1920s.
00:26:53.000So diving deeper into that, I love that point you made, which I have not heard anyone make, which is Democrats had a five-seat majority recently.
00:27:04.000And we started with, what, three or four seats, right?
00:27:40.000I would suggest, Charlie, that conservatives don't have a problem governing, but there's been no tests because conservatives are not governing.
00:27:47.000It's like Republicans and conservatives are not the same thing, right?
00:27:51.000Conservatives have found a home in the Republican Party, but we're treated like the guests who stayed too long.
00:27:57.000And so we're not actually the ones making Republicans, they love Washington.
00:28:02.000They want Washington to be in control.
00:28:03.000They want to get along with everybody.
00:28:05.000They want their kids to go to Georgetown Prep.
00:28:07.000They want their kids to go to Sidwell Friends.
00:28:09.000And, you know, they want their wife to get some lobbying job for the airlines and everything.
00:28:14.000They think they think Washington's great.
00:28:16.000And then conservatives show up and just spoil the party.
00:28:20.000And so, you know, if Johnson was a cons let's find out if Johnson was going to run the speakership as a conservative, I'd love to see it.
00:28:28.000And I don't think it's ever been put to the test.
00:30:48.000Where do you stand on where things are proceeding in regards to this primary election?
00:30:52.000I think it's very interesting that there's so much weight thrown into Iowa, and so few Iowa winners actually go on to be president, let alone be the nominee.
00:31:03.000And I'm sure you've experienced this yourself, Charlie.
00:31:07.000The minute the votes are counted in Iowa, that circus can't leave Iowa fast enough to go to New Hampshire and nobody thinks about Iowa again.
00:31:17.000I think that it's going to be very interesting to see how big a victory Trump runs up.
00:31:23.000Certainly, DeSantis put all his eggs in the Iowa basket.
00:31:59.000I didn't think about it until, you know, just as I'm talking to you.
00:32:03.000But when Biden and the Democrats moved their Democratic primary in New Hampshire to further on down the line, they basically meant that there's no Democratic contest at the same day as the Republican contest.
00:32:16.000So you have all these Democrats who have nothing to do.
00:32:19.000So, you know, they're going to be taking Democratic ballots.
00:32:22.000And how many of those Democratic ballots, how many of those Democrats taking Republican ballots are going to vote for Nikki Haley?
00:32:29.000So what you're saying is going into South Carolina.
00:32:44.000I wish that it's, but just as I'm talking to you, Charlie, you're making me think about these dynamics.
00:32:50.000And the fact that there's no Democratic contest at the same time as the Republican contest, you basically have all these free radical Democrats running around.
00:33:01.000And also remember, a very strong part to why Democrats have had success in New Hampshire is that they bus in college students from Massachusetts.
00:33:11.000So I'll be interested to see, and they do the same day registration there.
00:33:15.000And so it'll be interesting to see, you know, how successful the Democrats are, what kind of effort they put in to bussing in college students from Massachusetts to put Nikki Haley in a competitive spot with Trump.
00:33:29.000But certainly in South Carolina, which is the conservative firewall, Nikki Haley is going to lose her home state regardless of what happens in New Hampshire.
00:33:38.000And the establishment and certainly the Democrats and the media, they have been begging for a primary.
00:34:10.000The media loves New Hampshire because it's a quick drive from Boston, New York or D.C. You just fly into Logan, 45 minutes, you're in Manchester.
00:34:20.000I would say that the first real, where the media is invested is New Hampshire, and Trump is going to win New Hampshire.
00:34:28.000It may be close, especially with Christie pulling out, and certainly his taking the dive can't be ignored by the Trump team.
00:34:37.000How can people find your content, Neil, and your writings?
00:34:40.000Yeah, please look for me at redstate.com and they can find me on GetterX and Truth at reporter McCabe.