Boulder Terror Suspect's Family in ICE Custody, Jeffrey Epstein's Brother Speaks Out： AM Update 6⧸4
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The brother of Jeffrey Epstein reacts to FBI Director Cash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino s declaration that his brother s cause of death was indeed a suicide. A security guard involved in the Intercontinental Hotel incident between Sean Diddy and Cassie Ventura takes the stand. And Caroline Levitt calls out the Washington Post s reporting on a mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures along the southern border. All that and more coming up in just a moment on Your AM Update.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Wednesday, June 4th, 2025. And this is your
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AM update. We're also investigating to what extent his family knew about this horrific
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attack. The family of the Boulder, Colorado terror suspect in custody. I'd like to see
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what they have seen to make him come to that determination. The brother of Jeffrey Epstein
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reacts to FBI Director Cash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino's declaration that his
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brother's cause of death was indeed a suicide. A security guard involved in the Intercontinental
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Hotel incident between Sean Diddy Combs and Cassie Ventura takes the stand. And Caroline
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Levitt calls out the Washington Post's reporting on the so-called mysterious drop in fentanyl
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seizures along the southern border. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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The Department of Homeland Security confirming on Tuesday the wife and five children of the Boulder,
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Colorado terror suspect are now in the custody of ICE and are being processed for expedited removal,
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allowing for rapid deportation without a hearing before an immigration judge.
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The suspect, an Egyptian national accused of launching Molotov cocktails into a crowd at a
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pro-Israel gathering, overstayed a tourist visa and temporary work permit granted under the Biden
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administration. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday posting, in light of yesterday's horrific
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attack, all terrorists, their family members, and terrorist sympathizers here on a visa should know
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that under the Trump administration, we will find you, revoke your visa, and deport you.
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In an interview with investigators, the suspect saying he left a phone at his home with messages to
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his family. Authorities recovered the phone from the residence with cooperation from the suspect's
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wife. The suspect, Mohammed Salaman, reportedly told police he, quote, wanted to kill all Zionist
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people and said he would conduct the attack again if he could. He's now charged with a federal hate
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crime and 16 state counts, including attempted murder. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on
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Tuesday posting this video on X. We're also investigating to what extent his family knew about this horrific
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attack. If they had any knowledge of it or if they provided support to it, justice will be served.
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The FBI's top two officials saying last week they believe disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein did in
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fact kill himself. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino have not been shy in their pre-government life
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You know, it's the same thing with Epstein's list. It's like, what the hell are these Republicans doing?
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I don't care about the list itself, but it released the names, right? What the hell are the House
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Republicans doing? They have the majority. You can't get the list? Put on your big boy pants and
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let us know who the pedophiles are. Epstein is alleged to have videos of this with a lot of
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these famous people. And yet it's the craziest thing. You don't hear anything about this.
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Now that they're number one and two at the FBI, they are not mincing words. They say they've
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looked at all the facts that Epstein took his own life and that there's zero evidence to the
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contrary. You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. As someone who has worked as a public
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defender, as a prosecutor, who's been in that prison system, who's been in the Metropolitan
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Detention Center, who's been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one,
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and that's what that was. He killed himself. Again, you want me to? I've seen the whole file.
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He killed himself. Epstein died in prison in August 2019. The Justice Department saying at the time it
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was a suicide, a claim doubted by many, including Epstein's brother, Mark Epstein, who told us he
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still has more questions than answers. I'd like to see what they have seen to make him come to that
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determination, because everybody that's seen the facts that I've been able to get my hands on
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thinks it was a homicide. People that did the actual autopsy, they came out of the autopsy room
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saying that they couldn't call it a suicide because it looked too much like a homicide.
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And then a few days later, Dr. Sampson, who was the chief pathologist in New York,
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she determines it was a suicide and has yet to determine or to state what made her come to that
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conclusion after the two pathologists that actually did the autopsy couldn't call it a suicide.
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The day of the autopsy and the initial death certificate, the cause of death said pending further
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study. Most pathologists I talk to say that when it says pending further study, you usually don't
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get an answer for weeks because they're studying, they're investigating what study was done for her
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to change it. Mark hired famed pathologist Dr. Michael Bodden to conduct an autopsy of his brother
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Jeffrey. Bodden said the findings were more consistent with homicide than with suicide. The New York City
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chief medical officer concluded it was a suicide that Epstein hanged himself. Mark has not made any
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requests of Trump 2.0, but says his many previous asks over the years have gone unfulfilled.
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Why I can't get the video footage that I'm requesting? Why I can't get the medical records from the
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hospital? I'm the next of kin. I'm the only next of kin. These medical records should be available to me.
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This doesn't pass the last thing. What happened to the PCR report? We know the EMTs were there because
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there's a photograph of them taking Jeff out of the prison on a gurney. They take him to the hospital
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and he's intubated. He has a neck brace on and he's intubated. You know, they're squeezing like
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an air balloon to put air into his lungs. Now we know from the autopsy he was dead for at least two
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hours. So the question is, why were they putting on the charade to make it look like he was alive or
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revivable? None of this makes sense. The camera inside the cell block where Epstein was kept was
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mysteriously non-functioning at the time, though officials say it had been broken since before
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Epstein was housed there. The guards outside of the cell say they were surfing the net and later
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fell asleep rather than checking on Epstein every 30 minutes as required. Deputy Director Bongino says
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there is videotape that will be released very soon showing that no one entered or even approached
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Epstein's cell that Epstein was clearly alone. But Mark Epstein has another theory.
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The tear is you go into a door and you face like a long corridor and you can see four cells on either
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side of the corridor. You know, it's four on the left, four on the right. Jeff was alone in his cell
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and I don't think all the other cells were full. So I think there were somewhere like 11 or 12 other
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inmates. What I would like to know is who they are, when did they get there, and where are they now?
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Because if Jeff was killed, he was either killed by somebody on the tier or he was killed by the
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unnamed guards when they locked up the tier at 10 o'clock at night. And I have been told through a
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source that cell doors were left unlocked that night. Somebody could have went from one cell to
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another, killed somebody and gone back into their cell and it was done. You didn't have to go in and out of
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the tier. Among the video Mark is seeking, footage from the infirmary where Epstein's body was taken
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after discovery of his death. They were supposed to get the medical examiner there, but they violated
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all codes and they moved them to the infirmary. I also would like to see the video footage by the
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infirmary because we know there's cameras all over that place. Who was directing the show there?
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When I asked for that footage, they initially told me they couldn't give it to me because it was part of
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an ongoing investigation. That was, you know, a few years ago. Now that the investigation is over,
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now they're saying that the cameras that were working don't show that area. That's the last
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excuse I got. First, they couldn't show it to me because it was part of the investigation. And now
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the last comment was the cameras don't show that area. This doesn't make, it doesn't pass the laugh
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test. We reached out to the FBI for comment, but did not hear back. We will update the story as soon
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as that videotape is made public. Coming up, the security guard who took money to delete that infamous
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tape of Sean Diddy Combs beating star witness Cassie Ventura at the Intercontinental Hotel
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takes the stand. And weeks after the New York Times reports that fentanyl labs are disappearing in
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Mexico thanks to Trump's tariffs, the Washington Post questions why fentanyl seizures are dropping
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at the border. Caroline Levitt provides a fact check.
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the stand Tuesday in the Sean Diddy Combs criminal trial was former security guard at the Intercontinental
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Hotel, Eddie Garcia, who was granted immunity to testify. Garcia testifying to being alerted to a
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domestic dispute on March 5th, 2016, the day of the now infamous moment showing a towel-clad Combs
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caught on security footage, knocking star witness Cassie Ventura to the floor, then kicking, hitting,
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and dragging her. Garcia saying when he initially watched the footage, he did not recognize Combs
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or Ventura, but later learned of their identities. Garcia testifying he understood that law enforcement
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was not called to the scene because, quote, Ms. Ventura did not request the presence of police
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or medical attention. Garcia testifying that Combs' then chief of staff, Christina Coram,
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asked if there was a way to view the video because, quote, Mr. Combs had been intoxicated
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and didn't remember. The witness testifying he directed Coram to hotel management or to get a
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subpoena, but he told her, quote, off the record, it's bad. Garcia saying later that night, Coram called
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the security desk again, this time putting Combs directly on the phone. According to Garcia,
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Combs sounded very nervous, saying he'd had too much to drink. He knew how bad the video was,
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and if it got out, it would ruin Combs' career. Garcia attesting to also referring Combs to either
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hotel management or to the subpoena process, then writing up the phone call in an email to his
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general manager and the head of security. The witness saying later that night when he was home,
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he got another call, this time on his personal cell phone from Coram, who again passed the phone to
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Combs. Garcia saying, quote, he stated that I sounded like a good guy, that I sounded like
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I wanted to help, that something like this could ruin him. Combs then offering to take care of
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Garcia, which Garcia took to mean financially. The witness testifying to calling his boss about the
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video, his boss telling Garcia they could get Combs the video for $50,000. The next day,
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Garcia's boss provided him with a thumb drive containing the footage, and Garcia delivered it
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to Combs. Garcia attesting Combs was, quote, smiling, excited, just looked happy. Combs referring
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to Garcia as, Eddie, my angel. Combs asked for assurance that the video on the thumb drive was
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the only copy. Garcia then contacting his boss, who assured Combs it had been removed entirely from
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the server. Garcia says he expressed concern to Combs about what might happen if Ventura later filed a
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police report. Quote, he said, I didn't have to worry about that, that she knew about it and she
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wanted the video gone too. Combs FaceTiming Ventura, who then told Garcia directly, she had a movie coming
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out and she wanted this to go away. Combs then asking Garcia to sign a non-disclosure agreement,
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stating Garcia would pay $1 million if the video was leaked. Garcia says Combs counted out $100,000 in cash,
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Garcia assuming $50,000 for his boss and $50,000 to split between Garcia and another guard. Garcia
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testifying that he split the money with the other security officer on duty after the incident. He said
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Combs likely believed that he was buying off not only Garcia, but the guard with whom Combs initially dealt
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after the beating, Israel Flores. Unfortunately for Combs, Mr. Flores did not take any money, but did make his
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own video of the security footage. Garcia said that when the video resurfaced in 2024, originally obtained
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by CNN, he was questioned by law enforcement, but was not initially honest about his own involvement.
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The witness saying he was later appointed legal counsel, and only then did he disclose that Combs
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had paid him for the tape. On Saturday, the Washington Post reporting on, quote, the mysterious drop in
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fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border. From the piece, quote, after years of confiscating
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rising amounts of fentanyl, U.S. officials are confronting a new and puzzling reality at the
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Mexican border. Fentanyl seizures are plummeting. The report vaguely citing, quote, some security
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officials who think cartels could be seeking ways to get around border security forces. Other possible
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theories from the article, a war within two factions of the Sinaloa cartel, or a shortage in fentanyl
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ingredients. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt offering another explanation at a Tuesday press
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conference. On the topic of immigration, the Washington Post just ran one of the most ridiculous
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headlines ever, the mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border. How is this
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mysterious? There is no mystery about why there is a decrease in fentanyl coming into the United States.
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This administration's strong border policies are the reason there has been a decrease in fentanyl
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trafficking. His strengthened relationship with Mexican President Scheinbaum and all of the
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measures he has been taking to deter illegal human and drug trafficking at our United States
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southern border is the reason for plummeting fentanyl seizures at the U.S. border. There is
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nothing mysterious about that, and we'd like to see the Washington Post update their headline
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accordingly. Our office responded to this inquiry. We provided a whole host of the reasons that
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fentanyl seizures at the southern border have dropped, and the Washington Post refused to run
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them, and that's despicable. The Post only including this comment from the White House in
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its report. Quote, the White House says the drop is thanks to President Trump's policies empowering
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law enforcement officials to dismantle drug trafficking networks. While the Washington Post remains befuddled at
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the drop in fentanyl seizures, even its progressive counterpart up north, the New York Times, reported months ago
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that Mr. Trump's tariffs on Mexico caused President Scheinbaum to crack down on fentanyl labs, which were
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promptly drying up in Mexico. Reporting the Washington Post appears to have missed.
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And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back here for The Megyn Kelly Show,
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