Speaker 1: All right, if you're running for office or you're looking
Speaker 1: at somebody to vote for come November, I am going
Speaker 1: to explain to.
Speaker 2: You the type of people we need in Washington.
Speaker 1: And when I say need, I'm talking about people that
Speaker 1: actually care, that actually take their time to ask thoughtful questions,
Speaker 1: that actually aren't there self serving and just putting out propaganda. Now,
Speaker 1: I say this because I'm going to play for you
Speaker 1: in a moment two different things that happened the last
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, both very different issues.
Speaker 2: One dealing with global warming.
Speaker 1: Another issue dealing with a judicial nominee, both obviously important issues. Now,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of deadbeat Republicans in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: There are actually some Republicans that have been elected that
Speaker 1: are honestly, really stupid. There are a lot of Democrats
Speaker 1: that have been elected that are extremely stupid as.
Speaker 2: Well, and I expect them to be stupid.
Speaker 1: But I do expect Republicans and Conservatives to be at
Speaker 1: a higher level than the lowest common de nominated with
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. Now, I say this because there are
Speaker 1: certain centers that are just special. One of those that
Speaker 1: I'm going to play for you is John Kennedy. John
Speaker 1: Kennedy from Louisiana is a guy that if he's asking
Speaker 1: you questions, you'd better be paying attention before his committee.
Speaker 1: Democrats are trying to spend fifty trillion dollars, not billion,
Speaker 1: fifty trillion dollars for the United States of America to
Speaker 1: become carbon neutral. They held a hearing about this and
Speaker 1: they had expert witnesses that were called to tell Congress
Speaker 1: why we should spend fifty trillion dollars to become carbon
Speaker 1: neutral in America. One of the Democratic witnesses they brought
Speaker 1: before the committee with someone that Senator Kennedy wanted to
Speaker 1: ask some questions of. This is a quote expert witness.
Speaker 1: These aren't just random people that are there. This is
Speaker 1: one of their expert witnesses, and this witness is there
Speaker 1: to tell Senator Kennedy and the rest of America why
Speaker 1: we should spend fifty trillion dollars to become carbon neutral
Speaker 1: in just a couple of years.
Speaker 2: Take a listen to what then ensued.
Speaker 3: What is what is carbon dioxide?
Speaker 4: I'm I went to high school, but that's uh. Carbon
Speaker 4: dioxide is a guess. Okay, I'm not I'm not a
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 5: A professional to talk about carbon dioxide so much.
Speaker 1: But well you, by the way, let me tell you
Speaker 1: who's talking. This is a guy whose name played in
Speaker 1: front of him, says mister gush Schumacher. Mister Gus is
Speaker 1: an American cross country skier.
Speaker 2: And an Olympian.
Speaker 1: This guy, who is an expert, just says, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: not an expert. Now that's not a good start, right.
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Speaker 1: this back and forth again.
Speaker 2: This is a expert.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who you're supposed to be Congress
Speaker 1: and the American people are supposed to be listening to.
Speaker 1: Mister Gus, an American cross country skier and Olympian. He says, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not an expert on carbon dioxide. The dim witness
Speaker 1: did say, it's a huge part of our atmosphere, is it.
Speaker 1: It's actually a very small part of our atmosphere about
Speaker 1: zero point zero three five percent.
Speaker 2: Keep listening.
Speaker 3: You want us to abolish it? Right?
Speaker 5: No, There's always going to be carbon dioxide.
Speaker 6: Right, So what is it you want us to do?
Speaker 6: Let me back up, because I want to. I mean,
Speaker 6: you're here as an expert, tell me more about what
Speaker 6: carbon dioxide is.
Speaker 4: I'm here as an expert cross country skier who sees
Speaker 4: the changes in my winters and the landscape that I
Speaker 4: live in Alaska, and so carbon dioxide is what I
Speaker 4: see it as is you know, it's a gas that
Speaker 4: exists in our atmosphere, and is.
Speaker 3: It the major part of our atmosphere?
Speaker 5: It's a huge part of our atmosphere.
Speaker 3: It's actually very small part of our atmosphere.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, but yeah, I don't know what are you
Speaker 4: asking specifically?
Speaker 6: Well, you say we need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Speaker 6: I'd like to know first if you know what it
Speaker 6: is you want us to abolish fossil fuels.
Speaker 5: I never said that.
Speaker 3: You never have said that.
Speaker 6: No, okay, what do you think we ought to do
Speaker 6: with fossil fuels?
Speaker 5: What will we do with fossil fuels?
Speaker 3: Yeah, should we make any changes?
Speaker 4: I would like to see a decrease in the use
Speaker 4: of fossil fuels. I think there's a possibility to use
Speaker 4: more electric generation.
Speaker 6: Over over what period of time? Ten years, fifty years,
Speaker 6: one hundred years.
Speaker 4: That's not I would like to see it come as
Speaker 4: fast as possible.
Speaker 5: While continuing how fast, sorry, how fast?
Speaker 6: I don't have a you don't know for that, No, okay,
Speaker 6: you just think, well, how much will it cost for
Speaker 6: us to become carbon neutral in the United States by
Speaker 6: two thousand and fifty.
Speaker 5: I'm not a professional on that.
Speaker 3: I don't have any You don't have any idea. No,
Speaker 3: you just think we all to spend the money.
Speaker 5: I'm not an economist.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's going to cost money. You were lass that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but we've also talked about the trade off of
Speaker 4: what the cost of climate change as emergencies will cost
Speaker 4: in the future.
Speaker 6: Also, so right, but it's going to cost trillions of
Speaker 6: dollars come carbon neutral by twenty thy fifty.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: I do not know.
Speaker 3: You don't know. You just think we all to do it.
Speaker 5: I don't have a great answer for you.
Speaker 7: But I think if we spent if we spent those
Speaker 7: trains of dollars and became carbon neutral by twenty and
Speaker 7: fifty in the United States, which you advocate, how much
Speaker 7: will reduce world temperatures.
Speaker 5: I don't have an answer for that.
Speaker 6: You don't know, No, you just think we all to
Speaker 6: spend the money and then see what happens.
Speaker 4: I think, as an athlete, I think if we spend
Speaker 4: that money and invest in our future, hopefully those temperatures
Speaker 4: stop rising and maybe the snow at least stabilizes where
Speaker 4: it is for me. But yeah, I don't think anyone
Speaker 4: knows for sure.
Speaker 5: I don't know anyway.
Speaker 6: Well, when my colleagues invite witnesses to come to us
Speaker 6: to tell us advise us on passing legislation, always check
Speaker 6: out the background of our witnesses, because I'd like to
Speaker 6: know who I'm talking to. I checked yours out in
Speaker 6: mister Schumacher, and I want to be sure I understand
Speaker 6: it as I valuate your testimony. On June eighth, twenty twenty,
Speaker 6: you tweeted, I'm going to quote the war on drugs
Speaker 6: was intentionally created to incarcerate black people? On Moss end
Speaker 6: quote the war on drugs, you said, was intentionally created
Speaker 6: to incarcerate black people? Moss who intentionally created the war
Speaker 6: on drugs to put black people in jail?
Speaker 3: Who were you talking?
Speaker 5: I don't remember typing that.
Speaker 3: You don't know it's on your Twitter feed?
Speaker 5: Maybe a retweet. I don't know. I haven't used that
Speaker 5: in a while.
Speaker 6: Well, even if it's a retweet, it shows your support, right.
Speaker 4: Maybe, Yeah, But it's not the topic of this conversation though.
Speaker 6: Right, right, But it has to do with you're here
Speaker 6: giving us advice, and I just kind of like to
Speaker 6: know a little bit more about you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm here as an athlete
Speaker 4: giving you my story and what I've seen in my.
Speaker 6: On August twenty seventh of twenty twenty, you tweeted this quote.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna quote police are paid with taxpayer dollars. If
Speaker 6: they are not answerable to us, we can demand new service.
Speaker 3: And that's what this is.
Speaker 6: Abolish the police in favor of that new service.
Speaker 3: End quote. You think well to bile some police, do you?
Speaker 5: Again? Not the topic I'm here to talk about today.
Speaker 3: I know, but you tweeted do you think we ought
Speaker 3: to about some police?
Speaker 5: That's not what I'm here to talk about.
Speaker 6: Should we do that before or after we get rid
Speaker 6: of fossil fuels. I'm not going to a dress that
Speaker 6: you don't want to address it.
Speaker 1: Okay, we need more people that are elected office to
Speaker 1: do what Senator Kennedy just did. You're an expert. This
Speaker 1: is who the Democrats brought to Congress to give us
Speaker 1: all of this information. Giving us all this information, ask
Speaker 1: them questions. They can't answer the damn questions because they're
Speaker 1: not experts. They're activists, they're radicals, they're extremists. And by
Speaker 1: the way, they don't even know how much carbon accid
Speaker 1: is in the atmosphere, which they're saying.
Speaker 2: We just spend fifty trillion dollars to get rid of
Speaker 2: Senator Kennedy. By the way, wasn't done asking tough questions.
Speaker 1: He obviously decimated this kid, this young adult, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call him, This olympian, right, who's telling us
Speaker 1: we had to spend fifty trillion dollars to get carbon
Speaker 1: neutral and doesn't even know how much carbon dioxide's in
Speaker 1: the atmosphere.
Speaker 2: But we'll move on from that. Right, let's move to
Speaker 2: something else. It's even a bigger deal.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Granted, spending fifty trillion dollars is a big deal, but
Speaker 1: let's talk about judicial nominees. Senator Kennedy had a lady
Speaker 1: by the name of she is a judge. Judge Nancy L.
Speaker 1: Maldonado was in front of him. She is a Biden
Speaker 1: judicial nominee, and he decided, I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Ask her some questions.
Speaker 1: And the nominee struggled to define what an assault weapon was.
Speaker 1: Yet she is on the record is saying she wants
Speaker 1: to abolish all assault weapons in America. And this is
Speaker 1: a judge that you could be in front of in
Speaker 1: a court one day. Listen to how this went.
Speaker 6: You said, quote, assault weapons may be banned because they're
Speaker 6: extraordinarily dangerous and are not appropriate for legitimate self defense purposes.
Speaker 3: Close quote. Tell me what you meant by assault weapons?
Speaker 8: Thank you, Senator Kennedy. Just to clarify, Just to clarify there,
Speaker 8: I was local counsel are supreme.
Speaker 2: But you wrote the brief.
Speaker 3: Tell you what you meant by assault weapons.
Speaker 8: Senator Kenny. Actually, I did not write the brief. The
Speaker 8: brief was written by you.
Speaker 3: Signed the brief though, correct.
Speaker 2: I signed the brief.
Speaker 3: Sign a brief.
Speaker 6: You're testifying to the court that everything in it is true, right, yes,
Speaker 6: and I they're your words in terms of the court. Right.
Speaker 8: Well, you're you're correct, Senator Kennedy. I would never sign
Speaker 8: what you meant by assault weapons. So I am not
Speaker 8: a gun expert. And at the time that brief I
Speaker 8: think was about ten years given the.
Speaker 6: Court advice about say ban assault weapons. What is I'm
Speaker 6: just you told the court you weren't you were you
Speaker 6: were an expert. Just tell me what you wanted to.
Speaker 8: Ban, Senator sitting here today, as I said, I did
Speaker 8: not write that brief.
Speaker 2: I was local counters a brief.
Speaker 8: I understand at the.
Speaker 3: Time maybe what you wanted to ban, that's all I
Speaker 3: want to know.
Speaker 8: I don't remember the exact definition of assault weapons in
Speaker 8: the ordinance that was that issue.
Speaker 6: So you submitted a brief to the appellant brief, you
Speaker 6: signed it, and you don't know what and you said
Speaker 6: aboassed assault weapons, and you don't know what you wanted
Speaker 6: them to abolish.
Speaker 2: Senator.
Speaker 8: At the time that I signed the brief, I read
Speaker 8: the brief because our Supreme Court required someone an.
Speaker 2: Illinois bar member, to sign the brief.
Speaker 8: I was not responsible for researching the content.
Speaker 3: You were watched for the brief.
Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely, and sitting here today, I do not remember
Speaker 8: are the characteristics of of that were that were cited
Speaker 8: in the ordinance for the assault weapons ban. It's not
Speaker 8: an area of practice that I have specialized in. I'm
Speaker 8: sure ten years ago I would I could have answered
Speaker 8: your question. It's sitting here today.
Speaker 3: Promoted record.
Speaker 2: Senator, I stand by my record.
Speaker 3: I stand by my record.
Speaker 1: I stand by my record. You think you deserve to
Speaker 1: be promoted? Simple question not He's not being a jerk.
Speaker 1: He's asking a simple question someone that wants a big
Speaker 1: judicial nominee position a judge. The question let's go back
Speaker 1: to the very beginning. So tell me what you meant
Speaker 1: by assault weapons, this judge, So I'm not a gun expert,
Speaker 1: and at the time that that breathed, I thinking I
Speaker 1: was about a tent. But you've given the court advice
Speaker 1: about it, right, You're an expert in the court. You're
Speaker 1: giving the court advice and you're saying ban assault weapons.
Speaker 1: What is I'm just you told the court you're you are,
Speaker 1: you're an expert. Just tell me what you want a demand.
Speaker 1: She can't answer the question. Now, I play these two
Speaker 1: different clips from you, because my point is this, we
Speaker 1: need to elect better people to Washington. Two that are
Speaker 1: there not to grandstand and go around and wear their
Speaker 1: suits and their you know, pant suits and act like
Speaker 1: they're a big, you know, big to do people. We
Speaker 1: need people to go to Washington and when there's someone
Speaker 1: up for a major position or job within our government
Speaker 1: or a massive policy that we're about to change, for example,
Speaker 1: spending fifty trillion dollars to go carbon neutral in America,
Speaker 1: like that'll bankrupt us. It's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 1: And the Democrats bring their experts. We need somebody that's
Speaker 1: going to know how to ask them questions about what
Speaker 1: they think and what they believe in and what they're doing.
Speaker 1: I'll give you another example, not from I'm Senor Kennedy,
Speaker 1: and this deals absolutely with our national security. An Air
Speaker 1: Force general has now come out due to questioning and
Speaker 1: revealed that there is a quote alarming number of drones
Speaker 1: crossing into the US airspace at the southern border.
Speaker 2: Now, what is the definition of alarming?
Speaker 1: Is the first question when I see this headline, I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, what's the definition of alarming?
Speaker 2: Like, what is really alarming? What does that look like?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 1: The Air Force general revealed to Congress that the number
Speaker 1: of drones crossing into the US airspace at the southern
Speaker 1: border is now more than one thousand a month.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would agree that is an alarming number.
Speaker 1: More than one thousand drones per month are crossing into
Speaker 1: the US airspace near the border with Mexico. A top
Speaker 1: general is telling us, Okay, so who's flying the thousand
Speaker 1: drones per month? And are we shooting any of them down?
Speaker 1: They're coming into our airspace right like, so are we
Speaker 1: taking them out? They then go on to say the
Speaker 1: number of unmanned drone incursions not only is alarming and
Speaker 1: presents quote a growing potential threat to national security. Is
Speaker 1: what Air Force General Gregory Glot, the commander of North
Speaker 1: American Defense Command and US Northern Command said at the
Speaker 1: Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, how did we just find
Speaker 1: out about one thousand drones a month crossing into the
Speaker 1: US airspace near the border with Mexico?
Speaker 2: And who is flying those drones?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: How did it get to the point where it was
Speaker 1: a thousand before you and I heard about it? You
Speaker 1: want to know the only reason why we've heard about
Speaker 1: this because of another US senator who's asking the right questions.
Speaker 1: And if there's a theme for today's show, it is
Speaker 1: this theme we need less need. We need fewer elected
Speaker 1: officials that are on TikTok and more elected off officials
Speaker 1: that are in Washington asking real questions. Senator Ted Buddy's,
Speaker 1: a new senator, a Republican from North Carolina, said, quote,
Speaker 1: the number of incursions was something.
Speaker 2: That was alarming to me as I took command last month.
Speaker 1: Last month, you think, yeah, that's what That's what this
Speaker 1: army commander said while talking to the centator, like, hey,
Speaker 1: I just got there, you just got here. Hey, the
Speaker 1: number of incursions is something that was alarming to me
Speaker 1: when I took command last month. So how long have
Speaker 1: we had a thousand drones per month crossing into the
Speaker 1: United States airspace near the border with Mexico. Is it
Speaker 1: been months, has it been six months, Has it been
Speaker 1: a year, Has it been two years?
Speaker 2: Have been three years? Have been four years? I just
Speaker 2: want to know.
Speaker 1: I'm genuinely curious, what like, how long has this been
Speaker 1: going on? And how did it take a new.
Speaker 2: Guy in the Senate to even ask the right question
Speaker 2: to get to this point?
Speaker 1: And the other question is how many other senators knew this?
Speaker 1: How many other people in our military knew this? That
Speaker 1: refuse to tell the truth or to let anybody know.
Speaker 1: How many other questions are not being asked that we
Speaker 1: should be asking to deal with our national security at
Speaker 1: the southern border, that no one is asking the question
Speaker 1: because they don't. We don't have smart enough people in
Speaker 1: Washington to actually ask these basic, simple questions, whether it's
Speaker 1: coming from Center Bud, whether it's coming from Senator Cruz,
Speaker 1: where it's coming from Senor Kennedy. The fact that you
Speaker 1: usually know the people that are going to ask the
Speaker 1: real tough questions, and the list is so short compared
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's one hundred members of the Senate.
Speaker 1: Folks, How often am I talking about the one hundred
Speaker 1: different members not very often, and it's because the majority
Speaker 1: of them they don't give a crap about actually asking
Speaker 1: real tough questions or looking out for America's best interests.
Speaker 2: That's the problem.
Speaker 1: I want you to hear Senator Button again, Freshman Senator
Speaker 1: asking the right questions, uncovering an alarming number of drones?
Speaker 2: Who are that?
Speaker 1: Are that are coming into American air space the southern border?
Speaker 1: Over a thousand a month, and none of us were
Speaker 1: told about any of this until he asked the right
Speaker 1: question in Washington.
Speaker 9: It's my understanding there's been a lot of drone incursions
Speaker 9: along our southern border.
Speaker 3: How many drone incursions have we had?
Speaker 5: And what are they doing?
Speaker 9: Senator? The number of incursions was something that was alarming
Speaker 9: to me as I as I took command last month.
Speaker 9: I don't know the actual number. I don't think anybody does,
Speaker 9: but it's it's in the thousands. I have talked to
Speaker 9: Customs and Border Protection, who are responsible for the U
Speaker 9: S incursions and in the in the border along with
Speaker 9: d O J and they put the number at thousands
Speaker 9: over what period of.
Speaker 3: Time is that thousands?
Speaker 9: I would say in the probably over a month, we
Speaker 9: could probably have over a thousand a month.
Speaker 3: General, do they, in your view represent a homeland defense threat?
Speaker 5: Senator?
Speaker 9: They alarm me from the being the person responsible for
Speaker 9: homeland defense. I haven't seen any of them manifest in
Speaker 9: a threat to the level of national defense, but I
Speaker 9: see the potential only growing.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: Not only did you say he sees a threat only growing,
Speaker 1: there's like fifteen follow up questions.
Speaker 2: I've got.
Speaker 1: Okay, what was last month, the month before, the month before,
Speaker 1: the month before, the month before, right, Like, what are
Speaker 1: these numbers?
Speaker 2: Can you get those for me?
Speaker 1: That's number one. Let's move on from that. I got
Speaker 1: a second question for you, Who the hell's find these drones?
Speaker 1: Is it human traffickers? It sex traffickers, is it child rapists?
Speaker 1: Is it drug dealers? Is it those bringing across fetnoh
Speaker 1: and heroin and crack cocaine and acid and and and
Speaker 1: and pills laced with feedennol? Like I want to know,
Speaker 1: I mean this sincerely, Like we might need to know
Speaker 1: some of this stuff one day. It would be important
Speaker 1: that we know who's flying these drones. Are we doing
Speaker 1: anything to stop these drones from coming across our southern border?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: Do we have a way to shoot them down when
Speaker 1: they when they come over into our airspace, Like I
Speaker 1: would like to volunteer.
Speaker 2: That would be a really fun spring break for me.
Speaker 1: I would love to go to the southern border and
Speaker 1: I would love to go down there and shoot drones
Speaker 1: if they're being flown by the cartels out of the sky.
Speaker 1: I think that would be a really fun uh guy's
Speaker 1: weekend trip of like who can get the most drones
Speaker 1: and and knock them down?
Speaker 2: Like that would be amazing.
Speaker 1: But in all seriousness, this is three examples, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to do a better job of when this happens
Speaker 1: highlighting it because I think we need to start expecting more,
Speaker 1: a lot more. We need to be expecting a ton
Speaker 1: more from our elected leaders. Our leaders are not doing enough, okay,
Speaker 1: Like our leaders are not doing even close to enough
Speaker 1: as they were in the past. Like our leaders should
Speaker 1: be doing a much better job of asking basic questions.
Speaker 1: We don't do enough to ask questions. We don't do
Speaker 1: enough to make the people that are making the policy answers.
Speaker 1: Like I still cannot believe that this is the first
Speaker 1: time ever we've found out from an air Force general
Speaker 1: that we've got a thousand of these drones that are
Speaker 1: incurring per month crossing into US airspace near the Mexican border.
Speaker 1: They're obviously up to no good. Are we even trying
Speaker 1: to stop them? Is there an initiative to them? He said, Look,
Speaker 1: I see the potential threat only growing.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: This is what I do know, because after this came
Speaker 1: out and top near artificials know that while the number
Speaker 1: of incursions alarming, they haven't seen them manifest in a
Speaker 1: threat to the level of national defense. Okay, well, what
Speaker 1: does a drone look like if it's being used a
Speaker 1: threat to the national defense?
Speaker 2: It would have I'm assuming, like armory on it, like
Speaker 2: bombs on it.
Speaker 1: We've seen these drones have been used for attacks, for
Speaker 1: example right now between UK or Ukraine, I should say
Speaker 1: in Russia. We've seen these be used in the Middle
Speaker 1: East to attack American soldiers.
Speaker 2: So it only takes one moment for this to change.
Speaker 1: Now, what we think the majority of these drones, after
Speaker 1: asking other experts, is is this Mexican cartels are using
Speaker 1: the drones to track the locations of American authorities along
Speaker 1: the US Mexico border in order to quote more easily
Speaker 1: smuggle humans and draw uggs across the southern border, according
Speaker 1: to US.
Speaker 2: Customs and Border Protection officials.
Speaker 1: The Rio Grand Valley Sector chief told the House Oversight
Speaker 1: Committee in February of twenty twenty three, so this is
Speaker 1: last year, over a year ago, that in her Texas
Speaker 1: sector alone, more than ten thousand drone incursions and more
Speaker 1: than twenty five thousand drone sightings had been reported in
Speaker 1: the last year just in her sector. The adversaries have
Speaker 1: seventeen times the number of drones, twice the amount of
Speaker 1: flight hours, and unlimited funding to grow their operations, is
Speaker 1: what was said by the Rio Grand Valley Sector chief.
Speaker 1: So to be clear, the sector chief and again none
Speaker 1: of us have heard about this until today, told Congress
Speaker 1: that the drug cartels in absence have a seventeen x
Speaker 1: at vantage on r safety and.
Speaker 2: Security measures at the Southern border.
Speaker 1: When it comes to drones, the adversaries have seventeen times
Speaker 1: the number of drones that we the American government have,
Speaker 1: they have twice the amount of flight hours that we have,
Speaker 1: and they have an unlimited funding to grow their operations.
Speaker 1: So what she's really warning us that we again, this
Speaker 1: is a year ago, they warned us about this, but
Speaker 1: none of US heard about it because no one is
Speaker 1: asking the right questions. What we're really finding out is
Speaker 1: that the cartels have an air force, and their air
Speaker 1: force is massive. Their air force is well trained and organized.
Speaker 1: It's not human beings up in airplanes. It's drones everywhere.
Speaker 1: In January of twenty twenty three, we have found out
Speaker 1: for the first time today this is over a year ago,
Speaker 1: authorities discovered drone footage of border patrol agents allegedly shot
Speaker 1: by human smugglers during a raid that was believed to
Speaker 1: be a safe house used to hide migrants illegally crossing
Speaker 1: the US Mexico boundary.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: Human smugglers use it using drones to survey the border
Speaker 1: patrol is a growing trend that we've observed along the border.
Speaker 1: Is with the San Diego sector, chief agent said in
Speaker 1: a statement, quote, this technology provides transnational criminal organization, so transnational,
Speaker 1: So this could be starting in China, veetnel coming over,
Speaker 1: then it gets to Mexico, then it's coming over again.
Speaker 1: Or it could be terrorist organizations like CAMAS or has Bob.
Speaker 1: We don't know who's flying all these drones. We know
Speaker 1: it's a lot of cartel members, but it's a transnational
Speaker 1: criminal organization with new capabilities that are eager to exploit
Speaker 1: American weaknesses. So I think it's fair to say the
Speaker 1: drug cartels and those that are bringing in the number
Speaker 1: one killer of people in this country and the number
Speaker 1: one killer. We all know what the number one killer
Speaker 1: is of people forty nine and under the number one
Speaker 1: killer of people forty nine and under in this country
Speaker 1: is FETNYL. And the people that are bringing in have
Speaker 1: an air force, okay, have an air force to bring
Speaker 1: it in that is seventeen times.
Speaker 2: The size of our US militaries.
Speaker 1: And Border Protections air force when it comes to drones
Speaker 1: and surveillance at the southern border.
Speaker 2: We found all this out today because one senator asked
Speaker 2: the right questions.
Speaker 1: We found out that the people that are the experts
Speaker 1: on global warming actually aren't experts.
Speaker 2: Because of another senator who asked the right questions, we.
Speaker 1: Found out that these experts want to spend fifty trillion
Speaker 1: dollars and don't even know what it would actually do
Speaker 1: to the environment if they got what they wanted. We
Speaker 1: found out from Senator Kennedy that there's a judicial nominee
Speaker 1: who couldn't define what an assault weapon was except she
Speaker 1: told a court that she was an expert on assault
Speaker 1: weapons and that we should ban set assault weapons. And
Speaker 1: this is someone who is actually right now, right now
Speaker 1: in America, a judge looking for a promotion to an
Speaker 1: even bigger post as a judge this November.
Speaker 2: I say this as sincerely as I can.
Speaker 1: We better start looking at candidates, not just to get
Speaker 1: a warm body or a quote conservative to DC and
Speaker 1: then we think, all right, we did our job. We
Speaker 1: need to start asking the right questions, and we need
Speaker 1: to start finding, most importantly, the right people to run
Speaker 1: for office who will go to office and will actually
Speaker 1: fight and ask the questions that I just described today.
Speaker 1: If we don't, we're going to continue to screw up
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