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. Politicians are calling for war against the cartels. Is the United States federal government going to control our southern border? let the Mexican drug cartels do it to combat the crisis on the southern border of the United States tonight the country is preparing for an influx of immigration stop this illicit drug trade it is killing Americans everywhere in this country this has been a major bipartisan failure of the US government for many For decades there is no accountability, but an unprecedented intelligence project reveals that who knows about this seems like I've told everyone.

I'm going to the CIA, yes, I'm going to the FBI, I'm going, yes, I'm going to the DEA, come on, yes, the front line of this battle is where we have the least. Wait, you just pulled out a plastic-wrapped 9mm caliber that's still leaking gas here from the gas tank. He has this AR-15 that was hidden in this back seat. We have allowed the cartels to amass an army. Please name the game. So where are we going? We will meet with some gang members and they will show us how they smuggle all these types of weapons from the US to Mexico.

These guys are kind of part of a supplying network. weapons to the cartel yes these weapons we are going to see these weapons are going to kill people Miguel Anel Vega is a journalist who was born and raised in the heart of the cartel territory we hired him to help us gain access to US arms trafficking operations. USA to Mexico, this could be any city. The US could be anywhere we are following the trail of arms dealers crossing the western United States, the road led south across the border even though there is a long line of cars trying to enter to Mexico.

The controls have to be very, very rudimentary at best because we've been moving constantly. We are detained here photographed and that's it. I haven't seen a single vehicle stopped and stopped, so we just got a pin drop. from one of our contacts we are not going to any tourist destination here, we are going to land C, this really looks like a sketch, we are about to see American weapons in the hands of Mexican characters. Mexico has incredibly strict gun laws, so it is next to It is impossible for civilians to buy firearms, there is only one gun store for the entire country and it is on a military base to get firearms.

Criminals have to smuggle them. Oh wow, I just pulled a plastic-wrapped 9mm out of the gas tank. He has this AR-15 that was hidden in this back seat, he can hide weapons in the door panels in the tires. The smuggler said that he can hide more than 30 weapons at any given time in a small sedan like this, which is effectively a mule for these weapons to enter. Mexico, this is crazy, how much do you make when you do this? Five $5,000 for one. Crossing FY FY, it is very easy to get these weapons in the United States.

Are you a US citizen or Mexican citizen? Both the United States recently announced it was cracking down on guns. Traffic from the US to Mexico Are you afraid of what the US government might do and what kind of impact that could have on your business? No, no, you're not afraid. No, so nothing has changed. The vast majority of arms and drug trafficking in and out of the US is halisco New Generation, better known by its acronyms cjng and caloa, despite high-profile arrests, its smuggling operations have been growing. An investigation by a CBS report found that Americans have been helping drug traffickers smuggle military-grade smuggling. weapons from the United States to Mexico on a scale and sophistication unknown to the American public.

This story is based on exclusively obtained government documents and interviews with a half-dozen current and former officials with direct knowledge, as well as high-ranking members of the Caloa cartel. We are

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the cartels 100%, I certainly worked for ATF for approximately 25 years. I work with street guns and drug crime, can you tell me a little more about your role, particularly around gun dealing towards the end of my career? I had an excellent opportunity to work in a truly unique place. Chris Dem was assigned to the drug administration's intelligence center in Washington, D.C., known as the Special Operations Division.

One day he came to see me, an analyst from Intel who had specialized in cartels for years. and he said, "Hey, I have some things you might want to see." It instantly became clear that the cartels had large-scale covert arms trafficking networks throughout the United States, from coast to coast, from north to south, and that they were funneling thousands of weapons to Mexico to fuel the drug war. Asked. I told him who is doing something about it. And he said he said no one. CIA, he says, yeah, I'm going to the FBI, I'm going, yeah, I'm going to the DEA, I'm going, yeah, everyone tells me it's a gun problem that would fall with the ATF and I said, well, you want to do something about it and he He said, yes, that something became the first.

A US intelligence project focused on international arms trafficking launched in 2018, until then law enforcement had been carrying out operations focused primarily on arresting individual, low-level arms traffickers. Instead, this new mission would attempt to identify and take down entire smuggling networks, whether Democratic or Republican. they were proun they were against guns everyone came together to focus on the problem for the good of the nation they called it Thor the full scope of the project and its operations have never been reported until now why are you talking about project Thor now? This is the story the American people need to know.

What are we seeing here? This is the creation of intelligence data from across the United States. Can we see how and where one of the major cartels can get their weapons? Basically these are like hubs, so you think of terrorist sales, these are like individual cells, okay, in a matter of months, Project Thor uncovered dozens of cartel arms trafficking networks, this is just one example of how the cartel cj& had been trafficking firearms. Law enforcement had overlooked them for years, the cartels have their fingers all over the country and can take firearms from all over the country and they do it this is how it works when drug traffickers want weapons they activate a telephone tree calling accomplices who live all over the United States this is not a southwest border problem we have Wisconsin, we have Portland up here or Racine up there, this exclusively obtained intelligence map shows where this is happening.

Each point is a weapons purchase directly related to cartel violence. Thor tracks buyers as far north as Maine and even men from Alaska and women who were U.S. citizens had no criminal records and could buy guns. These people are paid to buy guns and ammunition and then illegally pass them on to brokers. Couriers pick up those weapons and drive them across the southwest border into Mexico and into the hands of cartels. Before Project Thor, the ATF concluded that the timeline from purchase in the U.S. to use in a violent crime in Mexico it was more than a year, but Project Thor tracked orders from a purchase to an assassination attempt in less than a month.

It wasn't just hey, we have this problem, but we came up with a solution in 2022. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the sentencing of an Oklahoma man. The project Thor discovered was providing weapons to the cartels. This case that you will hear about today is part of it. of Operation Thor, this case was the first case of Mexican cartel export and manufacturing of firearms parts to be charged in the United States. Demining and his team connected hundreds of investigations across four different law enforcement agencies. Thor helped solve those cases, imprisoning and locating American accomplices. With the Narcos in charge being able to cut off entire supply chains, they were quietly awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in 2021, not only advancing this new Mission outside of their usual duties, but also continuing to drive and transform the culture of the ATF in one that is intelligence LED job extremely well done, we are talking about Thor in the past tense, Thor is gone Thor um, like our project, he is gone, not anymore.

I was told that priorities in the US government changed, money disappeared in response to CBS reporting. The results of the investigation, the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms recognized that American arms trafficking networks are the main supplier of Gade military weapons to Mexican drug cartels, but senior officials of Justice said they were not familiar with the Thor project. The truth is that the United States was turning a blind eye to the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico which is scandalous to most Americans and they have no idea that we are effectively

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the enemy next door, they are right, they are right , this has been a major bipartisan failure of the United States government.

For many decades, you wouldn't believe that when I was raising this issue there were people in the government saying no, they're not actually military weapons that are going to Mexico, they're just guns, but to me, you're missing the point where that they are buying, you know, a great power of destruction, they are looking for a level of weaponry that surpasses the Mexican police authorities. We see machine guns like the M134 minigun kit, for example, which is used by the US military and is capable of firing between 2,000 and 4,000. shots per minute more and more people buy military grade weapons online.

Some websites function as gun door boards. People can order them for pickup or delivery. This weapon is perfect for shooting at targets or defending yourself from other attackers. It's also perfect for hunting when I put a uh 50. Cal in my cart and then I was able to turn it off so it's just a few clicks, much easier than I expected. It is easier to buy guns in the United States than almost anywhere else in the world thanks to its unique constitutional right to bear arms and cartels. take advantage of that freedom, this has nothing to do with our Second Amendment rights.

I mean, I'm a constitutional lawyer, there is no conceivable Second Amendment right to ship guns out of the United States to countries where they are illegal and, in fact, infringe on US exports. control law in the demining process agreed to demonstrate that some of the Firepower cartels have been getting their hands on what Mexican authorities are facing. presto, that was a .50 caliber Barrett rifle, just an example of the type of firearm the door projects. Trace directly from Mexican cartels to purchases in the US, in fact this is a weapon that is in the hands of the cartel, but somewhere in an American store, yes, and the cartels have deployed them against the military Mexican, oh yes, they are fighting back. against with your bullet uh 223 556 so these are the cartels that's the Mexican army that's what you have yes wow not quite symmetrical here little desperate yes yes these firearms could be equipped with armor-piercing rounds capable of exerting lethal force from over a mile away for this demonstration The Democrat line set up a hardened target 100 yards away, okay let's see what we did.

It looks like we hit the center through this armor covering one body and another cinder block wall, so we go through the building, through the armor, through one body and out the other. side of the building they are just destroying them destroying them we are going to unleash the fury and power of the United States against these cartels a growing chorus of political leaders have been sounding the alarm pushing to designate the cartel terrorists deploy the military and declare the war, but Mexico is an ally of the United States and its government condemns any potential use of US military force as a violation of its national sovereignty.

We traveled to a Naro stronghold just across the southwest border from Arizona to find out how the cartels would react. If the United States attacked this man who says he is a lieutenant of the Caloa cartel, he would not reveal his identity as a condition of speaking publicly. Would the cartel respond if the US army attacked? So guns are a way to protect business interests. Do you fear for? In your life, haven't we learned anything from Afghanistan? Iraq we are going to be trapped in quicksand. If we go into Mexico, that will make Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan look like a tea party, he certainly sounds like someone who was the US ambassador to Mexico to me. that's the last alternative you consider once you've exhausted all other alternatives it's like strategy 101If we were supplying bombs to Isis the first thing we would do is say that the United States will stop supplying bombs to Isis in the spring of 2023, Biden The administration announced that it was making stopping the cartels' smuggling operations a top priority.

We are sending dangerous weapons, particularly assault weapons, to Mexico. In Mexico they ask us to please stop it. Let's cut the border, but in the name of God, we could come if you don't do this The government focused on weapons seizures at the border, as well as diplomatic negotiations to train and equip Mexican authorities. Nearly 2,000 firearms were seized from last October to last March, representing an increase of more than 65% over the same period. Last year, according to the Mexican government, 2,000 weapons is the amount the cartel smuggled in a single day. Troy Miller is in charge of the United States border agency as we sit here, hundreds of guns, thousands of guns go from the United States to Mexico every day.

Based on what we are doing regarding weapons flowing into the hands of cartels, we have been boosting and increasing operations along the southwest border to search for weapons and then increase our information sharing with our partners in Mexico . I could drive across the border with guns in my car and most likely I would be successful. Is it CBP's responsibility to check for weapons? Crossing into Mexico is a joint responsibility. You know, we are also responsible for checking everything that is happening when entering the country, but as someone who drove back and forth several times, no one looked.

We are working on these issues very closely with our Mexican partners and we can do better every day. When I was in Mexico, I had meetings with the Mexican government. on gun issues and you know my staff would prepare a list of bullet points for me to bring up at the meeting. I said well, I want to see the vignettes prepared for the last Ambassador and the Ambassador before that and guess how they are similar. bullet points we've been talking about this for 10 20 years nothing is changing right I don't think it's acceptable the homicide rate in Mexico has increased sixfold, 600% and it's not due to anything other than the cartels and their ability . to access firearms we are basically turning a blind eye to the fact that there are people who are trying to flee the country due to insecurity and violence 100% if that were the homicide rate in my country I would be trying to leave go ahead Also my family owns the country no one is going to bring any of them to justice even if they can find out who did it right oh yeah yeah so what do we know if someone was shot dead?

We are on Kakan Mexico land. zero for the Caloa cartel, maybe so we just arrived at the scene of a homicide. All we really know at this point is that a person was shot and killed in a fairly quiet residential area right off a main road. Here, the project that Thor discovered. that up to 85% of cartel firearms found at crime scenes can be traced back to the U.S. How often are the cartels linked? This type of violence often, very often, I dare say all the time, when I start, you see that car, yeah. that is the victim's car there is a large part of an investigation that happens here no, I believe that the murders related to Kakan Carter are in total impunity now it is because they are powerful it is because they have bought the police because they are powerful and because they are in the cartel payroll, I don't want to say that everyone is safe, but in general, speaking well, that's how powerful the cartels are.

Armed violence in Mexico has been worsening. Firearms are responsible for seven out of every 10 homicides, that is, hundreds. of thousands of people killed with American weapons, in fact, more civilians died in the last 15 years than the War on Drugs here than all the Wars on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan combined, we are having zero impact and you can see that our strategies are the United States is completely ineffective, we have to do something else that we haven't done, which in federal law enforcement, the United States is basically allowing those weapons to flow to Mexico to fight.

The Mexican government should produce more fentanyl and then pump it into our country when we have the ability to shut down the pipeline here or at least greatly reduce it. The government is aware and has chosen to allow this to remain in the vault. There are some professional people who are still on the project and who know the Thor project. Some of those people are pushing it, some of those people aren't, but the plan is there. Someone just has to dust it off and say, "Okay, this is what we're going to do and you hope that the work can absolutely endure and that there will be people suffering." because we are not solving our own problem of letting those weapons go, we have the power, the power and the capacity to do it, without a doubt, so let's do it next, the Caloa cartel supplies most of the fentanyl in the US. , if the US stopped buying drugs, what would happen to the cartel?

Our country is being invaded. This is a war. Drugs are killing tens of thousands of Americans every year. Every Sentinel shipment is a ticking time bomb. Every life lost to fenel is a tragedy. Every one of those pills. It is an unregulated pharmaceutical product that can fill your life in that way. You're playing Russian Rel while Mexican cartels flood the country with illegal painkillers. The Caloa cartel supplies most of the fentanyl in the US and is largely responsible for over 100,000 overdose deaths in 2021. By itself, this is not like cocaine or heroin, it is synthetic, people in The United States says, "oh, all these drugs come from Mexico, but that's only part of the story," CBS

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Trips to a cartel stronghold, they're probably investigating us if they've done it. It is no longer said that all the names of the passengers who land at K the cartel know who they are to find out why the US government is not stopping them. What is your role in the Caloa cartel? Ashley was a different girl. beautiful, smart, funny and outgoing, she was a mother, her beautiful son, she was a free spirit, she was just an amazing human, she is no longer with us. What happened on May 23, 2021, she bought four tablets from a long-time drug dealer and then left. poisoned to death by half a taet of what she thought was PR but it contained 5 Mig of fen half a tablet a large amount of PSA says one pill can kill but in reality it was half the pill that killed her . losing a child is huge it's like it strangles you you can't breathe thank you for sharing your story it's really important because this is different from the drugs we saw before no, I don't think you will ever recover from the loss of a child.

I don't think you do I just think you learn to live with it but you don't get cured instead you fight my government is going to do something I believe with all my heart that fentanyl was designed as a miracle painkiller especially to help cancer. patients, but over the past decade illicitly produced phenyl has become the most abused drug in the United States and the world's deadliest opioid imitations have supercharged an epidemic and renewed a rallying cry for America's war on drugs. The Caloa cartel supplies most of the fentanyl in the United States 50 times over. more powerful than heroin, plaguing communities and destroying lives from coast to coast, the most common cause of poisoning deaths in children, one of the most pressing challenges to national security and public health, costing the nation At an estimated $1 billion a year, each shipment of fenel is a tick-tock.

Time bomb: every life lost to fenel is a tragedy. This port of entry sees more fenel than any other port of entry in the US. In fact, more than half of it is banned here and the problem continues to grow and grow in the first 6 months. By 2023 agents have seized more phenol than in the last 5 years combined, you see a lot of 200,000 loads of pills, we have seen up to 1.6 billion pills in one load, the numbers are so astronomical that each of those pills is a unregulated pharmaceutical that takes things out of your life like that, yeah, that's 200,000 bullets in a gun.

You're playing Russian roulette every time you pick up one of these bills. It is manufactured in a warehouse somewhere in Mexico. I was ambassador to Mexico since 2019. Until 2021, tell me about the United States and its war against the cartels. War on drugs. We've been trying to eradicate drugs and control that problem for 50 years and, frankly, we haven't had much success. I think the problem has gotten worse. We really are facing a new kind of problem, so I'm particularly concerned about what that means for the future. In 2023, the White House announced a crackdown on illicit supply chains.

President Biden asked Congress for more than $46 billion to do so. so let's launch a major surge to stop the production of fentanyl for sale and trafficking with more drug detection machines cargo inspection pills and powders at the border Troy Miller is in charge of the US border agency I think CBP is well positioned to lead the government in our anti-fentanyl efforts last year we had an operation called Blue Lotus where we increased resources to California and Arizona and seized 10,000 pounds of fentanyl in two months. The operations are temporary. Do you have the resources and commitment from the federal government to really address it?

This in a way that will have a measurable impact. It is one of our main priorities. Do we need additional resources to continue doing what we are doing? Yes, this is not like cocaine or heroin, it is synthetic. So it's very difficult. estimating what we're capturing and what we're not seizures, uh, it doesn't necessarily mean anything more than we're seasoning more drugs, we're going to continue to figure out ways to impact the supply chain, aren't these strategies? The same strategies we have employed for decades. What is different. I think our partnerships are better than ever. We're never going to stop narcotics completely, but I think we can have an effect on fentanyl and the people who smuggle fentanyl. admit that drug seizures are just one step in curbing the power of the cartels, find out how the cartels maintain the upper hand in this battle, we have to go beyond the border, this is cartel territory AA, absolutely, you have dealt with them for many, many years.

Now yes, they know me, I know them. Miguel Anela is a journalist born and raised in the heart of drug trafficking territory. We hire an assistant to show us a stronghold of this cartel that only locals usually see. This is Kulia Khan's base of operations for the Caloa cartel. fortified by a vast surveillance network, approximately how many people are we talking about, we are talking about at least 2000 people, wow, in the city, in the whole city, in the whole city, not to mention the gunman, they are probably watching us if we Still It is not said that all the names of the passengers who land in K the car do not know who they are there is still a feeling of fear that it may be an undercover officer.

Landing in Kakan you can make a phone call. give me a follow up on the whole conversation they have TRS they have technology they can corrupt all this violence in the city the cartels have access to some of the most sophisticated spyware technology in the world you have used it to launch targeted counter-offensives against anyone who tries to investigate them so any electronic communication we must assume that we are being monitored like me, yes, you never see them, but they see you, that was just a kind of performance and a tribute to Jesus, who is a kind of folkloric figure.

Kind of known as Robin Hood, um for drug dealers, people come to this Shrine to pay homage and leave their blessings in US dollars. This is evidence of how revered Jesús Mel Verde is here. The cartel is so deeply rooted here that the Naros are practically. indistinguishable from the locals who act as important allies, you will see all these baseball cops, yes, with, you know, images or figures related to the Nar type, here you see the initials of the Pingo era, you see all the bosses of the drug locally, these guys are. They are revered, they are like heroes, heroes when I was 12 and I used to talk to my classmates like you know what you want to be when you grow up and they used to tell Narco that they don't want to be. be the next Michael Jordan they want to be the next Cho despite being one of the largest economies in the world Mexico constantly underperforms according to the World Bank more than 40% of the population lives below the poverty line, let's say the idea that the Americans would want to erase.

The cartels would not sit well with the people here, it is not that they are going to fight for them, but if they can, they will protect these drug traffickers, but these cartels are also responsible for violence and deathincalculable, just as people say here, is that you don't mess with us, so we're fine. Narcos commit the vast majority of murders throughout Mexico and are known for their particularly gruesome murder tactics. They are criminals and we know that sooner or later they will have to pay. Vega says it's not just in life that cartel members are revered around here; even in death, their influence and status cast a long shadow.

This is cemio Hardin deuma. The Hardin Cemetery deumas and you will see some huge tombs. Vega says this is the opulent final resting place of former drug traffickers and their loved ones this is like a five story building and it's actually a tomb this is a replica of the Tash Mahal wow I don't think I've ever seen a cemetery like it this one like this one here this could be like a small condominium These are sizes of houses, there are no inscriptions of any kind, no dates, no names, nothing. I talked to one of the architects and he told me like this tomb, for example, half a million US dollars because it's Florentine marble, they have a TV and a kitchen too.

It's crazy, he swears you were driving through a residential neighborhood. The US Southern Command estimates that transnational criminal organizations make $310 billion a year and disrupting that flow of money is a critical part of the Biden administration's drug control strategy. They do this largely by monitoring electronic transactions, but drugs. Deals are made primarily with cash, if the cartels took that money to a bank, the government gives it to specific people and arrests them to prevent them from turning to streets like this where they can exchange dollars for unregistered pesos. What are we seeing here? You see all these umbrellas, yeah, these women are dollar changers, uhhuh, you're going to see a lot of this, like maybe 300.

I'm going to ask you, do you know what the rate is? I'm going to stop, yes, here are two. young women here, but every now and then someone comes with just half a million dollars, half a million and they say: I want to change this, so money laundering is like going around the city, the government knows it, every person in this city, everyone we know. According to the US Department of Defense, Mexico's drug cartels control more than a third of the entire country in 2019. Mexico's president created a new militarized police force that he called the National Guard, but frequently Their firepower is outmatched by the cartels that are armed with an arsenal of weapons that they smuggle from the US.

The US government is aware that these criminal organizations are armed with weaponry from the US. one of his main sources of power, how is it possible that this morison was made? That was one of the conclusions I came to very quickly after arriving in Mexico as Ambassador that we could and should prioritize this. This is not a problem for the DEA as Ambassador. I tried to change the focus on this issue. I asked the department of justice to inform me about what was being done in our country to try to stop this flow of weapons. We talked about these Mexican criminal organizations and how bad they are, but we have the responsibility of the United States.

United To arm them in June 2023, the Biden Administration announced that it was making it a new priority to prevent cartels from smuggling firearms out of the country and senior Justice officials acknowledged that the United States is a source of most of the trafficked weapons towards Mexico. People wonder if the police and military are really there to protect the population for decades. Mexican law enforcement has been linked to human rights abuses, including forced disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial executions, including that of five unarmed civilians caught on video in spring 2020 3 The government violated human rights, that sure happened and not long ago, corruption in Mexico has affected every part of its institutions, not only at the federal level but also at the state and local level, and we are fighting corruption very seriously.

It has deep roots within the country, which makes it so attractive to so many people, fortunately we are investing a lot of resources in small and medium-sized communities because this is where the problem has developed and, by the way, in many of those communities the people in He actually likes cartels more than the government well, I mean, uh, I know where you're coming from, that's what we heard for our I I I I I, I don't think that's the case, there was a big problem. sure and you're right, we have to recognize that we don't recognize that we had that problem, so we can't go very far yet, but we are in the right direction, take this call, you have to take this call, the drug cartels don't.

Completely clandestine here they operate more like a shadow government and you can reach them with the right connections, okay what is this man going to talk to us about? Who is he? This is an important player within the singular W cartel. He is not just anyone. High Way High what I mean when I say very loud is someone who bothers China goes to South America, goes to Europe everywhere the S cartel has its tentacles yes, it's one of the decision makers, what do you know about this place? That's usually where they dump the bodies, the executions, they dumped bodies in this neighborhood, so yeah, I know you're ready, yes I am, tell me when we need to turn off the cameras, yeah, I think you should put the cameras down half a mile already, turn right, here we go.

What is his role in the Caloa cartel? This man would not reveal his identity as a condition of speaking publicly about the criminal operations of the Fate. He said he has been a narc for 30 years. He is taking a risk by allowing us to meet you here. He told us that while the US government has been waging a war on drugs, American citizens have been

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and arming the cartels, how quickly can you take a weapon of war from the US here to Caloa in one day? Wow, drug money buys you more guns. If the United States stopped buying drugs, what would happen to the cartel?

The United States government calls the Caloa cartel one of the most dangerous Narot terrorist organizations in the world. So, are you a terrorist group? He acknowledged. The United States let Crackdown say they were putting some parts of their Fentel supply chain on pause, but you consider it a temporary setback and how quickly do you think things will get back to normal? Kakan is just one city in regions throughout Mexico. Naros is still producing fentel and smuggling record shipments into the U.S. U.S. intelligence estimates that the cartels are actually trafficking four times the amount that law enforcement seizes at the border we are not going to intercept our exit to this problem we are fueling the cartel's ability to run this trade it's just a vicious cycle that continues, say people in the United States Oh, all these drugs come from Mexico.

Mexico has to solve this problem, which is certainly a legitimate point, but it is only part of the story, because another part of the story is money, guns, nothing we are doing is changing the problem. it's just growing that's right every year that goes by that's right and I don't see to this day any kind of recognition from the US government that this is something that requires new thinking and I think that's a lack of imagination, frankly, on our part. We are facing a crisis like we have never seen before. We have been waging a war on drugs for many decades.

It hasn't gotten better, it's just gotten worse. Where is the long-term victory? Ultimately, success will be fewer deaths. of the American people our country is being invaded maybe not by soldiers maybe not by bombs but it is being invaded by drugs we are arming them while our citizens are dying this is a war but we are not fighting it they are killing us