Americans for Intelligence Reform

Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

The origin of the problems on the US southern border, who is behind it

 

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and then I’m sure it’s no accident

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partially because it’s spring but also

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because I think the Democratic attempt

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at a coup failed so I think some of the

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people some of the people behind that

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may be behind some of these other things

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I’ll leave it up to you to tell us I

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think one of the things I certainly like

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to hear about is I’ve been reading a lot

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about a new massive super Caravan that

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is amassing thronging the US border from

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the south and and apparently more on the

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way maybe you like to tell us what’s

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going on there please absolutely this is

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really turning into being a very serious

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Parliament’s continued building and

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building and building and this is

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something you know I have talked about

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before but now it’s uh it’s really

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achieving a crescendo I would almost

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describe and they’ve just had there’s

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that massive Caravan that’s in route and

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they’re just there’s another one that’s

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just leaving today out of Central

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American out of Salvador so yeah they’re

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they’re really starting to build and

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build and build and build which if there

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is any one that thinks that this is just

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some sort of natural occurring

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phenomenon this is the the way that this

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has been sustained and the way that this

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has been building should dispel any

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thoughts of that nature I mean this is

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clearly orchestrated and now the

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questions kind of go back and start to

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look at who precisely is is

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orchestrating it and and and I would say

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too I mean we’re all recognize this is

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essentially tacitly at the minimum

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tacitly supported here in the United

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States by the liberal movement within

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the the Democratic Party in particular

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and I do specify it’s the Liberals

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within the Democratic Party there are a

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few Democrats not many but there are a

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few Democrats that aren’t really big

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players in that end of things but they

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want this permanent underclass of people

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so they’re trying to flow on the border

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in because they they want

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it’s just hittin the el chapo trial and

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I think most people probably heard of El

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Chapo chapo is a Mexican drug lord and

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multi you know multi hundreds of

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millions of dollars of net worth to this

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guy he’s been in the drug market for a

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long time and he’s a typical drug lord

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sort of guy you know anyone gets his way

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kills him and a lot of those bodies that

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we’ve read about found alongside the

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road with their heads cut off and all of

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that that’s that’s Hill chapo I mean he

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when you’re dealing in a lawless

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business like drugs you know there’s

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there is no you know shake hands and

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everybody who Bay’s that forever it’s

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it’s a you you control what you control

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through violence that’s the only way in

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a lawless culture that you can get by so

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that’s Hell chapter a lot of money at

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his disposal and as everyone knows he

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cap he’s captured now and back the

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United States on trial he escaped a few

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times from Mexican president he was the

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guy that they dug the tunnel to and he

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escaped out through the toilet it was

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underneath the toilet where they came up

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in the tunnel and so God he gets

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recaptured survives that there he’s

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lucky he didn’t get killed and

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recaptured on trial here in his

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testimony this came out yesterday El

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Chapo testified that he’s been paying

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out millions of dollars in political

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contributions now who are those

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political contributions to not to donald

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trump not any the conservatives but of

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all people who does he name Hillary

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Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer now prove

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to me

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you

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the Border Patrol guys have then they

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can possibly handle what happens

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everything else on the border is wide

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open so I guarantee you right now drugs

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are coming through the border just by

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mule train by car throwing it over the

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fence whatever they can do because all

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of the resources of Border Patrol are

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elsewhere now this is nothing new this

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is a tactic they’ve used over and over

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for you know generations along the

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border to get in what they want so it’s

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nothing new but what’s new is what what

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is the degree of involvement of the left

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of the United States with the our

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southern border the Mexican northern

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border and all of this smuggling of

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narcotics and people and and slaves and

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all of the stuff of the prostitution

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trade children all of that stuff and

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it’s it’s they are left to run free and

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are running amuck right now at this very

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moment along that border and at night

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because it’s so easy they put together

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this huge program of flooding the border

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with thousands of people and so you have

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this coalition now where their interests

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all have come together and it’s the

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democratic liberal movement here in the

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United States they’re getting money from

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these guys chapbook testified to that in

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court not that he’s above line

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you

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control Mexico has a whole country and

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the northern border we all know that’s

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controlled by the cartels it’s it’s it’s

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who runs the show there and so Mexico

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really kind of outside of the capital

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and some different places they just they

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just can’t control the entire country so

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I don’t I’m not sure how much power they

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have to stop them

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you

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so I and I know Trump has put pressure

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on them to stop this I don’t know how

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far it will be able to give it that I

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think not far so probably closing the

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border is is imminent

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by you know el chapo giving money to the

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Democratic Party and then you know you

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have Venezuela who’s under a lot of

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pressure by the United States for the

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for their communist

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you

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these guys are supporting Venezuela and

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they’re then supporting this effort

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because it’s defense for them it’s a

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defensive act they want the pressure

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anywhere else other than on them so

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you

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there’s all their interests have

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coincided and that’s what we see here

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now Trump has vowed to take action as I

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alluded to earlier mentioned that he has

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said I’m not screwing around with this

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I’m gonna close the southern border and

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it’s not going to be for just a little

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you know a couple days I mean it for a

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long time I think probably in the scheme

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of things because he’s got very mild

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support

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I think he’s going to be able to do is

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close the border so my prediction right

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now is that’s what that’s how this is

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going to play out and then that will

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play havoc that’s gonna be a real

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problem for the Venezuela’s the Russians

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aren’t going to like it to change the

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Cubans or for all of them and these

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cartels and so on coming up this is this

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is all going to be a problem for them

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which i think is one of the reasons why

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they’ve got this mega caravan coming in

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and so on they want to get as much

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across the border in our products wise

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and whatever else they’re up to

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that’s illegal they want to get all that

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across the border as quickly as they can

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in pre position so typically what would

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happen once the borders close do you

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know you’ll start to see the prices of

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narcotics go up it’s straight up supply

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and demand right out of economics

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the price on the street of narcotics if

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the price is going up there they are

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measuring themselves as having been

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affected arresting and taking the stuff

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off the street so it is a proven

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economic rule

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thanks very much that’s a great update

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on that definitely it’s it’s got a lot

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more sort of classic geopolitics

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geopolitical logic behind it than I

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think people would wouldn’t wouldn’t

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know what a band with a with a deeper

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dive so thank you very much for that

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Brad Johnson last point on this if I can

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I think the danger in that needs to be

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Strasse it’s something you and I have

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talked about before but you have these

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governments and their intelligence

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agencies working handing love with these

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narco-trafficker criminal border groups

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and also an element within the United

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States to what degree some of that needs

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to be measured but having this

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intelligence with these narco-trafficker

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groups that is a very effective powerful

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deadly dangerous block and have it even

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tacitly supported by a group here in the

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United States with the Liberals in the

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Democratic Party that’s a very very

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dangerous combination and what they can

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do what that what what is within their

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capability to do is you

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connections of

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Madame clabe I think it is and some of

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her terrorist friends people who spent

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time in jail for terrorism I really

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think

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you

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you

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you

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