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because our national security and the security of the United States as a whole depends on us taking decisive action I have a two-step approach to this but first I want to just say we've been talking about doing something against a Mexican drug cartels regarding parent foreign terrorist organization designation for a decade since 2012.
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Senator Kennedy and I are gonna believe Democrats will be involved to label these organizations as foreign terrorists organizations under U.S law that's the top of the food chain an fto designation is the highest designation you can give a criminal terrorist Enterprise that's not a nation-state what would it mean it means that all the precursors coming for China Chinese chemical companies and Chinese Enterprises would be subject to being prosecuted under U.
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S law for providing material support in foreign terrorist organizations something you can't do today so we're going to open up the prosecution link but I'm a firm believer that the prosecution model as it exists today is not working so what are we going to do we're going to up the ante we're going to designate these groups and others if appropriate foreign terrorist organizations under U.
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S law changing the game for those who provide assistance to them what drives this is fentanyl it's been a game changer more people died in the United States from fentanyl poisoning then car wrecks and gun violence combined fentanyl is becoming the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45 200 Americans die every day due to fentanyl overdoses fentanyl overdoses cause the equivalent of a new September 11th every two weeks I think John and I believe that if there were an Isis or Al Qaeda cell in Mexico that lobbed a rocket into Texas would
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wipe them off the planet they're doing that times thousands and our response is inadequate 106 000 people last year died of drug overdoses 70 000 related to fentanyl with no end in sight we've uh recovered over 12 000 pounds of fentanyl at the border this year enough to kill almost three billion people last year's 14 700 pounds this year is almost thirteen thousand pounds and we're just we got eight months to go this problem uh is a national security threat fentanyl is a killer and the people killing Americans reside out in
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the open in Mexico now I don't know if it's a lack of Will on behalf of the Mexican Government to bring these cartels to Bay our lack of capability either way is the same result for the United States chaos heartache terrorism murder and it needs to come to an end so we're going to do two things today we're going to introduce legislation in the coming days and try to make it bipartisan the designate these groups foreign terrorist organizations under U.
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S law to open up more capability to go after them in their conspirators all over the world secondly we're going to introduce an authorization to use military force where the United States military can go in and Destroy these labs and Destroy these networks if possible once you're designated an fto a terrorist organization the Second Step that we'll be engaging in is give the military the organ the authority to go after these organizations wherever they exist not to invade Mexico not to shoot Mexican airplanes down but to destroy drug Labs
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that are poisoning Americans plan Colombia Bill Clinton in 2000 passed planned Colombia here's what Joe Biden said we have an obligation in the interests of our children and the interest of the hemisphere to keep the oldest democracy in Place Columbia to give them a fighting chance to keep from becoming a narco State Joe Biden supported planned Columbia in 2000.
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playing Colombia allowed the United States military to partner with Colombia their military and their drug enforcement agencies to get in on the ground and disrupt the cocaine traffic that was poisoning America back then fentanyl is up to 10 000 times more lethal than the dose of morphine fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction if you thought plan Colombia was a good idea to go to Colombia with military force to help the Colombian military to take down the uh the cocaine narcos state that existed then how can you
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object that being done in Mexico so it's time now for plan Mexico it's time now to get serious and use all the tools in the toolbox not just in the prosecution Lane not just in the law enforcement Lane but in the military Lane as well hopefully this will change behavior of the Mexican Government nothing would please me more than having meaningful partnership to take these drug cartels down and stop killing Americans but if Mexico will not cooperate then we're going to have to do what's in our national security interest
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and let me just end with this Mexico is a safe haven it is a narco-terror state the save Evan provides Mexican cartels the ability with impunity to deliver lethal doses of fentanyl into our nation that is the leading cause of death of Americans from 18 to 45. for South Carolinians went to Mexico two of them are not coming back I just talked to the sister one of the victims are waiting on the body these drug cartels are dangerous they're Lawless American law needs to change to make sure we deal with them appropriately and as we designate them
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ftos the next step would to will be to provide authorization to use military force to eradicate the Mexican drug cartels that are poisoning America I could not have a better partner than Senator Kennedy well I I will be brief I just came by to block from my quarterback here a couple of things I think are undeniable number one Americans are being killed on both sides of the Border and uh Americans are being being addicted certainly on our side of the Border killed too and number two I don't mean any disrespect but both President Biden
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and Preston Lopez obrador when it comes to the Border and the drug cartels have been sheep and sheep's clothing and this has gone on long enough if you have the will we we in America have the ability to help president amlo as some call him eradicate these drug cartels um and I I just came to thank Lindsay for finally somebody is going to do something finally and I'm I'm hoping we'll have a bipartisan effort and that uh Congress will work with the president and he'll support this bill we're not
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we're friends with Mexico we just want help but at some point Thank you again Lindsey somebody has to do something and I think this bill is a really good start yes ma'am he said that he had no problem with foreign terrorist organization designation but that's up to the state department he didn't oppose it I didn't mention to him the authorization to use Force but plan Colombia was used in the late 90s early 2000s where the United States saw the cocaine problem in Colombia to be so severe such a threat
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the Bill Clinton authorized military forces to go train and advise the Colombian military well we're going to take it a step further this is not cocaine cocaine's a terrible drug fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction it requires a different response so what are we going to do we labeled fart the cocaine Kingpin in Colombia and fto back then we're going to label all these people ftos if you're in China helping these people we'll come after you too through our legal system but most importantly
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we're going to top this off with a planned Mexico more lethal than playing Columbia if Americans do not see the need to use military force to stop the flow of fentanyl I would be shocked I would think that Americans as a whole would like us to use every tool in the toolbox to try to get Mexico to up their game let's start with fto designation then follow it with an authorization to use force and use it if required I'd love to use it in conjunction with the Mexican Army but you got to have a willing partner
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yes ma'am you know I'm not really worried about hurting our relationship with Mexico I'm trying to make it better what kind of neighbors this again if there was a Isis cell or a Al-Qaeda cell operating in Mexico that lobbed one rocket or committed a terrorist attack in a border state we would be on top of it to me this is that on steroids so to our Mexican neighbors yeah we want a good relationship you're failing your own citizens and you're putting America at risk you need to do more we'd like to help you but we're not
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going to sit on the sidelines anymore as a nation and watch our neighbor become a narco state that kills more Americans in a single year than we lost in Vietnam that Senator Graham talked about with operation Columbia Park no longer exists it worked yeah he can be critical of me I don't care I've been open-minded to immigration reform I've been working with Mexico to try to have a win-win to the president of Mexico you have let your country slide into the hands of Narco terrorists your capability or your will doesn't exist to
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the point to stop what is I think the poisoning of America you're leaving us with no other choices this has been going on for how long john we've been talking about this for at least a decade but fentanyl is a game changer to the president of Mexico Fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction being Unleashed on America from from your country is coming from your country you're allowing safe havens for these groups to operate with impunity because what you're doing is not working your country is being used by Narco
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terrorists to poison America we ask you to help us the best thing can happen is that we work together but I will tell the president of Mexico that what you're doing is not working we're going to change the game we're going to up the Annie here's what I hope will happen we're going to terrorize the terrorists if you get on them get on a cell phone it may be the last call you make I tell you what's like to be a terror you know the terrorists live in caves they're committed to their cause the
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Narco Terrace lives in mansions out in the open buying fancy cars we know where you live and we know how you make your money so my goal is to make sure you don't sleep well at night that the cost of doing business when it comes to poisoning America goes up that when you try to get somebody to join your cartel they'll say no thank you the last guy got killed or went to jail until you do that nothing's going to change we need to unleash the unleash the fury of the United States on these Narco terrorists
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and we're going to do it we're going to give authorization to our military to take down foreign terrorist organizations like this once we designate them under U.S law and hopefully do it in conjunction with the countries where they exist but if we have to do it by ourselves we'll do it by ourselves they could do this without a bill so what did John just say finally we're doing something the state department could do this tonight they choose not to and you know other you know Trump wanted to make these
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people foreign terrorist organizations but we went to transnational criminal organizations which is a step below what's the difference between an fto and a TCO if you support a fto one of these people under the law that we're trying to create then you can be charged with material support for terrorist organization so if you're a China Chemical Company and we can find out a connection between you and Mexico we can haul you into U.
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S court that's something you can't do under tcos I want to do that I want to up the game on the criminal side but also want to add something I watch it live now from Fox some of you are going to see a quick two minute break stuff right here with us more to come America what would be on 9 11 we lost Less Than 3 000 people we've been at War for 20 years going after the people who attacked us on 9 11.
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uh Pearl Harbor we lost Less Than 3 000 people we're losing 70 000 people a year more than the entire Vietnam War than the war on terrorism and our response is inadequate to the threat so with Senator Kennedy's help I'm talking to Senator Blumenthal about the fto designation I predict that if we had a vote would win don't you think John so I'm calling on Senator Schumer McConnell to set aside some time for us to debate this among ourselves put the legislation on the floor to be amended come out with a consensus product and go on the offense
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