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ELIZABETH: OKAY, TO AN HISTORIC
DRUG BUST IN SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA.
LET’S WELCOME CONGRESSMAN MARK
GREEN FROM HOMELAND SECURITY.
IT IS GREAT TO HAVE YOU BACK ON,
CONGRESSMAN.
THIS IS HOW BIG IT IS.
U.S. AUTHORITIES ARE CALLING IT
THE BIGGEST DOMESTIC SEIZURE OF
METHAPHETAMINE IN U.S. DRUG
ENFORCEMENT HISTORY.
IT IS SO BIG IT COULD QUOTE,
PROVIDE A DOSE OF METHAPHETAMINE
FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD
IN BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND
MEXICO.
WE’RE TALKING MORE THAN A TON OF
METH HERE.
>> YEAH.
2224-POUNDS.
IT IS A HUGE THING.
AND A GREAT, A GREAT FEATHER IN
THE CAP OF THOSE DEA AGENTS WHO
DID THE INVESTIGATION, RAIDED
THOSE PLACES JUST EAST OF L.A.
AND FOUND THIS METH.
IT IS INTERESTING, COMES A FEW
DAYS AFTER ONE OF THE LARGEST,
SECOND LARGEST BORDER, YOU KNOW,
SEIZURE OF METHAPHETAMINE.
SO THESE GUYS ARE ALL DOING A
FANTASTIC JOB.
AND THEY RISK THEIR LIVES FOR
OUR SAFETY.
THIS METHAPHETAMINE WOULD KILL
AND HARM THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS.
IT IS AMAZING WHAT THEY HAVE
DONE.
ELIZABETH: YEAH.
IT IS QUITE A VICTORY.
I MEAN THEY WERE TRACKING THIS
DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION
TIED TO THE POWERFUL SINALOA
CART TELE.
IT WAS SO BRAZEN THE WAY IT WAS
BEING DONE WITH THESE STASH
HOUSES THROUGHOUT RIVERSIDE
COUNTY AND ALSO EAST OF L.A. IN
THOSE COMMUNITY THERE.
THAT THEY WERE, HANDING DRUG,
DRUGS INSIDE OF DUFFEL BAGS IN
PLACES LIKE SAM’S CLUB PARKING
LOTS.
>> YEAH.
ELIZABETH: LOCALS IN THESE
COMMUNITIES, CONGRESSMAN, WERE
SAYING THEY WERE REALLY WORRIED
ABOUT STASH HOUSES AND CHEMICALS
INSIDE OF THESE STASH HOUSES
DRUG CARTELS WAS USING BECAUSE
THE STASH HOUSES COULD BLOW UP
BECAUSE OF CHEMICALS IN THERE.
THIS IS QUITE A VICTORY.
>> THIS IS HUGE VICTORY.
OUR DEA AGENTS AND THE BORDER
PATROL FOLKS WHO ARE ON THIS
WATCH, MANNING THIS POST FOR OUR
SAFETY, THEY REALLY DESERVE
KUDOS FOR THIS ONE.
THEY SAVED THOUSANDS OF LIVES.
ELIZABETH: HOW MUCH DOES THIS
SET BACK THE DRUG CARTELS?
>> WELL, IT IS A LOT OF MONEY.
YOU KNOW THIS ONE IS ESTIMATED
TO BE STREET VALUE AROUND
$7 MILLION.
THAT IS A HUGE HIT.
WE OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, TOTAL
HAUL LAST YEAR COMING ACROSS THE
BORDER WAS ABOUT 800,000-POUNDS.
SO THE IN BIG SCHEME OF THINGS
IT IS SMALL BUT HUGE IN TERMS OF
THE LIVES SAVED AND $7 MILLION
OFF THEIR BOOKS I GUESS.
ELIZABETH: YOU KNOW, LET’S TURN
TO ANOTHER ISSUE.
WE’RE SEEING THE FIFTH STRAIGHT
MONTH OF ARRESTS OF ILLEGAL
ALIENS AT THE BORDER, THERE WAS
AN UPTICK HERE.
WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW WITH
ILLEGAL APPREHENSIONS AND ARREST
OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AT THE
BORDER?
>> I THINK THERE IS THIS
PERCEPTION BECAUSE OF COVID, YOU
KNOW, WE’RE NOT MANNING THE
BORDER AS WELL AS WE ONCE DID.
IF YOU LOOK AT 2020, YOU KNOW
THE FISCAL YEAR OF 2020, WE
BASICALLY CUT THOSE BORDER
CROSSINGS IN HALF.
PRESIDENT TRUMP, THE WALL, THE
FOCUS ON CBP.
ALL OF THAT, CUT THE FLOW FROM
19 IN HALF.
NOW IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS, IN
SEPTEMBER, THERE WAS A INCREASE
AGAIN.
I THINK IT IS JUST PEOPLE
THINKING THAT COVID HAS GOT US
NOT LOOKING BUT THAT IS NOT THE
CASE.
OUR FOLKS ARE ON THE JOB AND
DOING A GREAT JOB.
ELIZABETH: ALL RIGHT.
SO LET’S ALL TALK ABOUT THIS
QUICKLY, ABOUT THE BORDER WALL.
HOMELAND SECURITY SAYS IT IS
ADDING AN AVERAGE 10 MILES A
WEEK TO THE SOUTHWEST BORDER
WALL.
THEY WILL COMPLETE 450 MILES
BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.
DO YOU THINK THEY CAN DO IT?
>> ABSOLUTELY THIS IS SO
IMPORTANT, I’M AN EX, I WAS AN
INFANTRY OFFICER BEFORE I BECAME
A PHYSICIAN IN THE ARMY.
THOSE WALLS CAN AT UTILIZE THE B
UTILIZATION OF OUR PERSONNEL.
THEY’RE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT.
HE SAW THIS DURING THE CAMPAIGN.
HE HAS DELIVERED.
260 MILES ARE IN CONSTRUCTION.
ANOTHER 120, ROUGHLY ABOUT THAT
ARE IN PRECONSTRUCTION PHASE.
THE PRESIDENT IS DELIVERING ONCE
AGAIN.
ELIZABETH: JOE BIDEN AND THE
DEMOCRATS SAY THEY WILL TAKE
DOWN THE WALL?
>> OF COURSE.
THEY’RE ABOUT A BORDERLESS
COUNTRY, BECAUSE EMPOWERS THEM.
THEY’RE ABOUT, PRESIDENT TRUMP
IS ABOUT PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST
AND THEY ARE NOT.
THEY’RE ABOUT EMPOWERING
THEMSELVES AND THEIR SOUTHERN
BORDER STRATEGY HAS NO OTHER
PURPOSE BUT TO EMPOWER
THEMSELVES.
ELIZABETH: ALL RIGHT.
CONGRESSMAN, IT IS GREAT TO HAVE