trip? absolutely, it doesn t have to be this trip, never any dignitary from our country or another for the president number one or two vice president trump, it s an upheaval in office you the border patrol has their hands full however, what she s doing is bringing gifts if you will in the form of gaps vaccines and money, we have a big problem with their relationship to the criminal element, drug cartel criminal elements within their borders rather than their military and government speared by the cartel, it s the other way around. one more thing, with mexico, this is going to be very important, this diplomatic cash gift conversation, one reason is we arrested the former defense
guzman sat quietly. among his charges, drug trafficking, conspireing to kill, and money laundering. during opening arguments, the u.s. attorney described the mexican drug lord as the hands-on boss of the cartel, a ruthless killer who commanded armies of gunmen and responsible for pumping tons of cocaine into the u.s. the defense attorney, on the other hand, told jurors the case was a ploy to blame one man for the drugs that infiltrated the u.s. defense attorney jeffrey lickman argued guzman was either in prison or hiding out from 1993 to 2017. the flow of drugs never slowed down. yet, he s blamed for being the leader. the truth is, he was the leader of nothing. jurors have already been taken on a virtual tour of one of the cartel s trademark smuggling tunnels. they were shown this video in court. you can see the pathway that connected mexico with arizona until it was discovered in the early 90s and shut down for good. the most compelling systtestimo
morning of young journalist hot shots. i always ask what they should be reading. but first i ll go. the cartel by don winslow. i was at the airport and by accident i forgot my ipad at home so i had to buy it. it grabbed me by the lapels and has not let me go. i would recommend it very highly. read a good story about the story. how about you? well, first of all, my real reading material is making my way through the tax bill, first. but aside from that, as a lighter read i picked up the beltway bible by elliott nelson. it is hilarious en sighencyclop. h.r. mcmaster dereliction of
a violent area that is going to infect us sooner rather than later. the cartels control the border on the southern side? of course they do. look, if a substance say a kilo of cocaine costs $3,000 on one side of the border, it costs 30,000 on the other side of the border. by the time it reaches our side of the border and by the time it reaches new york where you are it costs $80,000. the money is amazing. that s a lot of money. that s what make ts worth killing for. and people know it. and your book, very, very illuminating to me. i read the whole thing, the cartel. mr. winslow, thank you very much. when we come back, is it legal, on whether planned parenthood is violating federal law. gutfeld and mcguirk on the big debate. we re coming right back.
states. so you try to strangle them chuckly unless they pay for the wall. they will pay for the wall and the wall will go up and mexico will start behaving. mexico is not our friend. or you will break them economically. i will do something that they will not be thrilled. now that exchange and the one we had at the top of the program illuminates what happened to joaquin el chapo gusman he escaped from a mexican prison. guzman perhaps the world s worst drug trafficker simply disappeared. he walked out he is gone. joining us from los angeles don winslow author of the novel the cartel and former private investigator who he knows all about what s going none mexico. how did guzman get out of that prison, mr. winslow? well, with the complete cooperation and complicity of mexican government and police. it s impossible to think otherwise. how you can have a mile long tunnel go past federal police army, local police, under so-called maximum security fence and no one knows about it?