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00:00
And we'll have to wait to see.
00:01
But then next up in the news,
00:02
the United States has now killed at least four more people
00:04
off of the coast of Venezuela
00:05
that it's claimed without evidence were drug traffickers.
00:08
And actually, according to Trump,
00:09
strikes on Venezuelan territory might be next.
00:12
Right, in all of this,
00:12
it's coming as he's attempting to justify these
00:14
and future attacks by arguing that the U.S.
00:16
is literally at war with drug cartels
00:18
that his team has designated terrorist organizations.
00:20
You know, all of this,
00:21
it's been building toward this point
00:22
for nearly the entirety of Trump's second term.
00:24
It was back in February
00:25
that Trump designated eight Latin American criminal organizations
00:28
as a foreign terrorist organization,
00:30
six from Mexico, one from El Salvador,
00:32
and one from Venezuela.
00:33
Right, Trin de Aragua was a Venezuelan-based group,
00:35
which Trump has claimed is directed
00:37
by Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro.
00:39
And that's even though, one,
00:40
U.S. intelligence assessment has said that that is not true,
00:42
and two, experts have also noted
00:43
that the group is not deeply involved
00:45
in narcotics trafficking.
00:46
But regardless, we then saw Trump invoking wartime powers
00:48
to deport migrants at the administration
00:50
accused of being members of TDA without due process.
00:52
Right, and there, he argued that the group
00:54
was engaged in irregular warfare against the U.S.
00:56
at the direction of Maduro.
00:57
Then, fast forward to July,
00:58
and you have Trump signing a secret order
00:59
directing the Pentagon to begin using military force
01:01
against these recently designated terrorist organizations.
01:04
And then in August, you start seeing a buildup
01:06
of American firepower in the Southern Caribbean Sea.
01:08
And then in September, the U.S. launched at least three strikes
01:10
against alleged drug traffickers in the region,
01:11
killing at least 17 people, according to the administration.
01:14
With it also being reported that at least one of those boats
01:16
that the U.S. took out may have actually turned around
01:18
before being hit.
01:18
But again, regardless of that,
01:20
you had the administration describing these strikes
01:21
as an act of self-defense.
01:23
Right, and their argument was basically
01:24
that they had the legal authority
01:25
to kill these people without due process
01:27
because they were smuggling drugs into the U.S.
01:28
for terrorist organizations.
01:29
So again, they haven't provided any evidence for that.
01:31
And all of that, it led to last week
01:33
where you had Trump doubling down on that argument
01:34
and even taking it a step further.
01:36
Trump sent a formal notice to Congress
01:38
framing those strikes as part of an ongoing conflict
01:40
rather than isolated acts of self-defense,
01:42
claiming that the cartels kill tens of thousands
01:44
of Americans each year
01:45
and constitute an armed attack against U.S. citizens.
01:47
And then adding that Trump thereby determined
01:49
that members of drug cartels are unlawful combatants
01:52
with whom the United States is engaged
01:53
in non-international armed conflict.
01:55
Right, and that's actually a key thing.
01:56
And an armed conflict,
01:57
as defined by international law at least,
01:59
a country can lawfully kill enemy fighters
02:01
when they pose no threat,
02:02
detain them indefinitely without trials,
02:04
and prosecute them in military courts.
02:05
You know, it's worth pointing out here
02:06
that the term unlawful combatants,
02:08
it's the same term that the George W. Bush administration
02:10
used to describe Al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks.
02:13
And that's also been a comparison
02:14
that we've repeatedly seen made.
02:15
Where you had Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
02:17
doing it over the weekend
02:17
when asked about the legality of the strikes by Fox News.
02:20
Oh, we have every authorization needed.
02:22
These are designated as foreign terrorist organizations.
02:25
They're effectively designated just like Al-Qaeda,
02:27
which if I saw Al-Qaeda in the conduct
02:29
of doing something that was going to threaten
02:30
and kill Americans,
02:31
I had the right to do that in Iraq and Afghanistan.
02:33
If you're in our hemisphere
02:34
and you're in the Caribbean,
02:35
if you're north of Venezuela
02:36
and you want to traffic drugs to the United States,
02:38
you are a legitimate target
02:40
of the United States military.
02:41
And in each one of these strikes,
02:43
we know where they're coming from.
02:44
We know who they work for.
02:45
We know where they're going.
02:47
We know what they're carrying.
02:48
We know how many people are on that boat.
02:49
And that's why these are legitimate,
02:51
clean kills in pursuit of defending the homeland.
02:54
Except this isn't the same, right?
02:55
After 9-11, Congress explicitly authorized
02:57
the use of military force against terrorist organizations,
02:59
specifically responsible for that attack.
03:01
It hasn't authorized the use of military force
03:03
to target drug cartels.
03:04
That's why you've got folks
03:04
like one retired military lawyer,
03:06
who's the current director
03:07
of the National Security Law Program
03:08
at Georgetown University Law School explaining,
03:10
declaring an organization
03:11
as a foreign terrorist organization
03:13
does not bring with it
03:14
any additional authority
03:15
to use force against those organizations.
03:17
And with that,
03:17
you also have the likes of John B. Bellinger III,
03:19
a lawyer who served
03:20
in the Bush administration explaining,
03:21
claiming that the U.S. is engaged
03:22
in a non-international armed conflict
03:24
with Venezuelan drug traffickers
03:25
based on the facts provided so far
03:27
is an inapt legal analogy
03:29
that makes a mockery
03:30
of accepted international law terms.
03:31
And perhaps that's what
03:32
the Trump administration intends.
03:34
And that then brings us
03:35
to Senator Jack Reed,
03:36
the top Democrat
03:36
of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
03:38
slamming the administration
03:39
for offering what he called
03:40
no credible legal justification,
03:42
evidence, or intelligence
03:43
for the strikes and dabbing.
03:44
Every American should be alarmed
03:45
that the president believes
03:46
he can wage secret wars
03:47
against anyone he chooses.
03:48
Congress alone has
03:49
the constitutional power
03:50
to decide when America goes to war.
03:52
The president cannot launch
03:53
military campaigns
03:54
and invent legal cover
03:55
after the fact.
03:56
But of course,
03:56
words are words
03:57
and actions are actions.
03:58
And in the meantime,
03:59
no one's stopping it.
04:00
Right on Friday,
04:00
the same day Reed made that statement,
04:02
you had Hegseth announcing
04:03
that the military had targeted
04:04
another vessel
04:04
off the coast of Venezuela.
04:05
And he said that
04:06
four male narco-terrorists
04:08
had been killed,
04:09
bringing the total to at least 21.
04:10
With Hegseth also claiming,
04:11
again, without evidence,
04:13
at least thus far,
04:13
that the vessel was transporting
04:15
substantial amounts of narcotics
04:16
headed to America
04:17
to poison our people.
04:18
And adding,
04:18
our intelligence,
04:19
without a doubt,
04:20
confirmed that this vessel
04:21
was trafficking narcotics,
04:22
the people on board
04:23
were narco-terrorists,
04:24
and they were operating
04:25
a known narco-trafficking transit route.
04:26
And saying these strikes
04:27
will continue until the attacks
04:28
on the American people are over.
04:30
And you also had Trump
04:30
posting the clip that day
04:31
and adding,
04:32
a boat loaded with enough drugs
04:33
to kill 25,000 to 50,000 people
04:35
was stopped early this morning
04:36
off the coast of Venezuela
04:37
from entering American territory.
04:39
And that's actually a claim
04:39
that he repeated on Sunday
04:40
while delivering a speech
04:41
for the Navy's 250th anniversary
04:42
with him than also saying
04:44
that another strike
04:45
had been carried out
04:45
the previous night.
04:46
Although, I will say there,
04:47
it's not clear if he was actually
04:48
thinking about the one from Friday.
04:50
In recent weeks,
04:51
the Navy has supported
04:52
our mission to blow
04:53
the cartel terrorists
04:55
the hell out of the water.
04:56
You see that?
04:57
And you know,
04:57
there are no boats
04:58
in the water anymore.
04:59
You can't find any.
05:00
We're having a hard time finding them.
05:01
Every one of those boats
05:03
is responsible for the death
05:05
of 25,000 American people
05:08
and the destruction of families.
05:11
So when you think of it that way,
05:12
what we're doing
05:13
is actually an act of kindness.
05:17
But we did another one last night.
05:19
Now we just can't find any.
05:20
You know, it's the old story.
05:21
We're so good at it
05:23
that there are no boats.
05:25
In fact, even fishing boats,
05:26
nobody wants to go
05:27
into the water anymore.
05:28
Sorry to tell you that.
05:30
But we're stopping drugs
05:32
coming into America.
05:33
But then with all that,
05:34
it's not clear at all right now
05:35
how he figured that all those boats
05:37
would be responsible for those deaths.
05:38
Notably, you also had him
05:40
repeating the claim
05:40
that he's made before
05:41
that more than 300,000 U.S. citizens
05:43
die of drug overdoses annually.
05:44
But that doesn't appear to be right.
05:46
The CDC reported
05:46
only 87,000 overdose deaths
05:48
for the year ending
05:49
in September 2024.
05:50
Which I will say
05:51
is still a shit ton of people
05:52
but obviously also
05:53
way less than 300,000.
05:55
And actually,
05:55
it was almost 27% less
05:57
than the previous year.
05:58
Also on the note of overdose deaths,
05:59
I mean,
06:00
that surge that we've seen
06:00
in recent years,
06:01
it's been driven by fentanyl, right?
06:02
And drug trafficking experts
06:03
say that that comes from Mexico.
06:05
And even cocaine,
06:05
that's mostly coming from Colombia
06:07
and to a lesser extent,
06:08
Peru and Bolivia.
06:08
You know,
06:09
while some cocaine
06:09
does leave South America
06:10
through Venezuela,
06:11
the country isn't a primary source
06:13
of drugs coming to the U.S.
06:14
I mean,
06:14
at least according to our own DEA
06:16
in a 2020 report.
06:17
And so ultimately,
06:18
besides the legal rationale
06:19
for all this being widely criticized,
06:20
the basic facts
06:21
that he's trying to back it up with,
06:23
they just aren't there.
06:23
But still,
06:24
you had Trump suggesting
06:25
that this might just be the beginning.
06:26
Well,
06:27
they're not coming in by sea anymore,
06:28
so now we'll have to start
06:30
looking about the land
06:31
because they'll be forced
06:32
to go by land.
06:33
And let me tell you right now,
06:35
that's not going to work out
06:35
well for him either.
06:36
And actually with that,
06:37
it was first reported
06:38
a couple of weeks ago
06:38
that U.S. military officials
06:39
are drawing up options
06:40
to target drug traffickers
06:42
inside of Venezuela.
06:43
You've got sources
06:44
reportedly telling NBC News
06:45
that strikes potentially begin
06:46
in a matter of weeks.
06:47
And so since there's a lot
06:48
to suggest that this really
06:49
isn't all about drugs,
06:50
it leaves open the question,
06:52
well,
06:52
what is it really about?
06:53
And well,
06:53
there you have
06:54
the Venezuelan president
06:54
repeatedly alleging
06:55
that this is all really aimed
06:57
at driving him out of power.
06:58
And in fact,
06:58
several top officials
06:59
in the Trump administration,
07:00
they've reportedly been pushing
07:01
for regime change.
07:02
We're talking
07:02
Secretary of State
07:03
and National Security Advisor
07:04
Marco Rubio
07:05
as well as CIA Director
07:06
John Ratcliffe
07:07
and Deputy Chief of Staff
07:08
Stephen Miller.
07:09
So understandably,
07:10
while there's a lot of attention
07:10
on what's happening
07:11
in the United States,
07:12
on the United States,
07:16
theums,
07:16
this is the case
07:17
that I understand
07:17
line with the United States,
07:19
against the United States,
07:20
is a live iPod which
07:21
is the largest
07:22
U.S.
07:23
that is the end
07:23
between 30 years
07:25
and then in the United States,
07:27
through Canada
07:28
and had a lot of attention
07:29
back in the United States,
07:29
as well as the United States,
07:30
with a people
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