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@martinwalsh__ - Martin Walsh
GOP Rep. Burchett turns CNN host into a stuttering mess Brown: “No one is disagreeing there is bloat, waste! CNN has been covering at length where the money is going to” Burchett: “No you haven't. All y'all do is run down Musk & Trump … that's why your ratings are in the tank” https://t.co/AeVC6zs5Qk
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We're not debating whether there's waste in government; everyone agrees on that. The issue is how we're addressing it. Firing staff overseeing nuclear weapons, only to realize the mistake and try to bring them back, seems clumsy. It's like using a sledgehammer to remove fat from a steak, making a mess.
You're focusing on the messenger, not the results. Under the Biden administration, someone in charge of nuclear secrets, who stole women's luggage, wasn't questioned. Humans make mistakes, but these programs are bloated. People are upset about returning to work, but no one disagrees there's bloat. Why aren't you exposing wasteful spending like the $10 million for circumcisions in Mozambique? You only focus on Elon Musk and Donald Trump, which is why your ratings are down.
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Speaker 0: Congressman, hold on. I wanna go to this question because, again, it's it's not a question of whether waste should be rooted out of the government. So many people agree with that. But now we're seeing it's the way it's being done. The government is trying to claw back several employees who oversaw nuclear weapons after they were fired.
They realized, oh, we made a mistake. We need the staffers who oversee nuclear weapons. A professor at the University of Maryland, Don Kettle, who specializes in silver service told the Washington Post that, yes, the government is likely full of wasteful bloat, but said a clumsy fix is worse than no fix at all, saying it's like going to a meat market, getting a piece of steak, and trying to cut out the fat with a sledgehammer. That would only make a mess of the meat. Do you think congressman that is a fair point that the way this is being done is clumsy rather than methodical?
Speaker 1: Again, you're upset about that. You're you're attacking the message carrier, not the results. You you talk about nuclear, secrets. You had a nuclear a person who is in charge of nuclear secrets, a person who is in charge of nuclear secrets, a man who dressed up as a woman would go into the airport and steal women's luggage, was overseeing those nuclear secrets under the Biden administration, and I never heard y'all say a peep about that. Again, ma'am
Speaker 0: I I don't know anything about that. I'll be transparent.
Speaker 1: Ma'am, it's over the Internet. It's all over. He was on charge
Speaker 0: the Internet. And this is unrelated to the people overseeing nuclear weapons being fired. And Elon Musk himself said, we're moving so fast. Of course, there will be mistakes. The question is, you know, some of these mistakes are really high stakes.
Firing accidentally firing people overseeing nuclear weapons. Do you see that point?
Speaker 1: Humans will make mistakes, ma'am, but currently, these are bloated programs. You have no show employees that are that are angry that they're having to go back to work, that they've moved, and they're not
Speaker 0: No one's disagreeing. There's bloat and waste. Jobs were. No one's disagreeing.
Speaker 1: Well, then why are y'all not exposing it? Have y'all have y'all even talked about, hey. Mozambique. We sent them $10,000,000 for circumcision. I mean, goodness gracious, ma'am.
Americans are paying
Speaker 0: We have we've been covering at
Speaker 1: length salaries.
Speaker 0: Where the money is going to.
Speaker 1: You all all y'all do is run down Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and you continuously do this, and that's why your ratings are in the tank, ma'am, you need
Speaker 0: to get ball Tim Birchit. We're gonna leave it there.
Speaker 1: He's tired.
Speaker 0: I do appreciate your time coming on and having this conversation. Thank you very much. Coming
@martinwalsh__ - Martin Walsh
The United States is now using MQ-9 Reaper drones to target Mexican drug cartels. @AliBradleyTV: “We're seeing these Reaper drones quite literally on the hunt in international airspace over in Mexico looking for the criminal drug cartels and their fentanyl labs” https://t.co/amKpoO4XH3
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We're seeing Reaper drones hunting for fentanyl labs run by criminal cartels in Mexican airspace. These MQ-9 drones aren't armed yet but can be. The CIA is sharing the drone intel with Mexican officials to help dismantle these labs, which emit detectable chemicals. These flights have occurred before, even under the Trump administration.
There are concerns about potential overreach and violating Mexico's sovereignty. Designating cartels as terrorist organizations is expected this week.
Also, Border Patrol briefly stopped using body cameras due to risks like triggering IEDs and location leaks on social media. However, the stand-down has already been lifted, and agents are resuming normal camera operations. I've reached out to Axon, the manufacturer, and CBP to understand the fix.
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Speaker 0: We're seeing these Reaper drones quite literally on the hunt in international airspace over in Mexico looking for the criminal drug cartels and their fentanyl labs. They are ramping up their operations and combating these criminal organizations, something that the president, of course, promises to designate them as a terrorist organization. So these are called m q nine reaper drones, and they're out there carrying out these stealthy covert missions. And they are not currently armed, but they can be equipped with payloads for precision strikes. The CIA, however, has not been authorized to use these drones to take lethal actions, officials told The New York Times, adding that they do not envision using these drones to conduct air strikes.
For now, the CIA officers in Mexico are passing information that is being collected by these drones to Mexican officials. They are adamant about finding these fentanyl labs, dismantling them, which apparently emit chemicals that make them easier to find from the air, and that's why they are doing this from the air with these drones because of that access. Now the CIA has reportedly flown surveillance drones to hunt cartels inside Mexico before partnering with Mexican authorities. But here's the deal. With the more recent flights that were communicated to congress, they were actually under the Trump administration using a particular notification that's reserved for new or updated covert programs that the CIA intends either to conceal or deny.
That is what a source familiar with the matter said, adding that the notifications made no mention of Mexican partners this time around. So we talked with Darren Gobb. He is a geopolitical strategist, a US Army veteran, and a former Black Hawk pilot about the CIA's covert drone missions in Mexico. Take a listen to what he said.
Speaker 1: For the most part, I do not want to have see America trans on its own constitution and just invade a foreign nation without a well thought out concept of how you get there and having the people of the of this nation accept the risk through congress to do something. Now I'm not saying that we would decide to, quote, invade Mexico, but if you're crossing the border into a foreign country with The US military forces intent on accomplishing something like that, that looks a lot like an invasion, and, you've just changed the situation significantly.
Speaker 0: Now, Nicole, when it comes to the Mexico side of things, president Scheinbaum, she was pressed on these drones, breaching that airspace over in Mexico. She kind of played it off today during a news conference just saying it's part of a little campaign. Now when it comes to the president, he, of course, day one, said he was going to crack down on the criminal cartels. This week, Nicole, we expect the president to make that formal designation of that terrorist organization for at least six cartels and gangs over in Mexico, Nicole. So we'll be waiting for that this week.
Speaker 2: Alright. So, Ali, let's talk about your report yesterday. Border patrol had stopped using body cameras because of possible detection by criminals, but it sounds like that move is already now being reversed.
Speaker 0: Yeah, and about face already just a few days after that initial alert was sent out, telling Border Patrol that they needed to stop using their cameras right away, and it was because of a couple of reasons here. So one of the reasons was that these cameras actually emit a radio frequency that can trip off improvised explosive devices. The other issue was that there was information circulating on social media quite literally giving a play by play on how to kind of tap into these systems and find out where these agents and officers are. So right now, Nicole, I have reached out to Axon, who is a manufacturer, and also to border patrol to find out what the fix is because today, they said the stand down is lifted. They are now set to resume normal operations and wear those cameras again.
However, I haven't heard from Axon or CBP on what the solution was or how they're mitigating this risk. Nicole.