This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, February 14th.

I'm Rachel Del Judas.

And I'm Daniel Davis.

It's been a year since the tragic shooting in Parkland, Florida that took the lives of 17 people.

Today we'll talk to Kenneth Preston, a student journalist from Broward County Florida who helped shine light on the corruption in that school

district after the shooting. We'll talk to him about all that's changed since that faithful day.

Plus, a zoo in Texas wants to help you celebrate Valentine's Day in perhaps the oddest way possible.

We'll discuss.

But first we'll cover a few of the top headlines.

Well, next Well Mexico's notorious

notorious drug lord El Chappo was convicted on 10 criminal counts on Tuesday in a

Brooklyn court. He's expected to face life in prison. The trial took three months

and by the end of it the jury found him guilty of leading his drug cartel in a

continuing criminal enterprise that carries a mandatory life sentence.

U.S. officials promised Mexico that they would not seek the death penalty.

El Chappo and his cartel made billions for years by smuggling cocaine, heroin, meth, and marijuana into the United

States.

He had actually been captured before and managed to escape a maximum security prison on

two occasions.

The Mexican government then recaptured him and extradited him to the US in 2017.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz wants to pass a bill to make Mexican drug lord El Chappo and other

drug lords pay for President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico.

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