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Fox News Hourly Update
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | They will not stop. I'm Lisa Lacerra. Fox News. President Trump's military strikes on suspected |
| 0:08.6 | drug running boats won't let up and could spread to strikes on land. President Trump's |
| 0:14.1 | Latin American drug cartels are the ISIS of the Western Hemisphere. The cartels control large |
| 0:20.0 | swaths of territory. They maintain vast arsenals of weapons andisphere. The cartels control large swaths of territory. |
| 0:21.4 | They maintain vast arsenals of weapons and soldiers. |
| 0:24.5 | The Trump administration has pointed to an imminent threat. |
| 0:27.1 | The cartels and their drugs pose to the U.S. homeland to defend military strikes |
| 0:32.3 | on alleged cartel vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. |
| 0:36.3 | I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a |
| 0:38.9 | declaration of war. I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. |
| 0:44.1 | The president says he would ask Congress to approve operations targeting cartels on land, |
| 0:48.7 | but does not think lawmakers would object. |
| 0:50.9 | Fox is Jared Halper at the White House. The president made the comments during an |
| 0:54.3 | announcement of the formation of a cartel task force. He was also asked about B-1 bombers being sent to |
| 1:00.2 | Venezuela, which he denied, but Fox News has confirmed that two B-1 bombers did take off from an Air Force |
| 1:06.9 | base in Texas earlier today and flew toward Venezuela. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker says he would |
| 1:12.9 | support federal law enforcement help in Chicago if they were enforcing laws, but he says what's taking |
| 1:18.4 | place is a military-style assault. They attacked a building with 130 people in it, and they got a couple |
| 1:24.4 | of gang members. That's what you ought to do, by the way, go after them, |
| 1:28.3 | not the 130 people. Instead, they took everybody out of the building, they zip tied the kids, |
| 1:32.3 | they took some of the seniors and put them into U-Hauls for hours. |
| 1:37.6 | On Fox's special report with Brett Baer. Earlier today, Pritzker said he will create a task force |
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