After Hours: China Exploiting the America’s Open Border
Full Measure After Hours
Sharyl Attkisson
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Author Richard Funk spins a frightening tale that could really happen: China develops a dangerous alliance with Mexico’s killer drug cartels and exploits America’s open southern border in a way that puts the very control of the US at risk.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to another special summer edition of Full Measure After Hours. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, Cartel Wars, a fictionalized thriller born of the true life disaster America is suffering at the border. |
| 0:21.0 | While I and the Full Measure team have been traveling, we're traveling Europe and the US, |
| 0:27.0 | researching and shooting new stories for the fall Full Measure Season, we begin Season 10 on Sunday, September 8th. But in between the travel and |
| 0:36.1 | research I have a chance to meet the author of a new book called Cartel Wars. |
| 0:40.3 | His name is Richard Funk. For the book, Funk did a lot of research on our border crisis, |
| 0:46.5 | and as you'll hear, he already knew a great deal about the mechanics of it. That inspired |
| 0:51.6 | him to write a really scary story that could very well happen if it hasn't |
| 0:56.1 | happened already. I'll read you a bit of a description. It is about Colonel Chang Lee, a former Chinese Special Forces commander, who is currently, as the book is written, |
| 1:07.2 | an ambassador to South and Central American countries negotiating belt and road initiatives chosen because of his bright |
| 1:14.4 | intelligence and flawless Spanish. Well the description says |
| 1:18.1 | Colonel Lee is spending days of the Mexican border, interviewing cartel leaders and inspecting tunnels under the border that the cartels |
| 1:27.3 | use to carry drugs, sex traffickers, and migrants into the U.S. Continuing to read from the description, |
| 1:35.0 | some of these tunnels are large enough to allow trucks back and forth |
| 1:38.0 | and lead into large warehouses on the American side. |
| 1:42.0 | The leaders tell him that they could transport as many |
| 1:45.3 | Chinese across the border as China might want. Lee discovers that each cartel |
| 1:50.9 | maintains many distribution centers across the US |
| 1:54.4 | where they ship and distribute drugs. Each of these have hundreds of |
| 1:58.6 | cartel soldiers there. While there Lee runs into Doug McCloud, the main character in the book, several times and they develop an uneasy friendship after many meetings with cartel leaders, Colonel Lee realizes just how open the border really is, a plan |
| 2:16.1 | slowly begins to emerge in his mind, a plan which could forever alter America's economic |
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