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🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr joined Rep. Crenshaw to cover some of the important legal considerations in America’s efforts to defeat the Mexican drug cartels. How would a second term of the Trump Administration have dealt with the cartels? What are the costs and benefits of designating them as Foreign Terrorist Organizations? What is the U.S. capable of doing to stop a Mexican politician if we have strong evidence that they are working with the cartels? What would be the repercussions if the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is not renewed? All this and more in our second episode in the series documenting Rep. Crenshaw’s Task Force to Combat Mexican Drug Cartels.
Bill Barr is the author of "One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General". He was attorney general twice under both President Trump and President George H.W. Bush.
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0:00.0 | We hold these truths to be self-evident. |
0:02.0 | That all men are created. |
0:04.0 | As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office. |
0:07.0 | Experts on what they're talking about. |
0:09.0 | This is the podcast for insights into the issues. |
0:11.0 | China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions. |
0:16.0 | Breaking it down into simple terms. |
0:18.0 | We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw. |
0:23.0 | Mr. Attorney General, thank you for meeting with the task force. |
0:27.0 | I thought it was a very productive conversation focused on the right elements. |
0:33.0 | I think one of the most interesting parts of the conversation is, |
0:38.0 | if Trump had won a second term, you as Attorney General. |
0:41.0 | One of the things you told us is that you think somebody is going to be the collective head of the effort against |
0:49.0 | ex-condrug cartels that should reside in the Attorney General's office. |
0:53.0 | What would that structure look like? |
0:56.0 | What would the plan have looked like? |
0:59.0 | Multi-faceted, right? |
1:00.0 | If all these elements are diplomatically dealing with a guy like Amlo, |
1:04.0 | using this carrot and stick approach leverage to get them to do what we want, |
1:08.0 | but what is it we want exactly? |
1:11.0 | What would have that first meeting looked like? |
1:18.0 | Well, I do think Trump would have executed on a much more aggressive strategy down. |
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