Cartel Wars: How America Must Adapt to Defeat Our #1 Enemy | Chad Wolf

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Dan Crenshaw

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4.6 • 16K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The first episode in a special series documenting Rep. Crenshaw’s work as Chairman of the Task Force to Combat Mexican Drug Cartels. Chad Wolf is the former Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under President Trump. He joined Rep. Crenshaw to give a high-level overview of the strategic challenges the United States faces targeting the Mexican drug cartels. They cover operational and hierarchical challenges within DHS, corruption in the Mexican government, how the Trump Administration made in-roads with Central American governments, how immigration flows are changing under Biden, the problem with designating cartels as terrorist organizations, and more.

Chad Wolf is the Executive Director of the America First Policy Institute and the President of Wolf Global Advisors, a strategic advisory and public policy firm addressing domestic and international security and risk challenges. Follow him on Twitter at @ChadFWolf.

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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.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.8	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	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.
0:24.0	Chad, thanks for being on again.
0:26.0	Yeah.
0:26.8	So I was going to talk to you and appreciate your expertise and your service.
0:30.0	I'm in the Trump administration, Department of Homeland Security Secretary.
0:33.2	So obviously, you're a multi-time guest here.
0:38.0	So we just finished our first guest for our cartel task force meeting.
0:44.8	We had some members in here, grilling you with questions.
0:48.8	Good questions, though.
0:50.0	I thought there were good questions and your answers were great.
0:52.8	It was a great first meeting.
0:54.8	Helpful to just lay out the problem.
0:57.6	Give us some history to it.
0:58.8	Also, I mean, you told me some things I didn't know.
1:00.8	My first question to you is, is anyone in charge of this?
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