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The A.M. Update

The Normalization of Vaporization (of Narco Terrorists) | Lutnick 'Splained Badly | 2/11/26

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

News, Daily News, Politics

4.9833 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Aaron McIntire leads with U.S. strikes sinking narco-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific, killing two and saving American lives as President Trump details the strategy to crush fentanyl flows first at sea then inland. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick faces congressional scrutiny over documented Epstein Island visits with his family in 2012, defending it as a brief lunch stop during a vacation while Speaker Mike Johnson dismisses calls for resignation. Beef prices continue climbing due to historic low cattle inventories from drought and wildfires, prompting Trump to expand imports from Argentina to ease consumer costs despite impacts on U.S. ranchers. Democrats express open concern over massive Republican fundraising advantages heading into midterms, while Sen. Dick Durbin vows to oppose the SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship to vote. Plus, a CBP exchange exposes birth tourism exploitation, the latest on the Nancy Guthrie disappearance case, and Pete Hegseth's candid assessment of DoD inefficiencies.
 
A.M. Update, Aaron McIntire, narco boat strikes, Howard Lutnick Epstein, beef price surge, SAVE Act opposition, birth tourism, Nancy Guthrie disappearance, Pete Hegseth DoD, Republican fundraising, fentanyl crackdown, conservative news, daily update

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, February 11th, 2026, blowing up more boats, Slutnik on the hot seat,

0:06.5

and maybe more people eating beef for dinner.

0:09.5

Next on the AM update.

0:13.8

Blowing more holes in drug boats, the U.S. said this week, it hit a vessel, allegedly

0:19.0

transporting drugs in the Eastern Pacific,

0:21.9

killing two people and leaving one survivor in the second such strike in the past four days,

0:27.1

citing intelligence, U.S. Southern Command, said this week the vessel was transiting along a known

0:32.2

narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Socom also said two

0:39.9

narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the attack during his big interview on Fox this

0:45.3

week. President Trump went more in-depth on what he's trying to accomplish with attacking all

0:50.7

of these narco-terrorists.

0:52.2

You're about you solved that problem. I don't get any credit for anything.

0:55.7

I mean, I do these things.

0:57.7

You would say I've done a great job at the border, right?

0:59.9

Nobody coming in, we have a strong border.

1:03.0

Drugs are way down.

1:04.3

You know, by knocking out those boats,

1:06.1

we have dropped drugs fentil about 33%.

1:09.8

And now we're going to start on land. We had to do the boats first. Because they would go immediately to the boats. If you hit them on land, they go to the boats. So we do the boats first. Now there are no boats. Now we're gonna hit them on land. We're gonna hit them very hard on land. We've knocked down drugs. Every one of those boats, it's nasty, but every one of those boats that shot down in the seas, you've been watching it, we saved 25,000 American lives.

1:35.1

So we've done a great job.

1:36.7

Seems like a long time ago, but you'll recall that that was the issue, the outrage de jour, the pearl clutching of the day for a while, was whether or not

1:46.5

the United States could actually blow up drug boats. That, of course, narrative completely

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