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A (0:00)
Time for the. Hello, everybody. I'm Jesse Watters along with Rosanna scotto, Harold Ford Jr, Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld. It's five o' clock in New York City and this is the five. President Trump putting the cartels on notice after the U.S. military vaporized a drug smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela. 11 trend narco terrorists got a one way ticket to narco heaven. That drugged out dinghy was a floating weapon of mass destruction packed with enough poison to kill countless Americans. And the President says the traffickers will be thinking twice before they smuggle again.
B (0:45)
Massive amounts of drugs.
C (0:47)
We have tapes of them speaking.
A (0:48)
It was massive amounts of drugs coming into our country to kill a lot of people. They won't be doing it again and I think a lot of other people won't be doing it again. When they watch that tape, they're going to say, let's not do this. We have to protect our country and we're going to. Venezuela has been a very bad actor. Others have not been. And to send that clear signal to.
B (1:09)
Trent Aragua Cartel del Sols and others emanating from Venezuela. We're not going to allow this kind of activity. You're poisoning our people.
A (1:16)
This is a deadly serious mission for.
B (1:18)
Us and it won't, it won't stop.
A (1:20)
In with just this strike.
C (1:22)
The United States has long, for many, many years established intelligence that allow us to interdict and stop drug boats. We did that and it doesn't work. What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them.
A (1:35)
And if Trump bombing narco terrorists to smithereens isn't enough of a deterrent, at any moment, Kristi Noem will cut the ribbon at the latest Alligator Alcatraz franchise. The Louisiana lockup facility will host the worst of the worst illegals. All right, so Dana, this is an escalation in the war on drugs.
D (1:54)
I could see this expanding beyond drugs. It's a war on terror. Right. Because one of the things President Trump did when he first came back to office was to designate them as terrorist organizations. And at first, even during the campaign, remember he had talked about the Mexican drug cartels and this was a question, would you actually take military action against them? And Venezuela in a way is sort of just often so far away we kind of don't think about it, except we have a major problem of migrants, illegal migrants that came here from Venezuela. But also there's the dispute about their protected status, temporary protected status that has been now revoked for people who came here illegally. There's been a pretty big buildup of military assets in this region. If you'll remember, about four months ago, Rick Grinnell went down at the request of President Trump and got out our political, not political prisoners, I guess I would call them hostages. I'm not exactly sure what their designation was, but they were Americans who were being held in terrible conditions in Venezuela. We made the swap. So then now President Trump, I believe things that he can use this kind of action to deter them. As the Naito leader said a couple of months ago, sometimes daddy has to step in. And what they're saying is, okay, well, this could happen to you. And I imagine that those Mexican cartels are wondering, wait, could this happen to us? I don't know. And maybe you guys do. If this was international waters. Not positive about that. I'd be curious. One thing also that I think is very interesting is that Marco Rubio is the first Secretary of State who understands this region extremely well. Venezuela in particular, and Cuba. I would look out because Marco Rubio understands it. He understands what all of those people have gone through and he wants to make changes.
