officer during his short stint in afghanistan is unit operated under the watch of the drug enforcement administration so while he was in afghanistan as part of our imperial wars he worked alongside the cia and under the d i d so basically he's the guy who the party. you may recall from away back in the present day one of the reasons we remain in afghanistan is to steal the country's minerals and resources and according to an exposé in vogue magazine in his living room pete has a huge resource in mineral that can understand. why is the ever. watch shows so he can just muse to himself as each is rice krispies wow look at all the stuff i helped america still got those were good times maybe in my bedroom i'll put a map of the oil fields of sirius there is the wall street goons match merrick vice president of black rock of the world large. investment manager controlling nearly 7 trillion dollars in assets it was as an endorser of the south and mayor amazon watch named blackrock the world's largest investor in deforestation the honest thing about people to judge is that he talks as if his campaign success

folder and a letter and he handed it to me and the letter is on the letterhead of the drug enforcement administration and it says dear general noriega, we want to thank you so much for all the help you've given us in controlling the drug traffic in the caribbeanbasin , signed john locke, director of the drug and enforcement administration. we all knew noriega was a drug traffic or the dea certainly knew but he had a great game going, he was working for one cartel and he would find out about it and call the dea and they were able be able to boast of a great big bust and noriega was funneling large amounts of cocaine the following i'm sure of the dea through other channels. also in the 1980s as i remember sitting in nicaragua where i was living that there were reports that the sandinistas were financing their war in part by shipping cocaine and that the contras were doing the same thing we didn't have the detailed information to speculate or to report on that but when we spoke amongourselves , our . [bleep] always was how can they not? it's a poor country, you need lots of money. you got fantastic mark

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we're told by the drug enforcement administration's counter drug assessment, the most common method for transporting illicit drugs into the u.s. are through the ports of entry. they've been increasing. i know they've been increasing the -- its use of drive-through scanners at ports of entry. do you know the approximate percentage of passenger and commercial vehicles that are scanned across ports of entry along the southwest border? >> right now it's about 1% of passenger vehicles, 15% of commercial vehicles. i will say congress in fy-19 and fy-20 provided a number of funding for technology that would screen for narcotics. the goal by 2023 for passenger vehicles from 1% to 40%, using that funding that congress provided and for commercial vehicles from 14% to 72%. >> one of the most recent statistics of the percentage of hired narcotics like methamphetamine and heroin that are apprehended between ports of entry compared to at ports of entry? >> roughly the majority of narcotics coming through the ports of entry, we will interdict those two-thirds of the time. last year we've seen an incre

that's why d.e.a., the drug enforcement administration, has made the right call in 2018 in temporarily making these fentanyl-related substances like carfentanil illegal to possess, transport or manufacture. thanks to that, our law enforcement officials have been better able to protect our communities by seizing and destroying this fentanyl-related substance because it is illegal. we had a real problem here in the last couple months in congress because as of early this month, just last week, that scheduling of those analogues expired and we almost had a situation where these drugs were going to become legal. thank goodness, at the last minute we stepped in and provided a temporary extension. otherwise, last week we would have had a real crisis. the temporary extension, like so much stuff around here, was kind of kicking the can down the road. so in may of next year, a year and a few months from now, again it is going to expire. so i urge my colleagues to join me, senator manchin, and others on both sides is of the aisle in passing legislation that puts these analogues on this schedule m

we're told by drug enforcement administration's counterdrug assessment and they keep telling us the most common part of getting drugs in is through ports of entry. now, they have been increasing -- i know they have been increasing use of drive-through scanners at the ports of entry. do you know the approximately percentage of passenger and commercial vehicles that are are along the southwest border? honorable wolf: 1% of passenger vehicles and 15% of commercial vehicles. i will say congress in f.y. 2019 and f.y. 2020 did provide funding for our technology that will screen for narcotics. the goal for 2023 decrease from 1% to 40% using that funding that congress provide and commercial from 15% to 72%. >> one of the most recent statistics to the percentage of hard narcotics like methamphetamine and heroin that are apprehended between ports of entry and -- honorable wolf: we see the number of narcotics coming through ports of entry, we will interdict those about 2/3. about 1/3 is coming through ports of entry. in the last fiscal year we have seen an increase of those narcotics to include --

case, that we will hear about this morning, a criminal claims ed to be the head of the drug enforcement administration, and even suggested to its victim that she verify his identity by looking up his name and phone number at the agency online. to keep the victim under the spell, the scammers will demand that they cooperate with their fake investigation by the government or face severe fines or even jail time. they also attempt to isolate the victim by keeping him or her on the phone, uninterrupted for hours or even days at a time and , and by instructing them to not to tell anybody about the issue. what is going on. they will cite the confidentiality of the investigation. in a recent case reported by the "wall street journal," an oncology nurse in new york was instructed to leave work without notice, check into a hotel, and stay on the phone for nearly 50 hours. coached by the fraudster's through a series of transactions at her bank and credit union, she lost almost $340,000 to scammers over three days. educating people, particularly older americans, who are more likely to be the targets, is key to de

across the country will just stop selling theand products or atwhat illed the food and drug administration ll be enforcing th now fda says it will ma icy. the enforcement decisions on a case case basis and that it is able to make in forsman action against every ilgally market marketed tobacco product. the agency says it will need to ke good use of its resources you know they don't have enough resources to be use knocking on the door of evy vape shop but they definitely said they will be going af those flavored tobacco cartridge is those pods and they will definitely be going after those who mart their products towards children specifically so we'll be talking to maybe just even people who vape here in the walnut creek area see how they're feeling about this but that ban goes into effect today. >>i'm live in walnut creek sarah stinson kron 4 news okay. thank you rah 5.33 and let's get to our big story this morning. the concerns overthe corona virus but san francco's lunar new year parade organirs say. >>the parade will go on as corona virus do have them rried though about discrimination against the asian c

food and drug administration finalizing its enforcement policy that appealed to children, including fruitand mint. in addition to these two changes, the deadline for manufacturers to submit the applications to the fda is quickly approaching which will shift the industry landscape even further. while these are all promising steps, reroute -- we remain concerned about counterfeit black-market projects -- products that are youth may increasingly turn to them products they are currently using will no longer be available in the legal and legitimate marketplace. i'm also concerned about potential shifts of usage to non-cartridge based e-cigarettes and i'm interested to hear from the company's about how we can prevent this from recurring. i would also like to note the irony of the health subcommittee of this full committee holding a hearing two weeks ago that included bills to de-schedule and decriminalize marijuana. much of which is smoked. followed by this hearing where my colleagues are now denouncing smoking tobacco in all forms. while i have confirms about the epidemic of youth tobacco usag

food and drug administration, fda admission guidance finalizing its enforcement policy regarding non authorized flavor cartridge based e-cigarettes that appeal to children including fruit and then in addition to these two changes that the main deadline for manufacturers to submit lee pre-market applications that they are quickly approaching that will sit swift shifts the landscape now these are all promising steps and we remain concerned about the counterfeit black market products that karoun e-cigarette using increasingly turn to win products they are currently using will no longer be available and in the legal and legitimate marketplace also concerned about the potential shifts usage to non cartridge base e-cigarettes and i'm interested to hear from the companies today their thoughts on how we can prevent this from occurring and i'd also like to turn out the irony of the health subcommittee of this full committee holding a hearing just two weeks ago that included bills to descheduling decriminalized marijuana and much of which is smoke, followed by this hearing where my colleagues

available on the market today is because the food and drug administration gave them a temporary pass by exercising or refusing to exercise its enforcement discretion. no e-cigarette currently being sold in the united states has been reviewed by the fda for impact on public health. instead, the e-cigarette industry has essentially been allowed to conduct a public health experiment in real time without knowing what the consequences of these products may be. our young people are paying the price. this is why congress decided to act. in december chairman colÓn, myself and as well as some of my colleagues today took an important first step to raise the nationwide minimum age to buy any tobacco product including e-cigarette to 20 wanted more needs to be done clearly such as advancing legislation that the chairman and i and others have introduced to tackle this public health priority. these efforts are all the more important given that the recent, the administration recently caved to industry influence despite the fda's announcement last september that it intended to ban all nontobacco flavored e-cigarette products to address the rising youth

drug press, tackle corruption and security and build trust between u.s. and mexican law enforcement. we have adapted our programs to meet the is why usaid is labor law and changing environment, tackle priority issues for administrations and prioritized sustainability and measurable impact. we have seen our investments bear fruit. one example, the more than 400 canines donate since 2011 have helped 23 tons of narcotics. that includes fentanyl, it includes more than 56,000 guns and millions of dollars in smuggled cash. we have since expanded the canine program and our next up is working closely with mexico to develop a strategic plan for the deployment of canines targeted locations to increase seizures and save more lives. we have learned that no amount of equipment or training can reduce impunity sustainable improvements, this requires political will, resources and urgency to tackle today's immediate problems while laying the foundation for during cultural law from this and accountability. we are under no illusion that we have substantially reduce the number of drugs entering the united states or the level of violence in mexico. we have a long road ahead, yet u.s. investments yield improvements that can add up overtim

drug smugglers, even going abroad to maybe train other law enforcement officials. they're the border patrol s.w.a.t. team, and i.c.e. feels that they are behind right now in terms of arresting, conducting administrativecumented immigrants in these sanctuary cities, so they've requested backup, and that backup is coming in the form of boarder border property s.w.a.t. team. >> i want to get what you just mentioned, the purported need for this to happen. in the piece that you and caitlin report, there's the effects this is going to have on these immigrant communities and as you report this out, as you look at this, how much of this centers on that? creating that, creating instability in these communities that have these sanctuary policies in place versus the need, the border patrol's need to have this kind of reinforcement. >> when you look at administrative arrests already, i mean, this goes back to the i.c.e. raids from last year that were going after a certain amount of families who had crossed the border. i.c.e. struggled to get the arrests that they wanted out of that because awareness was raised. people don't have to open their doors when an i.c.e. agent goes to their house. so the idea that you w