now what used to be a fed very powerful kingpin that controlled the entire city has now turned into an old, slightly seen our man that doesn't control much of the city. i eat much of the world anymore. in fact, controls only a few. you know, small neighborhoods in that city, namely, you know what the so called collective west. and that's because now you have countries that have stood up that are standing up against the u. s. power, and that has been the case for quite some time. so if we look at ukraine and nato's involvement and ukraine, the most glaring fact is that the u. s. as a managed to get a single no country that doesn't belong to the collective west on board with either sanctions and even less. so provided military aid to ukraine, so the only countries are following the way that the u. s. on ukraine, as on a number of other issues, are the ones that, you know, i said she directly under us fear of influence and which in many cases involves a large u. s. military presence in those countries. and so what were these such statements by the us? i think they elicit amusement and ang

often when a kingpin is eliminated, what happens is, there is fight for control of the cartel so you see an increase in violence. host: which one of the three was el chapo's cartel? guest: you got me. i think it was helly scope. host: the line for democrat, good morning. caller: there seems to be a big demand, so to decrease the demand for drugs in united states, perhaps we should use money for drug addiction by putting up billboards all over the interstates. that, use of drugs finances terrorist organizations. perhaps it will weigh on the conscience of the american public that demands these drugs. guest: again, that is an interesting idea. i think the connection you are making is an important one. these organizations that sell drugs also are engaged in other illicit activity, whether smuggling of people, cigarettes -- we had a program at the wilson center several months ago about the illicit movement -- the movement of illicit cigarettes from the u.s.-canadian border through latin america. it is the same groups. you are right, the drug traffickers are involved in a lot of other acti

you know, it is a comedic masterpiece, which, you know, the last time we did a film together was "kingpine arranged that to happen like that. he said, "listen, you know, we're going to try to get the scene, but you never know how things are going to work. we might end up throwing the script out all together." i break out into a sweat. i'm like what the -- heck. [ laughter ] i forgot network television. yeah, no. so, i was -- i got very worried about that because i'm used to the context of a script and improvising may be inside of that. but this -- anyway, there was no need to worry. i came in. these guys were just so fun. and they would come up with great improves. and the whole experience was just joyful. and i don't know, i guess we call them the friends in the movie. and the friends they speak the language of the heart. and that is definitely a language that i dig. >> seth: yeah. they're very -- they come off -- [ cheers and applause ] they come off in a really genuine, authentic way that a lot of professional actors have trouble doing. you know what i mean? you're watching them and yo

what's known as the kingpin strategy, less organized cartels have taken hold the gulf cartel is the prime example last year the head of the group l contador or the accountant was indicted by u.s. officials. the result is a power vacuum which becomes dangerous. you had. >> rival groups within these cartels vying for that top spot and potentially caught in the middle of all this for americans ended up being ambushed, fired upon and taking away the bodies of the 2 americans killed. finally repatriated to the united states thursday, the family of shade woodard finally breaking their silence after his death. >> so hurtful to see it. the video and how they was it was drugged thrown on the back of the truck. >> and just been helping us. reuters is reporting the mexican government is looking into a possible drug motive behind the attack. none of the victims have been accused of any wrongdoing >> with the support and she brought in law for his birthday. the 5 men who the cartels claim are responsible for the attack are in custody. all 5 deny they killed either american. whether true or not, what i

the arrest of ovidio guzmÁn lopez, the son of the former cartel boss and most famous mexican drug kingpinl time, el chapo. gun battles broke out between the police, military, and heavily armecart members. in broad dayght. authorities later released him to avoid further bloodshed. then in january 2023, guzmÁn lopez was re-arrested and a similar wave of violence broke out, killing 29 people. yet the heavily armed gangsters are by no means the cartel's deadliest product. last year, around 70,000 people died as a result of fentanyl abuse in the u.s. alone. dr-related deaths in the country arat a record high. the kensington neighborhood of philadelphia is one of america's drug hotspots. the fentanyl crisis is plain to see here. matt had managed to wean himself off the highly addictive drug, but recently relapsed. matt: i was on some oxy, seven months, and with my time of mind-frame it just wasn't enough. i needed it more and more and more and more. and eventually, i was kind of scared of doing fentanyl again because so many people were overdosing. reporter: an emergency. 25-year-old natasha ha

drug transaction, or to arrest a major drug kingpin. the operation goes bad. the bad guy gets away, and a senior cia officer pops up in the scene. i know from my experience of 15 years to see that the scenario was completely true and accurate. the d. e, a 's mission is to stop the flow of drugs into the united states and to prosecute those people who are responsible. the c i, a mission is essentially to do whatever at once with little or no oversight. the ca . busy has long been obsessed with communism and beyond that, with terrorism. if drug came pins are willing to identify communist and alleged terrorists than the c i is willing to cast a slot with drug king pins. and the d. e a is supposed to just sit there and take it. we're going to talk about this relationship with our next guest. michael levine has been described in the u. s. media as america's top undercover cop for 25 years . a career veteran of the drug enforcement administration. he's a respected author and lecturer, having appeared as an expert witness in more than 500 civil and criminal trials in

what used to be fed very powerful kingpin that controlled the entire city has now turned into an old, slightly seen our man that doesn't control much of the city. i am much of the world any more. in fact, controls only a few small neighborhoods in that city, namely, you know what the so called collective west. that's because now you have countries that have stood up that are standing up against the u. s. power. i will knows that the so called rules based order was always a u. s. or west based order that's clear to everyone now. and so, you know, it is idea that us still things that it can make the rules that can make everyone else abide by those rules as it has done for a very long time. just shows that the u. s. leadership at least is completely out of touch with reality. united states has again criticized human rights in india. so i think challenges to freedom of expression a so pray, think the democratic values, the bind washington anew delhi together are, sees india correspondence winters sharma has more details. biden administration's india's track of g honestly seems a bit confu

what used to be fed very powerful kingpin that controlled the entire city has now turned into an old, slightly seen our man. god, that doesn't control much of the city. i am much of the world any more. in fact, controls only a few small neighborhoods in that city, namely, you know what the so called collective west. that's because now you have countries that have stood out that are standing up against us bow i'm no, i will knows that the so called rules based order was always a u. s. or west based order that's clear to everyone now. and so, you know, it is idea that us still thinks that it cannot make the rules that it can make everyone else abide by those rules as it has done for a very long time. just shows that the u. s. leadership at least, is completely out of touch with reality. 44 years since the u. s. first impose sanctions on iran. washington is finally admitted. the restrictions have failed to achieve the desired results. our sanctions on iran has created a real economic crisis in the country, and iran is greatly suffering economically because of the sanctions. has that forc

what it hasn't realized is that that world has changed to now what used to be fed very powerful kingpin that controlled the entire city as now turned into an old, slightly seen our man that doesn't control much of the city. i eat much of the world any more, in fact controls only a few small neighborhoods in that city, namely, you know, what the so called collective west. that's because now you have countries that have stood up that are standing up against us. pow, i'm no, i will knows that the so called rules based order was always a u. s. or west based order that's clear to everyone now. and so, you know, it is, i did a u. s still thinks that it cannot make the rules that it can make everyone else abide by those rules as it has done for a very long time. just shows that the u. s. leadership at least, is completely out of touch with reality. washington has promised the south proclaimed republic of cancer though its full support in creating an army that will work closely with nato. as according to the us ambassador to christina, the statement comes a serbia. marks 24 years in natal, unle

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what it hasn't realized is that that world has changed to now what used to be fed very powerful kingpin that controlled the entire city has now turned into an old, slightly seen our man that doesn't control much of the city. i am much of the world any more, in fact controls only a few small neighborhoods in that city. namely, you know what the so called collective west. that's because now you have countries that have stood up that are standing up against the u. s. power. i will knows that the so called rules based order was always a u. s. or west based order that's clear to everyone now. and so, you know, it's idea that us still things that it can make the rules that can make everyone else abide by those rules. as it has done for a very long time, just shows that the u. s. leadership at least is completely out of touch with reality. well that's a rock for this. are not all from me peter scott, but are these nicky are and it will be here. the top of the hour you through all the feelings stories as we headed to the weekend. thank you very much with this is the ancient lake and by called m

successfully completing an operation to disrupt a major drug transaction, or to arrest a major drug kingpin the operation goes bad, the bad guy gets away, and a senior cia officer pops up in the scene. i know from my experience of 15 years of the c i, that the scenario was completely true and accurate. the da's mission is to stop the flow of drugs into the united states and to prosecute those people who are responsible. the c i. a's mission is essentially to do whatever it wants with little or no oversight. the cia has long been obsessed with communism. and beyond that, with terrorism, if drug king pins are willing to identify communists, an alleged terrorists than the c i is willing to cast its lot with the drug king pins and the da's supposed to just sit there and take it. we're going to talk about this relationship with our next guest. michael levine has been described in the u. s. media as america's top undercover cop for 25 years. a career veteran of the drug enforcement administration.

and now what used to be fed very powerful kingpin law control, the entire city has now turned into an old, slightly seen our man that doesn't control much of the city. i am much of the world any more. in fact, controls only a few small neighborhoods in that city, namely, you know, what the so called collective west. that's because now you have countries that have stood up that are standing up against us pow i'm, i will knows that the so called rules based order was always a u. s. or west based order that's clear to everyone now. and so, you know, it is idea that us still thinks that it can make the rules that it can make everyone else abide by those rules as it has done for a very long time. just shows that the u. s. leadership at least, is completely out of touch. with reality, nigerian president mohammed the harvey, his urged his citizens to share their food with those in need ahead of ramadan. the country is suffering from sky rocketing price as the leader went on to condemn. unscrupulous sellers who have on sufficiently inflated prices to make a profit during the se. quitman. i'm

and now what used to be fed very powerful, kingpin lack control. the entire city has now turned into an old, slightly seen our man that doesn't control much of the city. i eat much of the world any more. in fact, controls only a few small neighborhoods in that city, namely, you know, what, this so called collective west. that's because now you have countries that have stood up that are standing up against us pow i'm, i will knows that the so called rules based order was all as a us or west based order that's clear to everyone now. and so, you know, it is idea that us still thinks that it cannot make the rules that it can make everyone else abide by those rules as it has done for a very long time. just shows that the u. s. leadership at least is completely out of touch. with reality, washington has promised kosovo. it's for support, increasing an army that will work closely with nato scoring to the are some buses to the nation, a survey of a past due march 24 years since natal. it forces bombed belgrade. the u. s. hulu supports kosovo, secure to for

i mean, everyone knows china is the new economic kingpin of the world. what's next? we really going to have some sort of military conflict because the hedge amman is unwilling to release its grip on what is a unipolar world, the precincts. what i can imagine it's, of course, the suspicion of speculation from me. number one is that the biting regime has so many problems with in, with 100, by, with the left top of hell with the fraud that has been done by some services, by all these a so called state that they want to put the attention of this internal problems and normally politics goes to the foreign politics and especially a war or trade war would be a good thing to lead away from the big problems inside number one. number 2 is what the already said that they are preparing for a while because the us and we want to keep. busy international amount of power this doesn't serve the european or the american people on the ground. only the few really like the spec dines and so on. we'll meet in double. but yes, they are. they would be considering entering a war to see that

the drug enforcement administration said in interviews they were like the drug kingpin of what the d.e.a. called an american cartel of companies. over this time period we look at, the companies that i just mentioned and others manufactured and dispensed a shocking 100 billion highly addictive and dangerous painkillers. the d.e.a. referred to them as drug dealers in business suits. so, i'm going to tell you a little bit about some of these companies. actually, i will wait until questions. i will tell you what we did with the book, we didn't want to make it a boring policy book so we tried to write it as a thriller and through rich and colorful caches the main one joe ranazizi, joe ran. he was a d.e.a. agent 30 years, pharmacologist. he went out in the field 2005, 2006, 2007 he was shooting down pill mills but saw it went so much higher so he started going after the drug distributors. the way the supply chain there's drug makers, johnson & johnson there are distributors and others you have not heard of, then pharmacies. he believed that the drug distributors were breaking the law. so he st

. >>> the late drug kingpin pablo escobar's exotic pets could soon be colombia's latest export.overnor says there are plans to send 70 of the so-called cocaine hippos to sanctuaries in india. he created a private zoo at his ranch in colombia. in the years since, they're numbers have ballooned. they're now seen by many as an invasive species. hippos aren't native to india and mexico, but it's hoped these countries can control the phipp population. >>> well, you never know what you'll find at walmart . a penn state researcher found this outside of an arkansas walmart in 2012. he misidentified it at the time, but recently discovered it was a jurassic. -era insect. a species of the giant lace wink though wing thought to be extinct. it's now on display at the frost ent entomological museum at penn state. >>> pretty pups, step to the side. it's time to shine a light on men's most unattractive best friends. the world's lugliest dog competition is taking applications until june 12st. they're celebrating imperfections that make all dogs special and unique. last year's winner was an almos

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cloud kingpin has been besieged which is why i took time last night to defend the leadership of ceo marco say i hope so. a terrific top and bottom. $10 billion to the buy back, something the activist have been calling for. there is $16 billion and the stock is screaming higher in after hours trading and defending the activists. let's take a closer look with the co-pofounder, chair and sales salesforce. >> great to see you. >> good. >> i understand how you can have and buy back is incredible. >> the profitability frame work that we laid out but jim, we have hit the hyper space button and decided it's time to go. we weren't going to wait two years to fiscal year '26 to deliver profitability acceleration we were going to do that right now and that is what is happening. >> explain to people, people are looking for -- they're hoping for say 30% margin you hit it give or take these were numbers that everyone -- all of the six people were like whatever. they're saying can't do it he can't do it he won't take the medicine he won't do it you took the bought back more s. it is rather amazing the t

punchbowl news reporting he's on a quest to prove himself as the kingpin of gop investigations, but therethin the gop ranks for members who worry the republican is taking on too much and perhaps intruding as well on other committees. our great reporters are back with us. this was a big republican promise. they said give us the house majority and we'll launch investigations into all of these things where we think there's been malfeasance by the government and the biden administration. just the house oversight committee this week, covid-19 origins, southern border crisis, artificial intelligence, the republicans say these are all legitimate inquiries. have they unearth ed any new facts? what about the criticism he's trying to put his hand this too many honey pots? >> i haven't seen a lot of new facts it's one thing to make these promises. it's another thing to produce some actual evidence of wrong doing. the twiter hearing produced evidence of wrong doing from the republican side. that was what happened there. i think they are finding it's hard to do. real congressional investigations take

or is it because he viscously disembowels several bystanders and drug kingpins while loudly sniffingppearances -- because of how much cocaine he's done [ bear noises [ light laughter ] oh, my god, he is cocaine bear [ light laughter ] also, i'd argue nothing is creepier than the way tucker carlson joyously says he's amused. >> reporters hate trump with an all-consuming mania. they hate him so intensely that at times it's been amusing to watch. >> seth: that's like data from star trek reviewing a richard pryor album. [ light laughter ] don't get me wrong, i still prefer joyless tucker to when he actually laughs. [ light laughter ] oh, my god, that does sound more terrifying than hearing a bear snort a line of cocaine. [ light laughter ] that's two "cocaine bear" references i wonder if there will be a third? we'll have to wait and see it's a long closer look. [ light laughter ] i also love that even as recently as 2020 tucker was still pretending it was a some sort of grand mystery why people hated donald trump. like even if you forget. all the racist, lying and corruption and bigotry

would add also that from the side of the organised criminal groups, arresting people, a arresting kingpinsoo few countries around the world that have the measures in place and the willingness and initiative to tackle the financial side of the drug trade, seizing assets, seizing money, and pursuing those people, those corrupt individuals and institutions that are allowing this to continue. now to ukraine, and the ongoing fierce fighting for the city of bakhmut in the east of the country. two ukrainian army brigades defending the city's southern flank last week gave the bbc access to their positions as battles continued in and around the city. they say russian casualties far outweigh theirs, but that their enemy is using new techniques to try to seize the city and surrounding countryside. quentin sommerville reports. in war�*s uncertain journey, fates are decided in the unlikeliest of places. ukraine has drawn a line in the mud, and that line is bakhmut. no matter the hardship, the enemy must not pass. this ground must be held. winter has given way to early spring. they hope it might slow ru

"snowfall's" damson idris stars as '80s drug kingpin franklin saint in the show, which is in its sixthe. >> you say you've always been a big denzel washington fan. you finally got a chance to meet him. how did that go down? >> it was huge. it was a great moment for me. i went to see timberwolves with the lakers. i saw him and he kind of snuck off. then two days later at the game, i was like he's going to sneak off again. he walks my direction and goes to shake all of the news people hands and walking right by me, and i'm like, i got to say something. denzel, denzel, hi. thank you, thank you for everything. he's like, thank you, son. [ laughter ] >> did any part of you want to go up to him? >> definitely. he was walking by. i was like, hey, it's damson idris and then he spins, remembers last year when i was getting cooked and he was like, hey, my man, hey, you owe me money. you owe me money. it was just the best -- >> that's a pretty good denzel. >> it was fun. it was fun. full circle moment. >> so final season of "snowfall" coming. what can we expect? >> wow, so it's the endgame really

because once one kingpin goes or gang _ grip?that is the clip art, then they hold, keep the area is safe, then bills to improve areas. if you look at somewhere like toxteth where the rhys jones case somewhere like toxteth where the rhstones case happened, airily 15 years to the day before olivia was killed, rhys years to the day before olivia was killed, rhstones was killed by a stray bullet in liverpool. police say that was a watershed moment, the number of guns being fired has reduced since then. then you hear these headlines, you see cases like olivia's and it all comes back into the public mind. they say in the background of the work is going on to try to change things. last year, five people were killed in five months through stray bullets through shootings. it's not good enough, is it? , , ., ~ ., ., , it? there is still work to do. it is interesting. _ it? there is still work to do. it is interesting, in _ it? there is still work to do. it is interesting, in the _ it? there is still work to do. it is interesting, in the pa

often when a kingpin is eliminated, what happens is, there is fight for control of the cartel so youn violence. host: which one of the three was el chapo's cartel? guest: you got me. i think it was helly scope. host: the line for democrat, good morning. caller: there seems to be a big demand, so to decrease the demand for drugs in united states, perhaps we should use money for drug addiction by putting up billboards all over the interstates. that, use of drugs finances terrorist organizations. perhaps it will weigh on the conscience of the american public that demands these drugs. guest: again, that is an interesting idea. i think the connection you are making is an important one. these organizations that sell drugs also are engaged in other illicit activity, whether smuggling of people, cigarettes -- we had a program at the wilson center several months ago about the illicit movement -- the movement of illicit cigarettes from the u.s.-canadian border through latin america. it is the same groups. you are right, the drug traffickers are involved in a lot of other activities that we wou