In paula hancocks. Paula, the fifth Nuclear Test North Korea appears to have conducted and the most powerful one and coming on the heels of President Obamas visit to asia. Reporter thats right. The timing certainly is interesting, john. The fact is north korea announced on staterun television saying they successfully tested the Nuclear Warhead and they can put that on any one of the Ballistic Missiles. It is impossible for the world to verify that specifically in washington and seoul and tokyo. In the past hour, there has been an intelligence briefing for lawmakers here in seoul. They have said they believe north koreas goal is to mount a Nuclear Warhead on a scud missile. Remember 28,000 u. S. Troops in south korea are here now. This is going much quicker than expected. Intelligence says north korea has advanced quicker than expected. There is large interest around the world in china and japan and russia condemning the nuclear test. It shows that kim jongun is determined to forge ahea
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You to understand how personal this kind of situation is. when you ve got 150 people, 200 people crossing the border every day. one of the metrics that i keep using is that my state has a population of 560,000 people. over 10 times that population has crossed the border illegally in the last two years. that s exacerbating all kinds of problems throughout the country. inflation, increased costs. we have a lack of housing, affordable housing in certain areas, this is only making that situation worse. it also is suppressing wages for american citizens and for legal immigrants. so, there are all kinds of consequences associated with these, again, terrible policies, including the human trafficking toll of this. the cartels are running the border and they are they re trafficking people all over this country. these illegals are bringing in fentanyl. we know about the incredible human tragedy of over 100,000 people who have lost their lives in just the last year because of fentanyl poisoning.
It, this country will be impacted and the return will not be good. steve: it is important to always look at the numbers. they are not going down but only increasing. border agents encountering 560,000 migrants across arizona last fiscal year. again this is just arizona the last fiscal year but keep in mind that is bigger than most cities in the country. the number for fiscal year 2020 already 96,000 as the fiscal year began in october. to the point arizona officials, the border is under the control not of the government and not you guys but of the cartels. the cartels have had over 100 assassinations in the last year. it is not a political discussion. this is national security. this is human trafficking. this is the trafficking of narcotics that are killing americans. steve: sheriffs, combined