ancestrydna can pinpoint where your ancestors are from. and the paths they took to a new home. could their journey inspire yours? order your kit at ancestrydna.com shannon: a very serious charge tonight against the obama administration. a bombshell report alleging they deliberately sabotaged the governments own efforts efforts to fight terrorists, drug and money-laundering operations. doug mckelway digs into the report. today the united states, together with our allies and partners, has reached a historic understanding with iran. at what cost was the nuclear deal with iran reached? a politico investigation alleges the obama administration, in an effort to reach the agreement, drastically curtailed efforts to interdict cocaine shipments into the u.s. by hezbollah.
tonight against the obama administration. a bombshell report alleges the government deliberately sabotaged its own efforts to fight terrorist, drug, and money laundering operations. doug mckelway tells us why. today the united states, together with our allies and partners, has reached a historic understanding with iran. at what cost was the nuclear deal with iran reached? a political investigation alleges the obama administration in an effort to reach the agreement drastically curtailed efforts to interdict cocaine shipments in the u.s. by hezbollah, a terrorist organization closely allied with iran. for years it s been known hezbollah have been active in the latin american drug trade. in 2015, a dea official told a congressional panel that operation cassandra, a massive law-enforcement effort to stop the hezbollah drug trade, was inextricably curtailed. for some unknown reason, we
became too dangerous for bush. his role in facilitating cocaine shipments didn t raise enough red flags the murder of an american soldier, the wounding of a second and beating of a third in panama forced president bush s hands. he ordered 27,000 american troops to invade panama in december of 1989. the troops were quickly overwhelmed and 23 u.s. soldiers were killed and 300 wounded before noriega was apprehended. he was tried in france on drug money laundering charges and extradited back to panama and died from complications of a brain tumor under house arrest. he asked to be judged by the same level of treachery has his captors but he also asked for forgiveness. bill: thank you, doug. that s out of washington shannon: the white house is pushing back hard against the onslaught of media reports
undergo public safety assessment. tucker what do you think? this country has too many laws. dennis hastert is penalized for taking money out of his own checking account. let s not be decadent. don t forget what 80s or 90s were like. you couldn t go to the grocery store without being jumped. crime will jump when we open up prison gates. american history we tend to overcorrect on everything. do it thought fully so the crime rate doesn t spike. melissa: this is what makes me nervous. i ap did analysis found there were defendants with semi-automatic weapons and robbery and crimes, moved cocaine shipments across states and participated in international heroin smuggling. this is what the ap found, julie, doing investigation of people being considered here. yeah. look i am generally for criminal justice reform. ran paul was on the couch last
supplemental this year that s helpful, but more resources are needed. we also need on our side of the border further efforts like president bush did with the deployment of 6,000 national guard and president obama has done, something less, but 1500 level. so again, it s a comprehensive problem, it s a complex problem, and it requires both the comprehensive and complex solution. arthel: ain t that the truth. it s very complex. are you surprised that this drug war is spilling into the water? no. not at all. we ve seen that when i was chief of staff, we witnessed the drug cartels are a multi-billion-dollar industry. so we literally witnessed them as we tightened up along the united states border, take to the water. so for example, they have literally engineered semi submersible or submarine capabilities where we have interaddicted large cocaine shipments offshore as far as the galapagos islands. one of the things the united