ready for it. china was hugely 150 years ago, china was taken over by much lesser countries because they were all drugged out on the opium and all the problem. bret: communist regime. they dropped the hammer. they were all drugged out. and they were totally they were a disaster. they were taken over by other smaller countries, large sections of china. and then things happened and they had strong leadership and they put in the death penalty any have been able to build. president xi without death penalty nonfunctioning country. bret: my point is you are getting hit from the right being soft on crime because of the first step act and then you are saying that that would be your policy. marc short the vice president s staff said that this weekend. the most unseemly part of our administration was the pardons he gave to cocaine traffickers.
putin met with the mothers of the russian soldiers. he said he believed russia is not actually fighting ukraine in this war but is fighting those, as he put it, that are supplying and funding the ukrainians, which obviously seems to be the u.s. and also countries of nato as well. so certainly vladimir putin pretty hard in saying that. this morning we had dmitry peskov saying he does not believe there is any room for negotiations with them either. fred pleitgen, thank you so much for staying on top of that for us. quick hits around the globe. police joining forces to take down a super cartel of cocaine traffickers. it was taken from spain, netherlands, uae. 49 suspects taken down. china is going to launch the
component. today they can pose a small sliver of the workforce, with some 2000 agents, they represent less than 3003% of the irs employees. their goal is to take down modern-day occupants. just this week, i repeat just this week they put a whole network of cocaine traveler traffickers behind bars. you think republicans would be happy about that. apparently not. they don t want the irs stockpiling animal they say, which spoiler, is actually bs. yes the internal revenue has bought some $700,000 worth of ammunition this year. remember the cocaine traffickers they have to deal with? but this is not some new, unusual development that the trump administration spent that a same amount of money on the irs. so they are not uniquely stockpiling ammo and they re not 87,000 armed agents coming to get you. so wooded this much repeated and ominous 87,000 figure come from? seriously, it s become a
Swiss bank Credit Suisse was found guilty by the country’s Federal Criminal Court on Monday for failing to prevent money laundering by a Bulgarian cocaine trafficking gang, the first such criminal trial Switzerland has seen against one of its major banks.
who were posing as cocaine traffickers from a mexican drug cartel. the country has long faced accusations of corruption and dishonesty within govenrment. and the day after fahie s arrest, a report commisioned by the islands governor said the territory should be returned to direct rule from london, and its constitution suspended. from the british virgin islands, nomia iqbal reports. well, there were protests this morning where i m standing, right outside the governor s house, of around about 200 people. and they were really angry. they showed up with signs saying, cooperate, don t dominate , no uk colonial rule , uk, look after yourself, deal with their own problems, that sort of thing. people are really angry about the idea, certainly the ones that were here this morning, of direct rule. when i put to them the results of this commission of inquiry, which basically said that there s a chronic failure