neil: democratic congressman henry cuellar in the last hour talking about revelations that were shocking and released late on a friday night. that s what happens with a lot of information that could be very embarrassing to authorities, but in this particular case extremely embarrassing anybody for everyone in this country. 251,000 plus migrant encounters at the border last month. we have never seen that, forget about in any december, in any month in our history like ever, ever, ever. griff jenkins in eagle pass, texas with the ramifications of that. my friend, to you. griff: neil, that s unbelievable. that s the population of scottsdale and the border agents are exhausted. and let me take you to our drone in the sky and lift you up. in this is where they have more than 160,000 crossings here in this fiscal year so far and that s just one sector alone. as you take a look at this crossing here, title 42, people just going across moments ago. and the video that we shot before th
in florida i m sorry, california, six were killed, including a mother and her baby seen as a drug cartel hit. william la jeunesse on that part of the story, the violent part. william. well, neil, in many ways for years or decades cartel violence was largely relegated to mexico. that s no longer the case and when we say cartel, here is what we mean. a drug cartel is a criminal organization. there s a structure, a chain of command and each cartel controls its own supply chain, manufacturing, smuggling, transport, enforcement, accounting and distribution. but there is definitely a path that we can follow from the kingpins through the wholesalers and through the mid level distributors into the hands of the people selling the drugs on the street corners. now, today, roughly five cartels compete for trafficking drugs and migrants. among the first was the gulf cartel which built routes into
did this, randi, because this is so cold and calculating that this is like a business deal gone bad, you know. dr. jeff was just talking that there has been speculation that this was a drug cartel hit. in that case, you wouldn t care. you re literally going in there and you re going to take care of the problem and the problem is four living beings. if this, in fact, was a family dispute, there were other ways to take out the adults and leave the children unharmed. could have been taken, you know, in the middle of the night. it could have been an execution when the children were still asleep in their bed. so the execution of the children tells me it s probably not somebody who was close to this family because, again, everybody talk about how special these little boys were and how special they were. if you knew those children, how hard would it be to murder them and put them in their own special grave next to their
from a high powered rifle. the murder weapon was 323 caliber assault rifle. mccleaned had been taking extra precautions since his deputy was killed two months ago. he carried his gun and had protection at his house for about a month. colleagues are devastated. i m a human being. i have family members that i love dearly. people that i have work with every day that are professionals. and to say that we re not concerned would not be truthful. but to walk around in fear, my life goes on. and while there has been plenty of speculation the aryan brotherhood may be responsible. there is also people who say this is is a classic look of a drug cartel hit in mexico, shep? shepard: hey, dan. it s my standing other public officials are getting extra protection as well. absolutely. all other county officials at the courthouse. we saw at the courthouse today that security was stepped up.