when you shoot a man fleeing back into mexico, you should be put in prison. laura: that s just the thing is, that the law goes both ways. nobody supports this criminal activity. the organized crime is on both sides of the border. the u.s. needs to stop the drug demand. this is a worldwide issue. laura: let s legalize drugs and everything will be a nirvana. i don t agree with you. laura: get i support the majority of the people and not supporting trump or the wall. laura: we appreciate it. i m against the wall as most of the country is. laura: no law and order and it will work out well. all right. stop talking. cut your mic. ahead, the new york times glenn thrush now in the afternoon. more news coming out. cbs charlie rose in the evening. power players facing sexual
when you shoot a man fleeing back into mexico, you should be put in prison. laura: that s just the thing is, that the law goes both ways. nobody supports this criminal activity. the organized crime is on both sides of the border. the u.s. needs to stop the drug demand. this is a worldwide issue. laura: let s legalize drugs and everything will be a nirvana. i don t agree with you. laura: get i support the majority of the people and not supporting trump or the wall. laura: we appreciate it. i m against the wall as most of the country is. laura: no law and order and it will work out well. all right. stop talking. cut your mic. ahead, the new york times glenn thrush now in the afternoon. more news coming out. cbs charlie rose in the evening. power players facing sexual
president, but i think the majority of americans feel as though security on our borders is important. how you achieve that is a different story. i believe and i have great relationships with the mexicans. we have great relationships with the mexicans on the border. there in the counter drug fight with the united states. in my view, suffer more from the drug, our drug demand, which we don t seem to address. we re trying to now under the trump administration. but places like mexico, central america, suffer more from our drug demand and do more in many ways to stop that drug flow than we do in our own country. i was recently in mexico before i took this job. i saw mexican military risking their lives pulling out tens of thousands of poppy plants that are basically turned into heroin and consumed by americans. but we need to secure our borders, and that includes the maritime ports. we have unbelievably dedicated
very brave police and judges and attorney general. but we ve got to help those countries. most of their problems are directly attributable to our drug demand. your insurance company won t replace
economic opportunity there. and there s certainly a level of violence that in our country we couldn t imagine. honduras, when i took over in southern command, was the most violent planet by u.n. numbers, most violent country on the planet, 91 deaths per 100,000. our country is about 5. a lot of good work down there. not always perfect. but the president has taken that down by a third. still horrific levels of violence. but my point is, they don t most of the time don t come here for any other purpose than to have some economic opportunities and to escape violence. my view, and i stated this for three years when i was at southern command, when i testified before this committee in april, my you view is if we can help them, if we can help them by reducing our drug demand, which is the fundamental problem of many of their problems, by reducing our drug