an antiquities dealing. cocaine. car smuggling. you name it they are international illicit finance ring. dea was leading the effort to shut this down and every time they teed something up for prosecution or arrest, including iranian backed hezbollah operatives in the united states. they ran into a wall. we found out we are finding out through this story. everyone suspected at the time we knew why the iranian deal. pete: this report coming out revealing it to all of us. as someone who knows folks involved in these communities does it surprise you at all it? doesn t surprise me at all. i knew a number of dea agents that were literally pulling their hair out because they had the goods on these guys and they just couldn t get it done when it came to doj and when it came to treasury to approve. you know, one of the things that a lot of folks are hitting at the sourcing of the story. but, buried in the story is actually testimony from an obama-era treasury official who said it in writing