distorting the truth. it began with court documents revealing fox s tucker carlson was privately skeptical of election lies, contempt youts yous of the former president, texting someone saying i hate him passionately even as he indicated to viewers the opposite. a dominion voting systems lawsuit, carlson was on the air lying about january 6th. reporter: the crowd was enormous, a small percentage of them were hooligans, they committed vandalism. you ve seen their pictures again and again, but the overwhelming majority weren t. they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionists. they were sight seers. that spectacle using cherry picked footage house speaker mccarthy released only to him was just the beginning. the former president claimed that city, state and federal prosecutors are practicing good old election interference, all caps, and then there was something else that happened that didn t get as much attention, but is important, it involves
that they do not believe that this is sincere, that this is exactly what fred was mentioning. perhaps a way to try to diffuse a lot of the scrutiny that has come upon this group. we know that there have been a number of u.s. officials saying that the american government should be sending troops over into mexico to combat this cartel. that has obviously caused widespread condemnation from mexican officials nlkd d including the mexican president. they re causing all of this widespread attention, i think they re trying to make that go away. there have been calls, lindsey graham and others for getting having u.s. troops involved in one way or another. is any of that realistic at all? i mean, that s just something that the mexicans are not going to allow, is it? no, not at all, anderson. i think that s a lot of posturing on the u.s. side. i mean, look, this is a big deal. this is one of these inflection points, and obviously we re going to try to put pressure on the government of mexi
it s also incumbent upon all of us and especially in the business community too, anderson, with travels and so forth of executives going down into mexico and the manufacturing environment there, we really need to pay attention to the state department travel alerts. look, there s 32 states in mexico and six are no-go areas that the state department says to stay out of, and this was one of them. yeah, josh campbell, fred burden, i really appreciate you being on tonight. thank you. coming up now, intense fighting continuing in eastern ukraine. we re going to get you an update on that, and we want to tell you about one ukrainian soldier who has been called. plus the latest on heavy winter weather that has millions under flood watch tonight in california. heading on a family trip? nah, sorry son, prices are crazy,
lake incident involving david and tiffany heartily, and thousand here we are in 2023. i think what the cartel at least specifically the gulf cartel is trying to do now is a little bit of pr spin. they recognize the power of the media, and they understand how this has resonated inside the united states, and like i said earlier, the skrucrutiny i havet seen since the 2010 incident at falcon lake. josh, what do you think was the motivation behind releasing this apology letter? well, i think it s just that, in talking with officials that were on the american side, they lie aez with their mexican counterparts. they said exactly what fred just said, fred is one of the foremost security experts in the world who has done a lot of work in trying to combat some of these very dangerous groups, and in this case, you have a cartel that is obviously very violent. they routinely engage in brutality, and yet here they are saying we apologize to the people of mexico, to the americans, to the mexica
they apparently called the clinic and said that they were running late. as they swrd entered mexico around 9:1020 it appears they drove around for two hours, they were tailed and engaged by members of this cartel. it is worth pointing out that a source tells me that there s no indication that they were doing anything wrong, that they were there for criminal purposes. authorities still want to piece together this time line. josh, stay with us, i want to bring in the executive director of the ontick center for protective intelligence and author of the book ghost confessions of a counterterrorism agent fred burden. in your experience, is it unusual for the cartel to not only apologize for an attack like this but also turn over five people? yeah, it s very odd anderson. i know you and i have followed these incidents for quite some time, and if you look back, this is one of these interesting inflection points, you know, going back to 1985 with the kidnapping of the dea agent and then