that is just and so corruption becomes a huge issue and we focused on that. and president karzai has agreed and he has upgraded the office against corruption in the government. they want to feel this is not a war without end just like americans. hence, the enormously important addition of the reintegration and reconciliation programs. they want to feel that they will get their lives back and that means emphasizing agriculture. it s an agricultural country that used to export ag products until the soviet invasion. we made agriculture the top nonsecurity priority in this administration. in the previous administration, they were spending more money destroying poppy crops than agriculture. you saw that yourself when you were down in the south, how we re not going after the poor poppy farmers anymore. we re going after the big drug lords and interdictions. so we had to make all these
operational control within the land border we fully expected there would be an attempt to make illegal entries through the maritime environment. jon: how often is it happening? i mean, you got these two boats and good on you for that, but how many others are we not getting? any idea? well, what i can say is that through our maritime unified command which is complied of components within dhs and local strategic partners, we re making more interdictions through the maritime environment through a collaborative effort. jon: what s the danger? obviously that s a very small boat. if you had 14 or 18 people in that boat, that s pretty heavily loaded and i m guessing they don t exactly put life jackets on board for everybody. you know, it s extremely dangerous. it s something that we re very concerned about. the people who the criminal organizations who are smuggling individuals, they are really not concerned about the safety of the people within those vessels, and yes, there s a very mu
that the fact that we are doing these interdictions and the fact that the officers were off duty at the particular time, word got back to operatives in mexico, when the traffickers fled back into mexico, that those off duty officers, when they are in uniform that is one thing but when they are out of uniform they are not to take any police action against any type of drug running activities that will come across the border and if they do they ll be targeted by those particular organizations. martha: this word was transmitted to you how? that word was brought to us through our information operatives, through the the mexican drug trafficking organizations. martha: what are those officers doing now to protect themselves when they are not wearing their uniforms? we have seen the violence that happens, dramatically on the other side of the border, and we have seen it leak over the border as well. certainly, the assistant police chief was assassinated earlier this year. so, we are takin
secretary of state rex tillerson is speaking now about iran at the state department. let s listen in. interdictions by emiraty forces in yemen and coalition forces in the arabian sea have revealed a complex iranian network that can arm and equip the huthis. they continue to undermine the freedom of navigation in the persian gulf by a racing u.s. naval vessels that are operating lawfully. iran has conducted cyber attacks against the united states and our gulf partners. iran has been behind terrorist attacks throughout the rest of the world, including a plot to kill the then saudi ambassador to the united states. whether it be assassination attempts, support of weapons of mass destruction, deploying destabilizing militias, iran spends its treasure and its time disrupting peace. iran continues to have one of