Prescription drugs from illegal Online Pharmacies. A former under cover special agent for the dea joins me now. Robert mazer, is the author of, the infiltrator, a memoir about his life undercover with drug lord Pablo Escobars colombian cartel. We can not show his face for his own protection but he is joining us now from florida. Robert, welcome to the show. Great to have you here. Explain to our viewers a little bit about your career as under cover agent. Sure. I was a federal agent for 2 years. For the greatest portion of that i worked on attacking and identifying commandandcontrol of the colombian cartels and their money launderers. For the all but five years i did that in traditional sense. With search warrants and informants and those types of resources. But, for five years i volunteered to become a longterm under cover agent and to infiltrate the Money Laundering systems of the cartel. So i got the opportunity to do that. And to see how the cartels run firsthand basis. I wound up
Importing coal, even as the president s war on coal slashes jobs in u. S. Energy production and cuts economic growth. In the background today, troubling new developments as terrorist group isis seizes seven oil fields in iraq. Can this nation achieve Energy Independence and security . How can we do it . For more on this nick loris, with the heritage foundation. Welcome, nick, good to see you. Good to be here. Gerri all right, i i want to start with this imports surging, 44 . Were importing coal. Were the saudi arabia of coal, yet were importing coal for use in our coalfired electricity plants. How does this make sense . It doesnt really and we have about 500 years worth of coal here in the united states. If we could buy it elsewhere cheaper thats fine, that makes economic sense. When we have this conglomerate of regulations coming down on the industry artificially driving up cost and devoid of any environmental benefit it is not only affecting industry but us as energy consumers, drivi
Now new warnings, some folks could be doubledipping benefits to the give equivalent of a 20 an hour salary. Here to weigh in, Senior Research fellow at the heritage foundation. Thanks for being with us today, robert. Thank you. Gerri im not sure whatever happened to selfsufficiency but weve got a third of a country on 0 or so welfare programs that country makes available. What do you make of that . Im not surprised at all. For the last 30 years meanstested welfare which provides cash, food, housing, and medical care for poor people, and im not including Social Security and medicare in this account, has been the Fastest Growing component of government. We have roughly a third of the u. S. Population on at least one program and last year we spent 920 billion on these programs. A lot of people think, well this happens during recession, then it goes down when the recession ends. That is absolutely not true. What really happens is, the dependency and spending go up a lot during recessions a
Fundraisers behind closed doors with little or no media access. Just this week, president obama attending six fundraisers, 16 since the beginning of september. Now many believe mr. Obama to be the alltime leader in president ial fundraisers, but thats not the case. Hes in second place. President clinton, the record holder, attending 638 fundraisers in his two terms in office. The president , president obama, is in a comfortable second place, however, still behind clinton by 145 fundraisers. Still time to catch up. Even though unpopular, mr. Obama can still raise a lot of money. Republican strategist karl rove told us here wednesday that democratic incumbents have long been preparing for the obama drag on their poll numbers, and with that, the fundraising advantage that comes with incumbency, most of the senate races would already be over with republicans way out in front. If these were open races, these seats would be settled and settled today. But its hard to beat an incumbent, and ev
The terrorists who committed these murders are not only associated, but were part of an intricate plan put together by international radical islamist terrorist groups al qaeda in yemen, telling Associated Press they started and funded the Charlie Hebdo itself. And despite all of this president obama today again refused to call these terrorists radical islamists. Were hopeful that the immediate threat is now resolved. Thanks to the courage and professional image of the french personnel on the ground. The french government continues to face the threat of terrorism, and has to remain vigilant. President hollande made it clear theyre going to do whatever is necessary to protect their people. Lou live to paris for the latest and take up the president s refusal to call our enemies by their names, talking with admiral James Stavridis here tonight. The Keystone Pipeline project in court while House Republicans passed a bill calling for construction, a bill that has also won support for nearly