lawrence jones. we are awaiting a news conference from senator lindsey graham on the cartels, set to begin any moment. it comes after the horrifying kidnapping of four americans. we know two americans are dead with two of them hospitalized, after getting caught in the cross fire between rival cartels. this happened just blocks from the united states southern border. two people were killed, their friends and survived. what they endured was absolutely terrifying. senator graham wants to introduce legislation that would treat these cartels as terrorists groups and allow the president to use the military to go after them. am going to introduced legislation to make certain mexican drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations under u.s. law and set the stage to use military force if necessary to protect america from being poisoned coming from mexico. what would lindsey graham do? i would tell mexicans if you don t clean up your act, were going to clean it up for you. see three he
decade, since 2012. senator kennedy and i are going to join forces. hopefully democrats will be involved, to label these organizations as foreign terrorist organizations under u.s. law. that is the top of the food chain. mto designation is the highest designation. what would it mean? it means that all the precursors coming from china, chinese chemical companies and chinese enterprises would be subject to being prosecuted under u.s. law providing material support to foreign terrorist organizations, something that you can t do today. we re going to open up the prosecution. i am a firm believer that the prosecution model as it exists today is not working. so what are we going to do? we are going to up the ante. we are going to designate these groups and others if appropriate