program. my pleasure, lawrence thank you. lawrence: got it so foursome from south carolina aren t only whowns may have crossed paths with the cartel. mexican authorities and fbi are now looking for three texas women their families fear they may have been kidnapped. jackie ibanez joins with us latest on this developing story. jackie. jackie: hi good evening lawrence. the women there from the small border town of penitas texas police there say two sisters marina along with their friend crossed into mexico february 24th to set clothing at a flee market in the city three hour drive south of the u.s. border. but after february 28th no one has heard from them. police say they were driving a 1996 green chevy silverado with texas plates. their family fears they may have been kidnapped both mexican authorities and the fbi are investigating. and the wake of this distinct texashas a warning for those thinking of traveling to mexico this spring break.
listen. our department is urging anyone thinking about traveling to mexico especially spring breakers to avoid those areas because right now it is too dangerous with kidnappings that are taking place in mexico so very important and i can t stress enough to those that are thinking about traveling to mexico especially for spring breakers, because that s one thing that we are preparing for in coming weeks is for spring break to avoid those areas as much as possible. very frightening lawrence. back to you. jackie thanks so much we re covering that angle later on in the show former el paso chief and u.s. marshal sir thanks so much for joining the program. so it seems like the cartel is in power doesn t seem like they re two steps behind or three steps ahead of us. so what should we do to go after the cartel and some suggested military action. what do you feel is the best solution here? well, let me tell you the cartel definitely are emboldened
not the only one a former general also former defense minister by the name he was arrestinged at lax airport, and our attorney general then attorney general william barr ordered him to be released. mexico so that mexico can conduct an investigation. that investigation took five days and they said he didn t do anything wrong. that s the problem with mexico. i mean i love mexico there s a lot of great people in mexico. a lot of good people. unfortunately they don t have because of corruption. corruption from the lohse level of law enforcement all the way up to the highest level of the mexican government. so they don t have a chance. i can go to mexico and i do my research i talk to the mexican people, and they want our help because they know the mexican government is corrupt. displawrns you re vieght sir you can separate your love for the mexican people an the towns and the country. from the government sir thanks so much for joining the program. thank you very having me
i don t know if the fun will outweigh the risk i will still go. say what i really want to say? hell no not a chance. not a chance in hell. no. love that momma doctor marc siegel here now react so doc there s, obviously, the mexican component of going overseas there. to party and have a good time but there s drugs here coming directly from mexico at spring break as well. and these kids are experimented but they don t know a lot of this is laced with fentanyl. are you concerned? i am unbelievably concerned lawrence and to underline what your charlie just said you want to know what number is. 380 million pills of two milligrams or more which is lethal were confiscated by the dea last year on this side of the border from those cartels. 380 million and that s just tip of the iceburg stuff. and then he gets into the pills it gets into oxycodone it gets
into mexico with tanks and shooting missiles stuff like that. i can envision our military being involved. cia, if i and dea and hopefully, hopefully working with a mexican official to strategically target the cartel, the leadership of the cartel, and take them out in the same manner that we take out terrorist in other parts of the world. yeah, someone that spends a lot of time with special operators they re chomping at the bit to be able to fight a war that benefits american people. lastly, sir, you talked about mexican government how intertwined is the cartel with the government? and the authorities in mexico very much so. and that became very evident with the recent conviction of the former defense minister garcia l una who was convicted in a new york court a few weeks ago. for working directly with the sinaloa and with gas man he s