Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) said over the weekend that changing the power dynamic in Ukraine is critical to forcing Russian President Vladimir Putin to the table and bringing the war to an end.
Crenshaw made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; with host Margaret Brennan when asked about what continued role the United States would have in backing Ukraine.
He said that the Trump administration wants lasting peace in Ukraine, which means that security assurances must be put in place to prevent future wars from erupting.
&#8220;I think the Europeans have to play a huge role in that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;One of the things that gets talked about a lot is European forces actually acting as a peacekeeping force.&#8221;
&#8220;The Ukrainians clearly have a seat at the table and then the United States will be the intermediary as we try to establish a peace deal,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But the Europeans need to demand a seat at the table by being uncomfortably aggressive, which is something they haven&#8217;t done. You should be threatening things to Putin that actually make you uncomfortable because that&#8217;s the only language Putin speaks is power.&#8221;
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He said that America&#8217;s message to Europe was that if they wanted to win, they needed to bolster their defense spending and not rely so heavily on the United States.
&#8220;You need to be talking about where you&#8217;re going to be putting actual troops on the ground,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Stop following our lead and actually take the lead. Let us be actually holding you back. That would be an ideal situation and vastly change the power dynamic when dealing with Putin.&#8221;
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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) shut down CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins during an interview this week after she suggested that he was not qualified to make the judgment of whether transgender individuals are capable of serving in the U.S. military.
The exchange happened Monday night on &#8220;The Source&#8221; when Collins asked Crenshaw, who served in multiple combat deployments as a Navy SEAL: &#8220;Why would you be making that decision, and not a medical professional, or someone who makes those decisions about vision, or whatever issues they evaluate, before deploying somebody?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m saying, by definition, if you have transitioned into a different gender, you are not meeting our medical standards,&#8221; Crenshaw responded.
Collins responded, &#8220;But that&#8217;s your opinion.&#8221;
&#8220;No, it&#8217;s not an opinion,&#8221; Crenshaw fired back. &#8220;That is a pretty easy-to-prove fact. It makes it much harder on our units to deploy. Period. Like, full stop.&#8221;
When Collins asked how there were transgender soldiers in the U.S. military right now, Crenshaw responded: &#8220;There&#8217;s a difference between identifying — like, again, look, you could show up to your job, the next day, and say that your name is now, Ken. That&#8217;s different. You can identify that way. And that was Trump&#8217;s old policy, by the way. They would allow you to serve that way.&#8221;
&#8220;But there&#8217;s a very big difference between doing that, and actually undergoing medical procedures that take you out of service,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And yes, you call it medical leave. But that&#8217;s some pretty severe medical leave. So, why would we allow that? And then you say that you&#8217;re deployable to austere environments? No way. That&#8217;s just not true.&#8221;
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Kudos to <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanCrenshawTX</a> for the SERIOUS pushback on <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kaitlancollins</a> on the issues of transgender individuals serving in the military. <a href="https://t.co/UXCJ6Zfpyz">pic.twitter.com/UXCJ6Zfpyz</a>
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) <a href="https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1884268198796877987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas is investigating how much taxpayer money is spent on sex change treatments for minors.
Crenshaw wrote a <a href="https://crenshaw.house.gov/_cache/files/8/a/8a28f577-2e5a-4652-bc80-9aa575b03f7b/21A280C4216D446A74F004A3826B38DE.crenshaw-letter-to-cbo.pdf">letter</a> to the Congressional Budget Office on Thursday asking for a review of federal programs that allocate funds toward sex-change treatments and operations from therapy to surgery.
“Cosmetic self-harm for minors is not medicine. Children’s hospitals offering gender-transition procedures should be stripped of their federal funding. To eliminate support, we must first expose the full extent of government complicity in this ideological fantasy, paving the way to cut it during budget reconciliation next Congress.” Crenshaw said in a <a href="https://crenshaw.house.gov/2024/12/reps-crenshaw-presses-the-congressional-budget-office-to-estimate-the-cost-of-gender-transition-for-minors">statement</a>.
The congressman’s letter requested data on the “total aggregate dollar amount spent to fund ‘gender transition procedures’ during Fiscal Years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, including a breakdown by year and by each federal program (e.g. Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program) that distributed funds to medical institutions performing ‘gender transition procedures’ on minors during Fiscal Years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.”
He also asked for a breakdown of the growth of the funding directed toward sex change treatments.
Last year, Crenshaw <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/crenshaw-moves-to-block-taxpayer-funds-for-childrens-hospitals-that-transition-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> legislation to block taxpayer funds from going to hospitals and treatment centers that offer sex-change treatments for minors. He added the provision to a reauthorization of the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Payment Program. Crenshaw’s legislation has yet to receive a vote on the House floor.
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“‘Gender affirming care’ for minors is indistinguishable from child abuse, and it is quickly becoming the human rights issue of our time. There is no other human rights atrocity in America that is so quickly gaining momentum and validation within the very institutions that should know better,” Crenshaw said in a statement to The Daily Wire at the time.
“One of these institutions is children’s hospitals. In a place where ‘do no harm’ is the ultimate guiding principle, there is no excuse to ever perform treatments that permanently alter a child’s physiology,” he continued. “From now on, we will not allow a dime of taxpayer funding to go toward children’s hospitals that cater to the harmful pseudoscience that is ‘gender affirming care.’”

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Several House Republicans replaced the three American flags that were torn down in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday by &#8220;pro-Hamas protesters&#8221; who burned them while chanting &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221;.
&#8220;Earlier today, pro-Hamas protesters took down the American flags at Union Station, burned them and raised Palestinian flags,&#8221; House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) posted on X. &#8220;Tonight, we righted their wrong. American flags are once again flying over Union Station. We will not let the terrorist mob win.&#8221;
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🚨 Speaker Johnson and a group of House Republicans led by <a href="https://twitter.com/RepWilliams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepWilliams</a> say the Pledge of Allegiance after replacing the American flags that were taken down by those protesting Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to Capitol Hill <a href="https://t.co/lvwm0SMBoS">pic.twitter.com/lvwm0SMBoS</a>
— Ryan Schmelz (@RyanSchmelzFOX) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanSchmelzFOX/status/1816298016917058026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
Johnson was accompanied by multiple Republican members of Congress, many of whom are U.S. military veterans, including Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), and Rep. Morgan Luttrell (R-TX).
&#8220;We raised the flags back up🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸,&#8221; Crenshaw posted on X. &#8220;Earlier today, terrorist sympathizers tore down the American flags at Union Station, burned them, and raised the Palestinian flag in its place. After votes tonight, a group of members, including many veterans and the Speaker of the House, took our flag back and raised it.&#8221;
&#8220;Took a while to get it done because the Hamas supporters broke the connections, but DC police helped us out and got us zip ties,&#8221; he added.
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Earlier today, terrorist sympathizers tore down the American flags at Union Station, burned them, and raised the Palestinian flag in its place. After votes tonight, a group of members, including many veterans and the Speaker of the House, took… <a href="https://t.co/hYbqLmxe21">pic.twitter.com/hYbqLmxe21</a>
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1816307303588474895?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Tearing down and burning the American flag in the name of Hamas is disgusting and reprehensible,&#8221; Van Orden wrote. &#8220;These terrorist sympathizers will not win. The American flag will fly again.&#8221;
The extremists, some of whom were flying Hamas flags and wearing Hamas headbands, were protesting in response to the Israeli Prime Minister delivering a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday where he thanked lawmakers for their continued support of Israel.
“We recently learned from the U.S. Director of National Intelligence that Iran is funding and promoting anti-Israel protests in America,” he said. “They want to disrupt America.”
He said that those participating in the protests were “Iran’s useful idiots” since they were supporting a terrorist regime that “hangs gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair.”
“Some of these protestors, it’s amazing. Absolutely amazing. Some of these protesters hold up signs proclaiming, ‘Gays for Gaza,’” he said. “They might as well hold up signs saying, ‘Chickens for KFC.’ These protesters chant, ‘From the river to the sea,’ but many don’t have a clue what river and what sea they’re talking about. They not only get an F in geography, they get an F in history.&#8221;
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Netanyahu</a>: “They refuse to make the simple distinction between those who target terrorists and those who targets civilians, between the democratic state of visual and the terrorist thugs of hamas we recently learned from the national security… <a href="https://t.co/eYH02IEWQo">pic.twitter.com/eYH02IEWQo</a>
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1816180871298249209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2024</a></blockquote>

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The following is an edited transcript of an interview between Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley and Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/dan-crenshaw-s-crusade-against-ideological-persecution-saturday-extra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saturday Extra edition of Morning Wire</a>.
The Biden administration’s prosecution of a Texas doctor who blew the whistle on transgender procedures being conducted on children in the state has sparked accusations of political and ideological persecution. We spoke with U.S. congressman from the state of Texas, Republican Dan Crenshaw, about what actions he and his colleagues are taking on the issue of child transgender medical procedures and what they say is the weaponization of the federal government.
JOHN: Joining us now is Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw of Texas. Congressman, thank you for coming on. Let&#8217;s start with the prosecution of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-doctor-blew-the-whistle-on-his-hospitals-transgender-clinic-now-the-feds-are-trying-to-ruin-his-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Eithan Haim</a>. He worked at the Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital in your district. He&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-doctor-at-the-center-of-latest-texas-childrens-hospital-scandal-built-an-alliance-with-transgender-activists?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">being prosecuted</a> after blowing the whistle on the hospital because it was continuing to perform transgender procedures on children, even after the Texas AG said that practice is dangerous. You believe this is a political prosecution. Why?
DAN: Well, I believe it&#8217;s political because it&#8217;s unusual for the DOJ and HHS to bring somebody up on criminal charges for HIPAA violations. And if you look at what they&#8217;re really charging him with, it&#8217;s a stretch to say it&#8217;s even a HIPAA violation. So they&#8217;re charging him for unlawful access to the database, but of course he has access to that database, to patient data. He did not release any personal information on those patients. He anonymized any data he released. So you have to squint really hard to see this as a HIPAA violation and to justify federal agents arresting him for doing this. This is the kind of thing where you might think Texas Children&#8217;s might have a civil case against him for it, and they would go to the courts as such, and there might be a fine involved, right? That&#8217;s what you would normally expect from this. But these are criminal charges being brought against him for accessing a database that he has perfectly lawful access to. Of course it&#8217;s political because this is such a politicized topic. This is the topic of affirmative transgender care on minors. It&#8217;s pretty contentious, I&#8217;ve noticed, because I&#8217;ve introduced legislation in the Congress and watched even my most moderate, reasonable Democrats throw their hands up like crazy people and argue with me that it should be okay to do a double mastectomy on a 12-year-old girl just because she thinks she&#8217;s a boy. So, hyper-politicized.
JOHN: We&#8217;ve seen the Biden administration prioritize this issue in a way that we&#8217;ve never seen another administration do. What do Republicans need to do if they want to counter the Democrat agenda on this?
DAN: Conservatives need to fight back against it. Now, in Texas, shortly after this whistleblower blew the whistle on Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital, Texas passed SB14, which prohibits this practice entirely. Then, there was no question. After that, I think it can be said that all the hospitals in Texas stopped doing these procedures because it was made in law. Prior to that – and what Dr. Haim was referencing when he blew the whistle – was an opinion from the Attorney General. So the Attorney General issued an opinion, which is a fairly normal thing to do, saying, look, we&#8217;ve looked into this, our interpretation of the laws based on child abuse laws says that you cannot do this practice. So, hospitals are taking a risk at that point if they move forward because they could be prosecuted by the Attorney General because he&#8217;s made it clear what the interpretation is of that law. And then again, shortly afterwards the law was made extremely clear: You cannot do this in Texas.
JOHN: Then we have the Title IX changes, which do directly address gender identity and make this something for all publicly funded educational programs.
DAN: Yes, I have a new daughter now, she&#8217;s nine-months-old and God help the people who try to put a boy in whatever sport she wants to play. There&#8217;s not enough wrath for them. We have to fight this and the public is on our side — the public is on our side on all of these issues. We saw a Washington Post survey some time ago that asked the public, ”Do you support puberty blockers or hormone therapy for minors for a gender transition?” They didn&#8217;t even ask about surgeries, by the way – just asked about those two things. 70% said no. This practice of affirmative gender care is being rolled back in Europe. They&#8217;re seeing how the data just doesn&#8217;t add up. The recent systematic review by Dr. Cass from the U.K. really was the final nail in the coffin on this practice. After reviewing all of the data and all of the studies and all of the methodology behind each study, it showed that this practice just doesn&#8217;t come with any benefits, but it does come with enormous risks. And that&#8217;s a really big problem. These are huge long-term physiological changes, and if we can&#8217;t even point to any benefits from doing them – well, then we&#8217;ve got a problem on our hands.
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JOHN: Indeed. I want to talk about some actions you&#8217;ve taken related to this. First, you sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Health and Human Services Secretary Javier Becerra, demanding all documents regarding the prosecution of Haim. In the letter, you say the prosecutor did not even review the evidence before considering him a target. Is that true?
DAN: That&#8217;s true, as far as we know. That&#8217;s from Dr. Haim&#8217;s lawyers and I don&#8217;t think they would make that claim if they didn&#8217;t have some sort of proof. Again, showing how politicized this is. I mean, they see a case like this and they say, “Let&#8217;s go, let&#8217;s go! Boom, boom, boom.” And they start shooting in the air and hooping and hollering and driving off into the sunset. That&#8217;s yet another reason we think this is politicized. This kind of thing should not be done lightly.
JOHN: Do you expect AG Garland to actually cooperate? He&#8217;s been pretty uncooperative so far with Congress. Do you feel like he&#8217;s going to stonewall again?
DAN: Absolutely. I don&#8217;t expect real answers to this. They&#8217;re going to come back and claim — if they even bother to respond— that it&#8217;s an active investigation and that they can&#8217;t possibly share records or any information about it. I have another piece of legislation, which I think would be quite helpful in this. I&#8217;ve been urging the Speaker to take it up because it&#8217;s already passed out of our committee on energy, and my legislation would actually prohibit funding the children&#8217;s hospitals around the nation, specifically for Graduate Medical Education (GME), which basically funds their residencies. It&#8217;s a federal program that helps fund residencies and hospitals. A good program we all like, but I don&#8217;t think you should have access to that kind of federal money if you are engaging in child abuse and bullying parents into “transitioning” their kids. So, again, the public is well behind us on this. I want to have that debate on the floor and get that moving.
JOHN: And that would block funds from going to that program if you did that, if you promoted transgender treatments and procedures for children.
DAN: Right. Your access to that federal money would be contingent on whether or not you perform those kinds of procedures.
JOHN: Final question: We&#8217;ve seen quite a few seemingly political prosecutions by government agencies, against Donald Trump and many of his attorneys — John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani — and even peaceful pro-life objectors. What do you make of what Jim Jordan calls a “weaponized” government?
DAN: Well, look we even created a subcommittee on Jordan&#8217;s Judiciary Committee to deal with this called the Weaponization of Government Select Committee. Obviously it&#8217;s something we take seriously as Republicans, and we&#8217;re not crazy. I&#8217;m the first to call out my own side when people are overreacting or going down some rabbit holes they shouldn&#8217;t go down. But this isn&#8217;t really one of them. There is a list of these prosecutions and they are out of the ordinary. We obviously just talked about this one, which is just simply out of the ordinary. Anything wildly out of the ordinary in the court of law should be looked at with some skepticism and you should note that there might be political bias there. The charges against Trump – I still haven&#8217;t heard one real good lawyer actually come out and say, “No, these are actually real charges, somebody else might get charged with this kind of thing.” Nobody has said that. Everybody knows they&#8217;re bogus. And the list goes on and on, and it&#8217;s ironic because the Democrats are constantly wringing their hands and clutching their pearls — that were probably donated to them by rich people in Hollywood. And they&#8217;re constantly wringing their hands about the “threats to democracy.” Well, one of the greatest threats to democracy is the upending of the sanctity of our judicial system. And if you don&#8217;t believe you can get a fair shot in a court of law, you do start to lose your democracy. That&#8217;s a huge part of our social contract, of our nation&#8217;s fabric that holds us together. This idea that there&#8217;s due process, that if you make the right arguments and you show the right evidence that you can prevail. If that turns out not to be the case, you&#8217;ve got a very, very serious problem on your hands, just from a basic civics perspective.
JOHN: A very troubling prospect, no doubt. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us. 
DAN: Thanks for having me.
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Catch the full interview between John Bickley and Dan Crenshaw on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/dan-crenshaw-s-crusade-against-ideological-persecution-saturday-extra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morning Wire</a>.

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The following is a transcript excerpt of a special Sunday edition of Morning Wire. The full episode can be heard <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/promise-peril-veterans-promote-psychedelics-to-treat-addiction-6-25-23">here</a>.
As the Opioid epidemic continues to ravage the United States, scientists and lawmakers are taking a novel – and controversial – approach to combating the crisis: psychedelics. Despite continued concerns about the drugs, a number of studies have shown promising results and some states are beginning to fund research. Now military veterans and advocates say that one psychoactive substance in particular, Ibogaine, offers a potential medicinal breakthrough that could save lives.
Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley sat down with reporter Tim Pearce to discuss the potential medical applications of psychedelics.
JOHN: Tim, this is a fascinating topic that’s gaining steam in Washington and within the veteran community — while also prompting lots of questions and concerns. First, how did we get to this point — this official interest in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-psychedelics-are-revolutionizing-the-way-we-treat-mental-illness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">psychedelics</a>?
TIM: Understandably, when a lot of people hear the word ‘psychedelic’ they instantly think of illicit drug use, with images of Woodstock coming to mind. But that perception is starting to change — especially in the medical community, where a number of recent studies have shown that psychedelic drugs could have immense benefits in treating drug addiction, PTSD, and a slew of other mental health disorders. The drug getting the most attention is called Ibogaine — a substance derived from the Iboga plant in Africa. Traditionally, Ibogaine has been used in shamanistic rituals for its hallucinogenic properties, but a growing number of scientists say it’s a powerful tool in combating addiction. Back in the ’60s, a scientist named Howard Lotsof <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/us/17lotsof.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took Ibogaine</a> recreationally with six friends — all of whom were frequent heroin users. According to Lotsof, all but one in the group saw their heroin addiction disappear overnight, with no withdrawal symptoms. That experience led Lotsof to devote much of his research career to studying the scientific components of the drug — he commissioned a number of studies over the next few decades that showed similar effects, but Ibogaine failed to gain mainstream attention. It wasn’t until the last decade, as the Opioid epidemic descended on the U.S. and scientists began looking for alternative treatment plans, that Ibogaine really burst onto the scene.
JOHN: Right. Tell us about some of the studies that showed promising results.
TIM: So, for years there’s been anecdotal evidence that psychedelics helped people address problems in their personal lives — everything from PTSD to addiction. But there wasn’t much hard data to go on. Because the drugs are illegal throughout the U.S., it’s difficult for scientists to conduct legitimate studies on them. But in recent years, scientists have begun to dig into psychedelics and their potential medicinal applications, and the results have been pretty surprising. For example, A study in the <a href="https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/1/2/article-p65.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of Psychedelic Studies</a> found that 80% of patients who underwent Ibogaine treatment “eradicated or drastically reduced withdrawal syndrome” for a variety of addictions.
JOHN: So how exactly does Ibogaine work in breaking addictive tendencies?
TIM: That’s what scientists are still trying to understand. Once ingested, Ibogaine typically results in an 18-36 hour period where users experience often intense psychoactive experiences. According to users, those experiences produce deep introspective periods that encourage and help convince people to reassess their addiction, but more importantly, there’s the biological component. Again, we still don’t know all the details, but scientists at <a href="https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/06/14/psychedelic-drugs-reopen-critical-periods/">Johns Hopkins</a> say Ibogaine appears to re-wire serotonin receptors in the brain and restore brain activity to pre-exposure levels. It seems to chemically erase addiction pathways in the brain for many users — and reportedly does so after just one or two doses. While other psychedelics that have been studied more extensively for their medicinal qualities, including psilocybin, MDMA, and Ketamine typically take a round of treatments before relief is felt. Ibogaine, on the other hand, appears to work right away. That’s an important element of treatment.
JOHN: Some of that scientific evidence has drawn the attention of lawmakers. How are they reacting?
TIM: Yeah, most people wouldn’t expect to see politicians publicly calling for research into psychedelic drugs — but as more evidence comes out, that’s exactly what we’re seeing in states around the country — especially those hit hardest by the Opioid epidemic. One of the states investing in Ibogaine research is Kentucky, which last year had the second highest rate of drug overdoses in the country. Just weeks ago, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron introduced a proposal that would potentially allocate $42 million over the next six years to research Ibogaine for treating drug addiction, PTSD, and a host of other mental illnesses. At that same event, Bryan Hubbard, Executive Director of the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission, detailed the research some of that money will be used for. Hubbard said:
<blockquote> “Anecdotal evidence that is a mountain high and decades wide suggests that Ibogaine, within 48 to 72 hours of administration in safe, clinically-controlled conditions, resolves Opioid withdrawal syndrome. It appears to do so by clearing and resetting the brain&#8217;s Opioid receptors while also restoring the brain&#8217;s organic dopamine and serotonin production to pre-Opioid exposure levels. If this anecdotal evidence can be clinically validated, Ibogaine would represent a transformative therapeutic for treatment of Opioid use disorder…”</blockquote>
TIM: Morning Wire also spoke with Hubbard for more context on the potential medical applications of Ibogaine and why he wants more research into the drug.
<blockquote>“Due to Ibogaine’s unique properties, it has the capacity — and a very accelerated time frame — to clear the brain&#8217;s Opioid receptors, while simultaneously restoring the brain’s organic dopamine and serotonin production,” said Hubbard. “Which is almost always completely shut down in an Opioid-dependent individual.”</blockquote>
TIM: Hubbard also expressed caution: 
<blockquote>“It&#8217;s important to note that Ibogaine does come with some risk, and that risk is associated with potential cardiac toxicity. If an individual receives Ibogaine treatment, it is imperative that they receive it within a medically-controlled setting with trained professionals. It is not safe to receive in the underground or recreationally. Anyone that would suggest that Ibogaine would be appropriate to consider for decriminalization is not properly understanding the risk that comes with it or the necessity for administering it within a safe, medically-controlled setting with the appropriate medical professionals present throughout.”</blockquote>
TIM: It’s worth noting, the proposed money to fund that research is coming from an $842 million payout the state received as part of a federal lawsuit against pharma companies for their role in the Opioid crisis. This proposal is important because it marks the first wide-scale effort from a state or federal government to research the drug. Keep in mind, Ibogaine is still illegal throughout the U.S., so it’s hard to know just how many people are using it. But as word of its medicinal application has spread, a growing number of Americans are venturing to places like Australia and New Zealand, where it’s legal. This move paves the way for potential decriminalization, at least in a medical setting.
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JOHN: Beyond treating Opioid addiction, Ibogaine is also gaining traction in the military community especially. Tell us about that.
TIM: There’s also compelling evidence that the drug is useful for treating PTSD and other service-related ailments. Retired three-star Marine Corps General Martin Steele, the head of the Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition, says that while Ibogaine should not be used for everyone, it should be a tool in the arsenal for veterans in need.
<blockquote>“The existing clinical research and the growing body of personal anecdotes suggests that Ibogaine, when used with careful medical screening, treatment protocols, and oversight, has incredible promise for treating veterans and others struggling with Opioid addiction,” he said.</blockquote>
TIM: Another veteran leading the way for Ibogaine treatment is Tommy Aceto, a retired Navy SEAL. Aceto told us he first heard of the treatment from fellow SEALs struggling with PTSD and drug and alcohol addictions.
<blockquote>“This is going to be crazy to say this, but there&#8217;s guys that wake up and they go &#8216;I don&#8217;t ever want to drink again. I saw what it did to me.&#8217; They&#8217;re not white knuckling it at this point,&#8221; said Aceto. &#8220;This doesn&#8217;t work for everyone, but I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I&#8217;ve seen guys say that — and I&#8217;m one of them. I didn&#8217;t have to white knuckle an addiction. They were gone.”</blockquote>
TIM: Aceto says that while experiencing the psychedelic effects of Ibogaine, he was confronted with the reality of his addictions and trauma and came out a new man. In his words, he’d tried a number of treatments and medications that didn’t work and viewed Ibogaine as a last-ditch effort for healing.
<blockquote>“I felt a reset in myself. There were a lot of triggers, or what I would call “threats,” and they were diminished tremendously.  And I had stopped taking all the medication that the Navy gave me —  probably about 13 pills.  That was a shocker. In our community, when you feel better, you want to tell as many people as you can.”</blockquote>
JOHN: We’ve seen similar calls for government action from veterans serving in Congress. Give us more details on what we’re seeing out of Washington. 
TIM: This month, a number of congressmen, including SEAL veterans Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) and Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), introduced legislation that would allocate $75 million towards research into psychedelics. Here’s Rep. Luttrell speaking outside the capitol:
<blockquote>“Make no mistake, my journey, my experience with this treatment was the most horrific experience of my entire life. It was absolutely miserable. This is not something you do recreationally. The medications I took were Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT. It gives me the &#8220;hibbity jibbities&#8221; even thinking about doing it ever again, which I never will do. I will never tell anybody to do this — ever. If you find yourself in a place where you are lost, and no other modalities have worked, this could possibly be that tool. I can honestly stand here in front of all of you and the American public and say this, I was reborn. This changed my life. It saved my marriage. It is one of the greatest things that ever happened to me. I’ve never done a drug in my entire life, but I had to go overseas to do this.”</blockquote>
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JOHN: But we’re still talking about a pretty heavy-duty drug here. You mentioned earlier some of the potential risks associated with its use — what do detractors say?
TIM: This is by no means a closed case in the medical community — there are plenty of doctors who are skeptical about the use of these drugs, and it’s definitely worth noting that psychedelics like Ibogaine can have some serious negative side effects. Most notably, the drug can cause an irregular heartbeat and result in severe cases of ataxia — an affliction that impairs balance and speech. Ibogaine is also especially dangerous when those using it have other drugs in their system, including Opioids, cocaine, or antidepressants and other SSRIs. That part is important, because many users take Ibogaine because they’re addicted to those very drugs. Proponents of the treatment stress that patients must complete a detox from any drugs before taking Ibogaine. And there are also plenty of folks leery of psychedelic use on religious grounds. Ibogaine users often compare the trance they enter to a spiritual state, and often report that during their hallucinations they encounter a sort of being who guides them through the experience. Many people of religious conviction say using any form of psychedelic drug — even in a medical setting — is essentially playing with fire.
JOHN: Well, obviously we want to approach this kind of drug with a lot of caution required here. Thanks for reporting.
TIM: Thanks for having me.
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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-crenshaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Crenshaw</a> (R-TX) slammed the U.S. government in a Thursday interview for its &#8220;epic failure of leadership&#8221; in its effort to find OceanGates&#8217; missing Titan submersible.
The remarks come after U.S. officials announced earlier in the day that the vessel had imploded, killing all five people on board.
The Wall Street Journal later <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-navy-detected-titan-sub-implosion-days-ago-6844cb12?mod=hp_trending_now_article_pos3">reported</a> that the U.S. Navy had detected the moment that the vessel imploded earlier this week using &#8220;a top secret military acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines.&#8221;
Crenshaw told reporters on the Capitol steps that this was a case of &#8220;epic failure in leadership,&#8221; although he was not sure whether the lapse was the fault of the White House, the Navy, or the U.S. Coast Guard.
Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, said that the critical failure in leadership was the fact that the U.S. assets – a 6K ROV and a Magellan submarine – were not deployed sooner to join rescue efforts.
“Now, it’s important to note that if you had just deployed those assets, they would have arrived on scene by Wednesday morning at the latest,” Crenshaw said. “That tapping continues to be heard and chatted about in all these channels throughout Wednesday. Then it stops late Wednesday. They finally deploy this 6K ROV, the only thing capable of actually going to that depth and seeing what’s down there, this morning. It deploys down there and the wreckage was exactly where they thought it would be. So where’s the failure here? The failure here is to not put all your options on the table.&#8221;
Crenshaw said that industry experts told him that the implosion sound the Navy heard could have &#8220;easily been the sub just hitting the floor.&#8221;
&#8220;And then you add that with this tapping, which was apparently like your standard procedure SOS, every half hour, you are hearing that throughout the day Tuesday and Wednesday, it begs the question — could this have been resolved differently if leadership had just acted sooner and actually put options on the table instead of just assuming? Well, it doesn’t matter because they’re dead,&#8221; he added.
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The U.S. healthcare community is rapidly isolating itself from its Western counterparts in its insistence that puberty blockers for children should be approved.
Finland, France, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom have altered their perspective on the issue, now taking the position that caution should be used before allowing minors to use puberty blockers. The U.K.’s National Health Service for England now curtails the use of puberty blockers, limiting their use to clinical trials in most cases.
“These countries have done systematic reviews of evidence,” Leor Sapir of the Manhattan Institute think tank, told <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-becomes-transgender-care-outlier-as-more-in-europe-urge-caution-6c70b5e0?mod=hp_lead_pos4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal.</a> “They’ve found that the studies cited to support these medical interventions are too unreliable, and the risks are too serious.”
Canada, Spain, and Australia still allow puberty blockers for children, although pushback is growing.
“It’s beneficial to see European countries coming to their senses,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) stated, adding of Republicans, “This is the issue of our time. This is a hill we’re gonna die on.”
At the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, delegates approved  a resolution that was co-sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology that stated, “When young children experience feelings that their gender identity does not match the sex recorded at birth, the first course of action is to support the child in exploring their gender identity &#8230;”
Crenshaw <a href="https://crenshaw.house.gov/2023/6/crenshaw-leads-effort-to-block-program-funding-for-children-s-hospitals-that-transition-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authored a bill</a> titled “The Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act “ that would block federal funding for children’s hospitals that provide transgender treatments or procedures to minors.
“There is no other human rights atrocity in America that is so quickly gaining momentum and validation within the very institutions that should know better,” he stated. “One of these institutions is children’s hospitals. In a place where ‘do no harm’ is the ultimate guiding principle, there is no excuse to ever perform these treatments that permanently alter a child’s physiology.”
Last week, Crenshaw grilled Yale School of Medicine assistant professor Meredithe McNamara, who had accused Crenshaw of having “cherry-picked” data.
“It is very unscientific and flawed to pick a single study or a single statistic and discuss it in isolation,” McNamara declared. “Medical experts are able to talk about all of the evidence as a whole.”
“Totally agree,” Crenshaw responded. “It’s good to look at systematic reviews, right? That’s the gold standard of evidence when you’re trying to understand whether something works or it doesn’t. So the British Journal of Medicine looked at 61 systematic reviews with the conclusion that,” ‘There is great uncertainty about the effects of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries in young people.’ The Journal of the Endocrine Society came up with the same conclusion, even the American Academy of Pediatrics. They all cite the lack of evidence.”
“If you’re doing a therapy, and it’s temporary, fine, whatever, maybe let’s try it and see if it works,” he continued. “But when you’re talking about permanent physiological changes, do you not agree, just from an ethical standpoint, that you might want extremely strong evidence of the benefits? There is no systematic review that states that there is strong evidence of benefits.”
“Sir, are you aware of how the quality evidence grading system works and how it’s applied?” McNamara said archly.
“Yeah. Yeah, we’ve read through it,’ Crenshaw replied. “That’s why I’m citing these journals. So which journal says something different? We should have that debate. Tell me a journal that has done systematic reviews that cites different evidence, that cites strong evidence of benefits for these therapies.”
“The standards of care were developed based on extensive—” McNamara began.
“You’re not telling me any journal; You’re not telling me any study, don’t say ‘standards of care,&#8217;” Crenshaw interrupted. “Tell me one.”
“So, um, the standards of care,” McNamara repeated.
 “That’s not a journal, that’s not a study. That’s not an organization. That’s not an institution. You’re just saying words. Name one study,’ Crenshaw fired as his time ran out.
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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-crenshaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Crenshaw</a> (R-TX) charged a Democratic witness to cite evidence for her claim that sex change treatments were beneficial for children — which she was unable to do.
In a heated exchange posted to Twitter by <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1669076486760931328" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post Millennial</a>, Crenshaw repeatedly asked Dr. Meredithe McNamara, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine, who has <a href="https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/Meredithe_Mc_Namara_CV_06_14_23_Redacted_03c2aac0f1.pdf?updated_at=2023-06-13T20:43:02.374Z" target="_blank" rel="noopener">written</a> extensively in defense of “gender affirming care” and abortion, to provide peer-reviewed evidence that such treatments are beneficial to children. McNamara was unable to cite one study, falling back on pointing to the “standards of care.”
“‘The standards of care.’ That’s not a journal. That’s not a study. That’s not an organization. It’s not an institution. You’re just saying words. Name one study,” Crenshaw chided.
Crenshaw <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFA86SyUa7w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> reviews from the British Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, which all conclude there is little evidence that gender transition treatments are beneficial for minors.
He cited a review in the Journal of the Endocrine Society that found there is “low quality evidence for the idea that hormonal treatment improves quality of life, depression, and anxiety among adolescents.”
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Dr. McNamara pushed back, saying, “It is very unscientific and flawed to pick a single study or a single statistic and discuss it in isolation. Medical experts are able to talk about all the evidence as a whole.”
“Totally agree,” Crenshaw said. The Texas Republican went on to cite the British Journal of Medicine, which looked at 61 systematic reviews and concluded that there was “great uncertainty” of the treatments.
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Crenshaw pointed out that “the important part” was that because these findings were “systematic reviews,” they are by definition “all encompassing review[s] of all the data” and are not “cherry-picked” evidence, as the witness claimed.
Crenshaw then asked McNamara, “Do you not agree — just from an ethical standpoint — that you might want extremely strong evidence of the benefits?”
McNamara continued to push back, eventually citing “the standards of care” as evidence for why those treatments were beneficial. Crenshaw noted that the Yale doctor was unable to name a single study, journal, or review that supported the idea that such treatments were beneficial.
The debate occurred on the House Health Subcommittee in consideration of Crenshaw’s bill that would block federal funding for hospitals that provide gender transition treatments like cross-sex hormones and sex change surgeries.
Earlier in the hearing, Crenshaw attacked Democrats’ use of the term “standards of care,” saying that the schematic reviews he cited show that Democrats are using the term as “propaganda” and not as “an accurate representation of the data.” He further contended that “gender-affirming care” is founded in “pseudoscience and radical ideologies.”
Crenshaw also pointed to a May Washington Post poll that showed 68% of Americans disapproved of using puberty blockers on minors, arguing that such a contentious issue should not be funded by the federal government since most taxpayers disagree with it. He cited the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-push-for-taxpayer-funded-abortion-remove-historically-bipartisan-amendments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hyde Amendment</a> — which bars taxpayer money funding abortion at the federal level — as a precedent for his legislation.
“Let’s not put taxpayer money toward something that is so obviously unproven and contentious. It’s really not that contentious — 70% of Americans oppose it, so the American people are pretty much on the side of not doing this, or at least pressing the pause button,” Crenshaw said. He also pointed out that the U.K.’s National Health Service <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/englands-national-health-service-abandons-gender-affirming-model-of-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">limited</a> access to such procedures by minors.

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-crenshaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Crenshaw</a> (R-TX) is expected to introduce a bill Friday that would reauthorize a program providing taxpayer funding for children’s hospitals with a catch: No hospital that provides transgender treatments to minors will be eligible.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> Republican plans to bring a bill to the House that reauthorizes the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Payment Program. The bill would extend the program, which started in 1999, for five more years through 2028 at $325 million a year.
“‘Gender affirming care’ for minors is indistinguishable from child abuse, and it is quickly becoming the human rights issue of our time. There is no other human rights atrocity in America that is so quickly gaining momentum and validation within the very institutions that should know better,” Crenshaw said in a statement to The Daily Wire.
“One of these institutions is children’s hospitals. In a place where ‘do no harm’ is the ultimate guiding principle, there is no excuse to ever perform treatments that permanently alter a child’s physiology,” he continued. “From now on, we will not allow a dime of taxpayer funding to go toward children’s hospitals that cater to the harmful pseudoscience that is ‘gender affirming care.’”
The program provides funding for children’s hospital graduate medical education departments to offset the added cost of training resident physicians and dentists. Crenshaw’s bill would amend the program to make ineligible any children’s hospital that performs transgender surgeries or hormone treatments for the purposes of transitioning children.
“No payment may be made under this section to a children’s hospital for a fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 2024) if, at any point during the preceding fiscal year, such hospital furnished gender-affirming care … to an individual under 18 years of age,” the bill says, according to a draft of the legislation obtained by The Daily Wire.
The legislation defines “gender-affirming care” as “performing any surgery for the purpose of changing the body of such individual to correspond to a sex that differs from their biological sex.”
The bill carries exceptions for special cases, such as a patient with “both ovarian and testicular tissue” or a patient who, through testing, has been determined to “not have normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action.” Also exempted are treatments for patients suffering from complications from prior transgender treatments or surgeries.
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The bill has an additional carve-out allowing hospitals to treat patients who are “suffering from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as certified by a physician, place the individual in imminent danger of death or impairment of a major bodily function unless the procedure is performed.”
The legislation would not preclude hospitals from offering “mental or behavioral health services” to children with gender dysphoria, as long as those services are not aimed at transitioning the child.
Transgender ideology and treatments, especially as they relate to children, have moved to the forefront of American politics in recent years. An increasing number of states are passing legislation to ban explicit transgender materials from schools and the treatments and procedures from hospitals.
A recent undercover investigation by Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s team <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-undercover-investigation-catches-trans-health-care-providers-falsifying-patient-info-to-fast-track-sex-change-surgeries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that transgender health care providers are green-lighting patients to receive transgender treatments even when these patients do not meet criteria for approved surgery according to standards set by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. The providers purportedly provide letters to patients upon request that argue such procedures should be covered by insurance companies.
The investigation has sparked outrage among Republican officials. Several state attorneys general have taken <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/utterly-disgusting-ags-lawmakers-across-u-s-react-to-startling-findings-from-matt-walshs-trans-health-care-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notice</a> of the investigation’s findings and suggested that their own offices may follow up with medical fraud investigations into transgender health care providers.

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Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw confronted the Biden administration and environmentalists on Wednesday, saying that they are putting the nation at risk because of their hostility to mining.
Crenshaw pointed out in a long <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1620917909433487360" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter thread</a> that despite what some environmentalists may propound, “Wind turbines and natural gas plants are not a one-to-one trade off. Building wind turbines and solar panels requires 10x the materials to deliver the same amount of energy we get with oil and gas.”
“Building a 100MW wind farm requires: 30,000 tons of iron ore, 50,000 tons of concrete, and 900 tons of non-recyclable plastics — and that’s just the basics,” he explained.
He also noted that the United States has become more dependent on foreign countries for minerals.
“Countries like China have eaten our lunch when it comes to lithium refining. Lithium matters because it goes into all sorts of batteries, especially for electric vehicles,” he said. Lithium is also crucial for consumer electronics and energy storage.
Then he mentioned various sites where mining has been inhibited, thus contributing to a shortage of valuable minerals, starting with the <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2022/08/03/lithium-mining-oregon-alvord-desert-playa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">huge amounts of lithium deposits</a> in Oregon, where he said activists have impeded mining “that could support production of 1 million electric vehicles annually.”
“Why?” he asked rhetorically. “To protect the sage grouse — which, let’s be honest, is basically a fancy chicken.”
Turning to Nevada, he stated that lithium mining at the proposed Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine was &#8220;tied up&#8221; because of a <a href="https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuit-seeks-emergency-protections-rare-nevada-wildflower-2020-09-29/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> involving Tiehm’s buckwheat, which allegedly could become endangered.
Crenshaw noted that President Biden <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/01/26/biden-administration-cancels-twin-metals-leases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">canceled leases</a> in 2022 in parts of Minnesota that could provide copper, nickel, and cobalt from mining, also pointing out, “It’s also the only sizable place in the country where we get taconite.”
“Why does taconite matter? Steel,” he declared, explaining, “Taconite gets taken out of the ground and turned into steel. Steel goes into every structure you see around you. And right now, China is one of our biggest steel competitors.”
“National security aside — it’s lunacy to think that any other country is mining cleaner or with fairer labor practices. I’d rather give those jobs to Americans. For the sake of the planet and American workers, it pays for the U.S. to take the lead on this,” he argued.
“America is blessed with resources, resources we can use for things like solar panels and wind turbines and everything else we need. Why don’t radical environmentalists want to use them?” he concluded.

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Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=409099&amp;utm_source=cliplist&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cliplist20230120&amp;utm_content=story409099" target="_blank" rel="noopener">championed</a> the use of the U,S. military to combat the drug cartels smuggling deadly fentanyl across the southern border into the United States.
Crenshaw spoke with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, who prompted Crenshaw by asking what it was that had Crenshaw concerned.
“Well, look, we recently introduced AUMF, an Authorized Use of Military Force against the cartels and any other organizations that traffic fentanyl specifically,” Crenshaw answered. “So why now and why not years ago? These Mexican drug cartels have been around for a while. The difference now is fentanyl.”
“This is not a drug problem; this is not a war on drug problem; this is a poisoning problem,” Crenshaw declared. “And they are killing about 80,000 Americans a year. And the Mexican government does very little to thwart this.”
“I think there should be bipartisan efforts in Congress to pass an Authorized Use of Military Force to deal with them,” he asserted. “If anything, that simply gives our president more leverage when trying to get the Mexican government to do its job, its job on thwarting immigration, which the cartels also control, and thwarting fentanyl coming north across our border and killing American citizens.”
Crenshaw turned to the deadly intentions of the drug cartels: “These people are a lot more like ISIS than they are the mafia. You recently saw a war in the state of Sinaloa after the Mexican government arrested El Chapo’s son. These cartels can actually battle close air-support; they’re battling government helicopters. This looks a lot like Mogadishu; it looks a lot more like Mogadishu that it does your typical organized crime battle, these people are well-equipped, they set up operating bases that are well-armed, right near our border, and they’re extremely dangerous. They’re some of the most capable, most well-funded, most dangerous organizations on the planet, and they’re right there.”
“Mexico is at risk of becoming a failed state,” he noted. “We have to work together with their government to deal with this.”
“The Mexican government has always resisted more U.S. involvement, and that’s to their detriment,” he insisted. “And so we are at a point now where their resistance is not only hurting them, it’s killing our citizens. And that’s when we have to say enough is enough; you’re gonna cooperate with us; we have an AUMF here that we’ve given the president military authority now; and so you’d better work with us, because we don’t want to do this without you but we will.”

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