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Markwayne Mullin: “We'd already been having trouble with the cartels flying…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country

Published February 11, 2026 | Video Starts at 17:11

It really, it's going to be something that we're going to have to look at future airports on and have assets positioned because of where El Paso was actually located. Because We'd already been having trouble with the cartels flying drones over and dropping drugs. we had the assets in place to be able to do it. This wouldn't be possible, let's say if it was in Dallas, Texas Right. (17:11–17:18)

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Asserts ongoing issues with cartels using drones to drop drugs.

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Markwayne Mullin

“Mexican drug cartel drones were flying inside the airspace.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 15:40-15:47
“We had to reroute air traffic controllers so we could have the jamming signals in place to be able to jam the drones.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 16:00-16:14
“We're going over the SAVE act and trying to figure out how to bring that to the floor.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 00:21-00:27
“Every day they set out papers from around the, truly around the world that, that you can go in, you can read.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 01:41-01:51
“We have a code that we have access to 24 7.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 01:51-01:55
“You can request any literature of the millions of books they have here, and they deliver them for you.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 01:56-02:04
“There's a lot of stuff that they'll pull that's not been scanned, it hasn't been uploaded.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 03:52-03:59
“I've never bumped into a Democrat here, not one single time.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 05:37-05:41
“37 states in the union already have voter ID [laws].”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 07:29-07:35
“All 13 states [without voter ID laws] are blue states, and all 13 states went for Harris and Biden.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 07:42-07:49
“In 37 states, you haven't seen the minority vote suppressed.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 08:04-08:09
“50 or 51 Republicans are already co-sponsors of the SAVE Act.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 08:48-09:00
“Mitch McConnell and Lisa [Murkowski] are pushing back [against the SAVE Act].”
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“Article 1, Section 4 [of the Constitution] says that the federal government can do certain things with federal elections, not state…”
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“37 states already have a similar law in place that this SAVE Act already has.”
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“The Senate used to be a simple majority, but it had endless debate.”
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“In 1975 is what they put us to the 3/5 to where we are today at 60 vote threshold.”
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“Constitution is silent on [the filibuster]. It's the Senate rules.”
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“We've never done it before.”
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“The Democrats had this same information and they could have released the same information they wanted to when Joe Biden was in office.”
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“If there was anything in these files when Garland was at doj, when Biden was in office, they would have released anything they could have on…”
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“This was a loophole that Jeffrey Epstein was using.”
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“All the information we're getting was gathered by a lot of our intel agencies and not just in the U.S. but our partners too.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 21:46-21:54
“It doesn't appear that Congress has even read in on this or knew anything about it.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 22:18-22:22
“When they were investigating, they would get a lot of the stuff, a lot of documents sealed on purpose.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 22:31-22:39
“The DOJ can't just go in there and open it. They have to get it signed off by them.”
SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country | Uploaded February 11, 2026 | 22:47-22:52
“This is why males should never be able to participate in a female sport.”
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