Do you arrest them and treat them, pat them on the head and say, don't do that again? Or do you end the problem directly by taking a lethal kinetic approach? And that's the way President Trump has authorized the War Department to look at these cartels [with a lethal kinetic approach]. And I wish everybody could be in the room watching. Our professionals, our professionals like Mitch Bradley, Admiral Mitch Bradley and others at JSOC and SOCOM and other commanders. (03:25–03:31)
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Asserts that President Trump authorized a military approach against cartels.
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