Former CIA officer Amaryllis Fox and former Navy Seal Kaj Larsen take us inside the business of drugs on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’
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Pete, welcome back
PETE, welcome back
a retired Navy seal and CIA
officer teamed up to see how
money moves inside the world of
Narcotrafficking,
the war on drugs, cost
millions of dollars and
thousands of lives, and the only
way were going to understand
how to bring it to an end is to
understand the economics that
drive it.
This
is a global
multi million dollar business.
No one will stand up and talk
about drugs,
PETE, the business of drugs.
A six part series investigates
the impact of the drug trade on
our economy.
Joining us now is executive
producer of the series and
retired Navy seal Kach Larson. As
long as with CIA officer and
Host Amaryllis Fox,
we will get a mission you and I
had last year and do again this
year in a second
I didnt know you were an
executive producer.
Congratulations on a hit series
here,
tell us a little bit about it.
Well, thank you, PETE.
You know its hard to
communicate what we are swimming
in the Hudson there.
I had the great honor of being
age to create this series.
I have been covering
narcotrafficking for over a
decade
and I was able to look at these
drug cartels through the prism
of economics
when you do that.
What it reveals is that drug
cartels essentially operate like
multinational corporations.
They have supply chains,
they have distribution wings,
they even have marketing
departments,
and when we looked at drug
cartels through that cold hard
lens of economics, it revealed
things about how they operate to
helped us. Take them apart and
understand them.
You know in its highest form
PETE. As you know, journalism is
intelligence gathering
operation,
so I picked the best
intelligence officer. I know my
good friend Ann
to penetrate networks to
understand how they operate.
Pete tell us about that
whats, something in addition to
the economic side.
You know, Kaj has been in the
Navy seals and you have been in
the CIA.
What are average folks going to
learn about drug traffic from
this
one of the things that struck
us time and again and how much
overlap there is between all of
those worlds, a lot of financing
for the terror operations that
take the lives of american
citizens and others around the
world actually come from the
illicit narcotics trade
thats. Why its so important
that the policies that we we hav
in place are actually effective
in dealing with the drug trade
thats? Really what kaj and I
wanted to take a look at
it was just tax day.
We are all aware of where every
one of our dollars goes.
It shouldnt be going to failing
policies.
So when we see decade after
decade, more and more drugs
pouring across borders,
the war on drugs, isnt working,
we were really interested in as
to why not
PETE what I can tell rocketed
to the top of the viewing list
on Netflix a huge success.
Congratulations,
I do hope folks check it out.
Daj the Gi Go fund did a swim
across the last year.
I did it. I did not do it alone.
You were my swim. Buddy
did I not train at all?
At one point I had to grab on to
your shorts and you pulled me
across the Hudson.
I did a little training this
year.
Do you think a little training
can get me across the river by myself this year,
myself this year
am amayylls have been been
investigating drug trafficking?
You will have to do it without
me.
Pete. We will announce it more
next weekend
we are doing it again for the Gi
Go fund, swim live in the Hudson.
I will be getting in short
shorts and giving it a go.
You are doing so much more than
that Kaj and Amayyllis
congratulations.
I have faith new. Both.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-29.