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iden, that the next time you see her she's going to come back stronger, meaning more charisma, a better presentation, a little more crisp message, you know, on point. And so that's what I would look for because I believe she's very coachable. Harris is unique in that she doesn't seem to have any problems that I would consider unsolvable natural problems. It all seems like technique. Now some have…

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I've got a theory about Mexico. There was a story that the Mexican military stopped a big crowd of Guatemalans who were trying to penetrate the southern border of Mexico, if I understand this right. And Mexico is doing a good job for the United States, being a good neighbor and partner by stopping it before it gets to our border. And I say to myself, you know, why is it that the government of Mexico was so good on this point but not good on, let's say, fighting cartels? Because I look at what the government of Mexico is doing. They're putting a lot of money and resources and it feels like they're doing it almost entirely for the benefit of the United States. Does that seem in character? Does it make sense given the other things they're doing?

So how does it make sense that they're so flexible — and really more than flexible, they're putting major effort and resources into doing something we want, stopping people coming through their southern border before they get to our border — but at the same time it feels like they're doing absolutely nothing about the cartels, at least in terms of how much we've offered to help them and they've said no, let's go with the hugs not

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the guns. How can you explain those two things? Well, unfortunately there is one way to explain it. Now I'm not going to say that this is the truth. I'm going to say that it would explain our observation in a way that nothing else does. And it goes like this: the cartels effectively own the government of Mexico. The cartels make a tremendous amount of money helping small groups of mostly Mexican…

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