John Bickley

You track the cartels, particularly partnering with progressives to influence Washington.

Can you unpack that for us?

Well, and have you seen any sort of reversal of this with Trump coming in power in the last year?

Is there a real effect in Washington?

Are there legal implications for these ties?

Anybody tied to these cartels now?

Are the stakes higher now for them?

You also hit something that we've been covering on and off here on this show for a few years, and that's the U.S.

visa program.

You say it's being exploited by actual spies.

What evidence did you find of this?

Are there any efforts to close this kind of loophole?

It's more than a loophole, but this loophole that allows this kind of thing?

One of the points you make that's really interesting is we all talk about what happens to people when they arrive in the U.S.

You say we should back up and really start the conversation way before that.

Some of this, some of what you've already touched on actually addresses some of these things.

But what do you mean by this?

And again, as you mentioned, the cartels have so much influence in Mexico.

So the cartels certainly shaping that content as well.

It's a pretty large question, but what are the national security implications for all of this, what you've uncovered?