Mike Hager

A couple things here.

Mike Hager is listening.

He's at Petty June right now for a cabinet meeting, sitting at Stout's Point watching the sunrise.

That's off to Shea Lewis and team.

So good luck to you this fall as you head into the big one here for you.

Up next, we've got Mike Hager, a candidate for North Dakota House and District 33.

Mike's connection to the lignite industry is about as direct as it gets.

He is president of BNI Energy and BNI Coal and serves on both the Lignite Energy Council Board and the Lignite Research Council Board.

I appreciate the opportunity to be here.

I won't go over too much that Jessica already covered.

I am Mike Hager, that's my name, and I am the president of BNI.

I grew up in District 33, and for those of you not familiar with all the district legislative district maps, District 33 is coal country.

But first, let's talk DEA.

Going to love to get Mike's take on this because he's got tons of investigative experience.

But...

the dea let fentanyl walk across our borders now congress wants the files house oversight chairman james comer has given the justice department until september 14th to hand over dea records on a practice by tracking but not seizing major fentanyl shipments in new mexico between 2023 and 2025 whistleblowers allege as many as 1.8 million pills moved while agents watched dea administrator terry cole defends it our investigations are long term and they are complex and doj's inspector general has opened a nationwide review that must be published including whether or not agents let sales run near middle school in albuquerque common practice

That was a great argument.

Hey, hi.

Thank you, Mike.

But, you know, your argument would be how many lives did that cost? What is the cost? What is the cost of the health care for all the health care, all the Narcan, all the calls for service, all the cops getting in fights, all the by bus that went bad, all the gang shootings that related to that? What is the cost? Does it equal whatever they're going after? What are the feds? I mean.

What is the problem?

Hollowell spoke against that video at a meeting where the Arkansas Legislative Black Caucus was set to address ASP Colonel Mike Hager about the agency's use of force.

But Hager didn't show now another videos gone viral.

It was August 19th when Trooper Teddy Henderson claims he saw a car speeding on Highway 18 in Mississippi County.