Up to 600 people with suspected links to the Kinahan cartel have been banned from entering American. The aim is to make their world so small, it will finally squeeze them out.  Paul Williams, Author and Special Correspondent with the Irish Independent joined Kieran to discuss if putting harsher sanctions in will make life difficult enough to force them out.

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