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Bob Casey Jr.: “We have to go at the source of the problem, at the source of…”

Featuring: Bob Casey Jr., Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

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Senator Bob Casey and Fentanyl Fathers' Janet - Director, PA

Published | Video Starts at 01:35

Chinese, where the precursor chemicals are made, Chinese companies and their CEOs, as well as Mexican drug cartels. So We have to go at the source of the problem, at the source of it, which is like many things, money. We've got to go at them and make them pay by making it more expensive for them to engage in this kind of criminal activity and also to go after these transnational criminal gangs that are perpetuating this. (01:35–01:44)

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Asserts that the source of the fentanyl problem is financial in nature.

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