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Jim McGovern: “More fentanyl comes from China and Mexico than Venezuela.”

Featuring: Jim McGovern, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 2nd Congressional District

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Trump is Sleepwalking America into a WAR with Venezuela

Published | Video Starts at 06:10

Venezuela isn't listed as a fentanyl source or transit country in any edition of the National Drug Threat Assessment. More fentanyl comes from China and Mexico than Venezuela. Maybe the chairman wants to go to war with China and Mexico. And by the way, as was pointed out, Donald Trump pardoned the ex Honduran president of Honduras who was found guilty of drug trafficking. (06:10–06:16)

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Asserts that more fentanyl comes from China and Mexico than from Venezuela.

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