John Cornyn: “About 70,000 of those [deaths] were from fentanyl.”

“These are the same people who facilitated the movement of drugs across the border in massive quantities that took the life of more than 100,000Americans last year alone. About 70,000 of those [deaths] were from fentanyl. a word that's become more common lately because it is ubiquitous. It's everywhere. It's in states like Montana, states like Texas.” (06:04–06:08)

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