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Kash Patel: “A lot of the CCP processors of fentanyl precursors are no…”

Featuring: Kash Patel, Republican | Former Chief of Staff to the Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense | National

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Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel

Published | Video Starts at 1:19:42

Basically. If you look at last year versus this year, our enemies and adversaries, as I said in the beginning, are adapting, have gotten smarter. So A lot of the CCP processors of fentanyl precursors are no longer going to the narco traffickers down south. They're going down there into terrorist organizations and shipping it up north. They're making it in Canada and then they're dumping it down here. Why? Because of the tyranny of distance. (1:19:42–1:19:49)

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Asserts that CCP processors of fentanyl precursors are not going to narco traffickers in the south.

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