Kash Patel: “America will be safe when we don't have 200,000 drug…”

“My question to you, though, is, do you think America is safer because President Trump issued These pardons to 1600 of these criminal defendants, many of whom violently assaulted our police in the Capitol. Senator, America will be safe when we don't have 200,000 drug overdoses in two years. America will be safe when we don't have 50 homicides in a day. You just won't answer the question. I'm going to say I don't think we're safer.” (03:34–03:40)

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