Kash Patel: “Every seven minutes in this country as of last year, an…”

“One of our initiatives, of course, is to continue to fight against illicit fentanyl trafficking and narcotics trafficking into the country. Every seven minutes in this country as of last year, an individual, an American citizen, is killed from a drug overdose. To that end, we have enacted along with our partners across the interagency in the Southwest Border Intelligence center. The Counter Cartel Coordination center is what we call it, the FBI, the C4.” (26:36–26:44)

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