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Kash Patel: “Fentanyl is a synthesized, manufactured drug. You don't clip…”

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

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FBI Director Kash Patel Discusses Fentanyl Operations and Transparency on Crossfire Hurricane

Published | Video Starts at 01:26

Operation Raptor. It's really across four continents, but not only the fentanyl, but also the precursors to fentanyl from China. Brett, almost no one's talking about it. Fentanyl is a synthesized, manufactured drug. You don't clip it from a tree. And if you want to choke off the amount of fentanyl that's pouring into America, that's killing an American citizen almost every seven minutes, you got to go to the source. (01:26–01:31)

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Asserts that fentanyl is a synthetic drug, not naturally derived.

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