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 Fentanyl...is killing an American citizen almost every seven minutes. you got to go to the source. So one of the first things I did when I became the director of the FBI, I said, we're going to mainland China. (01:26–01:41)
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