Kash Patel: “In just a three month span, you had 8,700 arrests of violent…”

“And it's only seven months in. And to do that, our vehicle to do it of choice was Operation Summer Heat, which the FBI architected to go after violent criminals. And In just a three month span, you had 8,700 arrests of violent criminals. You had 2200 firearms seized off the streets permanently. To safeguard our community, you had 421 kilograms of fentanyl seized. Just to put that in perspective, that's enough to kill 55 million Americans alone.” (11:25–11:30)

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