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Kristi Noem: “We have stopped enough lethal doses of drugs from coming…”

Featuring: Kristi Noem, Republican | Secretary of Homeland Security, Former Governor of South Dakota | National

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Published | Video Starts at 01:57

We every day we protect people in their communities, but also our cybersecurity is all through the Department of Homeland Security. Our Coast Guard is out doing interdictions on the water. We have stopped enough lethal doses of drugs from coming into this country that would have killed 1.7 billion people. That's what the department has done in conjunction with our law enforcement officers in protecting in just the last 12 months. (01:57–02:05)

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Asserts that the Department of Homeland Security stopped enough drugs to potentially kill 1.7 billion people.

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