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Pete Hegseth: “Flows of fentanyl, a weapon of mass destruction, are down…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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And when adversaries are forced to move out of comfortable positions, as you know, as military men and women, they're more vulnerable when they're moving in a different direction, which is also the point. Drug overdoses that kill our citizens have dropped. Flows of fentanyl, a weapon of mass destruction, are down 56%. We will continue to destroy these threats. In January, US forces raided and arrested the most dangerous house and the most dangerous compound inside the most fortified fort in the … (18:50–18:55)

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Asserts that fentanyl flows have decreased by 56%.

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