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Rick Scott: “70% of the drugs that you put in, if you don't buy from a…”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

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And so I talked to him every time about drugs. I said, you release it today because of China, not because of cartels, because of China. Right. That 70% of the drugs that you put in, if you don't buy from a pharmacy, have fentanyl in them. fentanyl in them. One pill can kill you. That is what communist China is doing to us. You can talk about all the atrocities they do to their own citizens, but what they're doing to Americans is despicable. (13:40–13:48)

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