• 6 months ago
President Biden spoke about efforts to crack down on fentanyl during the CNN Presidential Debate on Thursday.

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00:00we've ever had by far. President Trump, thank you. President Biden, fentanyl and byproducts
00:04fentanyl went down for a while, and I wanted to make sure we use the machinery that can detect
00:10fentanyl, these big machines that roll over everything that comes across the border,
00:14and it costs a lot of money. That was part of this deal we put together, this bipartisan deal,
00:19more fentanyl machines, more be able to detect drugs, more numbers of agents, more numbers of
00:27all the people at the border. And when we had that deal done, he called his Republican colleagues
00:34and said, don't do it. It's going to hurt me politically. He never argued it's not a good
00:38bill. It's a really good bill. We need those machines. We need those machines. And we're
00:44coming down very hard in every country in Asia in terms of precursors for fentanyl,
00:49and Mexico is working with us to make sure they don't have the technology to be able to put it
00:53together. That's what we have to do. We need those machines. Thank you, President Biden,
00:58President Trump. And again, the question is about.

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