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I think president trump i should have thought of this. when the courts came out and rejected his push to ban sanctuary cities. this was one thing he could do. okay, you want to be a sanctuary city, now live the dream. brian: rather than build a wall just get a bus, essentially. so, yesterday was overdose awareness day and, you know, this white house has had some confusing messages first two days ago the press secretary said, you know, it s not like people are walking into the country. of course they re. yesterday, our correspondent was pointed out the number the gigantic number of americans who buy everyday because of fentanyl smuggled across our southern border. and the question was how s the president going to fix it? watch this. but 300 overdoses a day now, we know how the fentanyl is coming into the country, it s coming right across the southern border. the dea administrator says. so so, when is the president going to do something. so i will say that you have ....
Closed and that they have control of the border. our border patrol agents are over taxed and over worked and disheartened by the attitude of the administration. sandra, you mentioned off the top. look at the staggering photo here. a massive fentanyl bust out of california. d.e.a. los angeles announced the seizure of one million fentanyl pills in inglewood south of l.a. the largest fentanyl bust in california in d.e.a. history and associated with the sinaloa cartel. the pills were intended for distribution and had a street value of nearly $20 million. send it back to you. sandra: bill melugin, thank you. bill: more on this now. the d.e.a. administrator is here in studio in new york. good morning to you and thank you for your time. reading about the sinaloa cartel. it is probably the best known cartel. ....
Opportunity. narcotics trafficking, methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl have gone through the roof just in 2021 and continues to rise at very alarming rates. both sheriff barnes and amy nevelle encourage parents to know who their kids are friends with and what they are involved with on social media. alex s mother amy join us now. our hearts go out to you, i can t imagine the agony of losing a child. i want to know what your primary message is, primary message to other parents? my primary message, this is a problem that is impacting everybody. the most dangerous thing you can think is not my child. your chieldz might not do it the way alex did it, maybe a friend gives them something for a headache and that is all it takes. trace: dea administrator says the drug dealer is not just ....
Back with our nbc news exclusive in our series one nation overdosed the new head of the dea in her first tv interview sounding the alarm on potentially deadly counterfeit pills sold on social media. and criticizing platforms for not cracking down more here s kate snow what we re seeing is a staggering increase in the number of drugs, of counterfeit, counterfeit pills. reporter: dea administrator says already this year they seized 9.5 million counterfeit pills, more than the last two years combined dealers advertised the pills as legitimate prescriptions, but they re fake, often containing lethal amounts of fentanyl. what we see from our labs is that 4 in 10 fentanyl pills are deadly 4 out of 10 yes. he was on the floor and gone. reporter: i m so sorry. ....
Fall. obviously, you were acting d.e.a. administrator when the trump administration came to the fore. you stayed there for nine months before you announced you were leaving. why did you leave? the first part is easy. i was asked to serve by attorney general lynch under president obama. i have great respect for the men and women of d.e.a. when someone asks you to do something and you can do it, then you try to do it. the reason i left is more complicated. but i was uncomfortable. and i didn t want to make it about me, rachel. the worst thing that i can do as a leader of an organization like the dea is make it about me. and so when the president condoned the mistreatment of criminal defendants in a speech that he gave in new york, i sent an e-mail to all the men and women of dea. it became public, that was not my intent or my goal, but it became public. because you disagreed with the way the president had we don t mistreat defendants. we respect their civil rights, we respect the ....