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These cartels get empowered. right? the estimation, something like $150 billion in 2016 spent by americans on illegal drugs. now, because they're illegal, they go directly into the pockets of criminals and they use them to buy gun, to buy officials, to buy judges and so forth. it's very hard to win a war on drugs when it's a demand problem more than a supply problem. >> dana: if you were the dea chief today, what specifically would you want to get done? maybe two things you'd want to get done quickly. i'm sorry, i was going to ask derek that. >> the first thing is you have to have unity of eff...

Hartford, connecticut, . 192 million pills were sold in hartford, connecticut, during an eight year window. there's a pharmacy a half-mile from trinity college that sold 350,000 pills of opium in one year. so what my hope is is this is a great awakening. every community in the country needs toto understand this didnt happen in someone else's backyard. this happened in your backyard. >> tucker: so the point is, if the opposite of the lie that we are told by the libertarians, which is that this is a demand problem, we have a drug epidemic because americans americans wa. what you're telling us is...

You went to trinity college in hartford, connecticut. 192 million pills were sold in hartford, connecticut, during an eight year window. there is a pharmacy and a half mile from trinity college that sold 350,000 pills of opioid in one year. what my hope is is that this is a great awakening. every community in the country needs to understand, this didn't happen in someone else's backyard. this happened in your backyard. >> tucker: still, the point is, it's the opposite of the lie that we are told by the libertarians, which is that this is a demand problem. we have a drug epidemic, that american...

That seems to be something that most people could agree on and i hope that congress will move in a quick fashion to do that. but we have a demand problem in this country. the united states, and its free market and its opportunity, is in high demand, while the rest of the americas, at least in latin america, central america, infrastructure is collapsing, security has collapsed. until we have a more dynamic effort to change the socioeconomic problems in the region as a whole, this shining light on the hill is going to continue to bring people even in danger of losing their lives, to this country...

Then they need to be clear that this is fake information that's communicating that there is something wrong with nancy pelosi. i sat across from nancy pelosi in one of these videos. she was far more coherent than the president of the united states. and i think that facebook has a responsibility, just like youtube did. youtube took the video down. facebook should follow suit. >> we should all. >> sitting there making judgment calls every day. look at this from the hill. artist banned from facebook for turning maga hats into symbols of hate speech. last word to you, david. >> let's remember that...