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Because >> yeah, i think the ability for him to take certain measures, whether it's in the desert, which is absolutely illegal. what the biden administration should do is, it should be working with the governor to try to address the current situation. the fact that they are going to court to sue the governor, right out of the shoot on this. i think it's very problematic, because of what it is saying, as we are not interested in protecting american communities. we are more concerned about aliens and illegally aliens, coming, then we are about americans in texans. that governor abbott cares abou...

There is -- what i've seen over the last few years is a fundamental shift in people's willingness to talk about it and including just walking into a room. i almost do not walk into a room right now where someone hasn't lost a loved one or someone in their community, and that has changed over the last few years. >> so you feel like there's a shift over the last couple of years. >> i feel like there's a shift. do i think we're where we need to be yet? no. i think way too many americans still don't understand that on social media, that, you know where your kid might be, that pill is potentially d...

We are able to do work that we have never done before. >> i understand that, but the mexican president basically denied that. "we don't make fentanyl here." i mean, he is totally not -- i mean, at least in public, does not seem like he accepts the premise that this fentanyl issue is a problem in mexico. >> one of the things that we did in april, we announced charges against the sinaloa cartel. i would argue to you that they're the leaders right now in fentanyl trafficking to the united states. >> and what has the mexican government done to help us with this? >> and -- but just to go back to yo...

We have sat with treasury, we have sat with state, we have sat with other federal law-enforcement agencies, and i think it's really -- and the deputy attorney general has been to mexico, as has the president's homeland security advisor, and they're all delivering the message of how important and critical this is. so what we are seeing is, we are seeing some increased cooperation with mexican law enforcement and the military. now, what i would say to you very -- i think it couldn't be said enough. we cannot allow 110,000 americans to die. >> so, let me ask you about the cartels. would your job ...

Cheney which has caused some great tension between the two countries, and then when the secretary of defense, mitchell lloyd, was recently at the same place in singapore would his chinese counterpart, china denied him a meeting. the biden administration looking to reestablish regular channels of communication. also to express u.s. concerns on a number of fronts when it comes to global issues, the war in ukraine, regional issues, of course, taiwan, and bilateral issues. one of the issues that a senior administration official said would be critical in these conversations was addressing the fenta...