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 about, i think that s concerning. well, i think there s definitely a valid concern. we talk about the fentanyl issue. there are valid concerns there. but, there are humanitarian standards, this is the united states of america. sure. and i think that there are some legitimate questions about whether those razor wire barriers are causing serious injuries. but also, those allegations
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 deadly, and there are no second chances. and so i think we have to continue to increase awareness. is our fentanyl issue a bigger problem at the border or bigger problem in social media? so, you know, the border is an important part of this conversation, because most of the fentanyl that we see coming into the united states is coming in through the southwest border. in the indictments we announced
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 your initial question, what we showed in those charges and that case is still pending, but what we showed is that there s no question that fentanyl, as alleged in the indictment, is being synthesized in mexico. right. so there are many things that we are doing and investigating through our cases that i think are critically important. right, but are you getting cooperation with the mexican governme
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 be easier if they were designated as foreign terrorist organizations? so, dea has vast authorities. we have the ability to prosecute cases under the 959 statute globally. if there was a foreign-terrorist-organization designation, that would not change our current authorities. do you think border politics, because it s so polarizing, and, frankly, it can be used as a way to try to hijack the fenta
feeling pretty good coming out of these two days of meetings because what they got the chinese to agree to was the need to stabilize the relationship. and that was really the key motivation going into these two days of meetings for the secretary of state. can the u.s. and china get in the same room and really have a real honest dialogue face to face about the issues, the challenges at play in the relationship between these two super powers? now, when it comes to progress, the secretary of state said there was progress on some front when it comes to the fentanyl issue, the synthetic opioid issues in the united states, it really affects americans, it s a major killer of americans ages 18 through 49. there was agreement between the u.s. and china to stand up a working group to address that issue because a lot of the inputs for fentanyl come from precursor chemicals produced in china. that s significant. what the secretary also said is that progress takes time and