this literally is a physical wall between the two countries that we re looking at here. the vast amount of hard narcotics don t come through at places like this. the vast amount of hard narcotics come through at the ports of entry where we just were. and besides meth, cocaine, heroin, or marijuana, it s fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger than heroin, it s the biggest challenge nowadays, the most recent numbers from the centers for disease control and prevention found that overdose deaths from fentanyl have skyrocketed, at least 1100%, since 2011. in the past, cartels might try and snuggle 100 kilograms of drugs across the border. it wasn t easy to do. they were likely to get caught. here s part of the problem. nowadays they could smuggle across something that looks like this. this is a one kilogram bag of
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the vast amount of hard narcotics don t come through at places like this. the vast amount of hard narcotics come through at the ports of entry, where we just were. reporter: and besides meth, cocaine, heroin, minarijuana, is fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger than heroin. it s the biggest challenge nowadays. the most recent numbers from the centers for disease control and prevention found that overdose deaths from fentanyl have skyrocketed, at least 1,100% since 2011. in the past, cartels might try and smuggle a hundred kilograms of drugs across the border. it wasn t easy to do. they were likely to get caught. but here s part of the problem. nowadays, they can smuggle across something that looks like this. this is just a one-kilogram bag of flour. but if this were street fentanyl, it would cost about $8,000 to make, could be turned into a million pills and then sold for $20 to $30 million on the black market. all of that from a small
well, first of all, let s be honest, this president has a habit of pathological dissembling, and that s being polite. it s almost a case of, don t believe of what you see with your eyes and hear with your own ears, believe what i tell you. and maybe he fools some percentage of the public with that, but i don t think he s going to fool many people. all of us saw it for many, many rallies during the campaign in 2016 and afterwards. what are we going to do? we re going to build a wall. who s going to pay for it? mexico. he couldn t have been clearer and now he s backtracking and asking the american taxpayers to foot the bill. right. as his own communications executive there, you saw mercedes schlapp, admitted very directly. the president also said today, congressman, that nothing else can do the job of an old-fashioned wall.
out, but i ll say just that. so she throws out there, set-up. do you think it was? that this whole thing you know, i m going to give out butterfingers and be nice and then just walk out? i really don t think i don t i don t know what it was, but i m telling you right now, there s something that we re not talking about. and i think that there is a golden opportunity here for nancy pelosi, speaker pelosi to walk in and say, look, $5.7 billion. okay. but i want tps, i want daca, i want this, and i want and see how much she can actually get for immigration reform. if that s something that is really important, i m all about getting things done. i am tired of this back and forth, no, i don t want to do this, no, i m not moving. i believe that we need to make sure that we do what the american people expect us to do. and that is to govern. do get things done. they don t like this back and forth. so even though people don t want a wall, joan, at this point, is it okay, overall in