presidential podium to make them. but first, there s another norfolk southern train derailment to tell you about, this one also in ohio prompting local officials to order people living close to the crash to shelter many place. this comes, of course, just one month after a train carrying ox thetic chemicals derailed in east palestine, ohio, about 180 miles away from yesterday s incident. more questions about the safety of the railroads and what the government can do about it. hello, everyone. welcome to a brand new hour of fox news live. i m eric shawn. hi, arthel. arthel: hi, eric. hello, everyone, i m arthel neville. norfolk southern saying no hazardous material was onboard any of the more than 20 cars that ran off the tracks yesterday, but this incident along with the east palestine derailment is causing lawmakers to question safety measures. railroads continue to enrich their executives at the expense of public safety and public health and lay off workers and comprom
a national security issue. i mean, you look at other terrorist organizations, what s the difference between the cartels and hezbollah or isis? look who israel does, how it protects its country. it bombs iranian warehouses at the airport, for example, it goes after hezbollah in lebanon, it goes after areas in syria. why can t the u.s. do the same thing? do we need mexico s permission? we don t need mexico s permission to make that designation, but we coneed to understand we do need to understand the state of play. and i think many americans aren t being told how truly global the mexican cartels are. they re in about 40 countries. they work closely with china in a supply chain to take the precursor chemicals that china develops, have them delivered to mexico and then create fentanyl and other fake pills that kill americans at the tune of tens of thousands every year with. it s been growing during the
2020. well, there s a lot of news, as you know. this is big time. we can choose better. look, 19,000 handgun deaths last year in the united states. 93,000 deaths from opioids. washington, you d think the handgun issue is bigger. it s important by 93,000 is bigger than 19,000. the 93,000, too, crosses all social classes, all neighborhoods. that lady is exactly right, sandra. she s got it right. china, mexico. drug trafficking is the most murderous criminal activity in the history of the united states. let me repeat that. drug trafficking is the most murderous criminal activity in the history of the united states. a lot of this is first-time users. not life-long addicts. somebody that decides to experiment with meth or cocaine or even a pill that is sold on the street.
you re very good at showing these huge caches of drugs that are caught. but there s a lot we don t see and it s making its way in the country. what do we do? pressure on china. that s where fentanyl is made and mexico. couple of things we need to talk about with mexico. one thing, we need on our own, we don t need mexico s help to designate these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations like al-quaida. they kill more people than al-quaida. we can act in that country, we don t have to wait for them to cross the border. governor abbott has urged the president to do this. others need to. this is really unbelievable the numbers that we re seeing. again, we have to underscore that we ve never seen anything like this. of the 93,000 deaths, sandra, 70,000 we think are due to fentanyl. that s one powerful drug.
u.s. government report. it s another example of how the fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic took a toll on americans at home. a mother that lost her daughter shared her story earlier today. my daughter wasn t addicted to prescription pills. that s my point. this is affecting people outside of that community. people that are first-time users, casual users and those self-medicating. the first thing that we need to do is address the main supply source, which is china. they have formed a criminal partnership with mexico s drug cartels. sandra: bill bennett is here, a former secretary of education and a fox news contributor and the first drug czar that this country saw. bill, great to see you. why is there not more emphasis on this? this is tragic what happened in