if you doubt that, consider the latest policy idea that has been endorsed in some form or the other by almost all the front-runners for the republican presidential nomination. effectively declaring war on mexico s drug cartels. donald trump plans to wage war and impose a full naval embargo on them. senator tim scott wants to use the world s greatest military to solve the problem. a recent poll found strong support for military action among gop primary voters so expect to see more such wild statements. the problem that needs to be addressed is real and tragic. more than 70,000 people in the united states died from synthetic opioid overdoses in 2021, last year for which we have data. the leading synthetic opioid is fentanyl. these are postally made by cartels in mexico. but the idea that using american
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jeff received a 20-year prison sentence. cindy got 40 years. as for michael race? the unwitting victim of a live trial that he wanted no part of, all that is left of him now are memories. memories of the kind and gentle soul. with a big laugh and an even bigger heart. how do you want people to remember michael? he was just a funny guy. he enjoyed life so much. he was just a good person and anybody that ever knew him would say the same thing. that is all for this edition of dateline and i am andrea canning. thank you for watching! this su this sunday, america s fentanyl crisis. the highly addictive synthetic opioid, 50 times more potent than heroin is at the center of a deadly drug epidemic in american history. fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 americans a year.
so they say if it s not us and china, who is it? so they are coming but i think the real reason they are coming, dana, you alluded to it, is these threats, these various threats coming from everyone from donald trump to dan crenshaw to tom cotton to lindsey graham that they will bomb mexico back to the stone age. that they will target the cartels as if they are foreign enemies, declare them terrorist organizations and really use brute force to eliminate the role they play in taking these chemicals from china and mixing this witch s brew that has caused so many deaths over 70,000 last year alone, just from fentanyl. the synthetic opioid that gets put into everything. bill: 70,000 deaths in one year, right? the vietnam war went a decade and lost 58,000 men and women.