US President Donald Trump confirmed that China is smuggling fentanyl into the United States through Venezuela, stating, 'They are doing that.' He emphasized the urgency of addressing this issue, noting that fentanyl has caused nearly 330,000 American deaths over five years. Trump plans to confront Chinese President Xi Jinping about it during their upcoming summit.
00:00On fentanyl, according to the CDC data, nearly 330,000 Americans died over the past five years from fentanyl.
00:17That's one in every 1,000 Americans who died.
00:20It's more than that, but it's all right.
00:22Yes, I know you think it's even more.
00:24I'll be discussing that with President Xi.
00:25Yes, so that's actually my question.
00:27I figured it was.
00:28I was wondering, since it mostly comes from China and has caused such carnage in the U.S., what are you going to say to convey the seriousness?
00:34And also a second question for you or Secretary Hegseth.
00:37Is there any evidence that China is now smuggling fentanyl through Venezuela to bypass U.S. and Mexican port controls?
00:44They are doing that, yes.
00:45But they are paying right now a 20% tariff because of fentanyl.
00:50That's billions and billions of dollars that they're paying.
00:53We're actually, on November 1st, the tariff on China goes to 157%, which is record-setting territory.
01:03And we don't want that because it's not sustainable for them.
01:06They can't sustain that.
01:07We don't want them to have to go through that.
01:10So I'm meeting with President Xi.
01:11And I would say the first, we have some big issues, like with the farmers and various other things.
01:18But the first question I'm going to be asking them about is fentanyl.
01:21And if you think about it, they make $100 million.
01:26Think of this.
01:27They make $100 million selling fentanyl into our country.
01:31$100 million.
01:33They lose $100 billion with the 20% tariff.
01:37So it's not a good business proposition.
01:40It's $100 billion approximately that they have to pay.
01:43It's a big penalty to make $100 million.
01:45So I think they want to do something.
01:47They want to put it on the list.
01:49It's on the list.
01:50It's one of the things we're talking about.
01:52And I'm putting it right at the front of the list.
01:54So they pay a very big penalty for doing that.
01:57And I don't think they want to be doing it.
01:59And we'll see what happens at the end of next week because I'll be meeting next week, as you know,
02:04along with we're stopping in Malaysia, we're stopping in South Korea, we're stopping in Japan.
02:10I'm meeting with President Xi, actually, in South Korea.
02:13So it'll be the first thing on the list.
02:15Yeah, please.
02:15On the drug boats, sir, has there been any discussion about capturing one so that you can show the amount of narcotics?
02:24Well, we know everything about them.
02:25Yeah, yeah, Jennifer.
02:27We know everything about them.
02:28We know where they're coming from, who they're coming with, generally who's in the boat.
02:34I'll let Pete discuss it a little bit.
02:36But they have incredible intelligence.
02:38And, you know, usually when you see five engines, I've never even seen that before, but when you see five engines on a boat going about 65 miles an hour, loaded up with white powder in silver cases, generally speaking, that's not a good sign.
02:56They're not going fishing, right?
02:57And you don't see any fishing rod, right?
02:59So, Pete, I'll let you discuss that a little bit, please.
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