Trump Points To Efforts To Stop Flow Of Fentanyl From China In U.S.-China Trade Deal

At a press briefing, President Trump pointed to efforts to stop the flow of fentanyl from China in the U.S.-China trade deal.

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00:00Go back to China just for a second. They're very heavy on the fentanyl.

00:04We're charging them, as you know, 20% for the fact that they send fentanyl into our country.

00:10And they've agreed that they're going to stop that.

00:13And, you know, they'll be rewarded by not having to pay, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs.

00:21So the fentanyl should stop. It comes from China. It's amazing.

00:25And it comes through our southern border, comes through our northern border, too.

00:30It comes through Canada and comes through our southern border, much more through the southern border.

00:35But so that's a very important subject to me because everybody in this room has lost friends

00:42or people that have family members that have died of fentanyl.

00:47So there's a big incentive for China to stop, and I take them at their word.

00:52They're going to work on that, I think, very hard.

00:54And one thing, when they work on something, they get it done.

00:57So now I'm about to depart on a historic visit.

01:00Some of you are going with us to, as I said, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates.