Trump to inform Congress of plans to strike land-based cartel targets

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00:00President Trump held a roundtable Thursday to discuss the state of his war on drug cartels.

00:05It should now be clear to the entire world that the cartels are the ISIS of the Western

00:10Hemisphere. Flanked by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland

00:15Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and several other top officials, the president touted his

00:19accomplishments to slow the flow of illegal narcotics into the U.S. The U.S. military has

00:24bombed at least nine boats, two in the Pacific Ocean just this week. It says we're transporting

00:29narcotics since this operation began in September. Now, as he prepares for his upcoming trip to Asia,

00:35the president was asked specifically about fentanyl from China being smuggled into the country by way

00:40of Venezuela, and he promised that the issue was at the top of his list when he meets with Chinese

00:45leader Xi Jinping next week. They make $100 million selling fentanyl into our country, $100 million.

00:52They lose $100 billion with the 20 percent tariff, so it's not a good business proposition.

00:58It's $100 billion approximately that they have to pay. That's a big penalty to make $100 million.

01:05And so I think they want to do something.

01:07And so I think they want to do something.