Trump focused on fentanyl crisis

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US President Donald Trump is focused on the fentanyl crisis, Clark Judge, former speechwriter to Ronald Reagan tells Al Arabiya News.  #US #Fentanyl #Mexico #Tariffs #China #GNT

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00:00President Reagan talked quite a lot about free trade during his presidency.

00:03Do you think he'd approve of President Trump's approach to America's top trade partners?

00:08Well, it was said in the Reagan administration that we were not just working for free trade

00:14as a one-way deal, but as a balanced deal. The times have changed. This is not the direction

00:22Mr. Reagan was going, but at the same time, we're in very different circumstances.

00:28Thing to keep in mind about this, particularly regarding Mexico, to some extent,

00:35well, Mexico, all three of these, but Mexico and China in particular, is it's not just about trade.

00:41It's about the movement of fentanyl and other very, very powerful and particularly

00:50methamphetamines into the United States, and it's a real crisis.

00:57You said I'm speaking to you from Michigan, which is correct. This is part of the Upper Northwest.

01:05The Upper Northwest has been particularly decimated by these drugs, also New England.

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