Haspel: Drug Epidemic Is an ‘Extraordinary Crisis for Our Country’

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HASPEL: "When I returned from my overseas posting in early 2017 I was frankly shocked at what I saw was happening in our country, particularly in places like my home state of Kentucky where there is a real crisis, but I think the number is 63,000 Americans we lost last year. We are losing 15 Americans a day. That seems to me to be an extraordinary crisis for our country. I would like to talk about this if we could some this afternoon, but as you know, CIA does have a fairly modest program to try and stop the flow of drugs from coming across our southern border."