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We're working to SAVE American lives 'Drug czar' Sara Carter · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Sarah Carter, You've been on the job for around six
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  Speaker 1: months officially, and I'm curious of what you're most proud
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  Speaker 1: of so far and what goals you have for the future.
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  Speaker 2: I'm overwhelmed and humbled by this position that President Trump
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  Speaker 2: has asked me to be in. Why Because the most
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  Speaker 2: important resource we have is the American people. Everything we
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  Speaker 2: do in the office has to move forward the needle
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  Speaker 2: to saving American lives and also removing the stigma of
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  Speaker 2: addiction and working with people to ensure that they can
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  Speaker 2: get treatment faster and easier than they can get drugs
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  Speaker 2: off the streets.
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  Speaker 3: I think what makes me proudest right now.
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  Speaker 2: Is the fact that we are thinking outside the box.
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  Speaker 2: Are wastewater testing where we can actually measure what drugs
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  Speaker 2: are in the system throughout the United States, really working
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  Speaker 2: closely with HHS and DEA, and our Homeland Security Task
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  Speaker 2: Force teams that are working closely with our High Intensity
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  Speaker 2: Drug Trafficking Area teams, all working towards one goal to
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  Speaker 2: saving American lives, and that means getting rid of the cartels, Laura.
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  Speaker 2: That means following President Trump's directive to eliminate them, and
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  Speaker 2: that means ensuring that we are paying attention and serving
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  Speaker 2: the American people.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Sarah, I want to ask you, as director, your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on a socialist platform. This is a campaign pledge
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  Speaker 1: they're making to stop fighting the war on drugs.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think of that campaign platform? I think
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  Speaker 3: it's an absolute disaster.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, we've lost so many Americans to the
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  Speaker 2: point we can't even describe the toll at the loss
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  Speaker 2: of life right at the highest level. At the highest point,
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  Speaker 2: one year twenty twenty two, over one hundred and twelve
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  Speaker 2: thousand Americans died of overdose deaths or poisonings. That was
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  Speaker 2: just twenty twenty two. If you look at the years
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  Speaker 2: that President Biden was in office, we lost more Americans
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  Speaker 2: during that time frame then we lost in World War
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  Speaker 2: Two over five hundred thousand Americans.
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  Speaker 3: And this isn't just numbers on a board.
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  Speaker 2: These are real people who have suffered their thirteen year
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  Speaker 2: old kids that went on Snapchat thought they bought an
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  Speaker 2: adderall and ended up at home dead in their bedroom
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  Speaker 2: with a fentanyl poisoning or a fake pill.
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  Speaker 3: This is how serious this is. Because we have enemies.
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  Speaker 2: That are intent on destroying us, and this is the
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  Speaker 2: reason why President Trump has empowered the administration to target
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  Speaker 2: these cartels, to eliminate them, and to also target nation
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  Speaker 2: states that would be willing to taint our supply chain
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  Speaker 2: with poisons that are killing our children. So absolutely not,
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats end on the war on drugs would be
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the end of the American people.
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  Speaker 1: You just noted there is a concerted effort to address
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  Speaker 1: these drug cards. Just this week, federal investigators seized one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty weapons.
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  Speaker 3: That they believe were part of a major.
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  Speaker 1: Firearms trafficking operation via the Sinaloa cartel. So for anyone
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  Speaker 1: out there, Sarah, who might doubt that these cartels are
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  Speaker 1: a big problem and that this administration is directly addressing them,
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  Speaker 1: what do you say.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it is Sinaloa or CJNG or beltran Leva or
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  Speaker 2: La f Amelia, wherever they are at, you will no
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  Speaker 2: longer operate with immunity in the United States.
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  Speaker 3: We have stopped, for.
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  Speaker 2: The first time, allowing the border to be an open,
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  Speaker 2: porous border where drugs were flowing in, where people were
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  Speaker 2: flowing in, where people were being trafficked, women and children.
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  Speaker 3: We are hitting them, Laura, at every.
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  Speaker 2: Single choke point, whether that's in you know, in Puerto
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  Speaker 2: Rico through the mail where we ran massive operations and
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  Speaker 2: seized tons of drugs and weapons and fentanyl, or whether
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  Speaker 2: that's in the most remote places of Alaska, where I've
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  Speaker 2: been twice in an effort to stop the drugs from
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  Speaker 2: flowing into our tribal communities so that the children, even
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  Speaker 2: in the most remote areas of America, are not being poisoned.
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  Speaker 2: More than two decades, I've spent my life on that border,
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  Speaker 2: and I have never seen in that entire career somebody
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  Speaker 2: who cared more about the American people and wanted to
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  Speaker 2: protect our nation more than President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the reason why I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned this earlier, and I know you guys
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  Speaker 1: are using tactics and techniques that maybe haven't been employed in.
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  Speaker 3: These specific ways before.
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  Speaker 1: You talked about wastewater testing, So give me a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more on that, because that is helping identify drug
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  Speaker 1: use and trafficking in real time.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is with we are not violating anybody's Fourth Amendment.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to sanitation sites and we are pulling
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  Speaker 2: the wastewater from there and we're able to see what
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  Speaker 2: drugs are in the system. And let me give you
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  Speaker 2: one example of something that was a really big success
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  Speaker 2: for us. So it's known as rhino trenk rhinoceros tranquilizer
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  Speaker 2: right on the streets because it's meant.
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  Speaker 3: For very large animals.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we were able to see that in our wastewater testing,
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  Speaker 2: and we were able to issue an alert for the
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  Speaker 2: first time with the CDC to hospitals and first responders
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  Speaker 2: that this was on the street be prepared for it.
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  Speaker 2: So we're already making a difference because we're thinking outside
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  Speaker 2: the box, and especially in this day and age when
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  Speaker 2: technology is so readily available, it's unlike anything we've ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: I akin this to the Industrial Revolution.
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  Speaker 2: We have artificial intelligence, we have the top scientists working
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  Speaker 2: on these projects.
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  Speaker 1: We can save American lives. I wonder if you can explain,
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  Speaker 1: especially when it comes to not only holding criminals accountable
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  Speaker 1: who are trafficking illicit drugs, but simultaneously taking the stigma
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  Speaker 1: out of addiction and helping there is a big group
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  Speaker 1: effort here with this administration to tackle both of those.
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  Speaker 2: You can see the smile on my face as you
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  Speaker 2: were saying that, because it is exciting. I can pick
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  Speaker 2: up my phone, I could call Terry Cole, you know
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  Speaker 2: at the DEA.
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  Speaker 3: I can reach out to Stephen Miller.
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  Speaker 2: I can contact Catherine Bergham, you know, a secretary Kennedy.
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  Speaker 2: We all speak to one another, and we're all speaking
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  Speaker 2: the same language. It's not a competition. It's about saving
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  Speaker 2: lives and working for the American people. And I'm so
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  Speaker 2: excited to be working with Catherine Bergham on the Great
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  Speaker 2: American Recovery Act. And when it comes to treatment and recovery,
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  Speaker 2: we have so many ideas. We have such a long
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  Speaker 2: way to go, but we're already implementing it because we're
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  Speaker 2: working together.
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  Speaker 3: We're bringing faith to the center the.
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  Speaker 2: Core of our values our national drug control strategy.
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  Speaker 3: So we are working on.
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  Speaker 2: Ensuring that the American people have choices, that we are
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  Speaker 2: going to provide them with what they need for effective treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, at the end of your tenure, as our drugs
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  Speaker 1: are I'm curious what your hope would be for the
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  Speaker 1: we're on drugs at that point.
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  Speaker 2: I pray every night that at the end of my tenure,
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  Speaker 2: no more children are dying.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's very hard. You're a mom. I'm a mom.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even imagine the kind of impact it has
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  Speaker 2: when a person loses their child in such an abrupt way.
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  Speaker 2: We're already seeing the success of that. We have reduced
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  Speaker 2: the number of deaths since the highest point by over
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  Speaker 2: forty thousand. That is over forty thousand people's lives who
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  Speaker 2: are saved, forty thousand people who are here with their families,
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  Speaker 2: sitting at the dinner table, you know, laughing with their kids,
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  Speaker 2: going to the park, maybe in recovery, maybe struggling, but
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  Speaker 2: they're alive. I want to see those numbers go down
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  Speaker 2: to zero. I want to see people live. I want
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  Speaker 2: to see them be free. I want our kids to
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  Speaker 2: be happy, healthy and clean, and to want to be
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  Speaker 2: drug free. We're going to work on it as if
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  Speaker 2: that was the mission. If I'm not doing that, I
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be here.
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