Sunday, April 28, 2019

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, tells Sharyn Alfonsi that he regrets losing the public's trust over the separation of families at the U.S-Southern border. For the first time in decades, the United States sent a carrier strike group north of the Arctic Circle, to participate in the war games. David Martin was there. And how did fentanyl make its way into the United States? Scott Pelley investigates on this week's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Prime members, you can listen to 60 minutes ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.6	Is it a humanitarian crisis or is it a national security crisis?
0:19.0	It's absolutely both.
0:21.0	60 minutes travels to the U.S. Mexico border with the new acting head of the Department of
0:27.0	Homeland Security, where a record number of families, 53,000 people, cross the border
0:33.1	illegally last month alone.
0:36.0	Why are they coming in such massive numbers and how are all the migrants being handled
0:40.4	and processed?
0:41.4	Well, there's a pile of diapers right now.
0:44.2	And after being released, why are they getting on buses to points all across the country?
0:49.6	That's our story tonight.
0:53.7	Where did all this stuff come from?
0:55.2	It's from China.
0:56.2	Some of this fentanyl was seized by the DEA.
1:01.5	The rest was found in the mail by U.S. Postal Service inspectors.
1:06.3	This is essentially enough fentanyl and car fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child
1:10.8	in the city of Cleveland.
1:12.2	Just this.
1:13.2	Just this.
1:14.2	Car fentanyl is a derivative used by veterinarians to tranquilize elephants.
1:20.0	Car fentanyl is another hundred times more potent than fentanyl.
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