Office of National Drug Control Policy

Without further ado, we're going to welcome in Sara Carter.

Again, she's the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

I prefer drug czar, Sarah.

That's cool.

It's not even a comparison.

I wanna bring in to discuss this now the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

She's affectionately known as President Trump's drug czar.

Sara Carter is with us.

It supports multi-agency drug enforcement and intelligence sharing.

So they have these little regional programs and it's administered by the House of Office and National Drug Control Policy which is the ONDCP, but its day-to-day operations are decentralized across regional law enforcement partnerships.

Okay, so it's administrated by the White House, but the activities are more decentralized than that.

Yes.

And that goes...

Now we, we have reason to believe because of this reporting to broad law enforcement access including and maybe another additional database run by the DEA.

So, a- and this is another government thing, like, you have literally multi agencies with the same fucking job, right? You have the government's drug progra- program, HIDTA, the White House's, uh, run by the White House's National Drug Control Policy, right? And then you have the DEA which is the government's drug control policy enforcers, right? [laughs]

So there's one org just to establish the policy.

We saw orphenes.

We issued, for the first time in the history of ONDCP, three alerts across the United States this year on those drugs to stay ahead of the emerging threats.

That's how important this is, uh, not only for me, but for the President of the United States, and that's why you're seeing these deaths go down.

Also, getting the word out to our kids, letting them know that primary prevention is important, but who wants to be enslaved to drugs, right? Who wants to be enslaved and chained to a lifetime of addiction and unhappiness? So we're teaching the kids to look at life a different way, you know? To live life to the fullest extent that they possibly can, to be limitless with their life.

He pulled over what he believed is, to be somebody with expired tags.

He probably had a gut feeling that something was off.

He had just joined what ONDCP, our Office of National Drug Control Policy, our HIDTA, our HIDTA team out there, so our High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area team.

He'd been with them for only a month.

Who knows? Let's not make predictions.

But she now serves as the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, uh, otherwise affectionately known as the drug czar.

I don't know if I have to call her czarina.

Here she is, the one and only Sarah Carter, who joins us once again on the Mike Gallagher Show.

You specialized in covering the drug cartels and drug trafficking.

So Trump comes along and sa- ... 'Cause, look, let's be blunt here.

You're not a conventional choice to be the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

You know? You're, you would not be somebody that would jump ...

The crackdown at the southern border and an aggressive campaign to curb the trafficking of drugs from Central and South America appear to be having a dramatic impact on overdose deaths in the US.

Joining us now with more is Sara Carter, Director of the US Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Sarah, thank you so much for coming on.

Oh, thank you so much for having me, John.

I greatly appreciate it.

So first, tell us about the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

What exactly do you do?

Our office works directly with the White House.

William J. Bennett was the Secretary of Education, I believe, under Reagan.

He was the Director of the Office of National Drug Policy under President Bush and the Secretary of Education and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President Reagan.

This book was owned by a person who put his seal in it.

I can tell you the person's name.