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Speaker 1: These characters are weirdos.

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Speaker 2: Had my direction, the United States Armed Forces conducted an

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Speaker 2: extraordinary military operation in the capital of Venezuela.

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Speaker 3: Trump, ladies and gentlemen, that's your President of the United

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Speaker 3: States talking about what happened in Venezuela over the weekend.

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Speaker 3: And Hammer, my name is Nigel, by the way, Hammer's

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Speaker 3: over there. Every lame news anchor said the same thing.

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Speaker 3: After Trump went in and snatched Maduro. It dropped a

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Speaker 3: bunch of bombs on the Venezuelan military bases.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready?

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Speaker 3: Woa? Trump really rang in the new year with a.

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Speaker 1: Bay Hio.

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Speaker 3: Operation Absolute Resolve. H went off without a hitch Hammer

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Speaker 3: And I.

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Speaker 4: Heard in that press conference that Trump and Rubio and

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Speaker 4: Secretary of War Heggs that did shortly after it happened.

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Speaker 4: The youngest member of that elite group of bass was

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Speaker 4: a twenty year old. Now again, there are younger folks

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Speaker 4: in the military, but this was a specific elite group,

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Speaker 4: Delta Force members.

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Speaker 1: And to be the twenty year old, what a badass man.

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Speaker 3: I could barely get out of bed this morning. After

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Speaker 3: we can have long vacation with you know, over the holidays,

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Speaker 3: and this guy is going into Venezuela under the cover

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Speaker 3: of night, dropping bombs on bases and then going into

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Speaker 3: the presidential palace and getting it. It was Maduro, his

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Speaker 3: wife and I think their son, yes, dragging them out

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Speaker 3: on narco terrorism charges.

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Speaker 4: There are five different people that were charged with narco terrorism,

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Speaker 4: but the main targets were Nicholas Maduro.

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Speaker 1: And his wife, president of Venezuela.

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Speaker 4: And they appeared in a court earlier today in Manhattan

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Speaker 4: pled not guilty to a number of very serious drug

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Speaker 1: Now there's a couple different layers to this story.

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Speaker 4: Right, we'll get into you know who's running Venezuela a

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Speaker 4: little bit later. But Democrats are mad that the whole

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Speaker 4: thing happened in general nige, Is that right?

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Speaker 3: You don't say they're actually defending a narco terrorist, corrupt,

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Speaker 3: illegitimate president.

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Speaker 4: The No King's people, for those of you scoring at home,

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Speaker 4: the No King's people are mad that an actual dictator

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Speaker 4: was removed from power, and not just removed. There was

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Speaker 4: a court ordered situation where that made it okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was an indictment in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and multiple presidential administrations, Republican and Democrat. Back to

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Speaker 4: Republican Trump, Biden, Trump thought it was fine. Hell, the

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Speaker 4: Biden administration they put up twenty five million dollars.

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Speaker 1: For the reward for the capture, twenty five million bucks.

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Speaker 4: And the same people who protest no Kings are now

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Speaker 4: telling you free Maduro. Let that sink in just a

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Speaker 4: little bit unreal.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: I'm also getting a little worn out by all of

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Speaker 4: these people saying, but Trump, he needed congressional approval.

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Speaker 1: You need congressional approval for war.

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Speaker 4: You don't need congressional approval to go get somebody who's

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Speaker 4: been indicted. Hell, you just need Dog the bounty hunter

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Speaker 4: or in this case, the awesome elite team of Delta Force.

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Speaker 4: Here's Marco Rubio laying out exactly why they did not

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Speaker 5: This was not an action that required congressional approval. In fact,

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Speaker 5: it couldn't require congressional approval because this was not an invasion.

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Speaker 5: This is not an extended military operation. This is a

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Speaker 5: very precise operation that involved a couple of hours of action.

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Speaker 5: It was a very delicate opt too. There was one

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Speaker 5: that required all these conditions to be in place at

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Speaker 5: the right time, in the right place. You couldn't afford

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Speaker 5: the mission. In the optionality, we didn't even know if

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Speaker 5: the mission was going to happen. How can you notify

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Speaker 5: something you're not even sure if it can happen. Because

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Speaker 5: in order for it to happen needed to have weather

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Speaker 5: prepared to go. There were a lot of factors in place.

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Speaker 5: That was a trigger based operation. You can't risk it

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Speaker 5: being disclosed. But this was not an attack on Venezuela.

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Speaker 5: This was a law enforcement function to capture an indicted

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Speaker 5: drug trafficker, and of course we needed the Department of

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Speaker 5: Or to support it.

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Speaker 4: A court of law indicted this guy and his wife,

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Speaker 4: and the United States brought him to justice. So let's

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Speaker 4: go to the hotline right now and bring on special

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Speaker 4: guests Carlos Sands. She's the CEO of a Vintage Capital,

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Speaker 4: vice chair at America First Policy Institute. For Ambassador to Denmark, Carla,

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Speaker 4: before we get into the worldwide reaction and impact of

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Speaker 4: what's going on here, and maybe even the financial impact,

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Speaker 4: your reaction to the way the Democrats are treating this

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Speaker 4: whole story.

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Speaker 6: I think they're just grabbing at whatever they can grab

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Speaker 6: at because they're kind of circling the drain. It's really

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Speaker 6: a shame because this is a great day for America

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Speaker 6: and it's a great day for our hemisphere because this

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Speaker 6: was not even though some people call him a president,

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Speaker 6: he wasn't elected. He got thirty percent of the vote,

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Speaker 6: lost the election and kept power like a crazyast dictator.

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Speaker 6: This is a bad guy. He was a narco terrorist

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Speaker 6: or is at narco terrorist, ran the cartel called the

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Speaker 6: Cartel of the Suns, and he's you know, he's actually

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Speaker 6: like you said, he was wanted with a bounty by Biden,

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Speaker 6: by Trump, and now Trump went in and sell more

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Speaker 6: not on my watch. Remember he's been watching Venezuela as

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Speaker 6: it becomes more and more under the control of Iran

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Speaker 6: and Hezbola. Believe it or not, Hezbola is based in

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Speaker 6: Venice Way and going all over South America.

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Speaker 1: You would be shocked.

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Speaker 6: And then it's also under the control of China and Russia.

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Speaker 6: It's like it's like a you know, has patronage with Russia.

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Speaker 6: There's Russian military and agents there as well as China,

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Speaker 6: so we don't want to see basis of our adversaries

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Speaker 6: in our hemisphere. President Trump is reasserting Monroe doctrine. Some

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Speaker 6: people call it the Donroe doctrine. I like to think

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Speaker 6: it's the new Trump doctrine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, Carla.

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Speaker 3: I not to mention on a more basic level, the

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Speaker 3: Democrats were almost egging Trump on in his first term

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Speaker 3: to go get Maduro. They talked trash about him, how

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Speaker 3: he kind of just let it slide. And now I

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Speaker 3: think they're singing a different tune. Just like, like off

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Speaker 3: the top of my head, I saw a you know,

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Speaker 3: back to back quotes from Chuck Schumer, like from twenty

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Speaker 6: It's ridiculous, you know, in the past, I mean not today,

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Speaker 6: because the Democrats have lost their way. They're, you know,

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Speaker 6: around the president no matter what party, when something good

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Speaker 6: a quarter of their population left the country because they're killed.

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Speaker 6: They're devastating the countries. They just want opportunity in Venezuela

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Speaker 6: and We're going to help them do that. We're going

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Speaker 6: to help them rebuild their country because it was all

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Speaker 6: it was a narco state, basically a narco terror state.

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Speaker 6: So now the economy is going to be rebuilt, their

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Speaker 6: they can. And President Trump is so good, he is

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Speaker 6: such a deep thinker on foreign policy. This is a

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Speaker 6: kind of almost checkmate against Russia and China. Russia because

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Speaker 6: it's going to make it harder for them to have

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Speaker 6: it's competition, the price will come down. But also China,

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Speaker 6: because China relies on Venezuelan energy, and China's been kind

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Speaker 6: of playing a game with us with their ships, with

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Speaker 6: their sorry not their chips, their rare earth elements, because

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Speaker 6: we need them for not just our missiles and our

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Speaker 6: defense equipment, we need them for our cell phones in

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Speaker 6: our everyday life. We need those the rare earth elements

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Speaker 6: that China has been holding us hostage. And so this

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Speaker 6: is another great tool in the toolbox as President Trump

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Speaker 6: fights to get fair trade for the American working people.

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Speaker 4: Carla Sans is our guest CEO of Vintage Capital. The

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Speaker 4: vice chair at the America First Policy Institute and former

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Speaker 4: US Ambassador to Denmark, Carl We got about a minute

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Speaker 4: left here. I keep seeing a lot of people, you know,

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Speaker 4: jumping on social media saying, this is just about oil,

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Speaker 4: this is just about oil. Let's have that conversation here.

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Speaker 4: Is there going to be some sort of positive impact

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Speaker 4: on the United States you think financially or with the

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Speaker 4: oil in terms of the surplus when it comes to

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Speaker 4: what's taking place with Maduro.

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Speaker 6: Well, so yes, fewer Americans will die because you saw

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Speaker 6: those drug boats that they were interdicting weaving Venezuela, and

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Speaker 6: they were full of many of them cocaine and other drugs.

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Speaker 6: So they've stopped that. You can look at the graphs

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Speaker 6: and see that we're losing fewer young people to death

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Speaker 6: from drugs, drug dusts, overdose because of President and Trump's actions.

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Speaker 6: Those deaths are going down. So he's saving American lives.

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Speaker 6: But yes, if you looked at the stock markets this morning,

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Speaker 6: as the energy companies, they were going way up because

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Speaker 6: of what President Trump is doing. Because we refined that

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Speaker 6: Venezuelan energy in our Panhandle, we have the special refineries

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Speaker 6: that handle this really thick cready crew that they produced. Remember,

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Speaker 6: there's more energy in Venezuela than any country in the world,

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Speaker 6: so it's really important that China doesn't control it, and

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Speaker 6: Russia doesn't control it or Iran, that the United States

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Speaker 6: and our allies have control of that.

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Speaker 4: Carla Sans CEO, Vintage Capital, Vice chair at the America

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Speaker 4: First Policy Institute, Former US Ambassador to Denmark, Carla, thank

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Speaker 4: you so much for taking the time to join us today.

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Speaker 4: We appreciate you grant to

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Speaker 6: Talk to you both