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Speaker 2: Think I don't know why we can't just acknowledge that

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Speaker 4: Good Tuesday morning, Nice to have you with us on

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Speaker 4: the forty seven Morning Update. First up, Donald Trump has

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Speaker 4: a plan for Venezuela. It's a well thought out plan

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Speaker 4: that deals with oil as well.

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Speaker 4: Also, Maduro makes his first court appearance in the United

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Speaker 4: Story number one, Donald Trump coming out making it very

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Speaker 5: We're going to run everything. We're gonna run it.

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Speaker 4: When asked what would happen to Venezuela's oil reserves, which

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Speaker 4: are now worth trillions of dollars, Trump's remarks came aboard

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Speaker 4: Air Force one during a gaggle with reporters on a

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Speaker 4: the newest report, Venezuela has as of Saturday's oil prices,

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Speaker 4: started a question by stating, Venezuela has seventeen billion worth

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Speaker 4: And then the President had this to say.

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Speaker 6: Venezuela right now is a dead country. We have to

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Speaker 6: The oil companies are ready to go. They're gonna go in.

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Speaker 6: They're gonna rebuild the infrastructure. You know, we built it

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Speaker 6: You can't do that, and you can't do that with me.

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Speaker 6: They did it with other presidents. An election to take

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Speaker 6: Well, I think we're looking more at getting it mixed,

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Speaker 4: Be Donald Trump again making it clear, we're gonna run everything.

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Speaker 7: The President reacts to today's arraignment during my phone call

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Speaker 7: I asked the President about that today, if Secretary's Rubio

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Speaker 7: I then asked him who will be the top person

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Speaker 4: Was me, the President United States America. Yet again giving

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Speaker 4: Story number two Nicholas Maduro's first court appearance. It has

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Speaker 9: There was nobody, no other administration was willing to engage

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Speaker 9: is what a coalition, a team led effort by a

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Speaker 9: decisive White House and President Trump looks like to counter narcotics.

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Speaker 9: Not just these great successful operations like what we saw

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Speaker 9: this past week in Venezuela, but a continuing onslaught of

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Speaker 4: The FPI director wasn't finished with that. He also praised

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump's decisive leadership for having a drastic reduction in

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Speaker 1: I want you to put on your former produce secutor

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Speaker 1: hat because you know these charges, and I'm not asking

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Speaker 1: you to prosecute it for our audience, but explain to

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Speaker 9: I just want to be very careful here. Department of

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Speaker 9: Justice and our DEA partners are going to be running

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Speaker 9: point on these prosecution charges for narco terrorism. But generally speaking,

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Speaker 9: it's what I alluded to earlier. It is a large

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Speaker 9: and continuous volume of illicit narcotics, to include cocaine and

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Speaker 9: fentanyl and meth and everything else that we see harm

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Speaker 9: our children and that poured into our communities. And thanks

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Speaker 9: to President Trump's decisive leadership, we've seen a drastic reduction

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Speaker 9: and not just death but quantity of narcotic development our streets.

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Speaker 9: But Venezuela acted not only as a large and massive

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Speaker 9: transhipment point by air and by sea, but also allowed

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Speaker 9: drug traffickers to operate with reckless abandon inside their borders,

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Speaker 9: and their direct target of deployment was the United States

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Speaker 9: of America in large part, and that's what these charges,

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Speaker 9: in my opinion, I believe, will address, and thankfully that

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Speaker 9: these individuals are now behind bars to face the justice system,

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Speaker 9: and for me, quite frankly, it doesn't matter how long

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Speaker 9: thanks to the decisive leadership this week and a President

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Speaker 7: Yeah, as long as he's in custody. I don't think

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Speaker 7: people just want to see Venezuela get back to normal.

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Speaker 4: As you heard there from the FBI director, it's about

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Speaker 4: national security, it's about saving American lives. It's also about

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Speaker 4: making sure that there is a better nation in Venezuela

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Speaker 4: for the people that have been oppressed by Maduro. And

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Speaker 4: that is clearly part of Donald Trump's doctorate.

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