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Speaker 1: of the program. There's so much that that took place,

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Speaker 1: that took place in Venezuela. New York Times reporting that

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Speaker 1: the CIA had sources inside Maduro's government helping They were

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Speaker 1: able to actually build a replica of Maduro's house prior

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Speaker 1: to this invasion. The Delta Force, this elite unit involved

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Speaker 1: as well as counter terrorism missions following the nine to

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Speaker 1: eleven attacks inside. What it is that the US army

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Speaker 1: unit did to capture Maduro? You know, seeing that a

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Speaker 1: thank god, nobody was killed, no equipment was lost. That

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Speaker 1: it deserves. Let me go to the Secretary of State

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Speaker 1: Marco Rubio explaining why the US is taking over the

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Speaker 1: Venezuelan oil industry and why regime change is different in

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Speaker 1: Venezuela than other countries.

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Speaker 2: He was on meat the Press this weekend.

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Speaker 3: The question is, I guess if the purpose of the

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Speaker 3: operation was to capture Maduro and bring him to justice,

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Speaker 3: why does the United States need to take over the

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Speaker 4: Well, we don't need to the purpose. Let me go

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Speaker 4: back up. We don't need Venezuela's oil. We have plenty

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Speaker 4: of oil in the United States. What we're not going

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Speaker 4: be controlled by adversaries of the United States. You have

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Speaker 4: to understand why does China need their oil, Why does

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Speaker 4: They're not even in this continent. This is the Western Hemisphere.

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Speaker 4: This is where we live, and we're not going to

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Speaker 4: for adversaries, competitors and rivals of the United States. We

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Speaker 4: also want to see that oil and the proceeds from

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Speaker 4: of that country benefit the people of Venezuela. Why have

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Speaker 4: eight million people left Venezuela. Eight million, the single largest

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Speaker 4: mass migration probably in modern history, left Venezuela's in twenty

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Speaker 4: fourteen because all the wealth of that country was stolen

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Speaker 4: to the benefit of Maduro and his cronies in the regime,

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Speaker 4: but not to the benefit of people of Venezuela. You

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Speaker 4: know how destabilizing eight million migrants is. We've got this

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Speaker 4: phobia built up and this sort of thing. That's likely

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Speaker 4: number one most of the experts that people have on

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Speaker 4: tell I watched these experts and it's clown hour.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 4: These are people that have focused their entire career on

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Speaker 4: because that's where all the action was.

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Speaker 2: They very few of.

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Speaker 4: Them know anything about Venezuela or the Western hemisphere. Venezuela

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Speaker 4: looks nothing like Libya. It looks nothing like a rock,

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Speaker 4: looks nothing like Afghanistan. It looks nothing like the Middle

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Speaker 4: East other than the Iranian agents that are running through

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Speaker 4: their plotting against America. These are Western countries with long

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Speaker 4: So I think people need to stop ascribing the apples

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Speaker 4: the oranges of the western hemisphere. Number two, this is

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Speaker 4: about the national interest of the United States, and what

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Speaker 4: better place because we're taking it seriously. The alternative would

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Speaker 4: all of our adversaries to do whatever they want against

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Speaker 4: What the alternative would have been to allow a drug

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Speaker 4: nation state power to further drug trafficking organizations. Read the indictment.

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Speaker 4: This guy used the levers of their security apparatus not

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Speaker 2: And that's going to stop.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's so entertaining to watch Mark or just

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Speaker 1: now Vice Admiral Robert Harwood of the US Navy and

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Speaker 1: only to discuss what we have witnessed in Venezuela, but

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Speaker 1: as they are now perhaps even on the brink themselves. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: Cuba is going to be impacted by the actions that

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Speaker 1: Vice Admiral, great to have you, sir.

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Speaker 5: Sounds great. And I think that lead in you provided

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Speaker 5: by Secretary Rubio is so succinct, precise, and makes it

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Speaker 5: very clear why this is so important not just for

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Speaker 5: And I think if you even want to take a

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Speaker 5: this administration has been willing to use force for good,

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Speaker 5: have been oppressed for many years. So Venezuela is a

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Speaker 5: perfect example. But you have Iran, you have Cuba, and

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Speaker 5: as the President said last week in his words to

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Speaker 5: to hold leadership there accountable. So this is unprecedented for

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Speaker 5: over several decades. So it's just good change to calculus everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about why this was needed, and then the

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Speaker 1: military aspect of all of this, because whenever you take

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Speaker 5: Well, the number one thing you did mention, and what

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Speaker 5: this sort of business for decades. Don't forget what started,

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Speaker 5: especially in Latin America. Remember when we were chasing and

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Speaker 5: So we have a great ex experience. We've done this,

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Speaker 5: lesson over forty five years ago, and then have rehearsed, trained,

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Speaker 5: No other military in the force in the world have

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Speaker 5: and that's why this is just another day and another

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Speaker 1: It really is beyond impressive and godspeed and an amazing,

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Speaker 1: this in the way that they did it with you know,

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Speaker 1: remarkable in and of itself as well and something that

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Speaker 1: has been long overdue. Your background is very interested interesting

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Speaker 1: to me. You graduated from the Tehran American School, You

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Speaker 1: And you have lived and worked across the Middle East,

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Speaker 1: what are you to make of the unrest that we

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Speaker 1: it before, and unfortunately that unrest usually gets quelled because

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Speaker 1: you don't win revolutions with slingshots. Why do I feel

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Speaker 1: this time is different? I mean, they're trying to move

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration is making it very difficult for them

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Speaker 1: to sell any of it. What do you see happening?

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Speaker 1: There are we on the verge of possible regime chains.

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Speaker 1: There is Cuba next to fall after Venezuela. As you know,

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Speaker 2: There's a lot happening.

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Speaker 5: Well, let me first off, I got to go back

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Speaker 5: and say, while we talked about the military, what's really

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Speaker 5: Secretary head set going to use force. So first kudos

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Speaker 5: I lived in Iran when it was a constitutional monarchy

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Speaker 5: opposite situation today, but there are some analogies to Venezuela.

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Speaker 5: Everyone was concerned about the prime prime minister nationalizing oil,

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Speaker 5: Add to that, this action had been anela which demonstrated

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Speaker 7: Listen, the United States will run Venezuela. We have learned

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Speaker 5: You heard Secretary Rubia.

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Speaker 5: They do not.

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Speaker 1: We have to pass not going to happen. Interesting, Joe Biden,

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Speaker 1: terms of no, Donald Trump's ordered to snatch Maduro was

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Speaker 2: Anyway, mister Jared, sir, how are you hey?

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Speaker 6: I'm well, thank you appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: I guess Donald Trump has owed twenty five million dollars

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Speaker 2: Well, he's been arrested.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no kidding. And you know you played the clip

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Speaker 6: It's an inherent constitutional authority under Article two, section two

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Speaker 2: Well, we can go back.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we did capture Saddam Hussein. We can go

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Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of it is. They reflexively condemned Trump

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, this gets to the heart of it.

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Speaker 1: with us. Yes, what the President did is legal, it

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Speaker 5: Well, but he.

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Speaker 6: Oh, it absolutely will. So everybody wins, particularly the Venezuelan

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Speaker 6: the template for this is Panama, which under Noriega impoverished

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Speaker 6: But the only the only people capable of that are

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Speaker 1: on Hannity tonight. She has been one of the top

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Speaker 1: opposition leaders had to be an exile for many, many years.

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Speaker 2: What does she hope for?

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Speaker 1: And as well, remember she got the Nobel Peace Prize

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Speaker 1: and said Donald Trump deserved it, not me.

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Speaker 2: She'll join us on TV tonight