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Speaker 1: This is America's Voice Live, and Welcome to America's Voice Live.

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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Gurrier, the pulse of the people.

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Speaker 2: We need somebody that's going to hit a people's voice,

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Speaker 2: the truth.

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Speaker 3: The mainstream won't touch.

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Speaker 1: This guy is by definition of globals and the stories

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Speaker 1: that matter. Rabs On Ben Burkwob.

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Speaker 2: Read above Miss Hill. I've got a cartel. I see him,

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Speaker 2: I see him, I see.

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Speaker 1: Him live breaking news right now here in real America's

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Speaker 1: fort filter.

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Speaker 2: These people are domestic terrorists and unapologetic.

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Speaker 1: We're here to take a stand for God and country.

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Speaker 2: Let's feel goodness.

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Speaker 4: America's Voice Live starts now.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to America's Voice Live. I'm Steve Durwert. Is Friday,

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Speaker 1: the ninth of January, the year of Our Lord, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. A lot going on today, like every day,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to get right to it. We're awaiting

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Speaker 1: President Trump. We've got a live feed. He's going to

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Speaker 1: be coming in to meet with oil executives at any moment.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 1: The moment it does, we're going to go right to

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Speaker 1: the present. Look, we're looking at oil prices that are

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Speaker 1: below sixty dollars a barrel gasoline down again today, the

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Speaker 1: national average two dollars eighty cents. What is it in

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Speaker 1: your state? It's cheap out there when it comes to energy.

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Speaker 1: And of course, everything that's happened in Venezuela in the

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Speaker 1: last handful of days means that there will be more

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Speaker 1: oil coming to the United States. It's final destination still

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Speaker 1: to be determined, and how Venezuelan and the United States

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Speaker 1: line up in this oil is still to be determined.

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Speaker 1: That's why the oil executives here. Look, the fact of

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Speaker 1: the matter is energy is key to America's success and future.

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Speaker 1: Vast quantity of cheap energy have also and always run

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Speaker 1: this country. So we'll keep an eye on the Energy Secretary,

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Speaker 1: the president so much more. We're also waiting for Secretary

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Speaker 1: of War Pete Hegseth to speak from Los Angeles today,

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Speaker 1: very busy afternoon. Before we get to all of that, though,

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Speaker 1: earlier today, Treasury Secretary of Scott Bessett was speaking in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: going over initiatives to combat the rampant fraud in that

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Speaker 1: state billions of dollars. As we've heard. We're going to

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Speaker 1: play you a bit of that right now while we

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Speaker 1: wait for the President here it is.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to thank you all for joining me today.

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Speaker 5: President Trump has instructed the entire administration to use our

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Speaker 5: full resources to ensure we hold accountable these perpetrators who

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Speaker 5: have stolen billions from Minnesotas. I appreciate Speaker, excuse me,

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Speaker 5: des Mouth State Representative Kristen Robbins and the Minnesota State

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Speaker 5: House members for their years of work fighting fraud at Treasury.

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Speaker 5: We are thoroughly investigating the egregious fraud, including funds allegedly

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Speaker 5: sent to Somalia through money service businesses which provide financial

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Speaker 5: services outside a formal bank and could have potentially been

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Speaker 5: diverted to the terrorist organization Al Shabab. Under Democratic Governor

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Speaker 5: Tim Waltz, welfare fraud has spiraled out of control. Out

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Speaker 5: of control, We've heard robbing accounts that billions of dollars

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Speaker 5: intended for hungry kids, housing for disabled people and seniors,

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Speaker 5: and services for children with special needs were diverted to

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Speaker 5: benefit Somali fraudsters. Treasuries Financial Crimes Enforcement Network known as

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Speaker 5: BENCEN and IRS are leading our investigation to examine whether

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Speaker 5: financial institutions have complied with their legal obligations under the

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Speaker 5: Bank's Secrecy Act and Treasuries Regulations. These requirements are designed

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Speaker 5: to detect money laundering and other I listed activity, countering

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Speaker 5: the financing of terrorism, and safeguard the US financial system.

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Speaker 5: Since the earliest days of these investigations, Treasury has been

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Speaker 5: working with the DOJ and the US Attorney's Office in Minnesota.

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Speaker 5: We have traced where the money from the perpetrators went

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Speaker 5: and are investigating whether any of the money ended up

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Speaker 5: in the hands of terror.

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Speaker 6: Treasury is here.

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Speaker 5: Today because this is what we do.

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Speaker 3: We follow the money.

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Speaker 5: Earlier this morning, I met with financial institutions and made

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Speaker 5: clear we must do more to safeguard our nation and

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Speaker 5: protect our financial system from waste fraud interviews. I also

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Speaker 5: provided updates in our investigation and announced several powerful new

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Speaker 5: initiatives the Treasury will be undertaking to increased transparency and

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Speaker 5: crack down on fraud in Minnesota. First off, we have

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Speaker 5: MSBs that have transferred taxpayer funds overseas. Our team at

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Speaker 5: Fincon has just provided formal notification to these businesses that

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Speaker 1: And as I mentioned, the present and holding a meeting

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Speaker 7: He is, well, let's say, honor to be with among

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Speaker 7: And we're doing tremendous things.

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Speaker 2: Our country is doing very well. You saw the numbers

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Speaker 2: back at levels that nobody's ever seen before, setting records,

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Speaker 6: And we're doing really well.

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Speaker 2: We had a situation three days ago with Venezuela, and

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Speaker 2: we're getting along extremely well with the people of Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: About the people and the people that are running Venezuela,

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Speaker 2: I just want to thank our military.

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Speaker 6: What they've done is incredible.

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Speaker 2: That was considered unprecedented to go into a military fort

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Speaker 2: It was pretty amazing. Nobody's seen anything like it. I

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Speaker 2: and they said that was very impressive. They're all oppressed.

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Speaker 2: But today I'm delighted to welcome almost two dozen of

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Speaker 2: with them. We have many others that were not able

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Speaker 2: knew your industry was that big. I never knew that

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Speaker 2: I got to look at this myself.

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Speaker 6: Wow, what of you?

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Speaker 2: This is the door to the ballroom.

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Speaker 8: What did you?

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Speaker 6: But I figured we might as well do it.

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Speaker 2: If the fake news would like to go back and

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Speaker 2: take a look, you can, but just see a very

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Speaker 2: the ballroom and under budget. It's going to be I

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Speaker 2: don't think there'll be anything like it in the world. Actually,

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Speaker 2: I think it'll be. The best we want from this is,

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Speaker 2: also take care of the inauguration with bulletproof glass, drone

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Speaker 2: So we're going to discuss how these great American companies

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Speaker 2: the United States, the people of Venezuela, and the entire world.

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Speaker 2: And yesterday the number is thirty million barrels. I can't

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Speaker 2: even is that a correct number. Thirty million barrels. You

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of oil. It's about four billion dollars worth,

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Speaker 2: and it's on our way too. It's on its way

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Speaker 2: thank Venezuela for that, and we're working very well with them.

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Speaker 2: Obviously they wouldn't have been so generous, but they respect us. Again,

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Speaker 2: they didn't respect us at all before. So that's money

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Speaker 2: that goes to the United States. Some will go to

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Speaker 2: getting any of that. But when you start extracting, you'll

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Speaker 2: Some people say it is the biggest in the world.

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Speaker 2: And we're going to be working with Venezuela. We're going

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Speaker 2: Will probably do that today or very shortly thereafter with

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Speaker 2: we're empowered to make that deal. And you have total safety,

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Speaker 2: total security. One of the reasons you couldn't go in

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Speaker 2: Security, but now you have total security. It's a whole

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Speaker 2: and the people of the United States are going to

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Speaker 2: But we had a great despite that, we had a

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Speaker 2: By the way, well, we had a great first term.

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Speaker 2: We're the greatest economy in the history of our country

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Speaker 2: in the first term. But this is blowing it away

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Speaker 2: and you haven't seen anything yet. Everyone's been shocked by

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Speaker 2: the fact that we were badly hurt by the Democrat shutdown,

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Speaker 2: Secretary of Energy Chris Right, recommended by Doug as being

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Speaker 2: it is a man named Chris Right. I said, who

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Speaker 2: the hell is Chris Right? He said, he's the most.

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Speaker 6: Talented oil man anywhere in the world.

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Speaker 2: I doubt you can get him because typically oil men

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Speaker 2: the greatest salary cuts, probably in history.

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Speaker 6: A fantastic person.

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Speaker 2: Loves our country, and many other important members of this team,

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Speaker 2: and I want to thank them for their efforts. As

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Speaker 2: apprehending the outlaw dictator Nicholas Maduro for his crimes against

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Speaker 2: indicted as in federal court awaiting trial. And he killed

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Speaker 2: many people, millions of people actually, and allowed jails, prisons,

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Speaker 2: into our country totally unchecked because of Sleepy Joe Biden's

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Speaker 6: With getting them all out.

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Speaker 2: The departure of Maduro makes it possible an incredible future

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Speaker 2: we will more closely integrate the economies of two major

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Speaker 2: So we can't let that story be true. But they

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Speaker 2: With them? As well? He stuck it out I don't

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Speaker 2: credit for that. Mark Nelson, thank you very much. Excellon

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Speaker 10: Please, thank you, oh, thank you, mister President, thanks to

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Speaker 3: To far off places.

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Speaker 10: They would get us involved in these endless quagmires, they

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Speaker 10: Into our country and to ensure that we, as opposed

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Speaker 3: It was an amazing operation.

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Speaker 10: It's going to make our country richer, it's going to

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Speaker 8: Marco, thank you, mister President.

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Speaker 11: And I think this is a reminder that everything this

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Speaker 11: That benefits the people both of the United States but

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Speaker 12: Doug Well, mister President, I want to thank you for

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Speaker 2: That makes America safer.

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Speaker 12: You've secured the border, We're stopping the flow of drugs,

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Speaker 12: It's going to mean tremendously for the prosperity of the

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Speaker 2: To all of you.

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Speaker 12: It's your technology, your innovation that has put America in

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Speaker 12: here to be to be part of the solution going forward.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Doug, and you are doing a fantastic job

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Speaker 2: and we appreciate it. Everybody appreciates they know who's doing well. Chris, right, thank.

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Speaker 8: You, mister President.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, what we've seen in the last week is leadership

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Speaker 9: matters and credibility matters. Venezuela and oil has been sanctioned

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Speaker 9: for many years, and the oil just flew. You know,

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Speaker 9: with those sanctions, were not that oil just floated out

446
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Speaker 9: to trafficked by bad actors of the world. That resources

447
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Speaker 9: weren't gone to a central place the corruption and decline

448
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Speaker 9: of Venezuela has been a crisis for the people of Venezuela,

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Speaker 9: and as Secretary Rubio said, massive spillover effects in the

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Speaker 9: United States in crime and drugs and kidnappings, and in

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Speaker 9: taking a huge resource base and making it not exploited,

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Speaker 9: not developed. The whole world is a poorer, less opportunity

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Speaker 9: rich place because of that. When you have materials underground,

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Speaker 9: may have been underground for a million years, that does

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Speaker 9: not make them a resource, That does not make them

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Speaker 9: valuable for your country, your people, or the world. They

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Speaker 9: only become a resource with technology, with capital, with rule

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Speaker 9: of law, and a system of governance that encourages the

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Speaker 9: harvesting of those resources to make the better world. And

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Speaker 9: we see here the dramatic contrast between the United States,

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Speaker 9: which may have less oil underground than Venezuela. We have

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Speaker 9: twenty times the production of Venezuela, twenty times the impact

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Speaker 9: of human betterment, massively better quality of living here in

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Speaker 9: the United States that was at risk under the last administration.

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Speaker 9: We've seen a lot of attacks on the energy that

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Speaker 9: makes the world go round. President Trump's election has removed

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Speaker 9: those risks, has embraced reality about how the world is energized,

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Speaker 9: and we are record production of oil in the United States,

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Speaker 9: record production and natural gas in the United States. We've

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Speaker 9: seen a meaningful decline in gasoline prices, diesel prices, travel

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Speaker 9: prices because of jet fuel. And now President Trump is

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Speaker 9: taking the genius of a different way to try to

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Speaker 9: solve a twenty five year festering problem in Venezuela that

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Speaker 9: all the traditional things have not worked. But ordering both

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Speaker 9: the tremendous military operation to remove the heads of a

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Speaker 9: criminal organization masquerading as a government and then to use

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Speaker 9: the power of our military not to fire bullets, but

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Speaker 9: to stop the flow of Venezuela and oil to the world.

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Speaker 9: Immediately gave us leverage over the interim authorities in Venezuela

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Speaker 9: and has allowed us to be in this position today

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Speaker 9: where the actions of this government can massively improve Venezuela

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Speaker 9: for the better.

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Speaker 3: And the bigger.

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Speaker 9: Impact is to massively improve the quality of life, affordability, safety,

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Speaker 9: and security of the United States. Very proud to be here,

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Speaker 9: and I we'll turn it over to Mark Nelson, who's

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Speaker 9: the vice chairman of Chevron. Chevron has been in Venezuela

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Speaker 9: for over one hundred years continuously. Mike Worth, the CEO,

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Speaker 9: had a knee replacement recently, he's not here. Mark is

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Speaker 9: a tremendous leader in our industry, and I'll turn it

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Speaker 9: over to him.

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Speaker 13: Thank you, Secretary. Right again, I'll send Mike Worths regrets.

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Speaker 13: He really wanted to be here, mister President, on his behalf.

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Speaker 13: I have three very very quick thank you and an assurance.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to provide you all.

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Speaker 13: The first thank you, mister President, is to you. It's

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Speaker 13: thank you for convening this gathering. It's thank you for

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Speaker 13: your leadership, and thank you for continuing to keep American

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Speaker 13: energy domination in the forefront.

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Speaker 6: So thank you, thank you for that, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 13: The second thank you actually is to the cabinet, so

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Speaker 13: Secretary Rubio, Secretary Bergham, Secretary Wright. Your ability and commitment

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Speaker 13: to continue to engage with the parties around the table

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Speaker 13: to keep the world working is greatly appreciated, so thank you,

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Speaker 13: thank you for that. And the final thank you actually

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Speaker 13: would go to our Venezuelan employees of Chevron.

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Speaker 3: They've been working.

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Speaker 13: Tireusly to operate safely protect the environment in country and

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Speaker 13: their dedication and skill will help us in this next

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Speaker 13: chapter in final close with the assurance. For more than

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Speaker 13: a century, Chevron has been a part of Venezuela as past.

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Speaker 13: We are certainly committed to its present, and we very

513
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Speaker 13: much look forward as a proud America company to help.

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Speaker 3: It build a better future.

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Speaker 13: And so, mister President, thank you for your leadership.

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Speaker 2: And you really suffered there. You stuck it out. A

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Speaker 2: lot of people left, a lot of big companies left,

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Speaker 2: some of the people, many of the people sitting at

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Speaker 2: this table left because of the safety risk and other risks.

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Speaker 2: But really, you stuck it out. I give you credit

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Speaker 2: for that. Sometimes it was hard. I remember six months ago,

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Speaker 2: I told you to stay, just stay, things are going

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Speaker 2: to happen. You'll be very happy. I didn't know they

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Speaker 2: were going to happen this fast. To this conclusively, One

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Speaker 2: thing I think everyone has to know is that if

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Speaker 2: we didn't do this, China or Russia would have done it.

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Speaker 2: And if China or Russia were a next door neighbor,

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Speaker 2: because essentially this is not around the other parts of

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Speaker 2: the world so far away where you fly an aeroplane

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Speaker 2: for twenty five four hours before you get there. This

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Speaker 2: is sort of a next door neighbor. If you think

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Speaker 2: about it. And I told China and I told Russia,

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Speaker 2: we get along with you very well, we like you

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Speaker 2: very much. We don't want you there, not going to

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Speaker 2: be there. And if we didn't do this, China would

536
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Speaker 2: have been there and Russia would have been there. Maybe

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Speaker 2: they both would have been there together. But they're not

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Speaker 2: going to be there now. One thing I will tell them,

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Speaker 2: and I will tell you that we are open for business.

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Speaker 2: China can buy all the oil they want from us

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Speaker 2: there or in the United States. Russia can't get all

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Speaker 2: the oil they need from US, and they do like oil.

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Speaker 6: Even though they produce a lot of it.

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Speaker 2: But China and Russia and everybody else is able to go,

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Speaker 2: and we'll be open for business almost immediately. I have

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Speaker 2: a feeling the one hundred million dollars will be spent

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Speaker 2: very very one hundred billion will be spent very very

548
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Speaker 2: rapidly by these very big, powerful and rich companies. And

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Speaker 2: I think they're going to be able to build rebuild

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Speaker 2: the infrastructure. I hope it's going to be brand new

551
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Speaker 2: as opposed to rehab, because I know the tremendous difference

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Speaker 2: between the new and.

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Speaker 6: The not so new in your industry.

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Speaker 2: The new is much more beautiful, much better in every way.

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Speaker 6: And actually much smaller.

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Speaker 2: It's like everything else gets smaller and stronger. It's a

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Speaker 2: combination of smaller, better, and stronger. So I hope you're

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Speaker 2: gonna build all brand new stuff, rip out the old

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Speaker 2: crap that's been there for so many years, and do

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Speaker 2: it the right way. You're gonna be there a long

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Speaker 2: time if we make a deal. If we make a deal,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna be there a long time. If we don't

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Speaker 2: make a deal, you won't be there at all.

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Speaker 6: It's, you know, sort of interesting.

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Speaker 2: But again, China and Russia would have been there if

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Speaker 2: we didn't do this and the other thing people ask

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Speaker 2: about the second wave. I don't think it's going to

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Speaker 2: be necessary. We have an armada, a giant armadel like

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Speaker 2: nobody's ever seen in that part of the world, and

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Speaker 2: it's stationed off the coast, and we are getting along

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Speaker 2: so well with the people that are involved and representing

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Speaker 2: Venezuela that I don't think going to have any I

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Speaker 2: don't think it's going to be necessary to do the

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Speaker 2: second wave. We were planning on a second wave, but

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Speaker 2: the first wave was so powerful and so good and

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Speaker 2: so strong and frankly, the people in the country, they

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Speaker 2: really they did the right thing. They were smart, they

578
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Speaker 2: did the right thing. They didn't want to go through

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Speaker 2: a second wave. But we've got a tremendous number of

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Speaker 2: the most powerful ships in the world right there. I

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Speaker 2: don't think we're going to have to use that. I'm

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Speaker 2: happy to say that. I don't think we're going to

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Speaker 2: have to use that at all. If I could ask Chevron,

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Speaker 2: you did a great job. I want to thank you,

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Speaker 2: and Exon Mobile if you would say a few words,

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Speaker 2: and then followed by Konaco, great companies, massive companies, great companies,

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Speaker 2: Exxon Place.

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Speaker 8: Sure, thank you, mister President.

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Speaker 14: I appreciate the invitation and the opportunity, frankly for the

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Speaker 14: entire industry to show up and provide a perspective. Frankly,

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Speaker 14: we've been kind of unresponsive to the press regarding Venezuela.

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Speaker 14: I guess today's the opportunity to address the press directly

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Speaker 14: with perspect to a number of questions that have been

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Speaker 14: asked of Exomobile. First and foremost, obviously, is the interest

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Speaker 14: that we have in Venezuela. And I think the way

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Speaker 14: I would position that, I think one of the reasons

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Speaker 14: why we see many of the industry players here is

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Speaker 14: we're in a depletion business for a product that is

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Speaker 14: in great demand and we'll be in demand for many, many,

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Speaker 14: many decades to come.

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Speaker 2: And as a depletion.

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Speaker 14: Business, the biggest challenge we have is finding resources. There's

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Speaker 14: an opportunity in Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: With all the resources there is.

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Speaker 14: We don't have that challenge of finding we have the

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Speaker 14: challenge of developing those resources. So I think it's on

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Speaker 14: It's in the best interest of these companies in frankly

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Speaker 14: society as a whole, for the industry to be interested

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Speaker 14: in understanding what the opportunity here represents. I'm just sure

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Speaker 14: a philosophy that ex On Mobile has when we enter countries.

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Speaker 14: Because we do business all around the world in a

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Speaker 14: number of different regimes, we take a very long term perspective.

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Speaker 14: The investments that we make span decades and decades, so

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Speaker 14: we do not go into any opportunity with a short mindset,

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Speaker 14: short term mindset. There's a value proposition that we have

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Speaker 14: to meet. There has to be a win win win proposition. Obviously,

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Speaker 14: it has to be a win for the company and

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Speaker 14: our shareholders and the generator return for the investments that

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Speaker 14: we make.

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Speaker 8: Has to be a win for the government.

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Speaker 14: The resources are important source of revenue that help support

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Speaker 14: the people of the places that we do business, and

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Speaker 14: has to be a win for the people. We have

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Speaker 14: to be wanted there and to be a good neighbor,

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Speaker 14: and those three things ensure a stable long term platform

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Speaker 14: for the large investments that we make for the long term.

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Speaker 14: With respect to Venezuela in particular, we have a very

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Speaker 14: long history in Venezuela. In fact, we first got into

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Speaker 14: Venezuela back in nineteen nineteen forties.

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Speaker 2: We've had our assets seized.

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Speaker 14: There twice, and so you can imagine to re enter

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Speaker 14: a third time would require some pretty significant changes from

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Speaker 14: what we've historically seen here and what is currently the state.

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Speaker 14: If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and

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Speaker 14: frameworks from place today in Venezuela today, it's uninvestable and

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Speaker 14: so significant changes have to be made to those.

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Speaker 2: Commercial frameworks, the legal system.

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Speaker 14: There has to be durable investment protections, and there has

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Speaker 14: to be a change to the hydrocarbon laws in the country.

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Speaker 14: We're confident that with this administration and President Trump working

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Speaker 14: hand in hand with the Venezuelan government that those changes

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Speaker 14: can be put in place, and with respect to the

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Speaker 14: Venezuelan government, that perspective we don't.

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Speaker 8: Have a view on.

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Speaker 14: We haven't talked to the Venezuelan government, and obviously we

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Speaker 14: have yet to assess the people's perspective with respect to

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Speaker 14: x On Mobile entering the company country. In the short term,

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Speaker 14: there are things that can be done while these longer

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Speaker 14: term issues are being worked for us. We haven't been

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Speaker 14: in the country for almost twenty years. We think it's

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Speaker 14: absolutely critical in the short term that we get technical

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Speaker 14: team in place to assess the current state of the

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Speaker 14: industry and the assets, to understand what would be involved

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Speaker 14: to help the people of Venezuela get production back on

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Speaker 14: the market. With the invitation of the Venezuelan government and

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Speaker 14: with appropriate security guarantees, we are ready to put a

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Speaker 14: team on the ground there. We also have an integrated

658
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Speaker 14: set of capabilities from production to refining to trading, and

659
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Speaker 14: I think we can be of assistance to getting the

660
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Speaker 14: Venezuelan crew to market and realizing the market price to

661
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 14: help again with the financial situation in Venezuela.

662
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Speaker 6: So those are short term perspective that I have.

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Speaker 14: I'd say may be closed with a thank you as

664
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Speaker 14: President for the work that you've done to secure not

665
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Speaker 14: only the national security but the energy security of the region.

666
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Speaker 8: And then thank you.

667
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 14: Secretory Rubio, Secretary Right, Secretary Burgham for your leadership in

668
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:49,879
Speaker 14: this matter.

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Speaker 8: Thank you.

670
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Speaker 2: How long would it take you, Darren as excellon to

671
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,919
Speaker 2: if we make a deal, and if we make a deal,

672
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Speaker 2: how long would it take you to get in there

673
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 2: and get started?

674
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Speaker 8: Well, we the first step this technical team.

675
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Speaker 14: As I talked with Secretary Right earlier this week, we

676
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 14: started from the beginning to put the team together so

677
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 14: that if and when it was needed, we could hit

678
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 14: the ground almost lays so we can. We can hit

679
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 14: the ground and within the next couple of weeks start

680
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 14: the assessment.

681
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 2: And then from there we need to understand that's what

682
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Speaker 2: we want. We want speed and quality, that's what we

683
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 2: want to Thank you Darren and Konaco Ryan, thank.

684
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 4: You, mister President, appreciate the opportunity to be here too.

685
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 4: And you've assembled a great team and our congratulations as

686
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 4: well for removing one of the terrible people in the

687
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 4: world and bringing them to justices. Quite amazing. I think

688
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 4: you've given hope to the people of Venezuela again, which

689
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 4: I think is quite remarkable, and we've been on the

690
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 4: other end of that despot regime a long time. Our

691
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 4: assets were appropriated out a little bit more here when

692
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 4: that happened, and you know, I think we're the none

693
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 4: largest non AUGN credit holder in Venezuela today, so we're

694
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 4: at a bit different situation.

695
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 6: But I think your.

696
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 4: Big and bold idea to use energy commerce instead of

697
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 4: conflict is something that could make a real big difference

698
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,959
Speaker 4: in Venezuela, and we stand our company certainly stands ready

699
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 4: to help in that endeavor. Encourage you to continue to

700
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 4: think bigger and even bolder, and we've had some discussions

701
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Speaker 4: with your energy team about that as well. As we

702
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 4: think about the other people that need to be in

703
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 4: this room and then this discussion, or the banks and

704
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 4: including probably the Exembank, as we think about how the

705
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:41,280
Speaker 4: debt needs to be restructured in the financing to deliver

706
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 4: the billions of dollars that are required to restore their

707
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 4: energy infrastructure. And I think as we think that big

708
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 4: and bold, we need to be also thinking about even

709
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 4: restructuring the entire Venezuelan energy system, including Petavasa and I

710
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 4: think if we can do that and think bold. Uh,

711
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 4: there's an opportunity to be quick fast and restore the

712
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,720
Speaker 4: quality of what's happened in Venezuela or what's been lost

713
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 4: in Venezuela over the course of the last twenty five years.

714
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Speaker 4: So thank you for this opportunity.

715
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, and you'll get a lot

716
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 2: of your money back. We're going to start with an

717
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 2: even plate though. We're not going to look at what

718
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 2: people lost in the past, because that was therefore, that

719
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 2: was a different president. We're gonna we're going to You're

720
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 2: gonna make a lot of money, but we're not going

721
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,240
Speaker 2: to go back. You left a lot of money behind.

722
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 2: I guess, eh, what number twelve billion? How much twelve billion? Well, good,

723
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 2: right off, it's already been written off.

724
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 15: It's been written all right, thank you. You'll make it

725
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 15: back one way or the other. You're all going to

726
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 15: do very well, I think, really very well. Marco just

727
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 15: gave me a note. Go back to Chevron. They want

728
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,280
Speaker 15: to discut something. Go ahead, I'm going back to Chevron.

729
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 6: Mark, Thank you, Marco.

730
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 2: Was there a question, mister President, Yes, go ahead, Marco.

731
00:39:59,040 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 2: What was it?

732
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Speaker 6: What are you say?

733
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 2: Mark?

734
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 9: If if you can update us on operations in the

735
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Speaker 9: ground with the appropriate approvals, what you might be able

736
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Speaker 9: to achieve in the next twelve to eighteen months, give

737
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,280
Speaker 9: us a little view from the ground.

738
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Speaker 6: You bet you bet so.

739
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 13: Today Chevron has three thousand employees in four different joint

740
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 13: ventures in Venezuela today, and over the past five to

741
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 13: seven years, they've taken production from about forty thousand barrels

742
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 13: a day to two hundred and forty thousand barrels a day,

743
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 13: essentially getting those facilities and that equipment up to standards

744
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 13: that would be something.

745
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 3: That people in the room would be more accustomed to.

746
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Speaker 13: Given the work we've done with Secretary Right and Secretary

747
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 13: Bergham and even Secretary Bestent, I think we have a

748
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 13: path forward here very shortly to be able to increase

749
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 13: our liftings from those joint ventures one hundred percent essentially

750
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 13: effective immediately. We are also able to increase our production

751
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:58,320
Speaker 13: within our own disciplined investment schemes by about fifty percent

752
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 13: just in the next eighteen to twenty four months, and

753
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 13: that's just leveraging what's on the ground. So to Secretary

754
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 13: of Rubio's comments about Phase one, this is taking the

755
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 13: momentum of improvements we've already made they're locally and building

756
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 13: on those and creating momentum for the people of Venezuela.

757
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 2: Do you think you have an advantage being there? You

758
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,479
Speaker 2: know you've been there by the skin of your teeth.

759
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 2: It's been tough for you to be there. But do

760
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 2: you think you have an advantage over the other people

761
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:26,800
Speaker 2: in this room by the fact that you are there?

762
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there are, Miss President.

763
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 13: I think there would be days where it didn't feel

764
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 13: like an advantage, and there are days where it does

765
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 13: feel like an advantage.

766
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 3: But having people on the ground.

767
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 13: Today that care desperately about the people of Venezuela and

768
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 13: know how to operate the assets they're there, there's a

769
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 13: definite advantage today.

770
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,959
Speaker 2: Would you say the best locations are available or would

771
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 2: you say the best locations are already sort of worked

772
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 2: even though they're in very bad shape. The best locations

773
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 2: for finding oil, the best locations for oil.

774
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 13: There are more opportunities than not, mister President. With three

775
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,879
Speaker 13: hundred barrels of reserves and resources in country, there are

776
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 13: lots of opportunities for many companies.

777
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 2: Will you be building new or will you'll be using

778
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 2: the old infrastructure that you have.

779
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, today it's a little bit of mix.

780
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 13: But today it's mostly us taking the equipment of today,

781
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 13: getting it to the standards that we are accustomed to.

782
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 13: Your comments about making it how it should be today,

783
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,959
Speaker 13: most of the investments that we've been making are about

784
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Speaker 13: getting it up to our standards.

785
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 2: Well, I think you're going to make an investment, but

786
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 2: you need to get your money back very quickly, and

787
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 2: that's part of our thing. We're going to have you

788
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 2: get your money back fast and then you'll give a

789
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 2: lot to Venezuela and to the United States after that. Okay,

790
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,760
Speaker 2: so you'll be in good shape. Could I ask Carol

791
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 2: tam to say a few words. He's been a friend

792
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 2: of mine for a long time. Very amazing man, actually

793
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 2: amazing energy person. Well, thank you, miss President.

794
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 16: It's good to be here with so many dignified people

795
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 16: and his effort particularly, and thank you for your effort

796
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 16: for what you've done here, taken this desp out of

797
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 16: that area, and the world dealt with him way too long. Certainly,

798
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 16: our industry knows that this is a real jewel that

799
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 16: can be developed and for the for the people, for

800
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 16: the people. Uh of Venezuela and and also benefit the world.

801
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 16: And like Sirtey Wright said, it has not been done,

802
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 16: that's not been done in the past, and and they

803
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 16: had a good chance at it, brought someone in that

804
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 16: totally took it down, as everybody knows here, and that

805
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 16: was show us and we know what happened to him finally,

806
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 16: but you know that ruined the industry in Venezuela, and

807
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 16: and all of us know how that happened ended.

808
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 2: Very well, very very wrongly.

809
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 16: Uh So, anyway, we're glad to see what's happened here

810
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 16: and and look forward with the opportunity for a lot

811
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 16: of people in this room, but also for America and

812
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 16: the country itself.

813
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 2: Are you going to be involved in going in because

814
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 2: you know he's in North Dakota and he's in Oklahoma

815
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 2: and some incredible places. Is a little bit different, but

816
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 2: there's no doubt about you won't have to worry about

817
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 2: destructure much here. You can just just go at it.

818
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 2: Are you going to be one of the participants?

819
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 16: Well, certainly, Uh, you know, I'm an all finder, like

820
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 16: you said, Uh, you know Barry Switzer, you know told

821
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 16: that story the coach. He's kind of exaggerated a little bit.

822
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 16: It doesn't come out there quite that easily usually. But anyway,

823
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 16: great story.

824
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 8: I love it.

825
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 2: But I love barr Barry.

826
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 6: Barry's the one that told me that he's.

827
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 16: A champion, you know, and in a lot of ways.

828
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 2: So love that story.

829
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:57,280
Speaker 16: Uh certainly I excites me as an expirationist. Uh, you know,

830
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 16: everybody has that in their blood. And and you know,

831
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 16: it is a very exciting country and a lot of reserves,

832
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:12,399
Speaker 16: and so it's got its challenges and the industry knows

833
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 16: how to handle that. And loc Darren said, you know,

834
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 16: you go into your eyes open and do the best

835
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:21,919
Speaker 16: you can with the team youve got.

836
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 2: So you're going to have something that they never had.

837
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 2: Really here is tremendous security. You're going to be very secure,

838
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 2: very safe, physically safe, in addition to financially.

839
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 6: Said, so it's good to see you, Harol. Thank you

840
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 6: very much.

841
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 2: Does anybody have anything to say before we get to

842
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 2: the press.

843
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 6: Well, Cuba's in bad shape.

844
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 2: Cuba relied on Venezuela for oil and for money, and

845
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 2: nobody really knows what's going to happen with Cuba. They're

846
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 2: doing very poorly. They're really third world all the way,

847
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 2: and we have a lot of great Cuban Americans, and

848
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 2: I would say Marco fits very solidly into that category.

849
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,760
Speaker 2: And I might ask you to say a few words

850
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 2: about we were discussing it before. Cuba is a very

851
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 2: different They don't have energy, they don't have oil, but

852
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 2: they would live off of the oil from Venezuela, and

853
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 2: they do have a very strong people and very powerful

854
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 2: people militarily, and they would protect the people running Venezuela,

855
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 2: and they would take in a lot of money from Venezuela.

856
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 2: Now they don't have that. They won't be taken in

857
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,879
Speaker 2: any money. So Marco, what do you think?

858
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 11: Well, I mean, the fundamental problem in Cuba is that

859
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 11: it's run by incompetent people that don't know what an

860
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 11: economy looks like, much less a functioning one.

861
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 8: They've made a.

862
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 11: Choice, and that is they would rather have political control

863
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 11: over the people and they would have an economy that functions.

864
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,439
Speaker 11: And they've gotten away with it for sixty something years

865
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:47,839
Speaker 11: because they've had donors the Soviet Union and now most

866
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 11: recently Venezuela.

867
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 8: But that's now gone.

868
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 11: So the people in control in Cuba have a choice

869
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 11: to make. They can either have a real country with

870
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 11: a real economy where their people can prosper, or they

871
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 11: can continue with their failing dictatorship. That's going to lead

872
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 11: to Sustaateican societal collapse. So that's a very stark and

873
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 11: dramatic choice, and it's one we hope to make the

874
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,280
Speaker 11: right one. We don't have an interest in a destabilized Cuba.

875
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 11: But that would be their fault because they refuse to

876
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 11: allow the people of Cuba to have either economic or

877
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:13,479
Speaker 11: political freedom for that matter.

878
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 2: And you have you have a lot of people in

879
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 2: this country that want to go back to Cuba and

880
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 2: help Cuba. A lot of people have left, you know,

881
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 2: they came in penalists, they didn't have anything, and they

882
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 2: become very rich people in our country and they want

883
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 2: to very much go back and help Cuba. So that's

884
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 2: something that Cuba has in a lot of other places

885
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 2: don't have.

886
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 17: Peter, I do want to ask you about Minnesota, but first,

887
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 17: just more on topic. President Zelenski said that he was

888
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 17: watching with the rest of the world as you made

889
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 17: this order to go and capture Nicholas Maduro, and he said,

890
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 17: if that's how it works with dictators, that the United

891
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 17: States knows what to do next. Sounds like he wants

892
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 17: you to go and capture Vladimir Poodin. Would you ever

893
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 17: order a mission to go and capture.

894
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 2: Latimir pood Well, I don't think it's going to be necessary.

895
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 2: I think we're going to have a I've always had

896
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 2: a great relationship with him. I'm very disappointed. I settled

897
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 2: eight wars. I thought this would be in the middle

898
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 2: of the pack, or maybe one of the easier ones.

899
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 2: And I don't know, if you know, Peter, the last

900
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 2: month they lost thirty one thousand people, many of them

901
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 2: Russian soldiers, and the Russian economy is doing poorly. I

902
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 2: think we're going to end up getting it settled. I

903
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,359
Speaker 2: wish we could have done it quicker because a lot

904
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 2: of people are dying, and mostly soldiers. You know, they

905
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,479
Speaker 2: get hit in Kiev and they get hit a little

906
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 2: bit here and there, and people are dying there too,

907
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 2: but largely it's the soldier population. When you have thirty

908
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 2: thousand and thirty one thousand soldiers dying in a period

909
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 2: of a month, twenty seven thousand, the month before, twenty

910
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 2: six thousand a month before that, that's bad stuff. So,

911
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 2: as you know, President Biden gave three hundred and fifty

912
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 2: billion dollars to Ukraine to fight and we would never

913
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 2: get that back, although I did make a rare earth

914
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 2: deal to get it back, so we will be getting

915
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 2: it back. But shouldn't have done that. It was a

916
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,800
Speaker 2: bad thing to do. I will say that right now,

917
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 2: because I was able to get NATO to up GDP

918
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 2: from two percent to five percent. NATO's got a lot

919
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 2: of money and they're paying for everything. We're not losing

920
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,399
Speaker 2: any money. We're making a lot of money. I guess

921
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,720
Speaker 2: if you think of it, because we're selling a military equipment.

922
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 2: They're probably giving it to Ukraine, but we're selling them

923
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 2: to NATO military equipment. We're getting full price and all

924
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 2: of that. But that's not a big deal to me.

925
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 2: What is a big deal is stopping a war where

926
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 2: thirty thousand people are being killed every single month.

927
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 17: I'm gonna falla The Vice President yesterday suggested that Renee

928
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 17: A Good, who was killed by this ICE officer, was

929
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 17: part of.

930
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 3: A broad left wing network.

931
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 17: What has your team told you about this broad left

932
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 17: waing network.

933
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 2: Who is in charge of it, who's part of it?

934
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 3: What's it called?

935
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 2: Well, I haven't seen the Vice President's statement, but he's

936
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 2: generally very accurate. I hate to say. Look, I watched

937
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:04,240
Speaker 2: that yesterday and there are a lot of different forms

938
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 2: to it, but there was a woman screaming. Shame, shame, shame, shame.

939
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 2: She was a agitator, probably a paid agitator, but in

940
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 2: my opinion, she was an agitator, a very high level agitator,

941
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 2: so professional. She wouldn't stop screaming. I said, this isn't

942
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:26,280
Speaker 2: a normal situation. This is a professional trouble banker. Because

943
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,399
Speaker 2: you heard it and I had it. Now, I will

944
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 2: say this, the news sort of turned her down, turned

945
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 2: her off because you're trying to watch. She was so

946
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 2: loud and so crazy and just not normal. When somebody

947
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 2: sees something like that, they don't go screaming and screaming

948
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 2: and the same word. It's so. I guess you could

949
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,319
Speaker 2: say professional, but I didn't think she did a very

950
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 2: good job. You have agitators, and we will always be

951
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 2: protecting ice, and we're always going to be protecting our

952
00:50:55,840 --> 00:51:01,320
Speaker 2: border patrol and our law enforcement. Yeah, I was the president.

953
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 18: Mister President, in your conversations with these oil executives today,

954
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 18: did you provide any security guarantees so that they can

955
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 18: do their work safely in Venezuela, and separately, mister President,

956
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 18: they will.

957
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 2: Have those guaranteeses and separately.

958
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 18: As President, I'm curious in terms of the future of Venezuela,

959
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 18: do you see Venezuela now led by Delsa Rodriguez as

960
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 18: an ally of the US?

961
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 2: Is that the way that you view that country Right now?

962
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 2: They seem to be an ally and I think it

963
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 2: will continue to be an ally. And we don't want

964
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 2: to have Russia there. We don't want to have China there.

965
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 2: And by the way, we don't want Russia or China

966
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 2: going to Greenland, which if we don't take Greenland, you're

967
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 2: going to have Russia or China as your next door neighbor.

968
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 2: That's not going to happen. Dwight, thank you.

969
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 19: You just said that these companies would have security guarantees.

970
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 19: If they go in on the ground in Venezuela, they

971
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 19: will have What is your plan there actually for these

972
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 19: companies and those Americans who are going to be on

973
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 19: the ground working for these.

974
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 2: Companies, Well, there are going to be Americans. I assume

975
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 2: they're going to be using a lot of Americans, but

976
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 2: they're going to be using a lot of people from

977
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 2: Venezuela and other places I would imagine, but I would

978
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 2: think that mostly they'll be using Venezuela and workers. They

979
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 2: have a lot of great workers that have a very

980
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,879
Speaker 2: high unemployment rate, and they have workers that are very

981
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:23,760
Speaker 2: familiar with taking oil out of the ground.

982
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 19: Yeah, how long do you think that Ayatola will be

983
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 19: in power? After what we've seen play out on the

984
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 19: ground there? When is the US going to get involved? Now?

985
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 19: The reports of protesters being killed on the ground.

986
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:37,879
Speaker 2: So Aron's in big trouble. It looks to me that

987
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:41,879
Speaker 2: the people are taking over certain cities that nobody thought

988
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:45,760
Speaker 2: were really possible just a few weeks ago. We're watching

989
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 2: the situation very carefully. I've made the statement very strongly

990
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 2: that if they start killing people like they have in

991
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:53,879
Speaker 2: the past, we will get involved. We'll be hitting them

992
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:57,320
Speaker 2: very hard where it hurts. And that doesn't mean boots

993
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,399
Speaker 2: on the ground, but it means hitting them very very

994
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 2: hard where it So we don't want that to happen.

995
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 2: There have been cases like this where President Obama totally

996
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 2: backed down, But this is something pretty incredible that's happening

997
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 2: and around. It's an amazing thing to watch they've done

998
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 2: a bad job. They've treated their people very badly, and

999
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 2: now they're being paid back. So let's see what happens.

1000
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 2: We're watching it. We're watching it very closely.

1001
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:25,959
Speaker 6: Nice.

1002
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 2: Yes, go ahead, Thank you so much, mister president.

1003
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 11: Do you have any comments in reaction to the recent

1004
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 11: a tax for the Ceria government alignment groups again use part.

1005
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 12: Of Kurdish forces and Equasiri, which.

1006
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 16: Killed us silience and displacing many families. Does your opensation

1007
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 16: bring peace between the Kurds and the Syrian government?

1008
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:46,879
Speaker 6: I want to see piece.

1009
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 2: Yes, I do. The Kurds and the Syrian government. We

1010
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 2: get along with both, as you know very well. They

1011
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 2: have been natural enemies over the years, but we get

1012
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 2: along both, and we want to see serious succeed and

1013
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 2: so far I think they are succeeding. But this is

1014
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,240
Speaker 2: just breaking out and we want to see that stopped.

1015
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:09,360
Speaker 2: Go ahead.

1016
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:12,879
Speaker 3: In a few weeks.

1017
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 2: Do you hold this This meeting with him marks a

1018
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 2: new chapter, a new beginning in.

1019
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 3: The benefit for all day.

1020
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 2: Country. Columbia had a very good talk with him yesterday,

1021
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 2: and you know, he's been very hostile to us and

1022
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 2: to the nation and to me, called me a dictator

1023
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 2: and lots of other things. UH called Biden some terrible names,

1024
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:40,240
Speaker 2: far worse than he called me. But uh, he called

1025
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 2: yesterday through people and he wants to meet and that's

1026
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 2: fine with me. I've I've met up with people also,

1027
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 2: you know, so we're gonna have a meeting with him.

1028
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 2: We had a very good conversation. The people of Columbia

1029
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:56,320
Speaker 2: are incredible people. Marco would know that better than anybody

1030
00:54:56,320 --> 00:55:00,040
Speaker 2: because he's married to a woman from Colombia, and I

1031
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 2: mean Columbia University. That would be I'm not sure. I

1032
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 2: think I like Columbia the country better. If you want

1033
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,800
Speaker 2: to know the truth, the people. The people are the people.

1034
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 2: The people, the people are great people. I look forward

1035
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 2: to meeting with They're gonna meet in the very near future.

1036
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 16: Would you meet the president interim President of Venezuela here

1037
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 16: in the White House?

1038
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 3: Would you greet her to discuss the faith of people?

1039
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to meet a lot of people and

1040
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 2: we're going to meet. You know, we meet a lot

1041
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 2: of people. When you end eight wars, you get to

1042
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 2: know a lot of people. And I think it's very important.

1043
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:38,479
Speaker 2: As an example, we have over eighteen trillion dollars thinking

1044
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 2: that eighteen trillion dollars coming into our country. A lot

1045
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:44,760
Speaker 2: of that's coming in from foreign countries like Saudi Arabia

1046
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 2: and Qatar and UAE and others. And I get to

1047
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 2: meet a lot of people. But I will be meeting

1048
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:55,839
Speaker 2: with various representatives of Venezuela probably pretty soon. We haven't

1049
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 2: set that up. But the relationship that we have with

1050
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 2: the people that are currently running Venezuela is very good.

1051
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 2: We also have a young lady that received the Nobel

1052
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 2: Peace Prize. She's going to come in and pay her

1053
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 2: regards to our country. Really to me, but you know,

1054
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 2: I'm a representative of the country, nothing else. And she's

1055
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:20,240
Speaker 2: coming in sometime next week I think Wednesday, Tuesday or Wednesday,

1056
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 2: and we'll see how that is. But no, no, we're

1057
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 2: going to be We're dealing with the people from Venezuela.

1058
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 2: We're dealing with them very well. I think they've been

1059
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:30,400
Speaker 2: very smart and the way they've dealt with us, frankly,

1060
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 2: because that whole place could have been obliterated with one

1061
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 2: more strike and we didn't want to do that. Thank

1062
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 2: you so much.

1063
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 20: I have a question for you on Minneapolis, but on

1064
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 20: Venezuela and your meeting with Machado next week. If she

1065
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 20: gives you her Nobel Peace Prize, will that change your

1066
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 20: view about her running that country?

1067
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:49,920
Speaker 2: Well, I have to speak to her. I mean, I'm

1068
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:51,320
Speaker 2: going to have to speak to her. She might be

1069
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 2: involved in some aspect of it. I will have to

1070
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 2: speak to her. I think it's very nice that she

1071
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 2: wants to come in, and that's what I understand. The

1072
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 2: reason is because nor is very embarrassed by what took place.

1073
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 2: I mean, they're getting decimated. Look, whether people like Trump

1074
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 2: or don't like Trump, I settled eight wars, big ones,

1075
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 2: some going on for thirty six years, thirty two years,

1076
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 2: thirty one years, twenty eight years, twenty five years, some

1077
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 2: just getting ready to start, like India and Pakistan where

1078
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 2: already eight jets were shot out of the air. And

1079
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 2: I got it done in rapid order without nuclear weapons.

1080
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 2: I can't think of anybody in history that you get

1081
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 2: the Nobel Prize more than me, and I don't want

1082
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 2: to be bragging, but nobody else settled wars. Obama got

1083
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 2: the Nobel Prize. He had no idea why, he still

1084
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 2: has no idea. He walks around, he says, I got

1085
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 2: the Nobel Prize. Why did he get a Nobel Price.

1086
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 2: He got it almost immediately upon attaining office, and he

1087
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 2: didn't do anything, and he was a bad president. So

1088
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 2: I mean, you should get the Nobel price for every

1089
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 2: war you stopped. These were major wars. These were wars

1090
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 2: that nobody thought could be stopped. President Putin called me

1091
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Speaker 2: and he said about two of the wars that he's

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Speaker 2: been trying to stop them for ten years. He wasn't

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Speaker 2: able to do it. He couldn't believe it. So in theory,

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Speaker 2: you should get the Nobel Price for every war you stopped.

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Speaker 2: Every one of them was major. But I don't care

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Speaker 2: about that. What I care about is saving lives. I've

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Speaker 2: saved tens of millions of lives.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 2: The Prime Minister of Pakistan came here and he made

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Speaker 2: a very public savement. He said that President Trump saved

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Speaker 2: minimum ten million lives having to do with Pakistan and India,

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Speaker 2: and that was going to be raging. So, you know,

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Speaker 2: but I'm honored that she's coming here. I look forward

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Speaker 2: to meeting her. Yes, all go ahead.

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Speaker 6: A follow up for you.

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Speaker 20: The state officials therec said that the NBI stop sharing

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Speaker 20: evidence with them. Typically they would conduct a joint investigation.

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Speaker 20: As you know, do you believe that the NBI should

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Speaker 20: be sharing evidence with state officials in Minnesota?

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Speaker 2: Well, normally I would put the crooked officials. I mean

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Speaker 2: Minneapolis and Minnesota what a beautiful place, but it's being destroyed.

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Speaker 2: It's got an incompetent governor fool, I mean, he's a

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Speaker 2: stupid person. And it looks like the number could be

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Speaker 2: nineteen billion dollars stolen from a lot of people, but

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Speaker 2: largely people from Somalia. They buy their vote, they vote

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Speaker 2: in a group, they buy their vote. They sell more

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Speaker 2: Mercedes Benzes in that area than almost Can you imagine

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Speaker 2: you come over with no money and then shortly thereafter

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Speaker 2: you're driving a Mercedes Benz. The whole thing is ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: So they're very corrupt people. It's a very corrupt state.

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Speaker 2: I feel that I won Minnesota. I think I want

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Speaker 2: it all three times. Nobody's won it for since Richard

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Speaker 2: Nixon won it many many years ago. I wanted all

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Speaker 2: three times in my opinion, And it's a corrupt state,

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Speaker 2: a corrupt voting state. And the Republicans ought to get

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Speaker 2: smart and demand on voter id