And Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2015 talking about how that's not okay, how we're giving our sovereignty to a foreign adversary, how we have offshored our food, our medicine, our manufacturing, our widgets, all of the above, that We had basically been importing energy for all of those years and we needed to be exporting. And it was like, wow, this is a whole different way of thought. And Maria, I think before the intellectual class, which probably included me at that point, which is funny, caught up to that. (02:10–02:17)
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Asserts that the U.S. was importing energy for many years and needed to shift to exporting.
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