Chris Wright: “President Trump said, we're going to enforce a quarantine on…”

“How can we do something economically? So with Venezuela, there'd long been a blockade or a. Not a blockade, a sanctions on their oil exports, which is never enforced. President Trump said, we're going to enforce a quarantine on the oil exports from Venezuela, and I bet you things will change pretty quickly. And they did. So I started in dialogues with Venezuelans about how to do something that benefits both of us here. They obviously want to be able to sell their oil, so we now control the sale of that oil.” (44:27–44:37)

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