But we know, as you just cited, that the first sale was for $500 million. What right does the United States have to that oil? Well, we, we, we didn't take that oil. We sold that oil and we returned those funds to Venezuela. as I said, president Trump's iconoclastic. He looked at traditional diplomacy, sanctions taking off, sanctions threatening this, carrots here and there, and we haven't seen meaningful progress in Venezuela for 20 years. (08:06–08:10)
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