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Chuck Schumer: “Most experts think it could take easily longer than [18…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Published | Video Starts at 04:11

Yesterday, Donald Trump even suggested we might spend up to 18 months in Venezuela rebuilding its oil infrastructure and that's probably a low estimate according to most experts. Most experts think it could take easily longer than [18 months]. that. The Venezuela oil fields are such a mess. And are you kidding me? How are we going to spend 18 months and potentially tens of billions, billions of dollars … (04:11–04:15)

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Asserts that experts believe rebuilding Venezuela's oil infrastructure could take longer than 18 months.

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