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 that [18 months] 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 of dollars in taxpayer money in Venezuela at a time when people here at home don't even have basic health care? (03:22–03:30)
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Asserts that experts believe rebuilding Venezuela's oil fields could take longer than 18 months.
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