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Chuck Schumer: “The Russian economy was in the tank, and one of the reasons…”

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

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The Conference: The Top with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)

Published | Video Starts at 08:28

… Straits of Hormuz as a weapon to try and strangle, at least in terms of energy, the West. And then you have the Russians, who's benefiting from this Russia, because The Russian economy was in the tank, and one of the reasons was the price of oil went down. Now the price is up and their economy's getting fixed. So the administration is really in a. And the American people forget the administration is in a bind when it comes to these oil prices, all because Trump's. (08:28–08:34)

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Asserts that the Russian economy was struggling due to low oil prices.

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