We're getting along incredibly well in the production and sale of massive amounts of oil and gas, the second largest reserves on earth after the United States of America. We're now totally independent of the Middle East and yet we are there to help. We don't have to be there. We don't need their oil. We don't need anything they have. But we're there to help our allies. (12:09–12:16)
CLAIM
Asserts that the U.S. is independent of Middle Eastern oil.
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