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Doug Burgum: “In less than two hours, we took a sanctioned adversary…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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Interior Secretary Burgum on Iran, Venezuela, and Trump's energy endgame

Published | Video Starts at 22:14

Yesterday he's talking about geopolitics. But on the, but on Venezuela, I mean, this is, this is something where history is going to treat this very well because we, In less than two hours, we took a sanctioned adversary [Venezuela] and converted him to a strategic ally. Right. And that, that alone, it is moving the geopolitical center of the oil and gas industry back to the Western Hemisphere. (22:14–22:20)

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Asserts that Venezuela was quickly converted from an adversary to a strategic ally.

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