James Lankford: “Nicolas Maduro, who has been pumping drugs into the United…”

“So the focus of the president's out on Venezuela is, hey, this was not about regime change. This is not about taking over Venezuela. Venezuela is still going to operate its own country. But Nicolas Maduro, who has been pumping drugs into the United States for the last 20 years. both when he was the dictator there and then before when he worked for the previous administration as the foreign minister, he's been actively working to pump drugs into the United States and for his own corruption.” (02:53–02:58)

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