James Lankford: “We've also seized that oil, as you've mentioned, through…”

“She has also illegally been elected into Venezuela. But her task at this point is going to be setting up the next elections so they can have a legitimate leader there. We've also seized that oil, as you've mentioned, through several of your reports, that is a lifeline of them actually paying their firefighters and teachers and sanitation workers and all that. So when we're controlling that, we're actually managing that government saying, listen, we want to make sure the money's Going towards things that are not corruption and it is going …” (02:03–02:15)

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