John Thune: “It's the Chinese and the Russians, Dana, who are stealing…”

“I'm glad we had the briefing. But this is going to be a very, very rough ride for the United States. What do you make of the phrase stealing the oil? Well, It's the Chinese and the Russians, Dana, who are stealing Venezuelan oil. What the President is attempting to do is to get this country to where, again, it benefits from Venezuelan energy production.” (01:52–01:58)

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