Karoline Leavitt: “The president has made it very clear that this is a country…”

“… the president's entire national security team, is in close correspondence with the interim authorities in Venezuela. We obviously have maximum leverage over the interim authorities in Venezuela right now. And The president has made it very clear that this is a country within the United States, the Western hemisphere, close by the United States, that is no longer going to be sending illegal drugs to the United States of America. It's no longer going to be sending and trafficking illegal people and criminal cartels and to kill American citizens as they have in the past.” (1:11:25–1:11:39)

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