Number two, this is about the national interest of the United States. And what I'm confident of is we are in a safer and better place because we're taking it seriously. The alternative would have been to leave Maduro there as an indicted drug trafficker, illegitimate president running the country. Open invitation for all of our adversaries to do whatever they want against the United States from Venezuela. That was not going to continue. (13:19–13:27)
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Asserts that Maduro is an indicted drug trafficker and illegitimate president.
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