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Marco Rubio: “The first 300 million moved [to Venezuela] for the following…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Testifies on Venezuela

Published | Video Starts at 1:31:12

And we, and we're out of that game. What we're talking about now is the sanctioned oil, the oil that's under our sanction. So we have to monitor how that money moves. So, yes, The first 300 million moved [to Venezuela] for the following reason: we didn't want to see systemic collapse. Like one of the things a lot of you told me you were worried about on the short term is this is going to trigger internal chaos in Venezuela. (1:31:12–1:31:15)

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Asserts that $300 million was moved to Venezuela to prevent systemic collapse.

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