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Marco Rubio: “These five guys had five separate oil fields that were…”

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Testifies on Venezuela

Published | Video Starts at 29:45

We all should stipulate to that. Okay. That regime, as everyone understood, was held together by corruption. The glue that kept people together was not loyalty to Maduro. It was the fact that These five guys had five separate oil fields that were assigned to them. These people are drug rights. I understand that. So that's going to be familiar. I'm not defending the regime. (29:45–29:49)

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Asserts that five individuals were assigned separate oil fields in Venezuela.

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