I want to focus my comments this morning on what happens now moving forward because you're going to ask about the going back. And let me just say this, what is our goal going in? We had in our hemisphere a regime operated by an indicted narco trafficker that became a base of operation for virtually every competitor, adversary and enemy in the world. It was for Iran. Their primary spot of operation in the Western hemisphere was Venezuela. For Russia, their primary base of operation in the Western Hemisphere along Cuba and Nicaragua was Venezuela. (14:57–15:09)
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