Markwayne Mullin: “Maduro is a criminal, he's a terrorist.”

“They're running technology that is showing them being 500 to, up to a thousand miles away from the current position, which is, by the way, very dangerous and open and rough seas. And so the President is saying, we're putting a blockade on this. Maduro is a criminal, he's a terrorist. We know this and we're just going to stop him from being able to steal the oil from the Venezuela people. And by the way, he's also allowed Maduro to make the decision.” (00:47–00:51)

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