Riley Moore: “These are rare earth minerals that the Chinese are…”

“You mentioned mining. Is this over energy, any of this? I had not heard that from you. No. This is rare earth. These are rare earth minerals that the Chinese are extracting there in Nigeria illegally, by the way. Okay, thank you so very much for the latest on this. We'll have you check back again. Again, I mentioned military in this whole scenario because the president does.” (02:12–02:18)

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