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Republican US Sen. Ron Johnson on ICE, Venezuela

Published | Video Starts at 07:48

What is next for Venezuela and Venezuela, U.S. relations, in your opinion? Well, again, you can tell that President Trump does not want to put troops on the ground nation build. He's going to use the oil as leverage to make sure that the transition administration does right by the Venezuelan people. So we'll buy that oil. We'll make that, put that money into an escrow account to pay the civil servants so they can keep Venezuelan society operating as we transition to a real election. (07:48–07:56)

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