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Ruben Gallego: “We produce enough oil in this country right now, and oil…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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'Trump wants us to go back to 1930s': Sen. Ruben Gallego

Published | Video Starts at 11:21

We sound like the people that are just coming to take, take, take, and then we will, you know, without any understanding of the consequences. The other thing is, like, it's just kind of stupid at the same time, because We produce enough oil in this country right now, and oil actually is at a very... Is very little right now because there is an actually overproduction of oil. What's happening here is you have someone like Donald Trump who literally lives, I think, in the 1980s in his brain, and he thinks that the best thing I could do is get a hold of oil, and that makes us a strong country. (11:21–11:32)

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Asserts that the U.S. produces enough oil and there is an overproduction of oil.

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