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Ruben Gallego: “We're going to occupy [a] foreign country, we're going to…”

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

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Sen. Ruben Gallego calls Venezuela strikes 'illegal'

Published | Video Starts at 00:51

Number two, the nature of this is it's all illegal. What we heard so far, there are three different reasons why we went after this man. And now they're saying they We're going to occupy [a] foreign country, we're going to run it from the United States and that we're going to steal their oil. In what world did this administration get any of that permission ever for them to do that? Did not come to the United States citizen, did not come from Congress. (00:51–01:01)

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Asserts that the U.S. plans to occupy Venezuela and control its oil.

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