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Scott Bessent: “We're getting a 5, 10 million barrels a day out of the Gulf.”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Extended Interview: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

Published | Video Starts at 07:56

That's like I watch them every morning and at the hint of a deal, it comes down at the hint of a conflict rising. That's not right anymore because that even before we had the deal, We're getting a 5, 10 million barrels a day out of the Gulf. So again, oil prices keep going down. The Iranians try to say some crazy things. We're going to do this in the straight, we're going to do that in the strait. (07:56–08:01)

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Asserts that oil production from the Gulf is between 5 to 10 million barrels per day.

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