Tom Cotton: “We won't have accomplished our mission until Venezuela…”

“I mean, part of that deployment was to collect intelligence to conduct this operation to quarantine the oil trade that Venezuela was sending to Cuba or sending to our adversaries. But it's not measuring the world. We won't have accomplished our mission until Venezuela starts acting like a normal nation. It stops the drug trafficking and human trafficking. It kicks out Islamic radicals and Iranians and Cubans and helps the United States build a more stable, prosperous Western Hemisphere. That's the ultimate goal. And that's what President Trump laid out yesterday.” (25:50–25:57)

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