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that would lead to the arrest of a president who's in our part of the world. I don't know. That's weird. But apparently the alleged crime or crimes is that Maduro is not just the head of Venezuela but that he's the head of or deeply embedded with the cartels, the drug cartels, and that he's basically one of, if not the biggest drug dealer in the entire world. Did we do that with Noriega? Somebody'…
← Previous segment →in a hurry. And Trump's idea that he would put pressure on the people who were buying oil and gas from Russia, which would be mostly China, they wouldn't respond to the pressure but India might respond. And there's some thought that that battle there could raise oil prices into the $80s. But Reuters believes that there's no pressure that you could put on Russia that's going to end the war sooner.
So why do you think Putin agreed to talk to Trump? What do you think that's all about? Because if Putin does one more round of Charlie Brown, you know, Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, which is what I feel like Putin has done to Trump a few times now, if he does that one more time there's no way that Trump's ever going to deal with him again. I mean at that point we're going to have to say all right, we're going to have to put you out of business. So it seems to me that Putin
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would know that he can't pull the football away one more time. That would, if you could read the room, and I think Putin's pretty good at reading the room, one more time would really weaponize America against him in a way that we haven't seen because it would look like he's just with us at that point, which is what it does look like. It does look like he's just with us. But if he does this high-pr…
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