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Now on Capitol Hill today, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is just an absolute rock star and gave incredible testimony

today at times explosive only because they can't handle the truth.

And anyway, it went very, very well for the secretary from my perspective.

I want to play a couple of exchanges.

We'll get some comments and observations from Mike Lee who's on the committee.

Here is in the setup lead up to the questioning Secretary of State Marco Rubio talking about Venezuela being a base of operations for virtually every competitor, adversary, enemy in the entire world, citing Iran and

Russia and China as examples. Here's what he said. Let me just say this. What is our goal going in?

We had in our hemisphere, a regime operated by an indicted narco-trafficker that became a base of

operation for virtually every competitor, adversary, and enemy in the world.

It was, for Iran, their primary spot of operation in the Western Hemisphere was Venezuela.

For Russia, their primary base of operation in the Western Hemisphere along Cuba and Nicaragua

was Venezuela.

In the case of China, China was receiving oil at a huge, about $20 a barrel discount, and they weren't even paying money for it.

It was being used to pay down debt that they were owed.

This is the oil of the people of Venezuela, and it was being given to the Chinese as barter at a $20 discount per barrel in some cases.

And so you had basically three of our primary

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