It's Monday, January 12, 26th, President Trump calling shots in this hemisphere, preparing shots in another,

the riot that wasn't in Portland, Oregon, and did the United States deploy a novel space age weapon?

Next on the AM update.

Late last week, President Trump called a meeting of oil executives at the White House.

Included in that meeting were executives from Chevron, Exxon, Conoco, Continental, Halliburton,

and a bevy of other companies to discuss investment in Venezuela during the course of that meeting.

President Trump made these remarks.

The plan is for them to spend, meaning our giant oil companies, will be spending at least

$100 billion of their money, not the government's money. They don't need government money,

but they need government protection and need government's security that when they spend all this

money, it's going to be

there so they get their money back and make a very nice return. The plan is for them to spend at least

$100 billion to rebuild the capacity and the infrastructure. $100 billion, according to President

Trump being invested by oil and gas companies to rebuild

Venezuelan capacity at that same meeting. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated the case

why actions in Venezuela really are America first. Thank you, Mr. President. And I think this is a

reminder that everything this president does, everything President Trump does is with the American

people in mind. It was not in the national interest or national security of the United States and of our people

to have in our own hemisphere a country, not just with vast energy reserves,

but controlled by an indicted narco trafficker who flooded our country with illegal immigration,

including drug gang members, and openly cooperated with drug immigration, including drug gang members,

flooded our openly cooperated with drug gangs, and by the way,

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