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Trump’s Quest For Venezuela’s Oil

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MS NOW, Ali Velshi

Politics, News, News Commentary, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant, Ali Velshi, Government, Weekend News

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Fmr. Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes; Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN); Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN); Rep. Kelly Morrison (D-MN); MS NOW Senior Political & National Reporter Jacob Soboroff

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0:00.0

We're following developments out of Minneapolis this morning where protests continue after the

0:12.4

ICE shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Good and where local and state officials have launched

0:16.9

their own investigation after being shut out of the federal investigation and being denied

0:22.6

access to evidence. Three members of Congress have been trying this morning to make an oversight

0:26.7

visit to an ICE facility in Minneapolis. MS Now's reporter Namdi Aguangwu is there. As you know,

0:32.6

we were just talking to him. We're expecting to hear from Congresswoman Ilhan Omar any moment. She's talking to the press now,

0:39.1

and we're going to try and get her over to Namdi's mic for a conversation with her. So we are going

0:43.8

to get back to Minneapolis. As soon as that happens, I'm probably going to have to interrupt my

0:48.2

next discussion to do that, but that's okay. We'll manage it all. We are going to start this

0:53.2

hour in the moment with President

0:55.0

Trump's plans for a post-Niculus Maduro Venezuela, which he pitched to the heads of nearly

1:00.0

two dozen American oil companies yesterday at the White House. Trump says the United States

1:06.3

will run Venezuela for potentially the next several years at least. He also says that elections may

1:11.6

eventually happen in Venezuela, but not until the United States prioritizes something else first.

1:18.3

Do you foresee a Venezuela that will have free and fair elections? I do see that, and I think

1:25.5

that's happening, but before we do that, it's going to

1:28.3

take a while to do it. We have to rebuild the country. They couldn't have an election. They wouldn't even know how to have an election right now. We're going to rebuild the oil and the oil infrastructure will be in charge of it. It's going to do great. It can make a lot of money, and we're going to take it from there, but we're going to rebuild the country, and ultimately you're going to have elections.

1:46.1

Think of what we've done. I mean, we've taken over. money and we're going to take it from there, but we're going to rebuild the country, and we'll

1:44.4

ultimately have elections. Think of what we've done. I mean, we've taken over a whole country.

1:50.1

We've taken $4 billion worth of oil in one day, and that'll increase. We've taken $4 billion worth of

1:59.2

oil in one day, and that'll increase.

2:01.9

After publicly saying for months that America's operations near Venezuela were about drugs

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