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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

President Trump wins a dust-up with Colombia over military planes for deportation flights.

In the meantime, the CIA says in a new assessment, albeit with low confidence,

that the COVID virus most likely originated in a lab with Wuhan China.

Welcome. I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues,

columnist Kim Strassel and Bill McGern. The diplomatic incident that was launched and then settled

in a day on Sunday began when Colombian President Gustavo Petro revoked the authority

to land for two U.S. C-117 military planes, each carrying about 80 migrants that were being

repatriated to Colombia. Petro said that he was protesting the use of military aircraft, as well as

handcuffs, saying we will receive

our countrymen on commercial planes without them being treated like criminals. That led President

Trump to elevate this to true social, promising that unless the Colombian government backed

down, there would be emergency 25% tariffs on all

Colombian goods coming into the United States, going to 50% within a week, as well as

enhanced border inspections for Colombian nationals, cargo, treasury, banking, financial sanctions,

and more.

The end result was that Colombia did back down. Kim,

those repatriation flights using military aircraft seem to be back on. What do you make of this

as a use of the president's diplomatic powers abroad? I think that this was entirely to be expected.

It still kind of slays me that eight years now, Donald Trump has

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