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Laura Coates Live

Trump: U.S. Getting Venezuelan Oil, Money To “Be Controlled By Me”

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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President Trump said Venezuela will turn over 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States, to be sold at market value and with the proceeds controlled by the US. Plus, the White House said that President Trump is “discussing a range of options” to acquire Greenland, making clear that using the US military is not off the table. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:32.3

Tonight is Greenland next? The White House considers taking it over by military force as suspicions arise about Trump's real motivation.

0:41.1

I'll tell you why this lawyer is questioning it all. Plus, immigration agents are surging into Minnesota amid a widespread fraud scandal.

0:50.0

How is the state going to respond? I've got the Minnesota Attorney General as my guest.

0:55.2

And the shocking delay in the trial of the first cop on the scene in the Evaldi school shooting.

1:02.6

Why the defense is calling it now a trial by ambush.

1:06.1

Tonight on Laura Cates Live. You know I haven't been thinking a lot about.

1:16.6

Trump's bid for Greenland helps Maduro's case.

1:21.6

Why?

1:23.6

Motive.

1:24.6

Now, technically, a prosecutor does not have to prove someone's motive to get a conviction, right?

1:29.8

But in Maduro's case, his team is going to seize on Trump's mixed messaging.

1:34.7

They want people to be asking whether Venezuela's oil is a windfall of the prosecution or was the endgame of the prosecution.

1:46.7

You know why that answer matters legally? Because it might just decide Maduro's fate. You know they're going to argue that his

1:53.2

criminal indictment is a pretextual ruse. If Trump's own words are Exhibit A, is Greenland, exhibit B.

2:02.9

That vast, resource-rich land in the Arctic with a population of 57,000 people,

2:09.9

a self-governed territory of our NATO ally, Denmark.

2:14.3

Yeah, that one.

2:15.6

Trump wants it.

2:17.1

He says controlling it will allow the United States

2:20.0

to deter adversaries in the Arctic. And tonight, the White House isn't ruling out even using

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