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Now the U.S. Coast Guard has released footage of it seizing a second Venezuelan oil tanker and a tactical operation.

This is the second Venezuelan vessel seized by the United States in recent days.

And the president has been talking about it.

News Nations Joe Khalil joins us.

Joe, what's the strategy here?

I mean, people are trying to understand what the president is after here.

Are we trying to blockade, stop all flow of oil to put pressure on the Venezuelan government to effectively abdicate?

Where are we?

Yeah, it's hard to get a read on long-term strategy.

You know, we've heard regime change floated, and it's something that

when President Trump has asked about it, doesn't rule it out. And there are certainly some of his

allies, Lindsey Graham being one who are openly advocating for regime change in Venezuela. But

short term, what the Department of War saying, what President Trump is saying is,

you know, these ships that are transporting oil, many of them are sanctioned, which means that

they're not authorized to be carrying oil. This is in a legal act. And so the U.S. Navy and the Coast

Guard are going to be stopping and seizing the oil and seizing these ships.

You know, where it gets into sort of dangerous territory here is the Venezuelan government has now

said that they're going to be equipping many of those tankers or having them be escorted by their own naval assets.

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