You have a country that is really kind of a foothold for China and Russia, and they're doing,

you know, a lot of illegal activity, a lot of criminal activity, and they basically become

a criminal state.

Good afternoon, everybody. I am Alad Eliyahu, the White House correspondent for Timcast,

but today we have a very special episode because we are in Congress and we are interviewing different Republican congressmen.

And today we have Eric Berluson from Missouri taking time to interview with us.

Thank you so much for taking the time.

I wanted to hop in quickly because I know we are short on time.

It's one of the most pressing issues that I believe the White House is dealing with.

And that is the, I don't know if

to call it a conflict or fighting drug smuggling outside of Venezuela.

Yeah.

I guess we'll start with what do you think so far of what the administration's actions

outside of Venezuela and waters have been so far.

Yeah, I think that the priority should be not necessarily just regime change for the

sake of regime change, because we've seen that play out before, right? If you, we, in the Taliban,

for example, now control Afghanistan. If you don't fix the core problems, then you're going to

end up with a maybe sometimes even a worse outcome.

That's why I think we should focus on cutting off the money supply chain for the cartels and trying to do whatever we can to cut off their political power and influence.

And then you'll see natural reform happen in countries like Venezuela.

Absolutely. I know the administration is putting a lot of focus on this.

And I don't know if they clearly demonstrated as to why this is really in the average Americans' best interest.

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