The oil business in Venezuela. Oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world. The oil infrastructure.

Venezuela, unilaterally seized and stole American oil. Oil industry. Massive oil. Venezuela and oil.

Rebuild the oil infrastructure. The oil companies, we're going to get the oil flowing the way it should be.

They stole our oil. Oil is very dangerous. We're in the oil business. We'll be selling oil.

We'll be selling large amounts of oil who have the greatest oil companies in the world.

President Trump on Saturday with a focus on the oil in Venezuela. Good morning and welcome to

Morning Joe. It is Tuesday, January 6th.

Along with Joe, Willie, and me, we have U.S. special correspondent for BBC News and the host of

The Rest is Politics Podcast. Caddy Kay is with us. Columnist and associate editor at the

Washington Post, David Ignatius joins us once again, and and now senior legal reporter and former litigator Lisa Rubin,

who was in the courtroom yesterday for the arraignment of Nicolas Maduro.

We'll get to that in just a moment.

But first, President Trump is insisting the United States isn't at war with Venezuela

and suggested the U.S. might pay oil companies to help

rebuild the country's energy infrastructure. In a phone interview with NBC News, he said,

we have to nurse the country back to health, adding, quote, a tremendous amount of money will have to be spent and the oil companies

will spend it. And then they'll get reimbursed by us or through revenue. Trump also insisted

his supporters will stick with him telling NBC News, MAGA loves it. Maga loves what I'm doing.

Maga loves everything I do.

The president defended the move to capture Majero without congressional approval,

saying Congress knew what we were doing,

though he declined to elaborate when asked what Congress knew

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