Ben Rhodes

Shooting down civilians.

John Bolton getting prosecuted for having classified information in his house is still-

More regime change, and he also wants to attack the dude who's got his fate in his hands.

Yeah.

So Trump is moving forward on this plan to steal Venezuela's oil.

On Friday, he met with about two dozen oil executives at the White House.

So in this clip we play, you're going to hear a little bit from that meeting.

It's first of all, Trump, then the CEO of Exxon, and then Trump's reaction to the CEO of Exxon on Air Force One on Sunday.

Let's watch.

So what's funny about the Exxon guy's comments is he's describing like the political climate under Maduro, which Trump just said he toppled that government to change to make it easier for oil to get up.

He was just like mad at the guy's tone.

Yeah.

And just some more context about Venezuela's oil reserves.

So like, again, the off-sited statistics that they have 17% of the world's oil reserves.

I've seen some people question like where that stat came from or whether it's accurate.

Regardless, they have a lot of oil, but Venezuela currently produces less than 1% of the supply.

And the reason is partly because of US sanctions, but also because Venezuela's oil infrastructure has been left to just languish and rot for decades.

So you got like processing facilities, they're antiquated and don't work.

The Atlantic had a long piece about this.

They talked about there being miles of crumbling pipelines you'd have to rebuild.