Bill Kristol

This is a paramilitary force deployed in our cities.

Before it was a little speculative about how bad it could be.

We've seen how bad it could be.

So we have to act.

Yeah, the president does get to decide in this and in other areas, it turns out, all such things.

And the whole executive order he issued, I think, quietly on Friday also that doesn't I couldn't quite understand it at first.

I think I got this right.

It doesn't allow the oil companies to go to court, basically, I think, and try to recoup the funds that were taken from them somewhat illegitimately.

Maybe they say at least by the previous Venezuelan government, you know, under Chavez or whatever.

But Trump doesn't want that.

That's actually very revealing, right?

Because he said he wanted to get back all the money that was stolen.

He doesn't want that.

But that would just let Exxon and everyone else, whoever's involved, go to court and get whatever they can get.

No, he wants to control that money.

He wants to give it to the people he favors.

And the whole thing's a fantasy.

Of course, the oil thing, how much oil they're going to get, how easy it's going to be to get, how much difference it'll make on the oil market, which is, in any case, we're not short of oil right now.

Prices have come down, or not high.

But anyway, leaving aside the whole...