Col. Douglas McGregor

But still, we have the best oil engineers in the world, especially for deep drilling.

It will probably, for the same amount of money we pay for one barrel of oil out of the ground in the United States, we can probably get two out of Venezuela.

It's still not as good as Iran or Libya, where you can probably get three barrels out for what we spend to drill in the United States.

But it doesn't look like we're going to get control of the Iranian oil fields.

And I think we've bullied the Emirates and the Saudis not as much as we can at the moment.

And Iran stands defiant.

So look for another war in the Middle East while all of this is unfolding because Israel's objectives aren't met.

Neither are the objectives of the New York and London banks.

I think we're in a lot of trouble financially, and there's a genuine interest in controlling resources to offset that crisis.

Well, that's what I was just going to tell you, that we didn't have to go to Mr. Maduro.

He came to us.

And in fact, President Trump was questioned in the Oval Office last week

And they said, we understand that Mr. Maduro approached you through intermediaries, no doubt, and offered you a very lucrative deal.

I'm told it was about a stake in the oil and gas industry, all sorts of things like that.

And he replied, he said, oh, yes, it was not just a good deal.

He offered everything.

And so people said, was that not enough?

No, that's not enough.

I think there's something else going on here beyond that.

Clearly, clearly.