Rand Paul

Yeah, I think China gets about 4% of their oil, so it's a small amount of their oil.

The best way, I think, is not through war to keep China out of South America.

It's through trade, cooperation.

That's why threatening to bomb Colombia was a bad idea because we should continue to trade.

We buy coffee from them.

We buy bananas from down there.

We should have trade.

So this Monday, I sent the president a text and he responded to him.

I said, the ambassador called me and he said their president's been trying for several months to get a phone call through and he'd love to talk to President Trump.

And the good thing about President Trump, and this is something I always really like about him, he'll make decisions on the spot.

He didn't ask a committee to vote on whether he can talk to the president.

He said, of course I will.

And the president still has good instincts.

I disagreed with the bombing of the boats and the bombing of Maduro.

I'm not too unhappy with the result, but I don't want the chaos to spread to Colombia.

And I think Colombia does cooperate with us, particularly on the drug trade.

It's not perfect, but they do cooperate.

But he did end up making a phone call to the president of Colombia.

And I think the setting is for less

of a problem.