Rep. Sean Casten

I think there was no way for him to answer that question in ways that just sort of

made Trump happy that he went viral and made a Democrat look bad.

Well, look, and I don't want to... It's dangerous to go down too many conspiracy rabbit holes.

I know.

If we...

If you agree with my point that they have not ... Well, this isn't even something to agree with.

The Trump administration has not given any indication that they have any legal authority to take title to Venezuelan oil or to distribute Venezuelan oil.

As a result of that, you now have this account that we're taking.

They've moved it to Qatar, which is a whole other set of problems because there are scenarios where treasury takes custody to accounts, but we keep them in US banks where we can monitor.

This is now in a place that's notorious for hiding money, right?

And then said that they have no auditor in place to monitor the inflows and the outflows.

Well, if you were doing all that and you take Trump in his face, that there are a lot of bad people in Venezuela who are using money to funnel drugs and run these narco-terrorism empires.

How do you possibly know that the money you're distributing back to Venezuela isn't going to those bad actors?

And as I was asking the questions, what I was trying to get him to acknowledge is I'll stipulate for the purpose of the hearing.

that Maduro is a bad guy.

You didn't want them to go through there.

Why wouldn't you have an audit regime in place to monitor that?

Rubio said they did have an audit regime.

Besson said they didn't have one yet, but would set them up, which suggests that the two of them didn't coordinate their story.

And so now this raises, this is where the conspiracy starts.