Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Joining us now with her reaction, live from Capitol Hill, an important voice when it comes to geopolitics, Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire is with us, the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. And Senator, it's great to see you. Welcome back to Bloomberg TV and radio.
I hope the year is starting out well for you. With regard to what the president is talking about here, what Marco Rubio is talking about, I know that you received a very important classified briefing earlier today from members of the administration. Were you satisfied with what you heard as a basis to justify these actions?
Well, as your reporter pointed out, there are still a lot of unanswered questions. And as I understand, our ability to control that Venezuelan oil depends a lot on the embargo and having our ships in the waters off the Venezuelan coast.
Our effort to seize ships, well, I certainly think whatever we can do to shut down the shadow fleet that's allowing oil to continue to fuel Russia and China and their efforts is important. It does put at greater risk our men and women in the military. We now have 15,000 service members in the Caribbean area of operation, and it
It's not clear how long they're going to be there, how long this embargo is going to continue, Venezuela, and ultimately how we're going to see a transition to a democratic government there. Well, the U.S.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of U.S. control over Venezuelan oil?
Well, I think the president's comments on Hyde were helpful. What I hope is that the House is going to give a strong vote on those extension of the premium tax credits. That will send the bill over to the Senate. A bipartisan group has been working on trying to come up with a compromise on... addressing the extension of the premium tax credits. I think we've made a lot of progress.
Hopefully, we'll get that House bill and have a vehicle that we can then pass out of the Senate and send it back to the House. And I hope the president will finally get engaged on this issue in a way that will allow us to make progress and get this done, because we have
thousands of people in my home state of New Hampshire that are going to lose their health insurance, that are already seeing their premiums spike in a way that they can't afford, millions of people across the country. All right. Democratic Senator Jean Shaheen of New Hampshire, thank you so much for joining us.