January 3, 2026 • 18 mins
President Trump’s hour long press conference had several bombshells in it. First, Trump told Americans the U.S. will run Venezuela until a proper transition can take place. He also said U.S. oil companies would be going into Venezuela to rebuild the infrastructure and start making money. We also learned that Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife will "face the full might of American justice" and stand trial in the United States. As of this recording, they are both on a U.S. warship headed to New York.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey there, folks. It is Saturday, January third, and a
big breaking news update. The United States is now in
the oil business and is taking over another country. And
with that, welcome to this episode, this breaking Update episode
of Amy and TJ Robed. We were waiting to get
the update about the big breaking news, which is that
(00:33):
the United States went and snatched a president from his country.
It didn't feel like that was actually the biggest news
coming out of the update we just got from President
Trump in a press conference.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
That's right. So we thought we were going to get
the details about how it went down, where President Maduro
and his wife are, what they're facing, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Instead we got the news that the United States is
now going to be running Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
That was the bombshell, folks. We were listening. Yes, the
details and we will get into some of them about
the operation and it was uncruel, incredible what the US
military pulled off. But the president and again he was
about at least forty five minutes late for this press
conference starting today, and they started to get some details
and things started coming out, and he went through a
couple of other speakers first. So we're just listening along
(01:25):
and taking notes, and all of a sudden he hit
us with it.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You and I looked at each other when he said,
we are going to run the country until such time
as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.
And you and I looked at each other and you said,
did he just what? Did he just say?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And then he repeated it again, and we both looked
at each other with our jaws dropped.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I still cannot believe, and we are still trying to
get a handle on exactly what this does mean. But
as you said, Robes, the United States, according to President Trump,
is in now and I don't know how legally, but
he's announcing that we are going to run the place.
(02:11):
The vice president Rodriguez has been sworn in. We're told
they've been in touch with her, and the way they
put it, Robes is that yes, she'll pretty much she
don't be a partner with us. She doesn't have a choice.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
He did add that she doesn't have a choice. Yes,
he said that. Delsi. Rodriguez spoke to Marco Rubio, and
I guess they said it was a long conversation and
that she was willing to do whatever we need.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, I bet after she saw that picture of Maduro
being flown out in sweatpants, Yes, I bet so. But
this I don't know. People are trying to make comparisons
and going back to Panama or Yega and that. People
trying to map this out and trying to figure this
out and what the justification. The president didn't necessarily get
into that, but we should mention he has said and
many have others, many others have this is not a
(03:03):
legitimate president and he is involved in narco terrorism. So
this is a bad guy who was indicted in twenty
twenty in the US. Therefore we had that was a.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Justifications serving a warrant. Basically, yes, we were serving a warrant,
and we got our prisoners and we're bringing them now
to face justice. And yes, as we record this, it's
fascinating to think about the I guess now former president
of Venezuela and his wife are on a US warship
being shipped up right here to where we are in
(03:34):
New York to face federal charges.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's an incredible development overnight. First of all, and again
we woke up to that news. If you've been obviously
you've getten all these alerts. But yes, we found out
overnight the US went in full military. We heard a
lot of details about it. They've been rehearsing this for months,
even did some like some Oceans thirteen type stuff, and
they built a replica the Yes House.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yes. Yeah, they said he had this safe room that
they were aware of, so they came in with even
blow torches. But they went and practiced this, as you said,
so they said they would, they were able to do it.
I think. Didn't President Trump say that even if he
had made it into the safe room, which he didn't,
he wasn't able to close the door, that they could
have burned it down in forty seven seconds.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
He was very specific in the time. So, yeah, the
details of the operation and how many one hundred and
fifty plus aircraft coordinated from all over the world to
and a lot of what we were seeing on TV
was a distraction essentially. It was incredible. And they've been
waiting for days for this, waiting on the weather to break.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, four days.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
For some of these folks from over the military over
the holidays, that's how they spent it watching weather reports.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Wow, and probably could not tell their family why they
weren't joining.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
In on all the fun doing their job. So all
of that was fascinating, but several things jumped out, at
least in the order we got the details of the operation.
What's next for Marduro, that's a big deal. He's on
his way here facing indictment. They updated some in some charges,
and I think more people and his family and his
circle are going to be indicted. Didn't you wonder when
(05:04):
they said he's coming to New York if he's going
to the MDC over in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Can you even they kept back getting those horrible conditions
or would it be something what else?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Would it be a federal prisoner? He's facing criminal charges,
is he not?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I mean that would be a story in and of itself.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Okay, So that's what's next for them there on their
way here. The other thing that folks will talk about
the President did not assume you caught this ropes that
and a lot of it was kind of buried in
there a little bit. The idea that he didn't eliminate
the possibility of troops on the ground is going to
be talked about quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yes, he actually said a lot of people think we're
afraid of boots on the ground. We are not afraid
of boots on the ground. So he made that a
very specific point. And you know what was interesting speaking
of that, he even said when he started this, this
definitely caught my attention before he dropped his other bombshell,
that they were expecting to have to go in with
a second wave. So that first attack, when they were
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able to get the president and his wife out without
losing any loss of human life, at least us life,
they said that they were fully prepared to then have
to go back in with a second wave and have
it be bigger and stronger and actually have boots on
the ground. So there were a lot of contingency plans.
But yes, he made it clear he won't shy away
(06:25):
from that.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You know, I knew, and I took that as was
a warning like, if anybody else in the country wants
to mess around right now, please know we're on standby.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yes, that definitely prepared.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Because he may He made that it sounded like a
head's up to anybody else who just wants to try
us right now. And then of course he gets to
the point about running the country. Who's going to be
in charge of this country? Essentially? I think he was saying,
it's President Marco Rubio. Didn't they send us a that
(07:00):
He kind of said, yeah, some of these guys behind me.
He didn't seem to be necessarily clear or maybe correct.
I haven't figured it out yet.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yes, he said that they were figuring it out and
they would release those names, you know, soon. But someone
then followed up and said, are you saying Marco Rubio
and Peke Hegxeth. He's like, yeah, you know, like like
like I said, so, I don't know who else he
would have standing behind him. So it seems as though
perhaps one or both might share responsibilities in I don't know,
(07:28):
are they going to be whispering in the ear of
the new once vice president now president?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I don't know, being a sent they you know what,
they gave every single indication that, yes, we have talked
to her, she is in line. The instructions are going
to be coming from us, and if she doesn't follow suit,
turn on the television and look at those pictures again. Wow,
I mean that's this. This was some gangster ish if
(07:56):
I ever heard this came off road as we just
went in and robbed a place in the dead of night,
because yes, we're gonna run the country. But the other
parts he got to robes had did everything to do
with oil. This seemed almost like a business press conference.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So this was the second jaw dropping moment where you
and I looked at each other and thought, did he
just say what I think? He just said that US
oil companies will enter Venezuela, they will spend billions to
rebuild the infrastructure, and then they are going to start
making money for the country. And he said, right now, Venezuela,
(08:37):
their oil industry is a bust. They're not making any money.
They can't produce what they could be producing. Venezuela they
believe has bigger oil reserves than even Saudi Arabia, so
we're talking about and that's the number one oil producer.
So the amount of money that is underground. And to
say that we're taking over the country and we're going
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to be bringing in US oil companies to rebuild and
boost your oil industry, hmmmm is.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
What a lot of people started saying. So after this
big breaking news about Maduro, we were waiting for those details.
Every single question that he opened it up to after
the press conference had to do with running the country
and had to do with oil for the most part.
Maybe a question there about Maduro, but these are the
things that are getting headlined. So the big question is
about this oil now. So if the oil comes out
(09:32):
and it's worth billions upon billions, who gets that money?
Will answer that, or at least we'll tell you the
answer they gave. Stay here, all right, we continue here
(09:53):
on Amy and TJ. We happen to just as we
are recording this, look up and see a picture, that
picture of Maduro in handcuffs. I see a bottle of
water in his hand.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yes, I think he is in handcuffs. He has a
bottle of water. But it is I think a lot
of people have pointed out a humbling photo. He's in sweatpants,
he looks a little disheveled, he has big sunglasses on
and like trying to balance a water bottle in his
handcuffed hands. It's not the strong presidential image he has portrayed. So, yes,
(10:24):
it was meant to embarrass.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I mean he's going down in history. A lot of
dictators have had that picture taken at some point. Oil
robes this has been look The USC used one oil
tanker a month or so ago, saying it was carrying
oil that was being used about in the whole narco
terrorism situation or terrorism, I should say, But now Robes
(10:48):
oil was front and center because there is a lot
of it, and the US is now, according to Trump,
going to bring in US oil companies to help with
the FORRA structure and to get that oil out. Now,
the oil money, at least my understanding is that he said,
(11:08):
is going to go back to the people of Venezuela
to help build up the country. Correct.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah. He said the partnership between the oil companies and
the country of Venezuela will make the people rich, independent
and safe. And then he said Venezuelan's living in the
US will be extremely happy.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Okay, okay. The question then came and he danced. I
got to go find the quote with Robes. He mentioned
that obviously these companies are not going to do this
for free. They are going to invest billions, but he
placed words in certain places that made it sound very
very clear that these companies are going to be compensated
(11:50):
for the work they're doing. Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Absolutely, the US oil company. The way I took it
was everybody wins. The people of Venezuela will be richer
and independent, because now I'll be able to actually profit
off of their natural resources. And United States oil companies
will also have a win because they will also be
able to have access to reserves that they never have before.
(12:13):
So everybody wins.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
The legal scholars will do what they're going to do.
But this felt, it really felt weird listening when the
oil part came in. Right, Look, US has a whole
long history of regime change and how those things have
worked out over the years. This felt like highway or
robbery to listen to him. I mean, he immediately had
(12:40):
a plan in place to say, we're going to run it.
We are in charge now Venezuela and all that oil,
and we are going to tell you what we're going
to do with your country, and we're doing it for you.
But you don't have a say in your own country,
your own resources, in your own wealth. That just reeks
(13:02):
in some way historically.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Absolutely, And it's so interesting because other wars, Iraq perhaps
among them, always we would be blamed of going in
for purposes, economic purposes, and that was always denied. No,
this isn't about oil. This is about peace. This is
about human decency. Now we have a president standing there
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and literally not even pretending that it's not about oil.
He's just saying, hey, and we're also going in for
the oil. He like, I'm thinking how many presidents for
him would have denied and have denied that that had
anything to do with the decision to do something like this,
(13:46):
And President Trump just says, yeah, here it is. That
was stunning to me, like stunning.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
There were a lot of jaw dropping moments. But at
this point, I mean, this is given all we have
going on in this coy, given all that needs to
be fixed, given all the resources or the lack that
are of that are in certain places. Healthcare has been
a big part of the debate. Seems this is a
big undertaking and a big project for the United States.
(14:13):
This is Venezuela thirty minute size of Texas. As far
as the population, we just picked up another thirty million
folks that we just said we're in charge of, okay.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And to the timeframe. We had some obviously very pointed
questions for follow ups for President Trump, and among them
was how long are we going to be down there?
And he absolutely did not answer the question. Talked about
all the work that had to be done. So the
answer is indefinitely. I mean, there is no way. So
this is not a month long, years long? And so
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how long will we actually be the de facto rulers
we have? There was, I guess a puppet regime. Basically
we're pulling the strings. So how long does that relationship
continue like that?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And should be noted in one other thing that jumped
out at me, My goodness, what kind I never Machado
the Nobel Peace Prize, Yes winner. I thought he might
say something sounded a little more supportive, but when her
name came up, he seemed to immediately shoot that down.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I have the quote here exactly. So someone asked, you know, hey,
what do you think about the opposition leader Maria Karina Machado?
Trump said this, she doesn't have the support or the
respect within the country. She's a very nice woman, but
she doesn't have the respect.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I mean, I haven't looked at the polling, but I
was under the impression she did have support, that she
was popular in many circles. And that's frankly, why she wasn't.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Hiding it's and she had actually nothing but kind things
to say when word came of what the US did overnight.
She actually was praising the action and saying thank you,
and now our independence can begin. So yeah, it was
interesting for him to just completely flatly say that's not
a no, It was a hell no, hell no.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Made me remember, he saith he was got up to
make some comments and I guess some You know, he
gave Saturday Night Live some more material is what he
did when he got up there. But he had wanted
to use that phrase, which, for whatever reason in this
setting seemed I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
He said about Maduro. He said he left around, and
he found out that was his quote. He left around. Yeah,
when he said that, we also looked at each other.
There were so many moments during this press conference where
and this is something that we have come to know
and expected even still to still be shocked by certain
elements of the presser.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
That was among them and the president. I hope get
some rest very soon. He did. You could tell it
was a long night. Obviously, he was up and doing
this work and very involved. He withever times he was
standing there and we were concerned that he would fall
over that no, no, we're not overstating there. That was
real concern that he.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Would fall I actually felt stressed because he was absolutely
closing his eyes and then having to kind of wake
himself back up. He was almost falling asleep standing up
when the Joint the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
when he was speaking and giving all of it was
a long winded, very detailed storytelling about what happened overnight,
and you could just see the President just almost kind
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of being lulled into sleep, and he was fighting it,
and he was swaying, and I thought, what if he falls,
I mean there.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Was cons concern. Yeah, so I hope he gets some rest.
It was a hell of a night, of course in
a lot of ways for a lot of folks, but
just brilliance by the military as always to see their precision.
But what happens next we absolutely do not know, and
it doesn't seem a lot of the questions we have
the administration even has the answers to him just yet.
But we want to hop on and give you all
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that update. As always for my dear Amy Robock, I
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Hey there, folks. It is Saturday, January third, and a
big breaking news update. The United States is now in
the oil business and is taking over another country. And
with that, welcome to this episode, this breaking Update episode
of Amy and TJ Robed. We were waiting to get
the update about the big breaking news, which is that
(00:33):
the United States went and snatched a president from his country.
It didn't feel like that was actually the biggest news
coming out of the update we just got from President
Trump in a press conference.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
That's right. So we thought we were going to get
the details about how it went down, where President Maduro
and his wife are, what they're facing, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Instead we got the news that the United States is
now going to be running Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
That was the bombshell, folks. We were listening. Yes, the
details and we will get into some of them about
the operation and it was uncruel, incredible what the US
military pulled off. But the president and again he was
about at least forty five minutes late for this press
conference starting today, and they started to get some details
and things started coming out, and he went through a
couple of other speakers first. So we're just listening along
(01:25):
and taking notes, and all of a sudden he hit
us with it.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You and I looked at each other when he said,
we are going to run the country until such time
as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.
And you and I looked at each other and you said,
did he just what? Did he just say?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And then he repeated it again, and we both looked
at each other with our jaws dropped.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I still cannot believe, and we are still trying to
get a handle on exactly what this does mean. But
as you said, Robes, the United States, according to President Trump,
is in now and I don't know how legally, but
he's announcing that we are going to run the place.
(02:11):
The vice president Rodriguez has been sworn in. We're told
they've been in touch with her, and the way they
put it, Robes is that yes, she'll pretty much she
don't be a partner with us. She doesn't have a choice.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
He did add that she doesn't have a choice. Yes,
he said that. Delsi. Rodriguez spoke to Marco Rubio, and
I guess they said it was a long conversation and
that she was willing to do whatever we need.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, I bet after she saw that picture of Maduro
being flown out in sweatpants, Yes, I bet so. But
this I don't know. People are trying to make comparisons
and going back to Panama or Yega and that. People
trying to map this out and trying to figure this
out and what the justification. The president didn't necessarily get
into that, but we should mention he has said and
many have others, many others have this is not a
(03:03):
legitimate president and he is involved in narco terrorism. So
this is a bad guy who was indicted in twenty
twenty in the US. Therefore we had that was a.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Justifications serving a warrant. Basically, yes, we were serving a warrant,
and we got our prisoners and we're bringing them now
to face justice. And yes, as we record this, it's
fascinating to think about the I guess now former president
of Venezuela and his wife are on a US warship
being shipped up right here to where we are in
(03:34):
New York to face federal charges.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's an incredible development overnight. First of all, and again
we woke up to that news. If you've been obviously
you've getten all these alerts. But yes, we found out
overnight the US went in full military. We heard a
lot of details about it. They've been rehearsing this for months,
even did some like some Oceans thirteen type stuff, and
they built a replica the Yes House.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yes. Yeah, they said he had this safe room that
they were aware of, so they came in with even
blow torches. But they went and practiced this, as you said,
so they said they would, they were able to do it.
I think. Didn't President Trump say that even if he
had made it into the safe room, which he didn't,
he wasn't able to close the door, that they could
have burned it down in forty seven seconds.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
He was very specific in the time. So, yeah, the
details of the operation and how many one hundred and
fifty plus aircraft coordinated from all over the world to
and a lot of what we were seeing on TV
was a distraction essentially. It was incredible. And they've been
waiting for days for this, waiting on the weather to break.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, four days.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
For some of these folks from over the military over
the holidays, that's how they spent it watching weather reports.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Wow, and probably could not tell their family why they
weren't joining.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
In on all the fun doing their job. So all
of that was fascinating, but several things jumped out, at
least in the order we got the details of the operation.
What's next for Marduro, that's a big deal. He's on
his way here facing indictment. They updated some in some charges,
and I think more people and his family and his
circle are going to be indicted. Didn't you wonder when
(05:04):
they said he's coming to New York if he's going
to the MDC over in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Can you even they kept back getting those horrible conditions
or would it be something what else?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Would it be a federal prisoner? He's facing criminal charges,
is he not?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I mean that would be a story in and of itself.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Okay, So that's what's next for them there on their
way here. The other thing that folks will talk about
the President did not assume you caught this ropes that
and a lot of it was kind of buried in
there a little bit. The idea that he didn't eliminate
the possibility of troops on the ground is going to
be talked about quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yes, he actually said a lot of people think we're
afraid of boots on the ground. We are not afraid
of boots on the ground. So he made that a
very specific point. And you know what was interesting speaking
of that, he even said when he started this, this
definitely caught my attention before he dropped his other bombshell,
that they were expecting to have to go in with
a second wave. So that first attack, when they were
(06:04):
able to get the president and his wife out without
losing any loss of human life, at least us life,
they said that they were fully prepared to then have
to go back in with a second wave and have
it be bigger and stronger and actually have boots on
the ground. So there were a lot of contingency plans.
But yes, he made it clear he won't shy away
(06:25):
from that.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You know, I knew, and I took that as was
a warning like, if anybody else in the country wants
to mess around right now, please know we're on standby.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yes, that definitely prepared.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Because he may He made that it sounded like a
head's up to anybody else who just wants to try
us right now. And then of course he gets to
the point about running the country. Who's going to be
in charge of this country? Essentially? I think he was saying,
it's President Marco Rubio. Didn't they send us a that
(07:00):
He kind of said, yeah, some of these guys behind me.
He didn't seem to be necessarily clear or maybe correct.
I haven't figured it out yet.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yes, he said that they were figuring it out and
they would release those names, you know, soon. But someone
then followed up and said, are you saying Marco Rubio
and Peke Hegxeth. He's like, yeah, you know, like like
like I said, so, I don't know who else he
would have standing behind him. So it seems as though
perhaps one or both might share responsibilities in I don't know,
(07:28):
are they going to be whispering in the ear of
the new once vice president now president?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I don't know, being a sent they you know what,
they gave every single indication that, yes, we have talked
to her, she is in line. The instructions are going
to be coming from us, and if she doesn't follow suit,
turn on the television and look at those pictures again. Wow,
I mean that's this. This was some gangster ish if
(07:56):
I ever heard this came off road as we just
went in and robbed a place in the dead of night,
because yes, we're gonna run the country. But the other
parts he got to robes had did everything to do
with oil. This seemed almost like a business press conference.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So this was the second jaw dropping moment where you
and I looked at each other and thought, did he
just say what I think? He just said that US
oil companies will enter Venezuela, they will spend billions to
rebuild the infrastructure, and then they are going to start
making money for the country. And he said, right now, Venezuela,
(08:37):
their oil industry is a bust. They're not making any money.
They can't produce what they could be producing. Venezuela they
believe has bigger oil reserves than even Saudi Arabia, so
we're talking about and that's the number one oil producer.
So the amount of money that is underground. And to
say that we're taking over the country and we're going
(08:59):
to be bringing in US oil companies to rebuild and
boost your oil industry, hmmmm is.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
What a lot of people started saying. So after this
big breaking news about Maduro, we were waiting for those details.
Every single question that he opened it up to after
the press conference had to do with running the country
and had to do with oil for the most part.
Maybe a question there about Maduro, but these are the
things that are getting headlined. So the big question is
about this oil now. So if the oil comes out
(09:32):
and it's worth billions upon billions, who gets that money?
Will answer that, or at least we'll tell you the
answer they gave. Stay here, all right, we continue here
(09:53):
on Amy and TJ. We happen to just as we
are recording this, look up and see a picture, that
picture of Maduro in handcuffs. I see a bottle of
water in his hand.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yes, I think he is in handcuffs. He has a
bottle of water. But it is I think a lot
of people have pointed out a humbling photo. He's in sweatpants,
he looks a little disheveled, he has big sunglasses on
and like trying to balance a water bottle in his
handcuffed hands. It's not the strong presidential image he has portrayed. So, yes,
(10:24):
it was meant to embarrass.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I mean he's going down in history. A lot of
dictators have had that picture taken at some point. Oil
robes this has been look The USC used one oil
tanker a month or so ago, saying it was carrying
oil that was being used about in the whole narco
terrorism situation or terrorism, I should say, But now Robes
(10:48):
oil was front and center because there is a lot
of it, and the US is now, according to Trump,
going to bring in US oil companies to help with
the FORRA structure and to get that oil out. Now,
the oil money, at least my understanding is that he said,
(11:08):
is going to go back to the people of Venezuela
to help build up the country. Correct.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah. He said the partnership between the oil companies and
the country of Venezuela will make the people rich, independent
and safe. And then he said Venezuelan's living in the
US will be extremely happy.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Okay, okay. The question then came and he danced. I
got to go find the quote with Robes. He mentioned
that obviously these companies are not going to do this
for free. They are going to invest billions, but he
placed words in certain places that made it sound very
very clear that these companies are going to be compensated
(11:50):
for the work they're doing. Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Absolutely, the US oil company. The way I took it
was everybody wins. The people of Venezuela will be richer
and independent, because now I'll be able to actually profit
off of their natural resources. And United States oil companies
will also have a win because they will also be
able to have access to reserves that they never have before.
(12:13):
So everybody wins.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
The legal scholars will do what they're going to do.
But this felt, it really felt weird listening when the
oil part came in. Right, Look, US has a whole
long history of regime change and how those things have
worked out over the years. This felt like highway or
robbery to listen to him. I mean, he immediately had
(12:40):
a plan in place to say, we're going to run it.
We are in charge now Venezuela and all that oil,
and we are going to tell you what we're going
to do with your country, and we're doing it for you.
But you don't have a say in your own country,
your own resources, in your own wealth. That just reeks
(13:02):
in some way historically.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Absolutely, And it's so interesting because other wars, Iraq perhaps
among them, always we would be blamed of going in
for purposes, economic purposes, and that was always denied. No,
this isn't about oil. This is about peace. This is
about human decency. Now we have a president standing there
(13:25):
and literally not even pretending that it's not about oil.
He's just saying, hey, and we're also going in for
the oil. He like, I'm thinking how many presidents for
him would have denied and have denied that that had
anything to do with the decision to do something like this,
(13:46):
And President Trump just says, yeah, here it is. That
was stunning to me, like stunning.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
There were a lot of jaw dropping moments. But at
this point, I mean, this is given all we have
going on in this coy, given all that needs to
be fixed, given all the resources or the lack that
are of that are in certain places. Healthcare has been
a big part of the debate. Seems this is a
big undertaking and a big project for the United States.
(14:13):
This is Venezuela thirty minute size of Texas. As far
as the population, we just picked up another thirty million
folks that we just said we're in charge of, okay.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And to the timeframe. We had some obviously very pointed
questions for follow ups for President Trump, and among them
was how long are we going to be down there?
And he absolutely did not answer the question. Talked about
all the work that had to be done. So the
answer is indefinitely. I mean, there is no way. So
this is not a month long, years long? And so
(14:47):
how long will we actually be the de facto rulers
we have? There was, I guess a puppet regime. Basically
we're pulling the strings. So how long does that relationship
continue like that?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And should be noted in one other thing that jumped
out at me, My goodness, what kind I never Machado
the Nobel Peace Prize, Yes winner. I thought he might
say something sounded a little more supportive, but when her
name came up, he seemed to immediately shoot that down.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I have the quote here exactly. So someone asked, you know, hey,
what do you think about the opposition leader Maria Karina Machado?
Trump said this, she doesn't have the support or the
respect within the country. She's a very nice woman, but
she doesn't have the respect.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I mean, I haven't looked at the polling, but I
was under the impression she did have support, that she
was popular in many circles. And that's frankly, why she wasn't.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Hiding it's and she had actually nothing but kind things
to say when word came of what the US did overnight.
She actually was praising the action and saying thank you,
and now our independence can begin. So yeah, it was
interesting for him to just completely flatly say that's not
a no, It was a hell no, hell no.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Made me remember, he saith he was got up to
make some comments and I guess some You know, he
gave Saturday Night Live some more material is what he
did when he got up there. But he had wanted
to use that phrase, which, for whatever reason in this
setting seemed I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
He said about Maduro. He said he left around, and
he found out that was his quote. He left around. Yeah,
when he said that, we also looked at each other.
There were so many moments during this press conference where
and this is something that we have come to know
and expected even still to still be shocked by certain
elements of the presser.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
That was among them and the president. I hope get
some rest very soon. He did. You could tell it
was a long night. Obviously, he was up and doing
this work and very involved. He withever times he was
standing there and we were concerned that he would fall
over that no, no, we're not overstating there. That was
real concern that he.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Would fall I actually felt stressed because he was absolutely
closing his eyes and then having to kind of wake
himself back up. He was almost falling asleep standing up
when the Joint the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
when he was speaking and giving all of it was
a long winded, very detailed storytelling about what happened overnight,
and you could just see the President just almost kind
(17:23):
of being lulled into sleep, and he was fighting it,
and he was swaying, and I thought, what if he falls,
I mean there.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Was cons concern. Yeah, so I hope he gets some rest.
It was a hell of a night, of course in
a lot of ways for a lot of folks, but
just brilliance by the military as always to see their precision.
But what happens next we absolutely do not know, and
it doesn't seem a lot of the questions we have
the administration even has the answers to him just yet.
But we want to hop on and give you all
(17:51):
that update. As always for my dear Amy Robock, I
am TJ. Holmes, appreciate you all listening and need BOSELFI,
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