00:00U.S. forces said they have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea.
00:07The Olina was the fifth tanker seized by U.S. forces as part of the Trump administration's
00:12effort to control the distribution of Venezuela's oil products globally, following the U.S.
00:17ouster of President Nicolás Maduro.
00:19President Donald Trump has said that the U.S. will control distribution worldwide of Venezuela's
00:25oil and will share some of the proceeds with the country's population from accounts that it
00:29controls.
00:30We're taking billions and billions of dollars worth of oil and it'll be hundreds of billions
00:35of dollars.
00:35It'll be trillions of dollars.
00:37But we're going to be there till we straighten out the country.
00:40We'll see how the country's doing.
00:42But we'll be running the oil.
00:44We're meeting tomorrow with all of the big oil executives.
00:46We're going to be right here in the White House.
00:48Olina was accused of attempting to evade a naval blockade imposed by the U.S., preventing sanctioned
00:54oil vessels from going to or departing from Venezuela.
00:58Trump said that the U.S. could run Venezuela and tap into its oil reserves for years in
01:03an interview with The New York Times published on Thursday.
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