The testimony before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Eastern.
News and Analysis
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AP: Rubio is set to warn of future military action if Venezuela’s new leaders stray from US goals
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AP: US takes first steps to possibly reopen embassy in Venezuela after Maduro’s ouster
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PBS NewsHour via YouTube: Rubio testifies at Senate hearing on U.S. policy toward Venezuela (10 a.m. Eastern)
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C-SPAN: Secy. of State Rubio Testifies on Venezuela (10 a.m. Eastern)
Discussion Thread: Secretary of State Rubio Testifies on US Military Actions in Venezuela
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Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Marco Rubio doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
Rubio fun fact:
He called Trump a con artist and said this:
> I will acknowledge that there are some people watching this broadcast that are intrigued by him, because they think he’s a straight talker and he fights for the little guy. But Donald Trump has spent forty years sticking it to the little guy or longer. And every time one of those businesses of his failed, you know how didn’t get paid? The little guy that was working for him.
I’m sure this little guy will come out of it okay though.
3 minutes out!
The committee chairman is kicking things off by noting that protests are banned, *and* that there are some people in the room who have served their ‘sentences’ of a one year ban for prior protesting during a congressional committee hearing with a further warning to those people.
In 2017, Risch was one of 22 senators to sign a letter to President Donald urging him to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Risch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Risch)
On January 21, 2020, during the first day of opening arguments in Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, Risch was the first senator to fall asleep. Courtroom sketch artist Art Lien memorialized his nap.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Risch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Risch)
Risch is anti-abortion.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Risch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Risch)
Who is keeping a tally of how many times Rubio licks his teeth?
Are Rubio’s ears like Pinocchio’s nose?
Hmmm…didn’t realize Venezuela was in North America…news to me!
I feel like I’m watching a video set on 3X the speed.
A bit unorthodox to cast aside your written opening statement and just go into it.
“Normal oil industry”…which of course is the opposite of Mossadegh nationalizing the oil industry in Iran forcing the US to stage a coup. Can’t be normal unless Exxon owns the means of production
Coolio cringe
“Diplomacy? I’m here to talk about oil.”
Rubio pulling out the Coolio-ism after 5 minutes of lies about Venezuela.
The emphasis on democracy when the administration is steadily obliterating rights and freedoms in it’s own back yard is something.
The proceeds from the oil sold is being held in an “account” that will be given into an American account at some point.
We haven’t finalized the audit process.
This is bullshit. We know the truth.
NATO needs to be “reimagined”. – Rubio
Ricketts fun fact:
His family is owner of the Chicago Cubs.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Ricketts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Ricketts)
Ricketts fun fact:
In June 2020, Ricketts threatened to withhold $100 million in federal Covid 19 relief if local governments in Nebraska required people who entered courthouses and other local government offices to wear face masks.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Ricketts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Ricketts)
This, so far, from what I’ve heard while coming in and out of the room, seems to be nothing but a republican circle jerk.
Ricketts fun fact:
He supports TOTAL ban on abortion, affirmative action ban, and opposes medical marijuana.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Ricketts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Ricketts)
That is a lot of sycophancy and foreign policy wish-casting from Ricketts.
The world must be very simple when you misjudge America’s soft and hard power at the moment.
Xi isn’t intimidated at all.
if he’s talking he’s lying- little marco is incapable of truth.
Crazy earlobes on that guy.
Rolling back laws on the private ownership of their hydrocarbons. Only reason they went in. They can just drop any pretense this had anything to do with drug trafficking. Just raw colonial exploitation. Monroe doctrine 2.0. All your oil are belong to us!