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'These people are WORSE than jihadists' Sen. John Kennedy · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: There are hard boards that you are considering strikes within Venezuela.
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  Speaker 2: Is that true? No, that you made a decision on that.
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  Speaker 3: No, exact.
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  Speaker 1: Very interesting. That was just a short time ago President
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  Speaker 1: Trump shutting down reports of a potential strike inside Venezuela
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  Speaker 1: as his war against the quote isis of the West.
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  Speaker 1: Strikes fourteen Narco ships include killing dozens of people on
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  Speaker 1: these boats that the President says are trafficking massive amounts
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  Speaker 1: of drug drugs into the United States. Now, some Democrats
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  Speaker 1: say that the administration isn't being transparent about these operations
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  Speaker 1: involving alleged drug runners on board watch us.
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  Speaker 3: When you deny Congress the access the legal rationale for
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  Speaker 3: military action, you also do huge erosion of trust from
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  Speaker 3: republic And again, as I'd mentioned, you put do real
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  Speaker 3: harm that people serve.
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  Speaker 4: Our job is to oversee the use of lethal force
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  Speaker 4: by our military outside of the United States, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: walking away without an understanding of how and why they're
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  Speaker 4: making an assessment that the use of lethal forces is
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  Speaker 4: adequate here.
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  Speaker 3: There's still a lot of answers we need to urn questions.
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  Speaker 1: Republican Senator from Louisiana, John Kennedy is on the Judiciary
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  Speaker 1: Committee and says that he trusted the administration's judgment in
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  Speaker 1: taking out these boats. Senator Kennedy, good to have you
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  Speaker 1: with us. Thank you for joining us today.
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  Speaker 2: Sir.
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  Speaker 1: You have also said, though, that you would like to
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  Speaker 1: see more transparency on this. There was a briefing yesterday
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  Speaker 1: of some members of the Senate Republican members of the
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  Speaker 1: Senate Democrat members of the Senate were a little myth
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  Speaker 1: that they weren't included in that. And I know that
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  Speaker 1: you were brief by Secretary of State Rubio. What can
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  Speaker 1: you tell us and did you were you more satisfied
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  Speaker 1: after that briefing?
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  Speaker 2: Well, in the in the grand scheme of life, death
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  Speaker 2: and the resurrection, this is not that complicated. The people
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  Speaker 2: being killed are terrorists. We call them narco terrorists because
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  Speaker 2: they're killing our children with drugs. They're just as much
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  Speaker 2: terrorists as the giotis in the Sahela in Africa, in Mali,
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  Speaker 2: in Mozambique, in Pakistan, in Afghanistan. In fact, the narco
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  Speaker 2: terrorists in our hemisphere are really even more dangerous in
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  Speaker 2: the sense that they're killing more Americans. President Trump's doing
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  Speaker 2: something about it, and I'm thank him for that now
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  Speaker 2: some of my colleagues appropriately have raised questions about due
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  Speaker 2: process and the rule of law. I have met with
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of State Rubio, who has explained in great detail
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  Speaker 2: about why what we are doing is legal and why
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  Speaker 2: the people that we are killing are known narco terrorists.
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  Speaker 2: If I were king for a day, I'm not, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't aspire to be. I would ask of Senator Well,
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of State Rubio to give the same briefing to
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  Speaker 2: every Republican, to every Democrat in the United States Senate.
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  Speaker 2: It would be classified, and then go out in front
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  Speaker 2: of the public and explain to the press as much
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  Speaker 2: as he could without giving classified information what he just
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  Speaker 2: told us, and take questions. And I think the American
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  Speaker 2: people then will support what the president's doing. Look, I
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  Speaker 2: hear my Democratic colleagues, and I appreciate it, and to
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  Speaker 2: some extent, they're right, they deserve to be briefed. But
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  Speaker 2: I also know that some of my Democratic colleagues are
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  Speaker 2: not in good faith. It doesn't my or what they're
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  Speaker 2: briefed on. They're going to oppose the president on this.
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  Speaker 1: Senator, let me ask you another question. This happened at
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  Speaker 1: noon today. It is reported from the Washington Post, and
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  Speaker 1: it says that in a letter that was meant for
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  Speaker 1: eyes of the Russian leader Putin Nicholas Maduro, the Venezuelan
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  Speaker 1: president made multiple requests asking for defensive radar, military aircraft repairs,
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  Speaker 1: and potentially missiles. According to US government documents that were
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  Speaker 1: obtained by The Washington Post, the Venezuelan government, according to
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  Speaker 1: these documents, is also reaching out to China and Iran,
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  Speaker 1: sourcing military assistance and equipment to strengthen Venezuela's defenses. What
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  Speaker 1: does that signal to you about where this may head, potentially, Senator.
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  Speaker 2: Well, mister Maduro, who is seized control of Venezuela is
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  Speaker 2: a is a terrorist himself. He has blood stained, bloodstains
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  Speaker 2: under his fingernails. He's not there by popular support. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: he has a cartel full of narco terrorists of his own.
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  Speaker 2: And he's scared. And I'm glad he's scared. Uh, he's
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  Speaker 2: scared that he's going to be attacked. And yes, I would.
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  Speaker 2: He's supported right now by Cuba. I'm sure he is
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  Speaker 2: talking to America's enemies, uh, China, for example, Russia. But
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  Speaker 2: he's just as much as fault at fault as some
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  Speaker 2: of these some of these people driving the boats with
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  Speaker 2: the drugs on them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, senator, and we hear what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying in terms of releasing as much information as
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  Speaker 1: is uh, you know, feasible. Obviously a lot of this
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  Speaker 1: is classified to give people a better understanding of what
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  Speaker 1: is going on and why. And also your take on
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  Speaker 1: Maduro is solid as well as always, so it's always
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  Speaker 1: good to see you, sir. Thank you very much for
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  Speaker 1: joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Martha, Martha, Martha. These people are like Jack Nicholson in
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  Speaker 2: the Shining. They're crazy and they want to kill Americans,
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  Speaker 2: and I appreciate the fact that Trump is killing them first.
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  Speaker 1: We hear you. Thank you very much, senator. Good to
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  Speaker 1: have you with us, sir, have a good weekend.
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