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Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

Upadate on mess in Venezuela, dictator Maduro and Guaido opposition

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oh I hope you can update us on that

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since there appears to be Russian troops

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built up there who are in staunch

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opposition to

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you

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is of Fidel Castro and Soviet Union and

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all of that took power consolidated

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power get rid of anybody who had in any

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way would oppose him and all of the you

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know the military

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you

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we won doesn’t these are the real

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results of the election and so everyone

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recognizes that it was a farce he lost

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and the one of the main opposition

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leader is a man named Juan Dwight doe

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which by the way his name is

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mispronounced all the time why does the

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correct pronunciation

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you

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and protecting white dough and and

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recognizing him and now another more

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than 50 countries have come along and

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recognized him as president so

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politically Maduro is in in a very

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you

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in the military at a desk next to a guy

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doing a comfortable job and help them to

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make sure they do a good job same thing

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in intelligence you’ve got the Cubans

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there you’ve got Chinese there to some

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degree

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you

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or but but I don’t want to go into that

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today here what’s interesting is what

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Maduro is doing to fight back and so in

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a typical socialist fashion he had

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Sabine

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you

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that’s what Trump has stated so Maduro

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is so far being respectful that and

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understands that he doesn’t want to

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cross a line that’s gonna get him shot

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or thrown out on his here or something

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so he’s being a little bit cautious but

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what he did do was go arrest the chief

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of staff whydo for his

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you

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police stuff like 16 people something

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like that now this is standard operating

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procedures from the lap this nobody’s

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reporting any of this from this aspect

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SOP for these guys

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you

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look guilty so people kind of take that

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at face value where it’s just standing

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out standing standard operating

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procedure for the left to use that to

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make the two people they wanted

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originally

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you

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wino doesn’t have any money any money

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that gets into his hands gets spent

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within 30 seconds so a weapons cache and

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a cache including cash is just nonsense

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I mean that’s absolutely impossible what

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he’s desperate for cash not not so flush

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with it that he can hide it to use later

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and so on so

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you

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others in the house and there is a bill

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that’s being discussed to provide some

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major aid to them they’ve Trump has put

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sanctions on Maduro so he’s in a cash

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crunch because his oil income has been

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cut off by the United States so he’s in

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trouble in that sense so we’ve seen

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these blackouts electrical blackouts so

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that they’re there basically

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you

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come out and has been talking about this

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and again warnings as to what can be

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done and not be done in there and how to

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stay away from white dough and so he’s

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got

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you

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who’s taking power who has held on to

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power for decades and let me say to

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Venezuela prior to the socialists taking

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power Venezuela was like the fifth

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biggest

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you

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hopping malls and restaurants and

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anything you want I mean nice cars and

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clothing and it was a beautiful place

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with a beautiful coastline

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you

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or just go take a look at Venezuela it’s

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just a perfect case in point now I think

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the way that this is to kind of wrap

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this up I think the way this is headed

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is

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you

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or they wouldn’t dream of it they know

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it basically be suicide they wouldn’t do

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it so if it were to ever come to that

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point I think they would all just fold

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up and go home at that point

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tear off their uniforms

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you

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very strong chance of thing that comes

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come to a close

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a successful ending ending in relatively

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bloodless change of power so

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you

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again with you shortly on another topic

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Oh

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you

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you

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