White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold a press briefing at around 1 p.m. on Thursday, a day after the United States seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. seized the tanker on Wednesday.

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“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually,” Trump told reporters at the White House.

He later added that “it was seized for a very good reason.”

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