Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151119:10:49:00
Threatening the group's most lucrative oil stream, oil. cnbc's steve sedgwick joins us live from london with more. what's unique about isis is that they are often or mostly self-funded. how much oil and profit are we talking about here? >> chris, this is absolutely fascinating. the group made $1.5 million a day, $1.5 million a day from selling around 40,000 barrels of oil. now it controls a region which controls as i say 40,000 barrels a day. it was as much last summer as 100,000 barrels a day. so even before the event and the airstrikes from the u.s. and france on raqqah and elsewhere in the ...
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