1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,519 Speaker 1: President Trump shocked both Caracas and Washington when he announced 2 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: a brilliant, precise, decisive, nighttime raid that toppled and deposed 3 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 1: Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicholas Maduro and his wife from power. 4 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: They were captured in a brilliant raid. Both he and 5 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 1: his wife are now in the United States, in fact 6 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: in a district court, Southern District Court of New York, 7 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: facing cocaine trafficking and narco terrorism charges. And make no 8 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: mistake about it, whatever the administration is saying, and I'm 9 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: giving them full plaudits, full kudos on a brilliant tactical strike. 10 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: It was legal. There's no question it was legal. It 11 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: was surgical, it was extremely well planned, and there is 12 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: plenty of precedent for what was done. So when the 13 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: Democrats say this was not legal or constitution they're lying 14 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: and they're a bunch of hypocrites. But when they say 15 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: this is not nation building, when Trump says this was 16 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: not an attempt to overthrow the regime, I'm sorry, it's 17 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: not true. This clearly is regime change. Maduro is out, 18 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: and as Trump himself admitted in his press conference, the 19 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: United States now for a significant period of time. It 20 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: could be six months, it could be a year, it 21 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: could even be several years. Will now be running Venezuela. 22 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: He has put together a transition governing team led by 23 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth and General Dan Kine, the chairman 24 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: of the Joint Chiefs. Rubio is essentially the viceroy of Venezuela. 25 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: We will now be in control of their oil infrastructure, 26 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: of modernizing that oil infrastructure, sure of stabilizing and restoring 27 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 1: order to Venezuela. My friends, this is Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, 28 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: Syria all over again. And the hard part is not 29 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: poppling the dictator. That's the easy part. The hard part 30 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 1: is governing and administering a basket case. And that's what 31 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 1: Venezuela has become. After decades of communist Chavez Maduro misrule, 32 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 1: corruption and mismanagement. Venezuelans are starving. Meduro was a communist 33 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 1: mass murderer and authoritarian thug who traumatized and shattered that country, 34 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: sending eight million Venezuelans as migrants abroad. Because he's so 35 00:02:55,440 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: impoverished Venezuela. They were desperate to leave. They didn't come 36 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: to America. They went to Mexico to Brazil, to Argentina 37 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: to Chile, all over the region. And so yes, the 38 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: Venezuelan people are happy. They should be. The Venezuelan people 39 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 1: are celebrating they should be. But I'm not looking at 40 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: it from a Venezuelan perspective. I'm looking at it from 41 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: an America first perspective. And here is now what I see. 42 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: I see now the United States taking on the massive 43 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: undertaking in burden of running a country of thirty million people, 44 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: with still the remnants of the Maduro regime intact, with 45 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: revolutionary gorillas in the jungles and mountains of Venezuela, with 46 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: a cocaine trafficking empire that many generals within the Venezuelan 47 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: government have been profiting from. You can see a violent 48 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: insurrection or insertency take place where they will slowly pick 49 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: off our troops one by one, or god forbid, even 50 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: a civil war breakout in Venezuela. And even if we 51 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: don't have those dire, more apocalyptic scenarios take place, still 52 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: we're going to run Venezuela. How much is this going 53 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: to cost US? Trillions and trillions and trillions potentially of 54 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: dollars that are going to flow in, whether it's from taxpayers, 55 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: whether it's going to be from oil companies. This is 56 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: going to further put financial stress on the United States, 57 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: and we have to ask ourselves, why would we put 58 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 1: our entire prestige and put American troops at risk in 59 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: a country that is ripe for gorilla war and that 60 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 1: ultimately we have no right to run. This is the 61 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: road to more entanglements, to a quagmire, to more nation building, 62 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: to more imperialism, and that is exactly what brought us 63 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 1: down in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya, and in Syria. 64 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: I understand Trump's motives were noble. I understand he wants 65 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: to limit our time in Venezuela. I understand he wants 66 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: it to be a quick transition. But intentions are one thing, 67 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: reality is another. And ultimately I have to ask this question, 68 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: did you vote for this? Because I didn't. If Obama 69 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: had done this, if Biden had done it, if Bill 70 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: Clinton had done it, if George W. Bush had done it, 71 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: most of you and certainly most of MAGA would have 72 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: been one thousand percent against it. But Trump has done it. 73 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: The base is willing to give him a chance. I 74 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: disagree A mistake is a mistake, is a mistake, and 75 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: this is a mistake. I didn't vote for Venezuela first. 76 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: I voted for America first. And that's why, after this operation, 77 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: and now that Meduro is gone, I am strongly urging 78 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: the President have quick elections called in Venezuela. Let the 79 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, most likely will win, take 80 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: over the country and let her and the Venezuelan people 81 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: fix the damage inflicted by Maduro Chavez and his despicable regime. 82 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 1: But for the United States, it's time to come home 83 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: and focus on our problems here at home, America first, 84 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: not Venezuela first. Mister President, don't become George W. Bush 85 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: two point zero. War will only destabilize your administration and 86 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: derail your agenda. And Trump is now talking about not 87 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: just Venezuela, but even toppling the government of Colombia, the 88 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: government of the communist government of Cuba, and forcing Denmark 89 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: to sell Greenland to the United States. Mister President, we 90 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: didn't vote for you to be a foreign policy president. 91 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: We voted for you to keep us out of foreign entanglements, 92 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: out of endless wars, and to rebuild the United States. 93 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: We don't need nation building abroad, We need nation building 94 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: at home.