Ben Rhodes

My kids are older and it still works.

Ice cream still works.

Yeah, I talked to Joaquin Castro, a Democrat member of the House from San Antonio, who's also the ranking member, ranking Democrat on the House subcommittee that deals with the Western Hemisphere.

So he's kind of the senior guy dealing with this region.

We talked about his reaction to the operation in Venezuela, Congress's role or lack thereof in terms of how they found out about this.

His effort that he's engaging with Thomas Massey and Jim McGovern to pass a war powers resolution that would kind of compel Trump to come back to Congress, not just on use of force of men as well, but Greenland, Mexico, the other places.

And just kind of where this is all going and what Democrats are saying about it, what Republicans are saying about it, what his constituents are saying about it.

So it was a good conversation with Joaquin.

What about Candice?

Did we catch up to Candice now?

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, there's just a lot there.

Hot protesters.

Yeah, good-looking protesters.

Maduro, by the way, bad guy, but I don't know where the millions of people come from.

Just a little hyperbole.

But yes, he seems like someone who's really feeling the weight of life and death decisions that he's making.

It didn't surprise me that there was that number.

I mean, the Cubans have had like intelligence personnel, but some of the kind of security around Maduro, some of the, you know, there's this deep ideological alliance between Cuba and Venezuela.

So it didn't surprise me that that number were killed.