Chris Whipple

And I asked him about Wiles, and he said he's never met her, but from a distance he couldn't decide whether she was an enabler or someone who was trying to be a disciplinarian and help Trump do the right thing.

Well, when I repeated this to Susie Wiles, I got a real rise out of her.

Her response was, paraphrasing now, but I'm not an enabler and I'm not a bitch.

And in effect, that she doesn't, you know, assert herself unnecessarily in her view.

So that was her response.

And I thought it was telling.

Well, she is all for it.

She is compelled.

support of the president's policy.

She insists that these boats, because the CIA can do remarkable things, she insists that these are drug dealers on these boats.

I asked her, I went to see her, I think, I'm pretty sure it was on November 4, just last month.

And on that day,

She'd just come out of a meeting with the president talking about the Venezuela policy and the lethal strikes on boats.

And she said words to this effect.

He wants to keep blowing up boats until Maduro cries uncle, which, of course, really contradicts the official administration policy that this is all about stopping illegal drugs from reaching U.S.

shores and not about regime change.

So I found that a remarkable statement.

But she certainly doesn't have any qualms about the policy, although she also makes a somewhat newsworthy admission, which is that she says that land strikes by the U.S.

on Venezuela would require going to Congress.

Trump has said the opposite, you know, that land strikes could be imminent.