Marco Rubio

The Venezuelan challenge for us was frozen.

It was a frozen situation.

We had a regime that was entrenched.

Its opposition was either in hiding or had been forced overseas.

Edmundo Gonzalez lives in Spain.

Maria Corina is no longer.

She's very brave.

She stood there as long as she could, but she had to leave.

The others are in jail.

Now, for the first time in literally a decade, there is the opportunity that something could change.

There's not the guarantee that something will change, but there is the opportunity that something will change.

We have changed that dynamic.

We want a Venezuela that has legitimate democratic elections.

We also want a Venezuela that's prosperous and a Venezuela that's aligned with the United States.

But again, I remind everybody, on Friday we'll mark the four weeks since this happened.

I get it.

We all want something immediately, but this is not a...

Frozen dinner you put in a microwave and in two and a half minutes it comes out ready to eat.

And these are complex things.

It's hard for us to conceive that an operation that lasted about four and a half hours and was a law enforcement operation to capture someone we don't recognize as a head of state.