Phil Stewart

I couldn't tell you.

I wouldn't want to venture a guess about the size and scope of the compound itself, just not knowing it well enough.

International organizations for press freedom have said that there needs to be less restrictions on foreign access to reporting inside Venezuela.

That said, you see foreign journalists who are on the ground there and take risk to report on what's going on, even in these recent days.

And that includes reporters who are going to the aftermath of these strikes.

interviewing survivors, going to hospitals, speaking to soldiers who survived, who are wounded.

And so there is very vibrant reporting, but not as you might see in neighboring countries like Colombia.

You know, that is a great question.

I'm glad you asked that.

We are trying to understand the risk appetite of this administration because you've seen now since the summer, you know, two major operations that are hard to, you know, imagine have happened, you know, really when you sit back.

One is the bombing of Iran's nuclear program.

People have talked about that for years and years and years.

And the risks...

of carrying out that operation and the blowback afterwards were, you know, enough to make a lot of people quite nervous.

And then an operation like this, as we've discussed, you know, there are enormous risks.

I mean, let's say hypothetically only like, you know, one of the helicopters had gone down.

One of the helicopters was shot, was shot at and took fire.

And people aboard were injured, at least one person.

And, you know, had there been casualties, you know, would the media have seen it as a debacle with the United States or hostages?

Right.