Phil Stewart

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Interrupted by Matt Jones · Episode 27 - Phil Stewart · 9 Jan 2026 podcast

And it was this stunning moment where he was like, you know, he's like telling me I got to respect Bill Clinton.

And anyway, it was this real surreal moment for me because I was a Latin American studies major in college and I had studied Fidel Castro.

And there he is in his camouflage and talking about Bill Clinton and telling me that I should respect him.

So, yeah.

Well, I think Secretary of State Marco Rubio has put it pretty bluntly.

I mean, he's basically saying that the Cubans should take notice of what happens in Venezuela.

And so if anyone in the region should be really watching this, it's certainly the Cubans, because also they depended so much on the relationship with Venezuela, which the United States almost certainly seems to be moving to sever.

So if the Venezuelans can no longer provide any kind of oil, aid, support, cash, anything to the Cubans, that's going to have a real impact on an island that's already struggling economically.

So I think that as journalists, what we're trying to do is we're trying to make sense of this, too, because nobody's seen anything quite like this, right?

And so the closest thing is Noriega, and that's actually a different situation for a lot of reasons that we don't have to get into.

So what we're doing is we're looking at the national security strategy that the White House issued, which says basically that the Monroe Doctrine, this idea that the hemisphere is kind of America's backyard and that the U.S.

will look after it as such and protect its interests there, really is the best way, I think, to understand.

Well, I think that in the case of Venezuela, you're going to see a lot of pressure on them to cut ties with countries the U.S.

sees as adversaries.

And actually, I was on a trip with Secretary of Defense, or Secretary of War, I guess, that's what he calls it, Pete Hegseth.

The name isn't official yet, so I can't use Secretary of War.

But the name has been officially ... The name has been changed on the building itself.

So it's a tricky one for reporters.

I'm sure.

Anyway, so I was with Secretary Hegseth in Panama in April, and he was basically really focusing on China and trying to keep the Chinese government and the Chinese economy

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