Senator Adam Schiff

Well, first of all, this began, as you know, with attacks on ships in the Caribbean.

It was claimed by the administration that this was just about stopping drugs from coming to this country, stopping fentanyl from coming here, even though fentanyl is not a drug transported by Venezuela, by both the United States.

It comes predominantly from Mexico with precursors made in China.

But nevertheless, this was supposedly about drugs.

I introduced the first War Powers Resolution to put a stop to that.

It got bipartisan support, but not enough.

This is now the third resolution Tim Kaine introduced.

I was principal co-sponsor on to put an end to further military involvement in Venezuela because it's clear now

This claim that this was about narcotics was a ruse.

This is about oil.

This is about oil.

This is about seizing the oil reserves of a country that has some of the largest, if not the largest oil reserve in the world.

And now the president is saying we could be there for years running that country.

And I think, frankly, what the president has been saying is largely responsible for why Republican support for our resolution has grown.

Because Republicans are deeply concerned that we're going to get bogged down in another endless war about oil.

And that is not what we want to see happen.

It's not what the American people want to see happen.

And for the president now to respond this way, basically threatening Republican members who supported this with.

defeat at the polls is at the one hand, you know, typical Donald Trump.

At the same time, it is not working because we're seeing an increasing number of Republicans in the Senate and actually today in the House on a different issue on the ACA tax credits.