Senator Adam Schiff

We're seeing them willing to depart from the president.

Because I think, frankly, they're hearing from their voters and they're responding to the concerns over another endless war in the case of the War Powers Resolution in the Senate and high healthcare costs that Republicans are voting to address in the House.

Well, I think you're absolutely right about all of that.

To the degree that this was not about drugs, it was also not about democracy.

They didn't even make any pretense that this was about restoring the rightful government, the government that we have recognized that is the

government or potential government of Maria Karina Machado, who won that election, her surrogate, won that election, Oscar Gonzalez.

That is who should be brought back to Venezuela.

But they have no intention of doing so.

Instead, they're going to rely on the same corrupt regime, just a different corrupt actor.

So instead of the number one corrupt actor, Maduro, they're going to rely on his number two

Rodriguez, the vice president, now acting president.

Because again, this was only about the oil, access to the oil.

And the idea that somehow we're gonna run this country at a distance by constraining their ability to sell oil, that they're gonna go through some transition, that they're gonna become a different kind of government, that all of the drug gangs and the muscle of the regime, Iran and Cuba and all the other foreign actors are simply going to dissipate

is fanciful.

It isn't going to happen.

And you can just see us getting mired down in Venezuela initially, maybe putting diplomats on the ground and then they need protection for the diplomats.

And then all of a sudden we have boots on the ground.

And, you know, if anything,

One of the commonalities within the public, a deeply divided public, but one of the commonalities between the Democratic base and the MAGA base is neither side wants to engage in another endless war that's about regime change, that's about nation building, and most particularly not if it's about oil.

So I think we're gonna see over time, this has very little public support.