Senator Adam Schiff

And I think that's what you're seeing Republican members react to in the Senate today.

No, absolutely not.

And you've seen these shifting explanations and rationalizations, the most recent of which was this was just a law enforcement action.

This was not a military intervention.

This was not a war.

This was just the military being used to escort the Justice Department in its enforcement of a warrant against Maduro.

Of course, if that were the case, if that legal justification were really what was going on, this would be over by now.

Maduro's been apprehended.

He's been brought to court.

Therefore, the warrant has been served, and there would be no need for any further military involvement.

But of course, this is not about that.

It's about the oil.

As we were saying, it's not about democratic governance.

Otherwise, and I think I said Oscar, but Edmund Gonzalez, the one that we have recognized as having won the last election, would be brought back to lead the government.

But that is obviously not happening.

And I will say this.

for a president who dissembles all the time, who has no loyalty, obedience, or understanding of the truth.

He's nevertheless been transparent about one thing, and that is he has talked about oil, I think, more than two dozen times since this military operation and made it very clear what this is about.

So I take him at his word on this, that it's about the oil,

that he intends to try to run that country, that this is gonna be a long-term commitment.