Senator Tim Sheehy

And what they didn't do specifically, Ben, was regime change.

They didn't go in and bomb out the regime and turn Venezuela into a parking lot and drop 300,000 troops in and establish a provisional government.

That's exactly what they did not do.

What they did do was arrest a criminal, remove him from power,

and said to the existing regime, listen, we don't really like you very much, but here's the four corners of the expectations that we will have around you.

We're going to continue to sanction you.

We're going to continue to put guardrails around your ability to destroy fabric of our nation with drugs and criminal activity, mass migration into America.

We're going to put a box around you and set expectations for your actions.

And if you violate those expectations,

There'll be further consequences.

And I think you said very clearly that they said very clearly yesterday they expect elections to take place, because as you all know, this regime was was was defeated in elections two years ago.

And the Machado movement very clearly was preferred by the Venezuelan people.

And I think there's been demands that why don't we just parachute them in to take over?

Well, the reality is the regime is not loyal to them.

The bureaucracy is not in place to conduct that kind of a change.

And to do that regime change that everyone's accusing us of would invite the kind of instability we're all trying to avoid.

So I think it's very important that we use the existing regime to the extent possible

in a transition period to where we can affect a change in government that will reflect the democratic values of the Venezuelan people who, by the way, everyone demonstrating in the streets that's happy about this are, guess what?

Venezuelans.

All the people who are against it are all like, you know,