Tim Miller

I never had to do that, but I know that feeling, you know, of watching politicians go off the rails and you thinking, get, get in there, get it, somebody get in there.

And he just couldn't help himself.

And the thing went all over the place.

It was really, it was a very haywire performance.

And I, I don't think it's going to reassure anybody.

Do you know what the end game is in Venezuela?

It kind of feels like they just think that they're going to keep that eventually Maduro is going to get tired of having his tankers get intercepted and that he's just going to say, you know what?

It's enough for me.

I'm going to go live in the Assad suite in Moscow.

And you guys can take it from here.

That seems to be the plan.

Well, or, and here's the more, here's the darker and more nefarious idea.

I can't believe I'm saying this because I'm actually on the same page as, wait for it, Rand Paul.

All right.

Pretty rare.

I've been saying it must be the season of Christmas that I am, you know, right behind Rand Paul on this.

The wacko bird himself.

Well, on this, he's not wrong, I don't think.

I think that Trump is hoping to provoke Venezuela into some kind of action so that then he can fire back, start a splendid little war, as they used to refer to them in the 19th century, in which he can then say, America's at war.

I'm a wartime president.