Timothy Naftali

No, no, no, no.

And then the question is, okay, how are you going to avoid a failed state with this particular approach to the transition in Venezuela?

You've got a group of people whose intellectual worldview is fundamentally different from ours.

I don't care how Machiavellian they might be.

They're fundamentally different from the vision that the best of the Trump team has for Venezuela.

By that, I mean Secretary Rubio.

How are you going to manage that with them?

Well, maybe you can't manage it with them, which means we have to go.

which means we find ourselves supervising the police, making sure there's law and order, because no American business person is going to want to invest in Somalia or you name whichever failed country that might have access to oil.

You name it and they're not going to want to do it, which means we've just managed to create a failed state in Venezuela, or at least that's the possibility.

It's amazing to me the hubris that has led to this.

But by the way, as we've seen before, hubris begets hubris because we're already talking about the next great American expedition and acquisition in the Western Hemisphere, Greenland.

Well, after the first term, of course, the president, the current president decided he hadn't lost and his interest was in the was in regaining power, not in legacy.

And so there was no Trump library that there was no foundation for Trump library after the first term.

There seems to be some interest in legacy right now.

After all, this is a president who wants his name on everything.

So he's clearly thinking about the future.

It's fascinating.

I mean, he's already putting his name everywhere as if he's about to retire.

So I have a feeling that the old man actually wants a Trump library.