Trump administration to brief members of Congress on Venezuela actions Monday

Trump administration officials will brief a select group of lawmakers on Monday about the operation to capture and arrest President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in Venezuela. The briefing on “Operation Absolute Resolve” will include a number of administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe,…

Read More

Smith on Maduro capture: 'I don't think it fundamentally changed drug trafficking in America at all'

Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said Sunday that he does not believe the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will have any significant impact on the scope of drug trafficking in the United States. “No, I don’t know,” Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill,”…

Read More

Trump threatens Maduro successor: The Atlantic

President Trump on Sunday reportedly threatened Venezuela’s new leader Delsey Rodriguez after the US ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. “If she doesn’t do the right thing, she’s going to pay a very big price, maybe even bigger than Maduro,” Trump told The Atlantic’s Michael Scherrer in a phone interview Sunday. Rodriguez, who soon assumed his…

Read More