Marco Rubio Destroys Kristen Welker & George Stephanopoulos On Legality Of Maduro Arrest!

James Kaufman will news report today. Marco Rubio destroys Kristen Welker and George Stephanopoulos on the legality of the Venezuelan operation. Venezuelans are celebrating around their country in the streets and around the U.S., but it's never good enough for the far-left swamp creatures. Let's watch Marco Rubio explain the real laws that governed President Trump and his administration to the two Democratic hacks on their shows this Sunday morning. United States now at war with Venezuela. There's not a war. I mean, we are at war against drug trafficking organizations. It's not a war against Venezuela. We are enforcing American laws with regards to oil sanctions. We have sanctioned entities. We go to court, we get a warrant, we seize those boats with oil. And that will continue. And we will continue to reserve the the right to take strikes against drug boats that are bringing drugs towards the United States that are being operated by transnational criminal organizations, including the Cartel de los Soles. Of course, their leader, the leader of that cartel, is now in US custody and facing US justice in the Southern District of New York, and that's Nicolas Maduro. So we made a big progress in that regard. This was not an action that required congressional approval. In fact, it couldn't require congressional approval, because this was not an invasion. This is not an extended military operation. This is a very precise operation that involved a couple of hours of action. It was a very delicate operation, too. It was one that required all these conditions to be in place at the right time in the right place. You couldn't afford leaks. We couldn't afford anything out there that would have endangered the mission and gotten people killed or killed off the mission and the optionality. We didn't even know if the mission was going to happen. How can you notify something you're not even sure if it can happen? Because in order for it to happen, you needed to have weather conditions in place. He needed to be at the right place at the right time, we needed to have forces prepared to go. There were a lot of factors in place, it was a trigger-based operation. You can't notify that, number one, cuz you don't even know what's gonna happen, if those conditions will ever align. And number two, you can't risk it being disclosed. But this was not an attack on Venezuela, this was a law enforcement function to capture an indicted drug trafficker. And of course, we needed the Department of Defense to support it, because they do have anti-aircraft missiles that could shoot down those helicopters. But will you- We had to take down radars, we had to take down those anti-air elements on the way in and on the way out, and that's what this was limited to. But will you seek congressional approval for any further action in Venezuela or the region? Well, we will seek congressional approval for actions that require congressional approval. But otherwise, they will get congressional notification. And this is not an operation that require congressional approval. In fact, this is an operation akin to what virtually every single president for the last 40 years has conducted. The difference is that when it's Donald Trump, all these Democrats go bonkers. And next up, a real Democratic hack, that's right, Stephanopoulos. Well, first of all, what's gonna happen here is that we have a quarantine on their oil. That means their economy will not be able to move forward until the conditions that are in the national interest of the United States and the interests of the Venezuelan people are met. And that's what we intend to do. So that leverage remains, that leverage is ongoing. And we expect that it's going to lead to results here. We hope so, hopeful that it does, positive results for the people of Venezuela, but ultimately, most importantly for us in the national interest of the United States. We will no longer have, hopefully, as we move forward here, we'll set the conditions so that we no longer have in our hemisphere a Venezuela that's the crossroads for many of our adversaries around the world, including Iran and Hezbollah, is no longer sending us drug gangs, is no longer sending us drug boats, is no longer a narco-trafficking paradise for all those drugs coming out of Colombia to go in through the Caribbean and towards the United States. And obviously, we want a better future for the people of Venezuela. We want them to have an oil industry where the wealth goes to the people, not to a handful of corrupt individuals and stolen by pirates all over the world. That's what we're working towards, and we intend to use the leverage we have to help achieve that. Let me ask the question again. What is the legal authority for the United States to be running Venezuela? Well, I explained to you what our goals are and how we're gonna use the leverage to make it happen. As far as what our legal authority is on the quarantine, I'm very simple, we have court orders. These are sanctioned boats, and we get orders from courts to go after and seize these sanctions. So that's, I don't know, is a court not a legal authority? So is the United States running Venezuela right now? Well, I've explained once again, I'll do it one more time. What we are running is the direction that this is gonna move moving forward, and that is we have leverage. This leverage we are using and we intend to use, we started using already. You can see where they are running out of storage capacity. In a few weeks, they're gonna have to start pumping oil unless they make changes. And that leverage that we have with the armada of boats that are currently positioned allow us to seize any sanctioned boats coming into or out of Venezuela, loaded with oil or on its way in to pick up oil, and we can pick and choose which ones we go after. We have court orders for each one. That will continue to be in place until the people who have control over the levers of power in that country. Make changes that are not just in the interest of the people of Venezuela, but are in the interest of the United States and the things that we care about. That's what we intend to do. When the president was asked yesterday- The legal authority is the court orders that we have. When the president was asked yesterday who will be running Venezuela, he said it was you. He said it was the defense secretary. He said it was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Are you running Venezuela right now? George, I've explained again that the leverage that we have here is the leverage of the quarantine. So that is a Department of War operation, conducting, in some cases, law enforcement functions with the Coast Guard on the seizure of these boats. I'm obviously very intricately involved in these policies. And by the way, very intricately involved in moving forward and what we hope to see some of these changes being addressed. Unfortunately, the person that was there before, who was not the legitimate president of the country, was someone we could not work with, was someone that we could not. He had already suckered the Biden administration a couple of years. So let me sum this up for all the leftists and Democrats out there. We're not, in fact, running the country, but we have huge influence over the people that think they're running the country, i.e. we won't allow them to sell any of their oil or gas unless we okay the transaction. and of course if we see any drug boats or any type of drug action we'll be also taking care of that but in fact all of these oil tankers are legally able to be stopped and taken by the United States per court orders and this is the leverage that we have against Venezuela and whoever thinks they're going to lead it next. It's incredible leverage, and it will be used as necessary. Right now, they can't sell a gallon of oil. Now, if they do, what we need them to do, we'll allow them to start selling oil to China, and we're going to allow them to sell oil to, while other places, and we're about to send Exxon back in to take over their offshore rigs that they built, that Exxon built, that were taken over by Venezuelan's armed guard about two years ago. So, in fact, yes, we don't actually have boots on the ground, but we're going to run the policies in Venezuela until we probably put in a puppet government or someone that's going to work with the United States of America. You can like it or not, but that's what's going to happen. We're going to do it with a court order, not congressional approval. Period. We'll confiscate any and every oil tanker leaving Venezuela. God bless. please share and subscribe always remember anything's possible bizarro world