Elliott Abrams: “If we don't ask them to do what is right for their own people, we are complicit in what is happening inside the P.A.”

I am not aware of foreign support for the colectivos. It is clear that they work for the regime.

All these funds, all Venezuelan government funds are, in our view, rightly available to the legitimate Interim President, Mr. Guaido, and the National Assembly.

This horrendous humanitarian situation in Venezuela that we have all been talking about existed 2 weeks ago, before there were sanctions on PDVSA.

The only reason we are here considering this bill today is because the administration took it upon itself to threaten a war it does not have an authorization to start.