Chuck Schumer: “I just got back from an all-Senators briefing with senior administration officials about what is going on in Venezuela.…”

“I just got back from an all-Senators briefing with senior administration officials about what is going on in Venezuela. Again, another briefing. Again, no answers. As before, we walked out of the room with far more questions than answers. It is not just the Senators and Congressmen in the SCIF, a classified room, who deserve answers, it is the American people who deserve answers. The American people want to know: How much is this going to cost us at a time when we are seeing our costs rise for things like housing and groceries and healthcare? They want to know what kind of troops--how many troops are going to be needed there? It is clear that the leadership's succession plan that the administration envisions now that Maduro--the awful person that he is-- is gone, the people who are replacing him are just as untrustworthy, just as corrupt, just as bad as he is. How is Trump going to run the country with these people as his underlings? So the public deserves answers at this crucial moment because the American people are asking: What the hell is going on in Venezuela? And why is this President, who campaigned on 'America First,' now spending all his time and energy on escapades overseas? What is going to happen next? The public is totally in the dark. We need to know how long an involvement in Venezuela is going to last. Trump has said it is going to take some time. What does that mean? Iraq was more than a decade. How many troops are we talking about?”