Today: Senator Chris Murphy says U.S. strategy on Venezuela has been an "embarrassing mistake."

"..we tried to construct a kind of coup in April of last year and it blew up in our face when all the generals that were supposed to break with Maduro, decided to stick with him.."

"..we are recognizing someone as the leader of Venezuela who doesn't control the government, who doesn't run the military, and he doesn't even hold office."

Sen. Murphy remarks on Guaido's refusal to participate in Venezuela's upcoming elections.

"So you’re saying we’re going to recognize [Guaido] because he is the former leader of the National Assembly?"

"I think that it’s a fallacy to suggest that no one is going to step forward and replace Guaido"

(Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Venezuela)

U.S. policy on Venezuela or "unmitigated disaster" as Sen. Murphy calls it, "allowed Marduro to paint Guaido as an American patsy."

Grilling Elliott Abrams (and USAID's Joshua Hodge), Democrats make the argument that they're better at coups than Republicans.

When questioned in today's hearing, Elliott Abrams did not deny or even respond to Senator Chris Murphy's premise re: the April 30, 2019 failed coup attempt, fake humanitarian aid stunt in Cucuta, the fact that Guaido controls 0 institutions.. https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1290656459496263687

Elliott Abrams speaking today before the Senate on how the U.S. openly tries to buy off generals of the Venezuelan military. Abrams says that all sorts of outreach (to military leadership) is taking place through Southcom and via other means.

Nothing brings Republicans and Democrats together like coup plotting on Venezuela: @SenatorRisch

Top Venezuelan constitutional law scholars Marco Rubio and Elliott Abrams on how the Constitution put on a blindfold and stuck out it’s finger, spun around and took off it’s blindfold to find that the presidency had landed on Juan Guaido. For Bolivia they just did spin the bottle