This is John Baster, colleague Mary Kissel, former senior advisor to the Secretary of State,

commenting on Venezuela and the offer by Mr. Trump's administration to speak to, speak with or hear out Maduro,

short of kinetic action with that fleet arranged off the shore of Venezuela.

Mary looks to what she experienced with North Korea in the first Trump term,

what she calls the playbook at state.

Here's Mary Kistler to describe what she thinks might be going on in Venezuela now.

Show the guns and then much more of this later tonight.

It's not business as usual.

Unfortunately, there isn't a sense of panic.

And unfortunately, the public really isn't terribly aware of this.

They don't like the idea of war.

But we have seen what Russia has already allegedly done to a part of a train system

in Poland last Sunday and what they've been doing with drone attacks and intimidation

of Denmark and other countries. But the fact is that the Europeans are not ready. And you

mentioned something earlier on about coalitions of the willing. They've been talking

about coalitions of the willing for the odd two, three years. And this was a big conference led

in Paris, led by President Emmanuel Macron, the president of France. But so little has comfort.

They're going for coalitions of the willing because they know there isn't a consensus of support for European political and economic integration.