Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm Scared, Madeline.

I am your co-host, David.

And today we are doing part two of our episode about Venezuela.

Well, specifically, U.S. intervention is Venezuela.

Yeah, and I thought we could start with an article that I sent you a little while ago. Oh, uh, it, uh, it, uh, hold up. Let me find it. Is it, are you talking about where Donald Trump said the quiet part out loud? Yeah, which I, you do kind of kind of like him for that sometimes. I mean, it's absolutely wild. Maybe like is the wrong word.

I just feel like the thing about covert operations is there supposed to be secrets.

It's...

Fork has a lot of opinions about it.

If you guys can hear Fulke in the background with the noise.

Good.

So, this is from the newsletter of a couple days ago, and it's written by

David E. Sanger, or, and it's called psychological warfare or in Venezuela.

It sounds about right.

Uh, uh, so it says there were two remarkable parts to what Trump told reporters of the Oval Office this week about O'Benzuela what he said and what he didn't say.

The president confirmed a New York Times scoop published a few hours earlier by my colleague Julian Barnes and Tyler Err-Pager that he had secretly authorized the CIA to conduct covert action inside the country, which, as you said.

It's now over action, maybe.

I think he should do, he should Valerie Plainment and just start naming, uh, as CIA operatives in the formula. I'd be like, shout out to my boys.

I mean, we're one step from that.

It's honestly, it's truly wild.

But the wildest thing, too, is that it won't matter.

Like, we've known the CIA was involved there since the CIA was developed, right? We know that the United States

is stabilizing Venezuela for forever, but it feels like none of that really matters, and the

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