I'm John Batchel with Professor Richard Epstein. Too many constitutional missing pieces, too much overwhelming news. We go to Venezuela. The back story on this is very straightforward. I can tell it as Hollywood would tell it.

There's a very bad man who calls himself the president of Venezuela.

He persecutes millions of people.

Seven to nine million have fled.

There is no food security.

There is no medical security.

He's surrounded by thugs who have weapons and some of whom are from national,

from state security in Havana. These are very bad actors, and the opposition that as

fled or is in hiding is pleading with the United States to save them. The U.S. Navy has a fleet off of Venezuela that could take on the planet Mars.

That's how big it is.

And it's going to get bigger with the arrival of the battle group USS Gerald Ford.

There are aircraft, there are bombers.

Everything is in place.

Is this a war, or is this the pursuit of the so-called alleged head of a

cartel of narco-terrorist named Maduro? I come to what it can go wrong and why. William Randolph

Hurst, 1898, after the destruction of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, he wrote to, he telegrammed to his correspondent on the scene, you furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war.

I mention that because right now, there already is talk in Venezuela in the Maduro

camp of a false flag operation.

What does that mean?

That the United States or the opposition would set off a series of explosions that appeared

to be an attack on the U.S. Navy and would lead to a Tonkin Bay, Tonkin Gulf resolution in Congress.

There it is, Richard, all the worst case scenarios. Does the President have the power to order a war

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