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Andrew McCarthy and Thaddeus McCotter debate Trump's Venezuelan boat strikes. McCarthy questions whether drug boats equal naval attacks, noting drug trafficking is historically a felony, not war. McCotter highlights Congress's desire to avoid difficult vo

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Andrew McCarthy and Thaddeus McCotter debate Trump's Venezuelan boat strikes. McCarthy questions whether drug boats equal naval attacks, noting drug trafficking is historically a felony, not war. McCotter highlights Congress's desire to avoid difficult votes.
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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

0:36.4

Where is Congress on Trump's lethal military strikes on Venezuelan boats?

0:38.8

Reads the headline in the National Review Online, an article written by my colleague, Andrew McCarthy, of National Review Online, former

0:44.9

prosecutor for the Justice Department, and we're joined by our good colleague Thadis McConnor,

0:50.2

former member of Congress, now writing an American greatness, to comment on something that's been

0:55.6

happening over these last days, the presumption of a very powerful flotilla, somewhere between

1:02.7

Puerto Rico and the coast of Venezuela, staged in a fashion to suggest strongly to the regime in Caracas that it's time for Maduro, who's named

1:13.7

as the head of a drug cartel, Cartel of the Sun. It's time for him to go, turn him over to the authorities,

1:22.0

and we will prosecute him, says the United States, as a drug lord. However, what we've seen since then are several

1:29.6

instances where the U.S.'s apparently opened fire on what was presumed to be a Venezuelan

1:36.3

boat filled with drugs and drug runners. Andy, a very good evening to you. I was unfamiliar with

1:42.3

this whole idea of opening fire without the permission

1:45.5

of Congress. The headline that you post under in the National View Online has the same

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