Are we at war with Venezuela? And what made Malcolm Gladwell so afraid? We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors.

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So Dominic, we've had a lot of naval vessels down there in the Caribbean off of Venezuela.

Donald Trump delightfully posted a video of our ships taking out a boat that was allegedly manned by 11 guys,

drug runners supposedly heading to the United States, according to Donald Trump,

heading elsewhere according to Marco Rubio.

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