Returning now to our top story tonight, the ongoing fallout from President Trump's decision to forcibly remove the President of Venezuela.

President Trump and his aides are now speaking of a foreign policy where pressure and the use of military might can be applied both to adversaries and potentially allies.

Nick Schifrin is back now with two conversations looking at a pivot in America's

place in the world. President Trump has outlined a muscular aggressive doctrine focused on the

Western Hemisphere. It refutes the restrained foreign policy, part of his winning campaign in

2016, and redefines America first in the context of a 19th century foreign policy of regional domination.

To discuss that, we get two views on this Trump doctrine. We begin with Ambassador Todd Robinson,

who served as ambassador in Guatemala and as the top U.S. diplomat in Venezuela before being kicked

out of the country and was an assistant secretary of state in the state department.

Thank you very much, Ambassador Robinson.

Thanks so much for having me.

To the news hour, here's the Trump administration theory in Venezuela today that now President

Delci Rodriguez can deliver an environment in which the U.S. can invest in and benefit from

a newly refined oil industry, and that the opposition, Maria Karina

Machado and Mundo Gonzalez, are not capable of uniting the country.

Can that new U.S. policy work?

I don't think so.

I think, first of all, Maria Corrina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez represent the will of the Venezuelan people.

People forget that there were elections not too long ago.

Ordinary Venezuelans went out and risked their lives to vote for change in Venezuela.

And I think it's incumbent upon this administration and the

international community to respect the will of the Venezuelan people. And can Delci-Rodriguez

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