I'm John Batson with my good colleague Peter Berkowitz and we're reflecting upon remarks by the Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House, Stephen Miller.

And his remarks on television, on camera, which is a setting that is challenging to anyone who's been under those lights.

His statement as to what the U.S. represents, which is power,

superpower, might, and the implication here is power comes out of the barrel of a gun. That's

often given to Mao, but it's not inapplicable. And he refers to the Monroe Doctrine

in terms of the Maduro incident, which is not done.

I mentioned to you, there's nothing right now that's seriously concluded about that.

There's still upwards of a thousand people in a hellish cell without access to light

and being kept there by men who were in power when Maduro was in Caracas,

one of those named Deistado Cabello, the guy with the guns, and the Rodriguez, the brother

and sister, they're running the government. It's not free. Your superpower, Mr. Miller,

has left something undone. But let's go to the Don Row doctrine, the Monroe Doctrine. Does Mr. Miller, has left something undone. But let's go to the Donne Roe doctrine,

the Monroe Doctrine. Does Mr. Miller believe that is a carte blanche to do what we will

in the Americas? Well, he comes perilously close to suggesting so. Remember, the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 is a doctrine that more or less accepts the status quo. What was the status quo at the time in 1823? European monarchies had colonies in South America and in North America still. And the Monroe Doctrine's

didn't say, we don't like your colonies and we're going to undo them. It said, no more.

We have no truck with the colonies that are there. We accept the status quo, but we will prevent you from expanding your colonies.

In other words, it was a kind of early containment policy, if you will. But the so-called

Dunrow Doctrine in the National Security Strategy of 2025 was called the Trump corollary

to the Monroe Doctrine, we see something different.

Instead of a containment doctrine, no more growth, it's a rollback doctrine.

We don't like our adversaries having positions and assets in South America in the Western Hemisphere,

and we're entitled to roll them back,

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