Well, lawmakers return to Washington this week, facing the fallout from U.S. military action in Venezuela, as well as a shutdown deadline and a health care fight ahead.

To discuss that and more, we are joined by our Politics Monday team. That is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Tam, I want to begin with you. I want to start with Venezuela, which,

of course, we've been devoting most of this show to. You now have the former President

Nicolas Maduro brought into a court in Manhattan earlier today, or rather in Brooklyn, after

U.S. military operation, grabbed him from his home, arrested him, flew him to America to be

tried. You see President Trump now saying

the U.S. is in charge of Venezuela. And as we've been reporting, threatening action against Cuba and

Colombia and Mexico and Greenland, this is the man who ran on America first, no new wars. How do you

square this? Yeah, and I spent a good part of today going back through the archives of all of the things

that President Trump has said over time.

In 2016, in 2019, in 2020, in 2024, he campaigned on no intervention, no foreign wars, no regime

change.

The regime change was a mistake. Nation building doesn't work.

And he really rode U.S. citizen anger with foreign wars into the White House. It was one of his

major attack points against Hillary Clinton and again against Joe Biden and also against Vice President Harris.

And in office, especially in this second term, he has had a much more interventionist approach

to foreign policy. Now, I did talk to an official who was part of the first Trump administration with a national

security role today, who said this, this operation in Venezuela was, quote, extremely MAGA.

And I was like, okay, really?

How so?

And what he said is that that MAGA was never anti-interventionist. It was never isolationist.

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