It's Tuesday, November 18th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today?

The show that can't believe President Donald Trump released those files.

You know, the ones on Amelia Earhart, the aeronautical hero who disappeared while trying to circumnavigate the world in 1937?

Wait, what files did you think I was talking about?

No. Wait, what files did you think I was talking about? On today's show, President Trump is meeting with Saudi Arabia's crown prince at the White House,

and the United Nations Security Council approves Trump's plan for the future of Gaza.

But let's start with Venezuela.

After weeks of attacks on alleged drug boats off the coast of the South American country,

President Trump made his plans for dealing with Venezuela clear on Monday in response to a question in the Oval Office.

And by clear, I mean, whatever the opposite of clear is.

Opaic, I guess. Is there anything you're ready to rule out at this point? Are you ruling out U.S. troops on the ground? No, I don't rule that. I don't rule out anything. We just have to take care of Venezuela. They dumped. Sounds like mob talk to me. This came a day after Trump said that he would be willing to hold talks with Venezuelan

President Nicholas Maduro. That was the same day that the Navy's largest aircraft carrier

arrived in the Caribbean Sea for reasons. It seems like the Trump administration is trying to have

its regime change cake and eat it too. But why? Well, we've gotten contradictory responses.

For example, a Justice Department memo giving approval for the strikes on alleged drugboats

argues that the United States is in an armed conflict with, quote,

narco-terrorist drug cartels.

The memo uses the White House's own reasoning that cartels are responsible for tens of thousands

of deaths in the United States from drug overdoses. But, as the New York Times says, repeatedly pointed

out, most of those overdoses are from fentanyl, which Venezuela does not produce. And these drug

allegations might just be a distraction from the real focus of Trump's Venezuela ire.

Over the weekend, Politico published a piece alleging that White House officials have begun

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