ct that you're either growing or shrinking. And as soon as you put that frame on it, then everything that Trump has been doing lately makes perfect sense, especially asserting the Monroe Doctrine like it's never been asserted before.

All right. Bill O'Reilly was on NewsNation talking to Leland Vittert and he had an interesting speculation which I immediately agree with. But he warns you that he's not basing this on reporting. This is based on just his understanding of the world and it's close to my understanding of the world too. He says that about Venezuela, that the CIA, which has heavily infiltrated the Venezuelan and Colombian governments, they know everything that's going on and that they must have made a deal with the Venezuelan military. And the deal would look like this. You step aside because we're coming in to get Maduro. And that's the only way on earth that the US special forces could have snatched Maduro without any conflict at all.

Now, were you wondering why Venezuela didn't put up more of a fight? Specifically, the military just stood down. And I have long speculated that there was no way that, you know, I agree with this speculation that there's no way that could have been so bloodless relatively. I think there were some 32 people who might have died. I don't know if there were Cuban bodyguards or what, but there were some casualties on the Venezuelan side. The only way I could understand that is if we've got a deal in the back.

Now that deal would include that maybe the Venezuelans can act tough as long as they don't fire anything, as long as they do what we're told. So you see the vice president who's now the president of Venezuela talking tough about the US. That probably has to happen. She probably has to talk tough. But as long as she understands that we'll send the military if she doesn't do what we want and as long as the CIA has built relationships there that can tell them exactly how to get out of the way, maybe there's some bribery involved, etc., I think that's probably the answer to the hidden questions.

Like if you knew that the CIA had been working for years probably to be in a position to say, "Okay, military, come on in. We'll turn off the response." That would explain everything, wouldn't it? But again, this is not a fact. I believe there's more we don't know about this situation than there is that we know. You know, we're deeply in the fog of war, in a sense. What we will learn about this in the coming years will probably be a lot more than we actually know because I don't see the CIA telling us the truth. It's not even their job to tell us the truth. In fact telling us the truth might work against our interests. So I think that's true.

Now listen to Steve Miller who was on a recent interview. He said about the Venezuelans, he said they told Rubio, made clear they will meet the terms. This is the Venezuelan government as it is right now. They told Rubio, made it clear they will meet the terms, demands, conditions and requirements of the US. So if they're telling Rubio they're going to do what we want, but you hear them talk tough in public, it all makes sense, doesn't it?

All right. According to Senator John Kennedy, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which took our money and