Street Protests Escalate in Push to Oust Maduro in Venezuela
PATRICK DUDDY, FORMER UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO VENEZUELA: Particular crisis a very important to the United States. In the first instance there is an enormous humanitarian crisis in the country. There are shortages of food, medicine, the electrical grid is collapsing and there have even been shortages of water. So we have seen indications of actual hunger in the country. This has then precipitated a regional crisis with millions of Venezuelans fleeing to Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil and Peru. Additionally, there is this sense that internally Venezuela is in the process of collapse. And there is the widely held fear that the humanitarian crisis, the human rights crisis that has been imposed by the Chavistas will become even more severe.</s>BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST: And Ambassador Duddy, today we've obviously seen the full-throated support for Guaido from the Trump administration. So what is the role, the U.S. and the likelihood of military intervention?</s>DUDDY: Certainly at this point I don't see U.S. military intervention as imminent. Though the administration has repeatedly emphasized that all options are on the table. I just step back and emphasize one further point. And that is it is not only the United States that is supporting the interim government of Juan Guaido, virtually the entire hemisphere and there are actually 54 nations around the world all of whom recognize Guaido as the legitimate interim chief executive of the nation. And what I think the U.S. and the rest of the region wants to see, indeed what they are emphasizing, is that the restoration of democracy is the international community's goal because we understand that until that happens, we cannot even begin to address the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding before us.</s>BALDWIN: Patrick Duddy, Mr. Ambassador, thank you very much. Appreciate it.</s>DUDDY: Very welcome.</s>BALDWIN: He made sexist comments about women repeatedly in the past and today the President's Fed pick makes an interesting remark about male earnings while on TV. And now even some Republican lawmakers are growing increasingly skeptical of Stephen Moore. Plus a manhunt underway in Iowa after a 25-year-old woman was shot and killed while just driving home from work. The latest on that investigation and a possible motive.