He would not have stood for this kind of not being briefed when we served together. And the kind of argument the administration's making now that, oh, this was not a military action. I mean, You got 20% of the American fleet off the coast of Venezuela, 15,000 soldiers. We sent in the Delta Force to extract Maduro, and Maduro was a bad guy. Let's acknowledge that on the front end, our military did a brilliant job. (00:50–00:57)
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