you.
joining us now secretary of
state mike pompeo,
mr. secretary, welcome back to
fox news sunday.
>> chris, great to be with you
this morning.
chris: let's start with
venezuela, on tuesday you and
national security adviser john
bolton were talking as if a coup
in caracas was underway, take a
look.
>> they need to be able to act
this afternoon or this evening
to help bring other military
forces to the side of the
interim president.
chris: what happened, was there
an intelligence failure about
whether or not some top
venezuelan officials were going
to flip on maduro?
>> well, first of all, chris,
there can't be a couplet by juan
guido, he's the elected leader,
dually elected through
constitutional process, there
couldn't have been a coup there.
the venezuela people struggle
for democracy continues, we have
made very clear that maduro must
lead, there's no way that you
can have free and fair elections
with maduro still inside of that
country, and we've made very
clear not only in the...