mr. abrams will be doing, what will his first task be? what will the chief focus be? will he traveled to the region, and can you talk about some of the -- what will happen to overseas assets, the gold has in the bank of england, money it has in overseas accounts, will the expectation be the interim resident will have control over those funds? sec. pompeo: to your first question, elliott will have responsibility for all things related to our efforts to restore democracy in venezuela. it is a global challenge. there are multiple dimensions in thewe help to assist venezuelans achieved democracy, and he will be responsible for leading that effort. we have an enormous team that has done truly remarkable work today to get us to the point we are at today. they have done this over my eight months, but long preceding that as well. i am proud of the work our state department team has done. elliott will lead our effort that relates to our efforts on behalf of the venezuelan people. i would expect his first task will be to get up to speed, and then travel to new york for the un s

mr. abrams would be a subject for such a nurnberg style inquiry. agree the democrats would have to be in the dark with him. congress approved the sale of 16,000 m-16s to guatemala. 88 --and >> i invite you back to discuss what he did. >> it is ludicrous to respond to that kind of stupidity. this guy thinks we were on the wrong side in the cold war. a b he personally was on the wrong side to i am one of the millions of americans -- ofsupporting the massacre peasants, that's a crime. that was elliott abrams responding to you on pbs on n te charlie rose show. your response. think what he said in our exchange speaks for itself. i should note that just last trial at a genocide which i testified and gave evidence the court ruled that tot the guatemalan army did the miami shield people and others of the mayan population in guatemala, the court ruled that that constituted genocide. and they said this genocide was carried out by the watermelon army in accord with an essentially at the behest of u.s. policy. u.s. intererests. wass strong as the case back in

mr. abrams will be doing, what his first task will be, the chief focus will be, will he travel to the regione bit about some of the -- what will happen to venezuela's overseas assets, the gold that they have in the bank of england, money in overseas accounts. will the interim president have control over those funds? >> to your first question, elliot will have responsibility for all things related to our efforts to restore democracy in venezuela. it's a global challenge. there's multiple dementions to how we hope to assist the venezuelians in achieving democracy there and he will be responsible for leading that effort. we have an enormous team here that has done truly workable work to date to get us to the point that we're add today. they have done this over certainly my eight months but long preceding that as well. i'm incredibly proud of the work our state department team has done to date. elliot will lead our effort that relates directly to the efforts of the venezuelan people. i would expect the first task will be to get up to speed and travel with me to new york tomorrow morning for the

in response to what mr elliott abrams has just. it's difficult sometimes when spokespeople take the floor. they often deviate from the previous course of action or the previous storms. we've been involved in many difficult to go shushan far apart. but. i would recall that mr brown's up center tradition which has been try to leave it for similar such a times in the past such as the iran contra affair that he is the face of a world war and part of interfering with them for we have been listening to among others the foreign minister there of venezuela who is speaking again let's just go and talk to mike hanna so mike we obviously heard the foreign minister of venezuela very much accusing most of the nations there but their actions against his country and the nicolas mcdougal's government and then perhaps i knew surely messages from both the u.s. and russia saying very different things and it does show the once again the security council is potentially divided on this. well indeed yes let's make very clear here you'll notice the u.s. s

mr. abrams. venezuela is not and will never be anybody's satellite or lackey.das its own institutions its own people, which are the fount of his strength, and they will rally and they will rally to the support of the president nicolas maduro. we reiterate that the key to security is the intervention of the united states of america, their return to the monroe doctrine, and their bullying and aggression toward the the bolivian republic of venezuela, which has the aim of regime change. that the united states, not cuba, organize bloody coup d'États. it is the government of the united states, not the government of cuba that intervenes without scruples in the electoral affairs of the majority of the states on the planet as a matter of history and facts. they have sought to topple an overturned by fours legitimate governments and they are seeking to do that again in toppling the government of the bolivian republic of venezuela. they are calling for violence and coup d'État. books, your history secretary of state mike pompeo, see what is written there. and don't make o

abrams. the defense secretary right back invoices in his words disappointment about the lack of forfresh or new approaches macv regarding the implementation of the demonization program. on program.zati he is saying mr. president, there's not a whole lot of fresh ideas coming out of abrams's headquarters. that tension is starting to and you are starting to see hints of a deeper civil military division that going to bust out not far from now. meetings withkly his staff, abrams is going to continually bulk at these withdrawals. at these withdrawals, especially on the even the cambodian incursion in the spring of 1970. what abrams is going to argue is that look, military progress is critical to maintain vietnamese confidence and perhaps, more portly, political stability. and these are the chief prerequisites for american departure from vietnam. and then, in early 1970, these debates go public. march, "washington post," reports on joseph l general abrams request for a pause in true productions and op iss what else is -- als going to write in "the washington post." president nixon will be asking for trouble and refusing to heed generally rooms. imagine if you will a president in aight take criticism diff

mr. guaido and the coordination in which it happened, some critics here, even appointment of elliott abramssial figure, some are saying this is arca 1960s and '70s when the united states supported coups in latin america. what do you say to critics who say that the united states is overthrowing a government in venezuela by supporting mr. guaido >> totally different we are living last 20 years in a dictatorship, and the new president has the popular support of people, and the constitution, the constitution -- our law, our law give that power to juan quado. >> what are you calling on the international community to the do, not just the jits do yunite? do you have the recognition going forward? >> more pressure maduro is violation of human rights she a dictator maduro in order to kill people who process, people don't have water, food, medicine in venezuela. it's different this administration so difficult. so we need to support and more pressure on the country from the international community. this can start today we start this fight in 2014. when the office denounced maduro as the president and