of the country's political crisis activists supporting venezuela's president nicolas maduro has been staging a sit in there trying to stop diplomats who support the opposition leader. from taking over the building the u.s. of the organization of american states recognized as venezuela's president of the activists say the u.s. is helping the u.s. government is helping engineer a coup and venice weta. helena humphrey sent us this report from the embassy. venezuela's power struggle is playing out here the country's u.s. embassy in washington d.c. for two weeks now american supporters of venezuela is in battle nicolas maduro occupied the building day and night they want to stop representatives of opposition leader and self declared interim president one by door from setting up shop in the leftist group calls itself the embassy protection collective is only one of its leaders shows us inside margaret the flowers doesn't play in venezuela as leaders for the country's economic and humanitarian crisis so much as her own. if the united states actually cared about the economic situation in venezuela we would stop the economic coercive measures that we're using you know the preventing them from having access to their gold in the bank of london or being

u.s. the u.s. the organization of american states. and fourteen members of the legal group so i have to correct you the u.n. in the security council that the bait was held last week and they didn't have an agreement regarding your point actually it was the contrary they recognized at the security council with the voices of twenty four against fourteen in a debate that was called for the u.s. they actually recognized president maduro as president and they said that the only way that the country could solve their issues was in their own matters and among venezuelans with no intervention when you mention always the regional organiser organizational rumor exactly exactly the same panorama only nineteen voices where calling the. elections to be on the fine and you know that they need twenty three you knew you knew the vote was going to be rigged because you refused to accredit international election monitors didn't show no i have to just then again correct your information actually i can prove that in the early days of a trail last year even the e.u. was formally

of the u.s. central command as terrorist organizations as well and the foreign minister of iran zarif also said that it considers now the iranian government considers now the american government as a state sponsor of terrorism now the i.r.g.c. is an enormous organization with influence over iranian politics the economy and domestic and foreign security the implications of labeling it a terrorist group could have far reaching effects putting still more pressure on remaining international business links that iran still has and further squeezing iran's finances even more but more than that iranians will tell you the latest move to isolate them and to isolate their country goes too far it's worth remembering many iranians have lost their lives in attacks by armed fighters and dissident groups so for many iranians being placed in the same category as groups like al qaida or the islam and state will be seen as a major escalation whether or not these designations change the rules of engagement for iranian and american forces on the ground remains an open question but iranians are more likely now to support a more aggressive approach by their own government when dealing with the united states a

the u.s. government is moving and it's very disturbing forcible regime change is illegal it violates the united nations charter the charter of the organization of american statesand the international covenant on civil and political rights and this regime change manual which is really a counterinsurgency doctrine for the trumpet ministration. is it contemplates the use of force offensive defensive combat operations it's very very disturbing there are basically four different stages of regime change first sanctions and economic warfare and that's what the united states has been in gauging in against venezuela beginning with the george w. bush administration stepped up during the obama administration and taken to a new high under the trumpet ministration and then information information warfare basically propaganda and that is what the u.s. government has been doing with wydow who was unknown a short time ago installing him as the so-called interim president and then really blanketing the corporate media in the united states with anti my daughter oh. news and and then so those are the first two stages at the you know. it states has been and is engaging in the thi

the u.s. and mexico. this is a problem for all of the western hemisphere where is the organization of american states, whereis the international development bank, on helping solve these problems these are things we can be doing there. on the ground, you're seeing impact of these border patrol agents have, and lindsey graham in his earlier statement showed how it's only 10%, 10% to 14% of people that apply for asylum only actually get asylum, but we shouldn't be treating everybody who shows up at the border as an asylum seeker. all of them are not claiming credible fear. why are the men and women and border patrol and i.c.e. being told to handle everybody as if they are asylum seekers? they have something called expedited removal and if you try to sneak in our country you have three opportunities to apply for asylum, that is your motivations are not pure and you should be deported immediately. these are some of the tweeks that could happen right now to make sure the men and women in border patrol and i.c.e. and cbp have are able to continue to do their jobs. maria: but congressman just to be clear and with a

the organization of american states just came out with the number of 8 million by the end of next year. >> wow! >> that's larger than the syria refugee crisis. >> right. >> and the u.so step up and do more. we need to grant temporary protected status to the venezuelans. what we're doing right now is we're saying, to colombia and brazil and trinidad and tobago, you take them, we're not going to. >> but we're not going to change our tune. given this administration's position, do you think they're really going to say, come on in? >> i'm concerned we won't. i'm skeptical, as well. i mean, i'm hoping the hill is continuing to push this issue, but it is a problem. but we also need to be providing more resources to the countries that are the recipients. >> yeah, which we weren't so good at even in the middle east. all right, rebecca, thanks very much. former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the western hemisphere. >> a really important subject. >> yes. >>> next, the big question. when will robert mueller publicly address his findings? when? if? you're watch "velshi & ruhle" live next on msnbc. next on msnc >>> all right, we're out of time. thank you for watching v