Mac McCorkle, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested the United States would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela, a turnaround after President Donald Trump announced a day earlier that the U.S. would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás Maduro. Rubio’s statements on TV talk shows seemed designed to temper concerns about whether the assertive American action to achieve regime change might again produce a prolonged foreign intervention or failed attempt at nation-building. Mac McCorkle, from the Duke University School of Public Policy, joined Jeff Hamlin to discuss whether this is a repeat of the Iraqi invasion of 2005.