their own people and human rights abuses. in nicaragua, there is a leader who is jailing priests and political opponents. in venezuela, we have widespread violence being carried out by the maduro regime, and so these people are coming to our country seeking safety and freedom, and they're being painted as a threat to america when the opposite is true. they're desperate people in need of help. >> and wanting to contribute. i know a lot of them who i've spoken to have the right intentions certainly. we keep hearing the system is broken, the images we've seen for a while now seem to back that up, but what does the path to legal status look like for these folks in the current system? >> secretary mayorkas is right when he says our system, our immigration system has been broken for a long time, for decades, and i just want to remind people that donald trump decimated and took a torch to an
i spent half of my life in pr, and then my teenage years in venezuela. then i left very young. i was 19 years old when i made the decision to come back to the united states. because in venezuela, socially, it got really hard to live there. - right. - it taught me so much. but definitely i had to leave at a certain point because, you know-- - you're talking about the chávez, maduro-- - sí, sí, sí. - takeover, yeah. - it was a very hard moment. and i didn't really picture myself ever living in the united states, you know? i love venezuela. but i had to leave at a certain point. when you're latino and you've never been to united states, it's like, miami. - yeah, miami. that's the dream. - [singing] i would sing free at night. i was singing at a bar like this, and a big producer saw me singing. and he was like, "i really like your voice." i was like, "all right. i got to pay my rent. what are we gonna talk about?" - yeah, yeah, yeah. - i think miami is so special because there's always opportunities. i was given the smallest to the biggest opportunities that brought me here to be with you today. people have a misconception of miami,
venezuela, where evidently i left the country walking through the border because of the brutal persecution of maduro's dictatorship. >> during your time as interim president you had oversight over citgo and humanitarian assistance and so much more, you had embassies around the world a group called politically persecuted venezuelans in exile here in miami say you, quote, had an opportunity to do much and in the end did very little how do you respond to that >> translator: the opportunity for democracy remains in nicaragua, cuba and venezuela. we must continue fighting. we have resisted a regime that has been linked to crimes against humanity that has direct ties to putin. lavrov was in venezuela a week ago. we have resisted those that are connected to drug trafficking, terrorism. we all must be held accountable for our actions. this is a moment for the international community to do more on behalf of democracy, to do more for those in the
Venezuela's opposition leader, Juan Guaido, (pictured) announced he defied a travel ban imposed by the country's Supreme Court and entered Colombia to attend a summit organized by Colombian Pr...
and then my teenage years in venezuela. then i left very young. i was 19 years old when i made the decision to come back to the united states. because in venezuela, socially, it got really hard to live there. - right. - it taught me so much. but definitely i had to leave at a certain point because, you know-- - you're talking about the chávez, maduro-- - sí, sí, sí. - takeover, yeah. - it was a very hard moment. and i didn't really picture myself ever living in the united states, you know? i love venezuela. but i had to leave at a certain point. when you're latino and you've never been to united states, it's like, miami. - yeah, miami. that's the dream. - [singing] i would sing free at night. i was singing at a bar like this, and a big producer saw me singing. and he was like, "i really like your voice." i was like, "all right. i got to pay my rent. what are we gonna talk about?" - yeah, yeah, yeah. - i think miami is so special because there's always opportunities. i was given the smallest to the biggest opportunities that brought me here to be with you today. people have a misconception of miami, how it's-- we're always partying,
evacuate us embassy us step us citizens in any country. they didn't do that in the yemen in libya or in syria when the governments there were collapsing, and they're saying that afghanistan was a unique situation, and that's not something that they intend to be doing in other situations like this in sudan. maduro for us from nairobi. larry, thanks so much still ahead new reporting on to trump operatives who considered using breached voting data to decertified. georgia's senate off senate runoff in 2021 will tell you what their text messages revealed. plus charges are dropped against actor alec baldwin after the deadly rust shooting. so what happens now? massive sewage spill forces miles of southern california beaches to shut down what prompted the mess and the subsequent overflow. had. make your first move withth battery power. made by steel.
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez says her country has lost $232 billion since 2015 when the Obama administration imposed sanctions against the Latin American nation.
crisis. um around victor. maduro with the story there for us. thank you so much here with us now to discuss is cnn global affairs analyst kimberly dozier. really good morning to you. i want to start where larry just ended that african leaders are now asking for the head of the rsf ahead of the government there also to negotiate to go back to the table. is there any advantage does it behoove at all? the number two who is ahead of the rapid support force here to negotiate if they're making these advances. unfortunately when there's momentum on the battlefield until one force or the other fields beaten, there's very little advantage going back to the negotiating table. um as a general rule in this situation , you've got a long simmering dispute that us um and various african nations have tried to tamp down. over and over several years in a row. ever since, uh,
testify, including tucker, laura ingraham, sean hannity, maria barl aromo, as well as rupert murdoch who could testify as early as monday. perhaps one of the most unbridled performers egging on the rest of them was trump's personal lawyer and hype man, rudy giuliani. >> this is real. it is not made up. it is not -- there's nobody here that engages in fantasy. >> for example, not ever hiring again a company that counts votes in frankfurt, germany, that's owned by two venezuelans who are very close to hugo chavez and maduro. >> i know crimes i can smell them you don't have to smell this one. i can prove it to you 18 different ways i can prove to you that he won pennsylvania by 300,000 votes. i can prove to you that he won michigan by probably 50,000 votes. so they have done everything they can to yell out to you, we were tampering with the ballots