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Detaining journalists, democratic congresswoman omar says she does not recognize the opposition leader as the rightful interim president of venezuela. listen to this. >> we are threatening intervention. we're sending humanitarian aid that is in the guise of, you know, eventually invading this country and the people of the country do not want us there. >> -- like the u.s. government did you and the -- canadian government does, you don't support the leader right now as being the leader. absolutely not. >> jason: wow! but she isn't the own one on the left defending maduro. on monday, bernie sande...

Regime, or whether it is venezuela that we have got to do everything that we can to create a democratic climate, but i do not believe in u.s. military intervention in those countries. >> senator, why have you stopped short of calling maduro of venezuela a dictator? >> well, he -- i think it's fair to say that the last election was undemocratic. but there are still democratic operations taking place in their country. the point is, what i am calling for right now is internationally supervised free elections. and i do find it interesting that trump is very concerned about what goes on in venezuel...

Form of it will not only be better for the country but help him beat donald trump. >> senator bernie sanders. >> reporter: a self-described socialist warns against the leader and venezuela and declined to call maduro a dictator. >> why have you stopped short of calling maduro a dictator? >> well, he -- i think -- it's fair to say that the last election was undemocratic. but there are still democratic operations taking place in that country. >> reporter: that's just one take away from cnn's town hall with sanders. >> when i talk about democratic socialism, what i talk about are human rights and...

Steadily, that erosion of support will creep towards caracas. and i think that's the way that maduro is most likely going to lose his grip on power. right now he's got a firm grip on the generals. the midranks, the military is much more tenuous. >> how influential is the u.s.? the u.s. has backed guaido calling maduro's reign an illegitimate outcome from this election. so does the u.s. have any influence here? >> it does. but i think it needs to play its cards very carefully. and i give the trump administration mixed marks on this score. on the one hand i think they've taken a lot of the right...

Will roll. they're on for today. i should tell you there's other news breaking at this moment, it's quite serious. the election in venezuela, the sham election in venezuela as clearly that nation plans to be headed to civil war. the treasury department just sanctioned venezuela president or leader, maduro freezing his assets and specifically, john, calling maduro the dictator that he is. they used the word today. talk about problems all over the world. there's numerous and plentiful. this is right here in our own back yard in venezuela, a walking disaster this hour. >> the president has talked...