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Maduro. cnn's elise labott has the story from washington. >> reporter: cnn has confirmed that u.s. officials met secretly with the venezuelan military officers plotting a coup against venezuelan president nicolas maduro according to a current and former u.s. official. american officials met with renegade venezuelan military officials after the sources made contact. sources told us washington ultimately decided against supporting the coup, didn't provide the venezuelan officers with any support and plans for the coup ultimately fell apart. now, the trump administration's discussions with the ve...

But sources told us that washington ultimately decided against supporting the coup, didn't provide the venezuelan officers with any support, and plans for the coup ultimately fell apart. now, the trump administration's discussions with the venezuelan military officers about that potential coup were first reported saturday by "the new york times." but the maduro government has been concerned for some time that the u.s. was behind such a coup plot. president donald trump has previously discussed the possibility of military option in venezuela. the president said that certainly the u.s. could, qu...

How can he buy a $5,000 drone and let it blow up in the air? it's a very close number of people who could have or kes straight the su straighted such an attack. we could have been speaking in very, very different times if that drone was a little bit closer to the stage, alison. >> there are conspiracy theories and people suggesting this whole thing was a setup. where are they? >> reporter: exactly, john. let's remind our viewers a little bit about the history of venezuela. both president maduro and hugo chavez who ruled the current for 13 years, they both claimed many times they were the targe...

Happening again if they don't let this situation run. they seem more worried about it. they looked more worried than the president who is offering to meet with mueller. >> bret: jonathan. >> look, from what we've seen from these text messages, they are concerning enough that it provoked mueller to take this guy off the investigation. there is substance there but the escalation from 0 to we have a deep state coup in the fbi, it's a coup plot against the president and drawing the line from text messages to a sneer across the entire institution, i think it's dangerous territory and i agree that s...

Unfortunately it isn't, it's reality. thank you. we're going to go on to other news. yesterday venezuelan president declared authorities have had arrested an unspecified number of americans, including an american pilot, for espionage. maduro claimed united states backed a coup plot against him. the u.s. denied it but the president also announced several high-profile u.s. officials including george w. bush and former vice president dick cheney would be banned from venezuela. that's all the time we have for this cut-in. i'm dana bash. this has been "gps" and a news update. fareed will be back in...