US warship docks in Caribbean as Trump eyes strikes on Venezuela, Colombia

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00:00U.S. military pressure on Venezuela is escalating and fast.

00:07A guided missile destroyer at the USS Gravely docked in Trinidad and Tobago Sunday,

00:12part of what the Trump administration calls a counter-drug operation,

00:15but one that's drawing outrage across the region.

00:18Venezuela is calling the move a hostile provocation

00:21after the U.S. also moved the aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford closer to its coast.

00:27Asked on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday whether President Trump was preparing for land strikes,

00:33Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said it's a real possibility.

00:37I think President Trump's made a decision that Maduro, the leader of Venezuela,

00:41is an indicted drug trafficker, that it's time for him to go,

00:46that Venezuela and Colombia have been safe havens for narco-terrorists for too long.

00:52And President Trump told me yesterday that he plans to brief members of Congress

00:58when he gets back from Asia about future potential military operations against Venezuela and Colombia.

01:07The U.S. insists it's targeting drug traffickers, not governments,

01:11but Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is warning the buildup could trigger

01:15what he calls a new eternal war in the Caribbean.

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