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Have you heard of the "Donroe Doctrine?"
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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the political fallout from military action in Venezuela
Jan 5, 2026 6:25 PM EST
By — Amna Nawaz
By — Leila Jackson
Transcript
[...]
Tamara Keith, National Public Radio:
Yes...
Now, I did talk to an official who was part of the first Trump administration with a national security role today who said this operation in Venezuela was -- quote -- "extremely MAGA." And I was like, OK, really? How so?
And what he said is that MAGA was never anti-interventionist, it was never isolationist. What it was is that it needed to be in the U.S. interest and that Iraq and Afghanistan were not clearly in the U.S. interest in the way that this operation was, tying it to immigration, tying it to drugs, and also a real emphasis on this hemisphere, President Trump's Donroe Doctrine of the Monroe Doctrine.
Amna Nawaz:
Well, I can think of one person who disagrees that this is a MAGA kind of policy and move. That's Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Amy, I will turn to you on this. And I want to play for you a little bit of sound from Marjorie Taylor Greene, as we know, is marking her last days in office. Obviously, we expected Democrats to oppose the military action of Venezuela, which they have, noting that Congress was not notified, there was no congressional approval for this.
But Marjorie Taylor Greene also came out against this move by President Trump. Here's what she had to say...
Amna Nawaz:
Amy, what do you make of this new Trump doctrine and also that reaction from Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Amy Walter, The Cook Political Report:
Yes.
Well, it's notable that she really has been the only person in Congress on the Republican side to come out and publicly criticize this action. We saw votes taken actually right before the holiday break in the House also calling on more congressional oversight in Venezuela. She was one of just three Republicans who voted with Democrats on this.
So there is not a big faction of Republicans right now, those who call themselves MAGA or America first, who see what the president did as something that is not within that lane.
Part of it, Amna, has been that MAGA and America first isn't necessarily an ideology. It's not a set of really clear principles or policies. It is what Donald Trump makes it to be. He is America first. America first is him. And he said such a thing after the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear facilities back in the summer of last year.
He told "The Atlantic" exactly that. He said, America first is -- I invented it and it's basically what I say it is.
So I'm not expecting to see a big rift among Republicans over this issue. Republicans are coming at it from all different angles, but they're basically lining up behind the president.
One other really interesting thing that I noted in looking through some polling, back in November, late November, CBS had a poll asking about military intervention in Venezuela. And they broke it out among Republicans by those who identified as MAGA and those who identified not as MAGA.
And, to Tam's point about this being a very MAGA-fied sort of operation, a significant majority, something like 66 percent of those who identified as MAGA said they would support a military intervention. Less than half of the non-MAGA thought the same thing. So I don't see this -- even though Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out very strongly, I don't see a lot of Republicans who will follow suit.
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Have you heard of the "Donroe Doctrine?"
#&%$@
PBS News.
Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the political fallout from military action in Venezuela
Jan 5, 2026 6:25 PM EST
By — Amna Nawaz
By — Leila Jackson
Transcript
[...]
Tamara Keith, National Public Radio:
Yes...
Now, I did talk to an official who was part of the first Trump administration with a national security role today who said this operation in Venezuela was -- quote -- "extremely MAGA." And I was like, OK, really? How so?
And what he said is that MAGA was never anti-interventionist, it was never isolationist. What it was is that it needed to be in the U.S. interest and that Iraq and Afghanistan were not clearly in the U.S. interest in the way that this operation was, tying it to immigration, tying it to drugs, and also a real emphasis on this hemisphere, President Trump's Donroe Doctrine of the Monroe Doctrine.
Amna Nawaz:
Well, I can think of one person who disagrees that this is a MAGA kind of policy and move. That's Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Amy, I will turn to you on this. And I want to play for you a little bit of sound from Marjorie Taylor Greene, as we know, is marking her last days in office. Obviously, we expected Democrats to oppose the military action of Venezuela, which they have, noting that Congress was not notified, there was no congressional approval for this.
But Marjorie Taylor Greene also came out against this move by President Trump. Here's what she had to say...
Amna Nawaz:
Amy, what do you make of this new Trump doctrine and also that reaction from Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Amy Walter, The Cook Political Report:
Yes.
Well, it's notable that she really has been the only person in Congress on the Republican side to come out and publicly criticize this action. We saw votes taken actually right before the holiday break in the House also calling on more congressional oversight in Venezuela. She was one of just three Republicans who voted with Democrats on this.
So there is not a big faction of Republicans right now, those who call themselves MAGA or America first, who see what the president did as something that is not within that lane.
Part of it, Amna, has been that MAGA and America first isn't necessarily an ideology. It's not a set of really clear principles or policies. It is what Donald Trump makes it to be. He is America first. America first is him. And he said such a thing after the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear facilities back in the summer of last year.
He told "The Atlantic" exactly that. He said, America first is -- I invented it and it's basically what I say it is.
So I'm not expecting to see a big rift among Republicans over this issue. Republicans are coming at it from all different angles, but they're basically lining up behind the president.
One other really interesting thing that I noted in looking through some polling, back in November, late November, CBS had a poll asking about military intervention in Venezuela. And they broke it out among Republicans by those who identified as MAGA and those who identified not as MAGA.
And, to Tam's point about this being a very MAGA-fied sort of operation, a significant majority, something like 66 percent of those who identified as MAGA said they would support a military intervention. Less than half of the non-MAGA thought the same thing. So I don't see this -- even though Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out very strongly, I don't see a lot of Republicans who will follow suit.
Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the political fallout from military action in Venezuela
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including lawmakers returning to Washington to face the fallout from U.S. military action in Venezuela, another government shutdown deadline and a health care...
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