'If Trump was kidnapped by…': Rand Paul grills Rubio over US' Venezuela op at explosive hearing

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s assertion that the U.S.’s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was not an act of war. During testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio reiterated the Trump administration’s position that the mission to capture Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, earlier this month was a “law enforcement operation.” The secretary of State noted Paul, a libertarian who frequently criticized the administration’s posture toward Venezuela prior to and following Maduro’s capture, has “been very consistent on all these points [his] entire career, no matter who’s in charge.”