Leid Stories--Maduro Between A Rock and Two Hard Places; Pentagon Says No 'National Emergency' At Border--01.30.19

Can Venezuela's embattled president, Nicolas Maduro, even with support from Russia, China and Turkey, hold out much longer against the mounting pressure by the United States and allies to remove him from office?

 

Defeated in his plan to build a wall along the 2,000 mile-long southern border with Mexico, President Donald Trump plans to fund the $5.7-billion project by declaring it a national emergency.

But Pentagon officials testifying yesterday before the bipartisan House Armed Services Committee said there is no national emergency at the border.