State Department warns US citizens to leave Venezuela

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in remarks on the Senate floor this morning, said the briefing he received from administration officials on Monday failed to answer many of his outstanding questions about future plans in Venezuela.

Schumer said he received no clarity on how many troops could be committed to Venezuela or for how long the United States would be "running" the country. He also said the briefers could not provide a cost estimate, nor did they give clarity on whether other countries could be next.

"What we heard was little more than wishful thinking and no real answers," Schumer said.

"Sitting in yesterday's briefing, it's clear the administration pulled the trigger on step one of their plan in Venezuela without figuring out how they are going to follow through on steps two through 10," Schumer said.

Schumer warned that actions like this without follow through plans are how the United States gets into "forever wars."

"The administration has a one-day plan of how to get rid of Maduro but no idea what happens after. It's what happened to us in Iraq," Schumer said. "Yes. This is how we get into endless wars: a one-day plan of how to get rid of Maduro but no idea what happens after."

Schumer said we need to "take seriously" the threat that President Trump could take similar action in Colombia or Greenland.

"Donald Trump has opened a Pandora's box. We have to take seriously that after Venezuela he may attack other nations without warning. Maybe Colombia, maybe a NATO ally run by Denmark. All the while, how does any of this belligerence in Venezuela or Greenland put America first?" Schumer said. "How does any of this help people at home pay their bills, pay for their health care, put a roof over their heads, pay for their groceries or their energy bill?"

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin

Venezuela’s liberal party is calling for the release of all political prisoners in the country, according to a statement released Tuesday morning.

“The time has come to restore the truth and ensure that justice prevails over impunity,” the statement from Vente Venezuela’s Human Rights Committee said.

Vente Venezuela is also Nobel Peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado’s political party. Machado reposted the statement shortly after it’s release.

-ABC News' Othon Leyva

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio said she will be meeting with John McNamara, the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Colombia, to directly address the threats and allegations made against the Colombian President Gustavo Petro by U.S. President Donald Trump this week.

“Our president is the democratically elected president. The president is legitimate, and the leader of the security forces of the state,” Villavicencio said.

Colombia will support a resolution in the United Nations Security Council in the coming days that condemns the actions of the Trump administration in Venezuela, Villavicencio said.

The Colombian Foreign Minister pledged to utilize and coordinate through the CELAC, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States which is a regional bloc of Latin American and Caribbean states, to condemn the U.S. actions in Venezuela.

Villavicencio said the Colombian Embassy maintains direct communication with the State Department regarding the situation in Venezuela. Villavicencio maintains that they continue to have dialogue with the U.S.

-ABC News' Ismario Rodriguez Perez and Othon Leyva

The raid in Venezuela to arrest Nicolas Maduro was a "law enforcement operation" and "well within the President's article two powers," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in an interview with Sean Hannity.

Bondi's comments come as President Donald Trump has said the U.S. is going to run the country.

Trump on Sunday night doubled down on his assertion that the U.S. was "in charge" of the South American nation, after first proclaiming on Saturday the U.S. would "run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition."

Bondi said the operation was "flawless" and that Maduro and his wife are charged with "directing the murders, kidnappings, assaults of anyone who stood in their way and also anyone who tried to stop their drug business. They are also charged with bringing tons of drugs into this country. "

-ABC News' Luke Barr