The planery session today and an issue of great importance and significance. nevertheless, we ll also, the united states, indicated that we ll be supporting a declaration today that will help many signatories here at the summit of the americas. condemning the repression, the collapse of democracy and the humanitarian crisis in venezuela. i ve just completed a meeting with president santos of colombia and he expressed appreciation for the additional all right. vice president mike pence there in peru. lima, peru, for the summit of the americas. right off the top using a lot of language, harsh words and declarations as it pertains to syria. strong leadership from trump and the u.s. allies. successful military strike on chemical weapons. degrade and crippled. elise labbot with me now. you were listening to him, too. he talked about the extraordinary success, really
President lula from brazil, with president calderon from mexico, with president chavez from venezuela, president santos of colombia, president garcia of peru, president fernando of argentina, president lugo paraguay, first minister of england, kameron. prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu, many others, many others, which shows chile was notice heart not only of the chileans and people in latin america, but we were in the hearts of the world, and we showed the best of chile, the unity, the loyalty, the solidarity, the unbeatable faith and unbreakable faith, and it has been a night of great emotions, great happiness. it s a night that will forever
States indicated that will be supporting a declaration today that will have many signatories condemning the oppression, collapse of democracy and humanitarian crisis in venezuela. identify just i ve just completed a meeting with president santos of colombia and expressed appreciation for additional resource that is we announced yesterday that will be flowing into colombia to assist their efforts to deal with nearly a million refugees from venezuela. there are sham elections approaching in the week ahead in venezuela, but as the opposition leaders expressed to me yesterday, the world is not deceived. leaders across the region are not deceived. democracy has collapsed and dictatorship has risen and to have in maduro a leader that will not allow humanitarian aid
Dinner here, compromising the security of the president, vice president, and others. that s why ronald kessler, who i mentioned, the author of the author who first broke this story is calling on the secret service director to be fired. jenna: a lot more to this story. thank you very much. thank you. rick: for more on the secret service scandal, let s bring in bret baier, anchor of special report who just got back from colombia. what was it like to be on the ground as this unfolded? it was surreal, because i was a moderator of a panel of ceos talking about business investment in latin america, ahead of the president meeting with president santos of colombia and the president of brazil on stage, and basically, this story dominated the coverage. the only thing that was coming out of u.s. networks coverage about this summit. so it was very strange to be there. i ll make two quick points about the scandal. clearly, it s serious, and