U.S. President Donald Trump told 60 Minutes he thinks Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's days are numbered amid the U.S. striking another boat in the Caribbean allegedly transporting drugs.

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The US military has conducted another lethal airstrike against boats in the Caribbean suspected of drug smuggling, resulting in three deaths. Defense Secretary Pete Hucksaid stated that a US-designated terrorist group operated the vessel, though the group was not named. The Trump administration described the strikes as necessary to curb drug trafficking, but some lawmakers, especially Democrats, are demanding more information about the justification for the use of lethal force.

President Trump, in an interview, linked the operations to broader concerns about Venezuela and its president, Nicolás Maduro, suggesting Maduro's days in power may be numbered. Meanwhile, the US has significantly increased its military presence near Venezuela, deploying the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier and other naval assets, signaling a forward posture that some experts say resembles preparations for possible conflict.

Trump sounds off on Venezuela's Maduro as deadly boat strikes continue

The U.S. military carried out another lethal airstrike against alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean. Just over the weekend, Defense Secretary Pete Hucksaid said a US designated terrorist group was operating the vessel, but didn't name the group. Three people were killed in that strike. The Trump administration justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stop the flow of drugs into the US, but lawmakers, particularly Democrats, are demanding more information about the lethal justification for the strikes. President Trump discussed the operation with 60 minutes. Correspondent Nora O'Donnell. Is it about stopping narcotics or is this about getting rid of President Maduro? No, this is about many things. This is a country that allowed their prisons to be emptied into our country. To me, that would be almost number one because we don't need other countries. Mexico has been very bad to us in terms of drugs. OK, very bad. We have a closed border right now. For five months in a row, they have zero. Think of this zero people coming into our country through our southern border on Venezuela in particular. Are Maduro's days as president number? I would say, yeah, I think so, yeah. OK, CBS News senior National Security Correspondent Charlie Daggett joins us live. Charlie, thank you for your time today. The president says Warwood, Venezuela is not likely, but seen as US military presence continues to grow off the coast of the country, is it completely off the table? It's absolutely not completely off the table. Mugo they. They are preparing for military action and in the biggest flex at the US military has their sending the USS Gerald R Ford, which is the largest and most advanced aircraft carrier in the world to that region. There will be a number of destroyers battleships that are going in some rotating out, but you're going to see a forward posture of a kind that you might typically see ahead of conflict in the Middle East by sending out that carrier it will be bristling with F-18 fighter jets there F-35s that are already there. There's a submarine in the neighborhood. There are at least five destroyers there. Tankers, cruisers, all kinds of weapons. And when you speak to the Pentagon. When you can speak to the Pentagon, they will tell you it's a planning organization, right? And they they are providing these protocols because ultimately that chain of command goes up to the defense secretary and then of course to the commander in chief. So what the Pentagon does? In fact, they do this every day, no matter where they may be planning. Military action is to provide the right kind of package for the right kind of job. An aircraft carrier. In drug interdiction has certainly raised eyebrows. It can be used. It can be very effective for surveillance. You know it's very good for troop protection, but largely what you're going to bring a carrier in is a deterrent against. And your peer enemy or like the Houthi bombing campaign. So they're definitely preparing for whatever may happen, and it's a strike package that looks like land strikes. But if President Trump wants to say that Venezuela is not on the on the on the cards to have airstrikes, he's kind of oscillating each way, and this is part of the optics that we administration and from the defense secretary.

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