45:36 Nobody knows who he is. He's an unknown, he's just some sort of guy. Somehow won the head of the assembly and became that guy and now is just familiarizing himself with people. It's reported differently on PBS. Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro faces the most direct challenge to his nearly six years in power Today, as Nick Schifrin reports, the U.S., and more than a half-dozen other countries recognized Juan Guaido, currently the head of Venezuela's National Assembly, as the country's legitimate president On a stage in downtown Caracas, in front of a crowd of thousands, 35-year old Juan Guido raised his right hand and administered his own oath of office. I swear to formally assume the powers of the national executive as president in charge of Venezuela
46:27 Around the capital and country today, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of Venezuelans rallied in support of Guido and called for a change in government. That is why we are here to support our National Assembly, the only legitimate power for 14 million Venezuelans. Liberation! Liberty! Nuns demanded freedom, and other protesters demanded President Nicolas Maduro step down. Your time is up and your cabinet's. Understand this, Venezuela has outgrown you. Venezuelans have protested before but this time the usually fractured opposition has a consensus leader
47:08 Until recently, Guido was relatively unknown. But he's crisscrossed the country speaking against Maduro asking for support from the international community and Venezuela's powerful military. We are not asking you to mount a coup or to shoot on the contrary we're asking you not to shoot at us and defend together with us the right of our people to be heard So that sounds very much like they got all these groups together in concert. This is a CIA operation I think this is something that they've been working on, and they're putting all their real smart guys on doing this to make it look so good. This was a real good job because the guy just slips in he pops up, he's totally likable looking Obama kind of thing but CIA knows how to run that
48:05 Yeah, he's only 35 and the guy just inaugurated himself. I mean that's good part That's a that's a coup right there yeah So now we're gonna go to our outlet CBS to hear what the how they're gonna try to spin it? I think that PBS did the best reporting on this Which we just heard very different than the Democracy Now reporting where they're just all in Well Let's just you and I are not jaded but we've just accepted as fact that's what we do. Yeah, and then we put a basis... We did a good job! It is not like these guys go broke because of us I mean they will go broke if they don't play the game right but okay Venezuela CBS hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protested in the streets today demanding that President Nicolás Maduro step aside
49:00 35-year old Juan Guaido, the head of the National Assembly swore himself in as the new leader of the country. Journalist Virginia Lopez Glass is in Caracas. There were also videos of the National Guard throwing tear gas at protesters and also taking some protesters with them prisoners Backing the opposition, the Trump administration which today along with Canada and more than a dozen other countries officially recognized Guaido as interim president. At the White House reporters asked President Trump if he'd take military action to protect the opposition movement. Venezuela once a wealthy country with the largest proven oil reserves in the world is on the verge of economic collapse with food and medicine in short supply it has become haven for terrorists and drug traffickers
49:48 More than 3 million Venezuelans have fled into surrounding countries. Scholar Moshi Runden's family still lives there. We're talking about 300 children expected to die because of lack of food, the average Venezuelan has lost 24 pounds in the last year Maduro has long blamed the U.S for his country's problems even accusing Venezuelan and Colombian immigrants living in Florida for a failed assassination attempt last August Today, he severed diplomatic ties and ordered U.S. embassy personnel out of the country within 72 hours. The Pentagon and State Department are determining how to protect U.S. diplomats still in Venezuela. Sources tell CBS News that Guaido is now in hiding in Caracas. The next steps are unclear. Maduro still has powerful supporters including China and Russia and for now Jeff his own military
50:43 All right. Yeah, so now we have the truer picture of what Maduro did not revise, as Amy put it, revised relationships with the United States he expelled the United States is a difference seems to me yeah but we're not budging apparently well know we'd left were leaving we're trying to get out of there safely hmm we're not sticking around the embassy No no NBC's got to get out but everyone else stays Well, we know who's gonna stay. The Gladio team and they apparently then they I guess they know enough about the situation that they can take Guido as I call him, and lock him up someplace so he won't get killed
51:33 Because that's what the Maduroists, right? Oh yeah. That's what you want to do and so if you're running this show if you wanted a whoever the station chief is and these other guys that are having to do this thing they make it look like It's just natural They know enough to get this guy buried so he can crop up later as the big reigning hero after Maduro either quits or something happens. This is not over." I've been looking at Dutch news, and I'm waiting for Curacao or Bonaire... These are islands you can almost see Venezuela which are Dutch municipalities. Nothing from them! It's right off the coast
52:14 Well, they haven't been read in. Yeah well I think so far mission accomplished That's so far So good i don't think the mission is anywhere near accomplished i mean Don't forget that we went around and around with shah Caesar with uh Chavez a lot yeah And We tried to kill him A couple Times and We tried To Make Him do deals and everything he Ended Up Becoming more Powerful Than ever so it can turn The other Way He never wanted to play ball. And what is our benefit? What do we want all this for? The world's largest supply of oil... Oh, really?! Reserves! The world's largest reserves bigger than Saudi Arabia? Yeah I think we want that
53:03 Yeah, I think so. Who's in there? What companies? Is it just us or...? It's actually a... Well, Citgo is Venezuelan right doesn't that...? Yes, it's a Venezuelan company that has got gas stations all over the United States and that's all Venezuelan oil they have their own refineries. They're pretty much vertically integrated so that's fine as long as the oil comes over here but you know it's still If we could get Venezuela, and we also should just take Canada for their oil too. Yeah, Canada's at number three don't forget were number eight so they break the records. They're in our sights But the Venezuelan oil... We don't need Canada. We don't need anybody if we could get a hold of that oil Right Alright So Let's see There is something to do with this What else was going on? Oh yeah there was the two marches over the weekend The March For Life and the Women's March