The president has warned that the United States could soon expand its attacks from boats near the coast to targets inside Venezuela, but he has also spoken by phone to its leader.
After Pope Leo met with Catholic worshippers in Lebanon five years after the Beirut port blast, he urged the U.S. against an incursion into Venezuela, calling for diplomatic or economic alternatives. NBC News' Molly Hunter reports from Beirut on the pontiff's visit and his comments around the United States' involvement in Venezuela.
Pope Leo XIV ended his first overseas papal trip with prayers at Beirut's devastated port and a Mass attended by 150,000 worshippers in a country desperate for signs of hope amid fear of renewed war.
