India, Jan. 6 -- US President Donald Trump on Monday revealed that there was an opportunity to make a deal with any official in Venezuela to 'remove' Nicolas Maduro and said that his team decided to do it without the help of the Venezuelan leader's 'inner circle'.

While asserting that a set of people, including secretary of state Marco Rubio and vice president JD Vance, would help oversee Washington's involvement in Venezuela, Trump said that he is in charge of the Latin American nation. Follow live updates on US-Venezuela tensions

"It's a group of all. They have expertise, different expertise," Trump told NBC News while identifying the US officials' group as Marco Rubio, defence secretary Pete Hegseth, deputy White House chief of staff...