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Venezuela crisis deepens as opposition leaders are arrested

Season 2017 Episode 1120 | 3m 59s

Venezuelan security agents descended in the dead of night, seizing opposition leaders from their homes. Their arrests came after Sunday's deeply divisive election to fill a new assembly tasked with rewriting the country's constitution. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports on the unrest in Venezuela and the American response.

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