India, Jan. 5 -- President Donald Trump has warned new Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodriguez ahead of her swearing in that she could "pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro" if she "doesn't do what's right."

In an interview with The Atlantic magazine Sunday, Trump said, "if she doesn't do what's right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro."

Speaking over telephone at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, he added, "Rebuilding there and regime change, anything you want to call it, is better than what you have right now. Can't get any worse."

At her first cabinet meeting, Rodriguez appealed to Trump that the people of Venezuela and the region "deserve peace and dialogue, not war."

The acting pres...