1/3/25: BREAKING: TRUMP BOMBS VENEZUELA, KIDNAPS MADURO
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
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4.6 • 8.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Krystal covers the breaking news that Trump ordered the bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of Maduro.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:03.9 | All right, guys, woke up to some wild news this morning. |
| 0:07.7 | Regime change in Venezuela. |
| 0:09.2 | The president has announced that we have struck within Venezuela and abducted and kidnapped |
| 0:15.9 | the president, Nicholas Maduro, along with his wife, who apparently set to face charges in the Southern District of New York. |
| 0:24.1 | Obviously, this has been built up for some time with all of these strikes on various boats. |
| 0:30.4 | And the rhetorical case being made that Maduro is the head of a drug trafficking ring, there is zero evidence to back this up. And at other times, |
| 0:39.5 | administration officials and their allies have made plain that their actual interest in Venezuela |
| 0:44.3 | has to do with the natural resources there and specifically the oil. So here we go. Let me put up on |
| 0:50.6 | the screen what the president posted initially to social media to truth social. |
| 0:55.6 | He said the United States of America has successfully carried down a large-scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicholas Maduro, who has been along with his wife captured and flown out of the country. |
| 1:04.5 | This operation was done in conjunction with the U.S. law enforcement details to follow. |
| 1:08.3 | There will be a news conference today at 11 a.m. at Mara Lago. Let me go |
| 1:13.0 | ahead and give you what Pam Bondi, the attorney general, is saying about these charges. She says |
| 1:19.1 | Nicholas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores have been indicted in the Southern District of New York. |
| 1:23.4 | Maduro has been charged with narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices against the United States. |
| 1:36.7 | They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil and American courts. |
| 1:41.1 | On behalf of the entire U.S. DOJ, I'd like to thank President Trump for having the |
| 1:44.8 | courage to demand accountability on behalf of the American people. A huge thank you to our |
| 1:49.1 | brave military who conducted this incredible and highly successful mission to capture these two |
| 1:53.9 | alleged international narco traffickers. I will remind you that just shortly, short time ago, Trump pardoned an actual drug trafficker, |
| 2:06.5 | Juan Orlando Hernandez, former president of Honduras, seemingly because some of Trump's |
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