BREAKING Overnight: U.S. Snatches Venezuelan Prez and His Wife

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🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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While you were sleeping, the U.S. carried out a large-scale attack inside Venezuela and captured President Maduro and his wife. We know they’ve been flown out of Venezuela, but it’s unclear where they have been taken. The reaction from Venezuela and around the region has been swift, but it’s unknown what will happen next.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:15.5	Hey there, folks.
0:16.6	It is Saturday, January 3rd, and a breaking story overnight.
0:22.5	The United States has gone in overnight and snatched the president of Venezuela and his wife from the capital city and taking them out of the country.
0:34.7	Some are calling it an abduction, some calling it a prelude to war, some calling it
0:39.1	illegal, whatever you want to call it. We certainly have to all agree this has been an absolutely
0:44.8	stunning development overnight. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs.
0:50.5	Look, we've been watching what was going on with Venezuela for quite some time. I don't know if we had
0:55.3	presidential abduction on our bingo card. That was never on my list of what happens next. At least I didn't
1:03.3	think so. In fact, when President Trump was asked about the possibility of trying to take out or
1:08.5	get Maduro out of office, he skirted around the question and didn't,
1:13.2	he seemed shy about it. It didn't seem like it was something imminent or something he was planning.
1:18.8	And yet, it turns out that may have exactly been what was going on.
1:22.0	He stayed vague a lot when he, because he even asked the question a lot of high profile
1:25.8	interviews and he stayed vague.
1:28.3	I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do.
1:29.8	Exactly.
1:30.2	But did he also not leave open the possibility, at least, of action on land, right?
1:37.1	At this point, it's only been on the water that he's taking any action against Venezuela.
1:40.7	So I thought maybe we all thought that might be the next thing coming.
1:43.9	Yeah, that would, to me, be the next step in escalating the tensions that were already happening.
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