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🗓️ 3 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Late last night and early today, at my direction, the United States armed forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in the capital of Venezuela. |
| 0:19.9 | The United States carried out a large-scale military strike on Venezuela early Saturday morning, |
| 0:25.2 | capturing President Nicholas Maduro and his wife. |
| 0:28.2 | Both of them now face serious charges, including narco-terrorism conspiracy. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Daily Wire, Executive Editor John Bickley. |
| 0:35.0 | This is a special breaking news edition of Morning Wire. |
| 0:38.5 | Early Saturday morning, President Trump announced that Maduro and his wife had been captured by U.S. |
| 0:43.6 | forces and flown out of the country. Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret |
| 0:48.0 | O'Lehan joins us now with the latest, Mary Margaret. So a dramatic turn of events here in some |
| 0:53.5 | ways not surprising because of the escalation over the last few weeks between Venezuela and Margaret. So a dramatic turn of events here in some ways not surprising because of the |
| 0:55.4 | escalation over the last few weeks between Venezuela and U.S. But all of us woke up this morning |
| 1:00.3 | with this remarkable news. So what is the latest? Yeah, John, like you said, not entirely shocking, |
| 1:06.0 | but still takes a breath away. Early this morning, several explosions could be heard in Venezuela's |
| 1:11.1 | capital city of Caracas. Venezuela and officials soon confirmed that they'd been hit with |
| 1:15.7 | strikes, saying civilian and military localities of the capital and three states were hit in the |
| 1:21.0 | attack. At least four locations appear to have been targeted. Venezuela's largest military base |
| 1:26.1 | and air base, a port north of Caracas, |
| 1:28.4 | and an airport east of Caracas. Now, President Donald Trump confirmed the strikes around 3 a.m. |
| 1:33.9 | And also announced a press conference that we'll hear from in a second. Then by about 6 a.m., |
| 1:39.4 | attorney general Pam Bondi issued her own statement detailing charges against Maduro and his wife, |
| 1:45.1 | Celia Flores. The two have been indicted in the Southern District of New York for |
| 1:49.3 | narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive |
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