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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: Largest U.S. Warship Arrives In The Caribbean

The Fox News Rundown

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3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The USS Gerald R. Ford, considered the world’s largest warship, is now in Latin American waters near Venezuela joining other ships to conduct counter-narcotics missions. Venezuela, in response, has deployed military units and began amassing weapons including missile launchers. The Trump administration does not recognize Nicolas Maduro as a legitimate head of state, rather describing him as a leader of a terrorist drug cartel. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Jennifer Griffin, Chief National Security Correspondent for the Fox News Channel (FNC), who says this is very large increase in United States firepower in the region. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Ben Dominic.

0:01.0

I'm Ainslie Your Heart.

0:02.0

I'm Trey Gowdy, and this is the Fox News rundown.

0:08.0

Wednesday, November 12th, 2025.

0:11.0

I'm John Sossier.

0:12.4

The world's largest warship has now entered the waters of Latin America.

0:16.9

As the Trump administration puts pressure on South American nations

0:20.0

to stop the flow of illegal

0:21.6

drugs into the United States. They've been doing so by taking out boats that the military has said

0:26.9

contain drugs, although definitely offered up much evidence to prove that. This is a lot of firepower,

0:33.2

and it's joining about a dozen other warships that are already down in the Caribbean.

0:38.4

The target, as we've seen, there have been about 19 airstrikes against small boats that are

0:45.7

allegedly carrying drugs of some sort or another.

0:48.2

This is the Fox News Rundown, evening edition.

0:59.8

The pressure is growing on the nation of venezuela after the u.ss gerald r ford has now arrived at u.s southern command this massive aircraft carrier just the latest

1:05.6

in a large military buildup in the area and they've been quite. Some 19 boats have been destroyed by the U.S.

1:11.8

military, all accused of running drugs. It's really very significant, John, because now the U.S.

1:18.1

military has 24 percent of all U.S. Navy vessels. They are now deployed to U.S. Southern

1:24.6

Command. We're speaking today with Fox News Chief National Security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin.

1:29.0

That's in the Caribbean and in the waters near Venezuela, near Colombia, near Puerto Rico.

1:35.6

It really is a significant buildup.

1:38.1

I've never seen anything like it in my 18 years of covering the Pentagon.

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