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The Katie Halper Show

Former Army Ranger Explains Trump's Venezuela Disaster

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Military veterans Greg Stoker and Mike Prysner break down what Trump is really doing in #Venezuela. Then Bolivia-based reporter Ollie Vargas discusses what is happening in Venezuela and it impacts the rest of South America. And Chris Gilbert joins us from Caracas. Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequera joins at the end to explain what he's seeing on the ground. For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-full-147613117 Greg Stoker is a former United States Army Ranger. He has a background in special operations and human intelligence collection. He conducted 4 combat deployments to Afghanistan during the unfortunately named “Global War On Terror” and is now an anti-war activist, host of the Colonial Outcasts Podcast, and analyst at MintPress News. Mike Prysner joined the Army 3 months before the 9/11 attacks, and in March 2003 was part of the invasion of Iraq. After 12 months in the occupation he became an outspoken opponent of the war, and became known for speeches, protests, and veterans' organizing against US imperialism. Since 2015 he has been the producer & co-writer for Abby Martin's show The Empire Files, and is also the host of Eyes Left, a socialist anti-war military podcast. Mike is co-director with Abby Martin of the documentary Earth Greatest Enemy. Ollie Vargas is a Bolivian reporter now based in Beijing. Chris Gilbert is professor of political studies, Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, co-host and co-creator of the Marxist educational podcast and television program Escuela de Cuadros. He's the Author of the book "Commune or Nothing! Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project" and a Contributing editor at Monthly Review Magazine. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

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sneak peek at my upcoming documentary feature film and more.

0:40.1

Hello and welcome to the Katie Halper Show. We are so thrilled to be here and thank you so much for joining.

0:46.8

That was a new intro. Thank you so much to Brad for that intro and that was of course a nice

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music under the wonderful words of president

0:56.9

Donald Trump so now that it is one year in to the administration we decided to take out the

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old bring in the new get rid of the Joe Biden music that we usually use and we are, I guess we are facing reality and the fact that Donald Trump is

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president.

1:16.0

So thank you, Brad, for that.

1:18.2

We have an excellent show for you today.

1:20.5

And we have another person who's coming into the show who we just added.

1:26.4

So we're extremely excited.

1:29.9

And let's see, I'm going to tell you about the people

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who are joining us during the second half.

1:34.6

So during the second half of the show,

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we are talking to Ali Vargas,

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who's been on the show before.

1:40.0

He is a Bolivian journalist who is currently based in Beijing.

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He's going to talk to us about the way that the Venezuela attack, the attempted regime change, the kidnapping, how that's affecting the rest of Latin America and what other Latin American leaders and people are doing in response to this.

1:58.7

We're also going to be joined by Chris Gilbert,

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