GMA3: Wednesday, January 7
Good Morning America
ABC News
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:31.0 | From ABC News headquarters in New York City, this is GMA3. |
| 0:37.2 | We're going to begin with the fallout from the U.S. |
| 0:39.5 | attack on Venezuela and the capture of its leader, Nicholas Maduro. President Trump is |
| 0:44.6 | touting the success of the operation. Now claiming Venezuela will turn over billions of dollars |
| 0:49.7 | worth of oil to the U.S. Chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce has the latest. Hi, Mary. |
| 0:55.8 | Hey, Rebecca. While President Trump has insisted that the U.S. is in charge of Venezuela |
| 0:59.9 | and will take control of the country's vast oil resources, and now Trump claims that Venezuela |
| 1:05.2 | has agreed to hand over 30 to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S. Trump announcing this in a social media post saying |
| 1:12.5 | this oil will be sold at its market price, and that money will be controlled by me as president |
| 1:16.9 | of the United States of America to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the |
| 1:21.7 | United States. Now, if accurate, this means that Venezuela will be turning over $1.8 to $3 billion of oil, |
| 1:28.3 | but it's unclear what exactly Venezuela will get in return, and they have not responded yet. |
| 1:33.3 | Oil, of course, is Venezuela's economic lifeline. The U.S. now threatening that by imposing a |
| 1:38.3 | military blockade on its oil exports, using it as leverage to get Venezuela to give in to the |
| 1:43.3 | Trump administration's demands. |
| 1:45.4 | And sources tell ABC News the U.S. has conveyed to the interim leader of Venezuela that she |
| 1:50.0 | must agree to partner exclusively with the U.S. on oil production and kick out officials |
| 1:55.0 | from China, Russia, Iran, and Cuba severing all economic ties with those countries. |
| 1:59.7 | And I am told that top oil executives |
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