Gordon Chang | Author & Geopolitics Expert | 01-05-26
Sid & Friends In The Morning
77 WABC
4.2 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This National Foster Care Month, Marine Toys for Tots, is providing hope to children who needed most. |
| 0:05.8 | Staff Sergeant James Caldwell, who grew up in foster care himself, shares that while handing out gifts at a Toys for Tots distribution event, |
| 0:12.7 | a little girl looked up at him, reached into her bag, pulled out a stuffed animal, and said, |
| 0:16.5 | someone needs to make sure you get a toy too. That simple gesture embodies the heart of Marine Toys for Tots. |
| 0:22.6 | Ensuring every child, including those in foster care, experiences the kindness that can transform their future. |
| 0:27.8 | Visit Toysfor Tots.org today. |
| 0:30.0 | All right here at 12 o'clock this afternoon right here in New York City, Nicholas Maduro, |
| 0:34.4 | will be in court on drug and weapons charges. |
| 0:38.8 | And I asked the question, what after that great conversation with Bruce, and I went to break, |
| 0:43.5 | I asked the question, what were Chinese officials doing in Venezuela that same afternoon |
| 0:53.8 | when we captured Maduro that night. |
| 0:58.1 | And I said, the only guy to answer that is my friend Gordon Chang. |
| 1:02.0 | You can follow Gordon on Twitter, X, whatever they call it. |
| 1:04.9 | I've been suspended for three weeks now. |
| 1:06.5 | I'm still suspended on X. |
| 1:08.5 | I have no idea why I got suspended in the first place, but I'm still suspended. |
| 1:26.5 | Excuse me. Where's Elon must to help me here? Gordon G. Chang. That's how you follow him. Gordon, happy New Year, buddy. Good morning. How are you? I'm fine. And happy new year to you, Sid. Great to talk to you, Gordon. and such an important day. |
| 1:29.3 | I know you were on earlier this morning on television with my |
| 1:29.6 | dear friend Maria Bauteromo. |
| 1:31.4 | It's going to be a very similar conversation. |
| 1:33.7 | But let me start with the biggest question, which I've asked now twice. |
| 1:37.0 | What were Chinese officials doing in Venezuela just hours before we got them? |
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