Jan. 4 — Sec. Marco Rubio, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

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🗓️ 4 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In the wake of the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) discuss what comes next after President Trump says the U.S. will run Venezuela for the foreseeable future. Amna Nawaz, Keir Simmons, Marc Short and Neera Tanden join the roundtable. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	This Sunday, captured.
0:04.0	U.S. Special Operation Forces launch an attack in Venezuela, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife,
0:11.0	flying them out of the country and charging Maduro with drug trafficking crimes.
0:17.0	We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.
0:24.9	This is America first.
0:27.4	Don't play games with this president's in office because it's not going to turn out well.
0:31.0	What happens next?
0:32.6	We're not afraid of boots on the ground.
0:34.5	Why didn't the president get authorization from Congress?
0:38.2	Make Venezuela great again. And how does this fit with President Trump's America First
0:43.2	agenda? We're in the oil business. We're going to sell it to him. My guest this morning,
0:47.5	Secretary of State Marco Rubio, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York,
0:52.8	and Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor
0:55.2	Green of Georgia. Joining me for insight and analysis are NBC News chief international correspondent
1:02.0	Kier Simmons, Amna Nawaz, co-anchor of PBS News Hour, Mark Short, former director of legislative affairs
1:09.9	to President Trump, and Nira Tandon, president of the Center for American Progress. Welcome to Sunday. It's Meet the Press.
1:20.1	From NBC News in Washington, the longest running show in television history. This is Meet the Press with Kristen Welk.
1:29.1	Good Sunday morning. We begin with the extraordinary breaking news out of Venezuela. The country's
1:35.4	leader Nicolas Maduro now sits in a detention center in Brooklyn, New York, after being
1:40.3	captured by U.S. Special Forces. It was an operation that President Trump and his national
1:45.7	security team oversaw in the early morning hours Saturday. It came after months of preparation,
1:52.4	weeks of waiting for the right conditions to be met, and hours of high-risk covert operations
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