It's Monday, welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed.

First up, new details are emerging about the operation that captured Nicholas Maduro.

The CIA tracked his movement for months, gathering intelligence on daily activities and patterns of behavior,

while Delta Force rehearsed the raid on a full-scale replica of Maduro's safehouse.

I'll have the details. Later in the show, newly unsealed federal charges outline the allegations

against Maduro, narco-terrorism, cocaine trafficking, and weapons offenses tied to he and his inner

circle. Plus, new reports from Iran indicate at least 16 people have been killed as protests over

inflation and the regime's crumbling economy spread, and while the Mullahs and the Islamic

Revolutionary Guard Corps moved to suppress the unrest.

And in today's back of the brief, Britain and France carry out a joint airstrike on ISIS in Syria.

But first, today's BDB spotlight.

Today, we're learning more about the operation that captured Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro and his wife.

Information released in the aftermath of the operation details a methodical, intelligence-driven

mission that blended months of quiet preparation with some of the most elite capabilities

of the U.S. military.

At the center of it all were two organizations that rarely operate in public view.

That would be, of course,

the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army's Delta Force. Let's start with the Intel side.

According to multiple officials, the CIA had a small covert team operating inside Venezuela as early as August. You may remember that President Trump publicly confirmed in October

of this past year that he had authorized covert CIA operations inside Venezuela. By that point,

well, it seems those teams may have been operating in place for months. They were there to understand

Maduro's daily life in granular detail, where he

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