Joe: Trump needs to explain how Venezuela operation makes the lives of Americans better
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition. |
| 0:09.7 | It's not running the policy, the policy with regards to this. |
| 0:12.8 | Don't ask me, who's in charge, because I'll give you an answer and it'll be very controversial. |
| 0:17.3 | What does that mean? |
| 0:18.2 | We're in charge. |
| 0:20.6 | All right, President Trump last night night insisting the U.S. is in charge of Venezuela, somewhat undercutting the Secretary of State. |
| 0:29.6 | So he said we're running it. |
| 0:31.8 | And then Marco Rubio said, we're not running it. |
| 0:33.9 | Right. |
| 0:34.3 | And then he said last night, no, no, no, no, we're running it. |
| 0:36.8 | We're running it. |
| 0:37.7 | Good morning. And welcome to a morning show. Has you ever been to Pottery Boy? I don't think he's been to Pottery Boy. Break it, you bought it? Yeah, this is like Colin Powell all over. With us, we have the co-host of our 9-am hour, staff writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire, columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post, David Ignatius, |
| 0:54.9 | decorated combat veteran and former commander of U.S. Army Europe, retired Army Lieutenant General |
| 1:02.2 | Mark Hurling, and presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author John Meacham. |
| 1:06.9 | Now, that is a redneck riviera. |
| 1:08.9 | Right there. |
| 1:09.7 | That's how we say retired in Northwest Flood. Retard general. |
| 1:14.3 | I'm a southern draw on this. Retired general, I'm sure the retired general is going to have a lot to say about Potra Barne in the second here. |
| 1:20.7 | I will be very interested here from all of our panelists today. But let's get, we have a lot going on, a lot of moving parts today. |
| 1:28.6 | Ousted Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores, will make their first |
| 1:34.7 | appearance in Manhattan Federal Court this afternoon facing drugs and weapons charges. It comes |
| 1:41.2 | just days after the couple was captured from their Caracas compound in the dark of night operation by U.S. Special Forces that included more than 150 military aircraft. |
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