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“Lights Out in Caracas” - Maduro CAPTURED As Trump SHOCKS Venezuela In EXPLOSIVE Night Raid

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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

General Dan Kaine breaks down the overnight operation that led to the capture of Nicolás Maduro, from layered air dominance to Delta Force extraction. Patrick and the panel react to the military precision, media backlash, and why Venezuelans are celebrating worldwide.

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0:00.0

General Dan Kane describes timeline of Maduro's capture.

0:04.2

Rob, if you have that clip, let's start off with the capture and how it was done of Maduro.

0:10.7

Go forward, Rob.

0:11.8

At 10.46 p.m. Eastern time last night, the president ordered the United States military to move forward with this mission.

0:20.4

He said to us, and we appreciated it,

0:22.2

Mr. President, good luck and Godspeed, and those words were transmitted to the entire joint force.

0:28.9

Over the course of the night, aircraft began launching from 20 different bases on land and sea

0:35.0

across the Western Hemisphere. In total, more than 150 aircraft, bombers, fighters, intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance,

0:44.3

rotary wing were in the air last night.

0:46.3

Thousands and thousands of hours of experience were airborne.

0:51.3

Our youngest crew member was 20 and our oldest crew member was 49. Wow. And there's simply

0:56.9

no match for American military might. As the night began, the helicopters took off with the extraction

1:03.4

force, which included law enforcement officers and began their flight into Venezuela at 100 feet

1:09.3

above the water. As they approached Venezuelan shores, the United States began layering different effects provided by

1:16.6

spacecom, cybercom, and other members of the interagency to create a pathway.

1:21.6

Overhead, those forces were protected by aircraft from the United States Marines, the United States Navy, the

1:30.8

United States Air Force, and the Air National Guard. The force included F-22s, F-35s, F-18s,

1:38.8

E-8-2s, B-1 bombers, and other support aircraft as well as numerous remotely piloted drones.

1:47.5

As the force began to approach Caracas, the joint air component began dismantling and disabling the air defense systems in Venezuela,

1:58.0

employing weapons to ensure the safe passage of the helicopters into the target area.

2:04.6

The goal of our air component is, was, and always will be, to protect the helicopters and the

2:12.8

ground force and get them to the target.

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