All right, we are officially live.

Hello everybody, it's Saturday morning.

It feels like a Sunday, and it's felt like a Sunday for several days now.

But we woke up this morning to pretty remarkable news.

The United States has carried out an operation,

essentially removing Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro and his wife,

capturing them from their home overnight, a large-scale strike on the capital city of Caracas.

Venezuela and President Maduro is now en route to New York where he's facing criminal charges,

I believe. I haven't actually read the indictment. A remarkable thing to wake up to, and we want to break it down with our experts.

Sarah's going to join us in a little bit, but right now we have General Mark Hurtling and Ben Parker.

We're going to be taking a quick break when Trump does speak to the nation at 11 a.m.

That's when he's supposed to speak.

And then we'll continue talking on the other side

of his speech for some analysis about what he has to say. But Mark, let's start with you. I mean,

what did you, you've been digesting this for several hours and talking about it on MSN for several

hours now too. But what do you make of what happened overnight and what should people

take from the operation?

Well, first I'd start off by saying it was probably pretty present that Ben edited a copy

of mine that was printed yesterday about regime change and the challenges associated with it.

And what I said in that article was

primarily that, you know, the military operations are usually very short. And in case when the

United States does it, they're very good and they have been so far this morning. But then it's what

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