Maduro Arraigned in NYC | Tim Walz Bows Out Amid Fraud Scandal | CDC Drops Five Routine Childhood Vax Recs | 1/6/26

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

News, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Aaron covers Nicolás Maduro's defiant NYC arraignment after U.S. capture, Trump hints at Colombia next, Tim Walz abruptly ends reelection bid as Somali childcare fraud explodes and HHS freezes funds, CDC drops routine recommendations for childhood vaccines after peer-country review, Hilton hotels face backlash for refusing ICE agents, trans terror targets JD Vance's home, and more good news from the world of MAHA.

Maduro arraignment, Venezuela operation, Tim Walz reelection, Somali fraud Minnesota, CDC vaccine drop, childhood schedule, Hilton ICE refusal, trainee terror JD Vance, Zohran Mamdani NYC

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, January 6, 26. Maduro arraigned more big problems in Little Somalia and multiple
0:06.6	items of good news from the world of maha. Next on the AM update.
0:13.6	Well, took the better part of a week, but I finally figured out what year it is.
0:17.3	Osted Venezuelan leader, Nicholas Maduro was defiant during a federal court arraignment on Monday in Lower Manhattan, where he appeared for the first time in public since he was captured two days earlier during a surprise U.S. military raid in Caracas.
0:30.3	Maduro scribbled on a legal pad during much of the hearing notes. He requested that he be able to keep for future reference and spoke frequently in Spanish with his defense attorney, Barry Pollock.
0:40.7	Pollock is a well-known defense lawyer whose list of former clients includes big names such as Julian Assange.
0:47.0	Maduro and his wife Celia Flores were indicted in the Southern District of New York on federal charges that include narco-terrorism, conspiracy, conspiracy
0:54.9	to import cocaine and weapons-related charges.
0:59.0	He said, quote, I'm a decent man and I am innocent.
1:02.1	I'm still president of my country.
1:04.7	No, you're not, and you might not be alone for long.
1:07.6	President Trump aboard Air Force won the other day, said that Columbia's president, that would the cross-dressing Gustavo Petro, maybe next on the figurative chopping block. And that's Venezuela's very sick. Columbia is very sick to run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States. And he's not going to be doing it very long.
1:28.4	What is that? He's not doing it very long.
1:29.9	He has cocaine mills and cocaine factories.
1:35.7	He's not going to be doing it very.
1:36.8	So there will be an operation by the USA?
1:39.0	It sounds good to me.
1:40.3	There is President Trump discussing Colombia and its leadership, whether or not there will be an operation similar to what we saw in Venezuela. Both President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have made similar ovations regarding Cuba in recent days as well. Big news yesterday. Minnesota Governor Tampon Tim, Tim Walz, announced he's not actually going to be running for governor for re-election in
2:02.8	26 after all. Here is at a news conference yesterday morning. I'm proud of the way we treat our
2:08.4	neighbors. I'm proud of the way that we welcome people to this state. I'm proud of the way that we
2:13.5	innovate. And I'm proud of the way that we are optimist for the future.
2:18.2	No one's taking this away from us, not the fraudsters, certainly not this president, not
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