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Hello and happy new year from the KUOW Newsroom.

This is Seattle now, and it's the first news headline show of the year on the pod.

I'm Paige Browning back after a long winter's nap and full of news to tell you about tonight, starting with the arrest of Venezuela's president.

It's Monday, January 5th, 2026.

Is the U.S. embarking on a costly war, or is this a wise national security move?

Washington's Congress members have sharply divided views on President Trump's move

to seize Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro in a middle-of-the-night operation. Democratic Senator

Patty Murray says in a statement that Maduro is a corrupt and oppressive dictator, but she says,

what stops China or Russia from making similar claims about foreign leaders they don't like and then using military force to overthrow them?

Murray says she will absolutely not support a large-scale military conflict in Venezuela.

And U.S. representative Pramilla Jaya Paul, also a Democrat, said the president has his priorities out

of order. Donald Trump can't run America. Now he wants to go run Venezuela, while the American people

can't afford health care, can't afford groceries. This is not what the American people want. This is not

what is constitutional. This is not what is legal. Her colleague, U.S. Representative

Adam Smith, told CBS he doesn't buy the argument that this operation will help keep drugs out of the

country. Any argument that somehow changing the leader of Venezuela is going to dramatically

...