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The Breitbart News Daily Podcast

More Venezuelan Updates; Guest: Rick de la Torre, Former CIA Station Chief in Venezuela,

The Breitbart News Daily Podcast

SiriusXM

News, Politics

4.7896 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The news story of the American military entering Venezuela to capture its president, Nicolás Maduro, is still at the top of everyone's mind and our fiery host, Mike Slater, has his own unique insights on it. You'll definitely want to hear them! Following the opener, Slater gabs with a former CIA Station Chief who was in Venezuela, Rick de la Torre, about his time in the country and how the Trump administration was able to pull off this controversial move!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Breitbart News Daily. We had wonderful guests today. We had a Brigadier General, Blaine Holt. Always great to talk to. Just talk more about the unbelievable military success of the operation. I think just not enough is said about that or can be said about that. It was great. We'll play our interview, though, that we did with Rick De La Torre. He's a former CIA station chief in Venezuela, so that's pretty on the nose. How can we not talk to him? And he was really interesting and fun to talk to, so we'll

0:40.2

play that interview. But let's start off with our open here, where we did a two-step broad

0:45.7

overview of everything that's happening right now. And I think when we understand the plan,

0:52.1

everything starts to make more sense. Enjoy.

1:17.2

Thank you. the plan, everything starts'll tell you why.

1:22.0

It says that somehow Venezuela is not involved in the drug trade because the UN says they're not involved in the UJJT. I don't care what the U.N. says.

1:24.4

The U.N. doesn't know what they're talking about.

1:26.2

Maduro is indicted by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York.

1:30.6

That means the Southern District of New York presented the evidence to a grand jury and a grand

1:35.1

jury indicted him.

1:36.3

And then a superseding indictment came out that was unsealed about a year and a half ago that

1:40.3

specifically detailed Maduro's actions.

1:43.2

So number one, let there be no doubt.

1:45.6

Nicholas Maduro is an indicted drug trafficker in the United States,

1:50.2

and he's a fugitive of American justice.

1:52.5

I don't care what the UN says.

1:55.5

Why would we care at all what the United Nations says about something,

2:00.3

a cabal of our enemies.

2:03.1

America, it's the greatest country in the world.

2:05.1

Good morning.

2:05.8

Happy Tuesday.

2:06.3

Thanks for being.

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