Nicolás Maduro in New York & Versant on the Nasdaq 1/5/26

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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are being held in New York on drug trafficking charges after U.S. forces captured both in Venezuela over the weekend. The lead prosecutor in the case, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton, discusses his approach to the case and dates the effort back to 2011. In Washington, DC CNBC’s Eamon Javers reports on the weekend’s strikes in Venezuela, the subsequent press events from the administration, and the path forward. Then, Mark Lazarus, CEO of CNBC’s parent company Versant, discusses the company’s first trade as an independent company after successfully spinning off from Comcast. Jay Clayton - 17:36 Mark Lazarus - 39:11 In this episode: Eamon Javers, @eamonjavers Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:07.0	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.0	The stunning overthrow of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.
0:14.0	Wall Street reacts.
0:15.0	We're not going to make this political this morning.
0:17.0	Says who, says who?
0:19.0	Our Aiman Javers with the latest from Washington.
0:21.6	In the president's first remarks to the public,
0:23.6	Venezuela's vast oil wealth was front and center.
0:27.6	And the man prosecuting the case in the U.S. against Maduro,
0:31.6	U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, J. Clayton.
0:34.6	Drug trafficking, fentanyl, cocaine, other similarly deadly drugs,
0:40.3	is a global, sophisticated business
0:43.7	where the players have the resources,
0:46.5	and I would say the infrastructure equivalent
0:48.7	to our best run companies.
0:51.8	Plus.
0:52.9	We are going through with this.
0:53.9	It's going to happen. Here we go. It's been a year in the making. The first day of the rest of our lives, the media industry's newest kid on the block, Versant, made up from these spun off cable networks of NBC, CEO Mark Lazarus. Everything we do is going to matter. And every little piece is, you know, there's going to be a much more of a magnifying glass on what we do. It's Monday, January 5th, 2026. Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:20.6	Stand Becky by in three, two, one. Cure, please.
1:25.7	Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Squawk Box right here on CNBC.
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