This is one thing. I'm David Rind, and the U.S. just snatched a foreign leader and his wife from their bedroom.

What kind of message does this send to the Russians?

What kind of message does the send to the Chinese who have been eyeing Taiwan?

And does it give them kind of carte blanche to say, look, the U.S. did it.

What we know about President Donald Trump's plan to make Venezuela great again.

Stick around.

We are talking early Saturday morning.

Can you just explain what your night was like?

Well, it was a busy weekend. We came from New Year's Eve. You think that you are in the

beginning of the year that you can rest, but it was not like that. Mary Trini Mina is a freelance

journalist based in Caracas. She's working with us at CNN.

And for months, she has been following the U.S. military buildup near Venezuela and the dozens

of deadly strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

Experts questioned the legality of those strikes.

And White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles suggested to Vanity Fair, this wasn't really

about drugs.

This was a pressure campaign against the ruthless leader of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro.

She said if Trump, quote, he wants to keep blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle.

But the question for months had been, how far would Trump go to make that happen?

Would he strike targets on land?

Would they try to remove Maduro by force?

Well, in the early morning hours of Saturday, just days into the new year,

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