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Good Morning America

Saturday, January 3

Good Morning America

ABC News

Politics, Entertainment News, Daily News, News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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President Trump confirms US strike on Venezuela; World leaders react to Maduro’s capture; Flu activity rising as new variant spreads Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Live from ABC News headquarters in New York City.

0:05.0

This is Good Morning America.

0:07.0

Good morning America.

0:08.0

Thank you for joining us on this Saturday.

0:09.0

We have so much to get to on our breaking news story.

0:12.0

The U.S. carrying out what it calls a large-scale strike on Venezuela.

0:16.0

Explosions ringing out in the capital of Caracas.

0:19.0

And President Trump's stunning report that President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were captured and flown out of the country.

0:25.7

And this all follows months of the Trump administration's escalating military actions, including attacking suspected drugboats you see there.

0:32.5

We have team coverage looking at all the angles, including what we're learning about how the operation was carried out,

0:37.8

the U.S. elite special forces on the ground. Martha Raditz is standing by with a look at that,

0:43.3

and the president is set to address the nation later this morning, but we're going to start here

0:46.6

with ABC's Matt Rivers. Matt, good morning. You were actually off the coast of Venezuela just weeks

0:51.0

ago. Yeah, and we saw that the United States was building toward that military capacity to carry out some kind of strike like this, but this stunned so many overnight,

0:59.6

this sweeping operation carrying out in the overnight hours, not only striking Venezuela's

1:04.3

military right in the heart of Caracas, but capturing the country's president as well.

1:12.1

This morning, the United States launching

1:14.4

an extraordinary nighttime attack on Venezuela.

1:20.7

Dramatic video capturing the U.S. strikes overnight,

1:24.2

explosions ringing out in Venezuela's capital city

1:26.8

beginning just before 2 a.m.

1:28.8

local time. The night sky above Caracas turning bright orange, massive flames engulfing the

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