A U.S. Special Forces soldier who helped to plan the January capture of Venezuelan President

Nicolas Maduro has been indicted for allegedly using classified information about the raid

to place bets in the prediction market. The soldier who was stationed at Fort Bragg in North

Carolina won more than $400,000 on the platform Polymarket by placing a series of bets about

Maduro's removal. The indictment is raising new concerns about insider trading and the need

for regulation. Joining us to discuss this is our White House correspondent Liz Landers and

David Hill, who's a journalist who writes about gambling for Rolling Stone and on his American

gambler substack. Welcome to you both. And David, I'll start with you because you follow these

markets so closely. Just briefly set the stage for us. What kind of concerns does this indictment

raise? Well, it raises a lot of concerns. It also answers a lot of concerns. There's been quite a bit of

concern about

prediction markets and the markets that they offer on geopolitical events, but also an insider

trading that might be happening those markets for a number of months as we've seen prediction

markets grow in the United States. And so a prosecution like this is very important, I think,

for the prediction markets to try to return to some trust and sense of integrity about the markets that they offer.

And Liz, you had a chance to ask President Trump about this indictment specifically yesterday. What did he say?

This news was breaking as we were going back into the Oval Office around 6 p.m. last night. And I asked the president about this case, kind of read some of the

details to him. He had actually seemingly not heard about it yet, so he was asking me questions.

And then I asked him a follow-up question about these bigger bets that are also being

plus about Iran. Here's that exchange.

There are also been placed as well on the Iran conflict, too, and there have been some trackings where people suspect

that there's insider trading happening on these prediction markets

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