Hi there, everyone, it's now four o'clock in New York.

After months of Donald Trump threatening to escalate the military campaign against Venezuela

and Nicolas Maduro's government there, brand new reporting confirms that the United States

of America has carried out the first known land attack there.

CNN was first to report on the strike. It was later confirmed by the New York Times.

From that New York Times report, quote, the CIA conducted a drone strike on a port facility in

Venezuela last week. That's according to people briefed on the operation, a development that

suggests an aggressive new phase of the Trump administration's pressure campaign against the

Maduro government has begun. The strike was on a dock where U.S. officials believed trend

Airaigua, a Venezuelan gang, was storing narcotics and potentially preparing to move the drugs onto boats, people said.

No one was on the dock at the time and no one was killed.

But the strike is the first known American operation inside Venezuela.

The reporting on the attack gives more detail to what Donald Trump has already talked about very publicly.

Now, typically, CIA operations

are shrouded in secrecy by design. But here's what Trump had to say publicly about the

strike on Venezuelan land yesterday. There was a major explosion in the dock area where they

load the boats up with drugs. They load the boats up with drugs.

So we hit all the boats and now we hit the area.

It's the implementation area.

That's where they implement.

And that is no longer around.

Okay.

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