The Sunshine State Strategy
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What A Day
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio is expected to publicly testify Wednesday about what exactly the U.S. has planned for Venezuela. But the next potential target of the Trump administration’s imperialist adventuring might be even closer to home. Ending Cuba’s communist regime — which has controlled the island since 1959 — is the dream of thousands of Cuban-Americans. And now, thanks in part to Rubio, it’s a serious goal of the White House. So, to talk more about South Florida’s influence on American politics at home and abroad, we spoke with Patricia Mazzei. She is the Miami bureau chief for The New York Times.
And in headlines, U.S. population growth slowed significantly between the summers of 2024 and 2025, Democratic efforts to redistrict in Virginia are stunted by a state court, and TikTok agrees to settle a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before trial.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, January 28th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day. The show relieved to hear that a member of law enforcement is facing consequences for actions that may have violated an individual's civil rights. Sure, the individual was a raccoon, and the member of law enforcement was a New York City police officer who shot the raccoon at Rockaway Beach last week, but still, I'm looking forward to learning from |
| 0:25.1 | Megan Kelly that actually the raccoon was a liberal, so it's fine. |
| 0:36.4 | On today's show, President Donald Trump and some Republicans take aim at the Second Amendment. |
| 0:41.7 | And a teenager sues social media companies for using cheap, calculated techniques to hold her attention. |
| 0:47.4 | Does she have a shot? Stay tuned to find out. |
| 0:50.2 | But let's start with Trump's foreign policy in the Caribbean. |
| 0:53.8 | The families of two Trinidadian men |
| 0:56.1 | filed a lawsuit against the United States government on Tuesday. The suit accuses the U.S. of |
| 1:00.7 | wrongful death and an extrajudicial killing linked to the Trump administration strikes on alleged |
| 1:05.5 | drugboats. It says the two men, natives of Trinidad and Tobago, had been fishing in the waters off the |
| 1:12.0 | coast of Venezuela and were returning home when their boat was hit by a missile on October 14th. |
| 1:16.9 | The strike killed everyone on board. The suit says that the men had nothing to do with drug cartels |
| 1:22.3 | or, quote, illegal drugs, guns, or small arms. The men's families say they were just fishermen |
| 1:27.3 | trying to get home. But let's talk about the big picture arms. The men's families say they were just fishermen trying to get home. |
| 1:28.8 | But let's talk about the big picture here. The boat strikes that are killing people we know |
| 1:33.2 | nothing about, the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, |
| 1:37.7 | the oil tankers, the U.S. keeps seizing. All of it is part and parcel of President Trump's |
| 1:42.4 | desire to control the entire Western Hemisphere. He calls it the Don Roe doctrine, but I'm not calling it that and he can't make me. |
| 1:50.7 | Two men in particular are executing this policy, Secretary of War slash Little Boy, Pete Higsef, |
| 1:55.9 | and Secretary of State slash National Security Advisor Marco Rubio. And hopefully today we'll get some answers on what |
| 2:01.7 | exactly they think they're doing, because Rubio is expected to publicly testify about what the U.S. |
| 2:06.9 | has planned for Venezuela, after, you know, capturing its leader in the middle of the night. |
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