Trump Administration Captures Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro Overnight
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MS NOW, Ali Velshi
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🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We are following breaking news this morning. |
| 0:07.5 | Overnight, the United States has carried out what President Trump calls, quote, |
| 0:11.1 | a large-scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicholas Maduro, |
| 0:15.7 | who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the country. |
| 0:20.6 | Two sources tell MS now that Maduro was taken by U.S. military special operators from Delta Force. |
| 0:26.0 | The FBI's hostage rescue team were embedded with them, and the FBI now has custody of Maduro and his wife. |
| 0:33.1 | Already, the way we're learning about the event is proving to be complicated. |
| 0:36.7 | President Trump called into Fox News just an hour ago to share details of the operation. |
| 0:42.2 | He was in a very highly guarded, like a fortress, actually. |
| 0:48.2 | He was in a fortress. |
| 0:49.7 | You know that we had nobody killed was amazing. |
| 0:52.7 | I think we had nobody killed, I have to say, because a couple of guys were hit, but they |
| 0:57.9 | came back and they're supposed to be a pretty good shape. But that we |
| 1:01.8 | had nobody killed, that we lost no aircraft. You know, everything came back. |
| 1:06.1 | We got it all back. One of them was hit pretty hard, but a helicopter, |
| 1:10.2 | but we got it back. We had to do it. But he was in a |
| 1:12.9 | house that was more like a fortress than a house. It had steel doors. It had what they call |
| 1:21.5 | a safety space where it's, you know, solid steel all around. He didn't get that space close. He was trying to get into it, |
| 1:29.4 | but he got bumrushed so fast. Now, we're seeking confirmation on all these details right now, |
| 1:35.7 | but those were the first details shared on how our troops fared. Trump also said Maduro was |
| 1:40.7 | traveling on the USS Iwo Jima, an American warship, which has been in the Caribbean. |
| 1:45.5 | We now know from Republican Senator Mike Lee, who says he spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio |
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