Good evening. I'm Ali Rogan. John Yang is away. There are moments in time when history possibly

pivots. And today, in a stunning act of regime change, the U.S. military captured and brought

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to U.S. soil. Not long after that, in a remarkable

declaration, President Trump announced the U.S. would, quote, run Venezuela and

warned of a new era of United States domination over Latin America. We will get an on-the-ground

report from Venezuela's capital, Caracas in a moment, but we begin our coverage with Nick Schifrin.

It was just after midnight over Caracas when U.S. helicopters with Delta Force soldiers

descended toward Nicolas Maduro's compound.

Nearby residents filmed and cowered from U.S. strikes on at least four locations, all

part of the mission to capture and extract Maduro.

By 2 a.m. local, they had him, and by 3 a.m., he was shackled aboard the USS Iwojima,

the dictator-turned detainee of the U.S. Department of Justice.

U.S. military officials said U.S. helicopters took fire as they left Venezuela, but remained

able to fly.

A source familiar tells PBS NewsHour, a small CIA team arrived in August and created

extraordinary insight into Maduro's pattern of life that made grabbing him seamless.

This was one of the most stunning, effective and powerful displays of American military might and competence.

In Palm Beach today, after he and his team watched the operation unfold overnight, President

Trump announced the operation was not only

about regime change.

We are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious

transition.

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