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Trump: “We Are Going to Run” Venezuela

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

News, Ms Now, News Commentary, Ali Velshi, Versant, Politics, Versant Media, Government, Weekend News

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ali Velshi is joined by retired U.S. Army Colonel Jack Jacobs, former U.S. Ambassador to the Venezuela Affairs Unit - James Story, MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde, and MS NOW National Reporter David Noriega.

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0:00.0

All right. Anytime now, President Trump is expected to brief the nation after the United States carried out what Donald Trump called large-scale strikes against Venezuela, resulting in the capture of the country's president, Nicholas Maduro, and his wife.

0:17.3

Trump and top military officials are expected to hold a press conference at Mara Lago. It was expected

0:22.5

to begin now at 11 a.m. Eastern. It looks like it's a bit delayed. We're going to bring it to you

0:26.7

when it happens. U.S. strikes targeted several sites across the Venezuelan capital of Caracas,

0:31.3

including at a military airport. Officials say they are still compiling information on the dead and the

0:36.1

injured, but Venezuela's

0:37.5

attorney general said in televised remarks hours ago that innocent civilians were killed.

0:42.5

Amid those strikes, Maduro and his wife were, quote, captured and flown out of the country,

0:46.6

that's according to Trump.

0:48.0

Two sources tell MS now that Maduro was taken by U.S. military special operators from Delta

0:52.9

Force.

0:53.5

The FBI's hostage rescue team was embedded with

0:56.0

them. The FBI is now in custody of Maduro. President Trump called into Fox News earlier,

1:01.7

saying he believes that no U.S. forces were killed, that he says some were, quote, hit.

1:06.2

According to Trump, a helicopter carrying troops was also shot at, but made it to safety.

1:10.6

Trump also said Maduro is traveling to America on the USS Iwo Jima, an American warship, which had been in the Caribbean, although we've got to figure that out because he's coming to New York this afternoon, so he's clearly not on a ship to New York. We know from Attorney General Pam Bondi that Maduro has been indicted in the Southern District of New York on charges related to narco-terrorism, drugs, and weapons. Maduro and his wife are headed to New York. They're

1:32.7

expected to be here this afternoon to face those charges. Joining me now is retired U.S. Army

1:37.2

Colonel Jack Jacobs, MS Now military and political analyst. Also with us, James Story, former U.S.

1:42.4

Ambassador for the Venezuela Affairs Unit and an MS NowNNANOVNANFARS

1:46.1

analyst, our MSNNROWROTR, Senior National Security Reporter and David Noriega, national reporter,

1:52.1

who's covered Venezuela for several years. Everybody, thanks for being with us. Ambassador's

1:56.5

story, let me just start with you because the part of the story that many of us don't know or don't follow as closely is what's happening inside Venezuela.

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