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This was a huge operation. An official said it was done with complete surprise.

It took American forces just over two hours, 150

aircraft and the dismantling of Venezuela's air defenses to capture and arrest Venezuelan leader

Nicholas Maduro. How did this happen? And what happens next? This is sources and methods from NPR.

I'm Mary Louise Kelly. It is Saturday evening and we are dropping in with a special

Sources and Methods episode to bring you the latest on Venezuela. After months of threats,

months of warnings, seizing of alleged drug boats, targeting oil tankers, tensions between the United States and Venezuela have now come to this.

Overnight, President Trump ordered American forces to enter Venezuela and capture leader Nicholas Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores.

The two are now being extradited to New York, where they will face charges related to alleged drug trafficking and narco-terrorism conspiracies.

Meanwhile, President Trump this morning said this.

We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.

So we don't want to be involved with having somebody else get in and we have the same

situation that we had for the last long period of years.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around that phrase.

We are going to run the country here to help me try to make sense of it.

Greg Myrie, who covers national security.

Hey, Greg.

Hi, Mary Louise.

And Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman.

Hey, Tom.

Tom, you start with what we know.

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