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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

Venezuela looks to a New Horizon, Democrat Maduro Flip-Flop & Minnesota's very own Civil War Week In Review

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.94.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

  • U.S. Military Action in Venezuela and Its Aftermath

    • U.S. operation in Venezuela was not a war but a short military action to arrest Nicolás Maduro, described as an indicted narco-terrorist.
    • This was not intended as a regime change through force but rather a law enforcement action supported by the military.
    • After Maduro’s arrest, Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s former Vice President and a staunch communist, was sworn in as interim president. The text provides extensive background on her Marxist roots, corruption allegations (including gold smuggling), and anti-American stance.
    • Advocations for free and fair elections in Venezuela to replace the current regime with a pro-America, pro-market leader, highlighting Venezuela’s vast oil and gold reserves and its potential for economic recovery if corruption and communism are removed.
    • There is discussion of U.S. legal precedent (e.g., Noriega case, Ker-Frisbie doctrine) supporting extraterritorial arrests and the constitutional authority of the President to order such actions, even if they conflict with international law like the UN Charter.
  • Minnesota Political Crisis and Somali Fraud Scandal

    • The second part shifts to domestic U.S. politics, focusing on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who allegedly faces a massive fraud scandal involving Somali immigrant communities and misuse of government funds.
    • The fraud is described as “the worst instance of fraud in American history,” totaling around $9 billion.
    • Minnesota Democrats are guilty of corruption, vote-buying schemes, and inciting violence to distract from the scandal, even suggesting that Walz called for “war with the federal government.”
    • A congressional hearing exchange is included, highlighting welfare dependency statistics among Somali immigrant households compared to native Minnesotans, painting a picture of systemic abuse and failed integration policies.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.4

Welcome, it is Verdict with Ted Cruz, the weekend review Ben Ferguson with you, and hear

0:09.3

the big stories that you may have missed that we talked about.

0:11.7

First up, what is next for Venezuela after Donald Trump went in to get one of the biggest

0:16.8

narco-terrorists in the world?

0:18.7

We'll have the answer to that for you in just a moment.

0:21.3

Also, Democrats were actually in favor of getting Maduro and demanding it, even having

0:27.7

money on the line for those that would turn him in.

0:30.6

But now they hate Donald Trump because he got him.

0:33.7

What's behind all that?

0:34.8

And finally, the Minnesota government, including the governor now, says he wants to go to civil war with the federal government.

0:43.6

It's the weekend review, and it starts right now.

0:47.2

What is next?

0:48.2

And let me just, I could look at my Twitter feed, and I was on CNN CNN last night and it was the topic of conversation

0:55.5

and that is there are a lot of people that believe that America First policy that Donald

1:02.0

Trump ran on was not invading countries and staying indefinitely like Iraq, Afghanistan.

1:08.2

There is a lot of concern. I heard it. You probably saw the clip of

1:12.9

Lindsey Graham on Air Force One with the president saying, you know, this is a guy that loves to be

1:17.0

in these forever wars. And there was people that were really concerned with that image of a

1:21.5

tattoos in his ear. I don't want to get bogged down in Venezuela. I don't want our men and women to

1:27.4

be there and loss of life

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