Good morning. It's Sunday, January 4th, one day after the United States arrested Nicholas Maduro and his wife.

Yesterday, around this time, we were learning the details of a U.S. military mission involving 150 aircraft, Delta Force soldiers, and an FBI hostage team.

They executed strikes across the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, hitting military bases.

A Venezuelan official who spoke to the New York Times on the condition of anonymity

estimates that 40 people were killed, including civilians and military personnel.

A team of helicopters reached what President Trump called Maduro's fortress,

where U.S. troops were able to seize Maduro and his wife and remove them from the country.

In a firefight at the compound, several U.S. soldiers were injured, but all are in stable condition,

according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kane.

A helicopter was damaged during

the escape, but remained flyable. General Kane said no U.S. troops were killed. Maduro and his wife

were taken on the warship USS Iwo Jima to Guantanamo Bay, then flown to New York State,

transferred by helicopter to Manhattan, and transported to a detention center in Brooklyn.

A White House social media account posted this video of Maduro in New York yesterday.

No members of Congress were notified in advance of the operation and dozens have questioned

the constitutionality of it, including some Republicans.

And that's the easy stuff to follow.

Then at a midday press conference yesterday, President Trump 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.

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

No, no dates were mentioned there. The president was much more focused on Venezuela's

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