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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

What's the CIA Doing in Venezuela?

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

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3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

President Trump intensifies efforts to crack down on migrants and illegal drugs, publicly authorizing CIA operations in Venezuela. That country's president, Nicolas Maduro is now responding.  Also on today's show: Pam speaks to a Texas lawmaker about a new push for accountability following the devastating floods at Camp Mystic ... Is the Supreme Court poised to drastically weaken the voting rights act? ... A federal judge tells the Trump Administration it must stop laying off more than 4,000 federal employees during the government shutdown.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happening now publicly authorizing CIA operations in Venezuela.

0:06.0

President Trump now intensifying efforts to crack down on migrants and illegal drugs.

0:11.0

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is now responding.

0:15.0

And investigating flooding disaster, I'm going to speak to a Texas state lawmaker about this new push for accountability following

0:21.5

the devastating Texas floods at Camp Mystic.

0:25.1

And later, landmark legislation gutted.

0:28.1

The Supreme Court justices seemed poised to weaken the Voting Rights Act drastically.

0:33.2

So what impact could this have across the country if it happens?

0:37.3

Stopping mass layoffs.

0:38.6

A federal judge is now telling the Trump administration it must stop laying off more than 4,000

0:44.4

federal employees during the government shutdown.

0:48.0

New charges were just learning new details about the man accused of starting those devastating

0:53.2

Palisades wildfires in California.

0:56.3

He's now facing another indictment.

0:59.1

And medication shortages and closed aid routes.

1:03.5

Palestinians are struggling to get necessities in Gaza as the dispute over deceased bodies

1:08.5

escalates.

1:09.7

The head of an organization working to get food and supplies into Gaza will join me live.

1:14.6

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

1:18.6

I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown and you're in the Situation Room.

1:26.6

New this morning, President Trump confirms a truly extraordinary move.

1:34.5

He has publicly authorized the CIA to operate very sensitive, highly classified information inside Venezuela.

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