“Who’s in charge?”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Msnbc, News, Ms Now, Versant, Politics, Government, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Daily News, Washington Dc

4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace on the lack of honesty from the Trump administration on who is currently in charge of Venezuela. This pertinent question comes after the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.

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0:00.0	Mr. Secretary, who is in charge?
0:07.0	Are you running Venezuela right now?
0:11.0	Yeah, I mean, I keep people, you know, fixating on that.
0:17.0	Here's the bottom line on it is we expect to see changes in Venezuela.
0:24.7	Fixating.
0:26.4	It's us, not you.
0:27.2	We're fixated.
0:27.9	All right.
0:28.8	Hi again, everybody.
0:30.0	It's 5 o'clock in New York.
0:40.0	Truly bizarre answer from the United States of America's Secretary of State the day after a military operation captured another country's leader and wife.
0:42.0	That it's us, right, that Americans are, in the words of Marco Rubio, fixating on the
0:46.8	city-bitty little matter of who exactly is in charge of Venezuela since we removed its leader.
0:52.3	Who's flying the plane we want to know?
0:54.8	The fact is, getting an honest answer to that question isn't a fixation.
0:58.9	Over the last 48 hours, it's been absolutely painstakingly torturous and whiplash-inducing.
1:06.7	So much so that one has to wonder of Donald Trump and his secretary of state, Marco Rubio,
1:12.0	were ever in the same room, ever, like, talked any of this out beforehand.
1:16.1	Watch.
1:19.0	We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transitions.
1:27.2	President Trump was pretty clear yesterday.
1:28.7	He said the United States is going to run Venezuela.
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