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It's Tuesday, January 6th.

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,

and here is the AM edition of What's News,

the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

We begin in Venezuela, where Nicholas Maduro's longtime vice president and top lieutenant Delci Rodriguez

was formerly sworn in as acting president yesterday.

In a ceremony, Rodriguez pledged to protect Venezuela's sovereignty and independence,

and she described Maduro's arrest as the kidnapping of a hero.

But those defiant words come as she signaled her willingness to work with Washington and spoken to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

So how reliable a partner is Rodriguez for the U.S.

For more, we're joined by Carlos Silar, Senior Research Fellow at Roussey, the Royal United Services Institute in London.

Carlos, we exclusively report that in the run-up to Maduro's arrest, the CIA concluded that Rodriguez, as well as other members of Maduro's inner circle, were the ones who were best placed to maintain order in Venezuela, while opposition figures would be in a position where they'd be struggling to gain legitimacy, facing resistance from security forces, drug trafficking networks.

What do you make of that, especially in terms of what it's going to take to see this

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