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Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I

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Speaker 1: made Kleengi. Nicholas Maduro and his wife arrived in the

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Speaker 1: United States Saturday evening, as CNN first showed video of

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Speaker 1: the captured Venezuelan president and first Lady emerging from a

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Speaker 1: plane on a tarmac and a military base in Newburgh,

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Speaker 1: New York. The couple were then scheduled to be taken

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Speaker 1: to New York sitting. The New York Times is reporting

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Speaker 1: at least forty people were killed in the US attack

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Speaker 1: on Venezuela early Saturday, including military personnel and civilians. This

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Speaker 1: according to a senior Venezuelan official who spoke on condition

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Speaker 1: of anonymity to describe preliminary reports. President Trump says the

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Speaker 1: US is essentially running Venezuela now after the overnight round

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Speaker 1: of airstrikes and special forces operation that ended with the

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Speaker 1: capture of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and First Lady Celia Flores.

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Speaker 1: President Trump addressed at all from mar A Lago.

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Speaker 2: We're going to run the country until such time as

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Speaker 2: we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition, so

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Speaker 2: we don't want to be involved with having somebody else

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Speaker 2: get in and we have the same situation that we

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Speaker 2: had for the last long period of years. So we

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Speaker 2: are going to run the country.

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Speaker 1: That US aggression escalated overnight frouding into Saturday, following Trump's

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Speaker 1: months long campaign that included strikes on alleged drug running

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Speaker 1: boats and a US blockade of sanctioned oil tankers, and

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Speaker 1: the president says the US stands ready to launch a

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Speaker 1: second strike and deployed troops in Venezuela if needed. Venezuelan

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Speaker 1: opposition leader Maria Coriina Machado set on X the oppositions

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Speaker 1: ready to assume power, but President Trump says Machado does

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Speaker 1: not have the support or the respect to lead the country.

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Speaker 1: Many people are celebrating Maduro's capture in Venezuela and South Florida,

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Speaker 1: which has the largest Venezuelan population in the US. Luis

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Speaker 1: Valdez is in Durel, but his family is in Venezuela,

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Speaker 1: which he says he has not seen since twenty eleven.

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Speaker 3: I know that people are going to use the opportunity

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Speaker 3: to rise and show their force, and especially now that

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Speaker 3: the Maduro regime has been literally decapitated, I don't feel

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Speaker 3: like they're going to have the same strength and fourth

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Speaker 3: that they had before.

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Speaker 1: Marianna Atensio is a Venezuelan journalist. She joined Bloomberg Saturday

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Speaker 1: morning to add to that optimism, but she says many

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Speaker 1: people are still cautious.

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Speaker 4: Malulo was the face, but there are four power brokers

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Speaker 4: that truly pull the strings, all of which were not

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Speaker 4: captured in this operation, all of which have been sending

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Speaker 4: messages and videos rallying troops and rallying the regime's forces.

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Speaker 4: So you have Padrino Lopez, who heads the military. He

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Speaker 4: was seen on video in Venezuela this morning, Chavis's natural

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Speaker 4: success or, rallying troops in a vest and a mask

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Speaker 4: with long guns in video this morning. You have Delsi Rodriguez,

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Speaker 4: the VP, saying where is Maludo? He's disappeared. That means

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Speaker 4: there is a power vacuum now and these people stand

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Speaker 4: to take over.

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Speaker 1: Venezuelan journalist Marianna The international reaction has been mixed. Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: Nathan Hagar has more on that from Washington.

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Speaker 5: Global leftist leaders have taken to social media already condemning

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Speaker 5: the strikes, including the leaders of Russia, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico,

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Speaker 5: and Brazil, where President Luis Andasio Lula da Silva called

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Speaker 5: the US attacks crossing an unacceptable line. He says it

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Speaker 5: is the most serious affront to Venezuelan sovereignty now. Rightist

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Speaker 5: leaders including Argentina's Xavier Mulay, Bolivia's Roderigo Pause, and Chile's

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Speaker 5: incoming president have all spoken out against what they call

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Speaker 5: Maduro's illegitimate.

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Speaker 1: Grip on power.

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Speaker 5: They've also expressed concern over a regular migration out of Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: Again. That's Bloomberg's Nathan Hagar reporting from Washington. United Nations

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Speaker 1: Secretary General Antonio Guterra says he's deeply alarmed by the

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Speaker 1: attack on Venezuela, which has quote potential worrying implications for

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Speaker 1: the region. He added the rules of international law have

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Speaker 1: not been respected and called on all actors to engage

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Speaker 1: in dialogue and full of respect of both human rights

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Speaker 1: and the rule of law as far as Congress goes.

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Speaker 1: According to social media, a few Republicans spoke to Secretary

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Speaker 1: of State Marco Rubio on Saturday morning, including Utah Senator

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Speaker 1: Mike Lee, who says the operation likely falls within the

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Speaker 1: presidents inherent authority under Article two of the Constitution to

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Speaker 1: protect US personnel from an actual or imminent attack, but

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Speaker 1: many Democrats they've criticized the move. Former Jeputy Assistant Secretary

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Speaker 1: of State mcmulroy also weighed in on the legality of

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Speaker 1: the operation.

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Speaker 6: Under US law. Of course, there was no authorization by Congress,

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Speaker 6: which is called for when you do an active war,

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Speaker 6: and certainly attacking ground targets and capturing the president of

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Speaker 6: a country could be considered an active war. Under international law,

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Speaker 6: they would look at the UN Charter whether there was

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Speaker 6: an eminent threat. Most people, I think would say there

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Speaker 6: wasn't a direct eminent threat, but I think the White

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Speaker 6: House would disagree.

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Speaker 1: OPEC members are set to hold a meeting on oil

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Speaker 1: supply Sunday as US aggression escalates Venezuela. The group had

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Speaker 1: already announced it would keep first quarter output unchanged, and

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Speaker 1: that was still the expectation earlier this week, but members

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Speaker 1: say they'll have another meeting in a month if they

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Speaker 1: need to adjust. President Trump says US oil companies will

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Speaker 1: spend billions of dollars to rebuild Venezuela's crumbling energy infrastructure

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Speaker 1: after the military operation that led to the capture of

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro. During the press conference Saturday at mar A Lago,

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Speaker 1: Trump described an ambitious vision to use US financial resources

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Speaker 1: and industry know how to restore the South American nations

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Speaker 1: oil sector to its former glory. And New York City

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Speaker 1: Mayor zoron mom Donnie posted on X I was briefed

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Speaker 1: this morning on the US military capture of Venezuela and

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Speaker 1: President Nicholas Maduro and his wife, as well as their

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Speaker 1: planned imprisonment in federal custody here in New York City.

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Speaker 1: Unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an active war and

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Speaker 1: a violation of federal and international law. That's news when

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