Big Questions After Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run’ Venezuela

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  Hey What's News listeners, it's Saturday, January 3rd.

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  I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and this is What's News Sunday.

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  We're coming to you early this weekend to dig into the big questions following the U.S.

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  capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and President Trump saying the U.S.

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  will be running the country.

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  We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious.

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  Transition.

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  We've got a lot to cover, so let's get right to it.

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  It unfolded under the cover of darkness,

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  and a mission involving more than 150 aircraft and the same Special Forces Regiment that participated in the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.

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  The U.S.

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  staged a raid on Venezuela overnight that culminated in the capture of the country's President,

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  Nicolas Maduro.

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  Maduro and his wife were extracted from Venezuela aboard helicopters brought to a U.S.

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  warship in the Caribbean and are being transferred to New York, where he is expected to face trial.

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  The Justice Department today charged him and five others with playing roles in a drug trafficking network and working with groups the U.S.

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  considers foreign terrorist organizations.

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  Maduro has previously denied those charges,

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  but the news doesn't end there because when President Trump held a press conference in Florida,

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  we learned that even though the mission dubbed Operation Absolute Resolve is over, the U.S.

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