Kayla Brantley

Thank you for being here with me today.

I want to know your initial reaction when you heard that one, the U.S.

has gone into Venezuela and two, that they have captured the leader and his wife.

And you have a securities background.

Can you explain what it takes to execute something of this scale to go into another country and extract their leader?

One report I saw that was interesting is that these elite forces actually had mock houses of Maduro's house where he was staying, and that was something that they practiced on, on how to extract him.

Is that something that's normal in these cases?

Can this be considered a failure of Venezuela's defense or did they just not even stand a chance against the U.S.

?

Yeah, when you say that, it is really remarkable how quickly and how easily things appear to have happened.

Of course, we don't know every detail, but now Maduro is being held in prison in New York.

Is there a chance that Venezuela will pull a reverse tactic and try to now extract him from the U.S.?

Is it possible?

And how does the U.S.

prepare for that and really defend that from happening?

We're taking a quick break after this.

It is interesting because I'm based in New York and he's being held right in Brooklyn where I could take a train over and see the facility in which he's being held versus kind of being held in one of these more secretive places or a Guantanamo Bay or something like that.

Do you think that was strategic to put him in the prison where we have Luigi Mangione and other high profile inmates?

A question here that's on everyone's mind is, you know, according to international law or domestic law, is this extraction legal?

I appreciate your honesty.