Mike Baker

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It's Saturday, the 3rd of January.

Welcome to this special edition of the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

And what a stage it is.

Well, the world woke up to some genuinely stunning news this morning as President Trump announced that Nicolas Maduro, the longtime strongman ruler, of course, of Venezuela, has been captured along with his wife following U.S.

military strikes on key Venezuelan military facilities in and around Caracas.

This marks one of the most extraordinary moments in modern U.S.

foreign policy in recent memory, the removal of a sitting head of state through direct American military action.

It harkens back to the 1989 removal of Daniel Noriega from Panama.

But while the significance of the actions in Venezuela are clear, many critical questions remain unanswered, at least for now.

Chief among them, what comes next?

I'll give you my thoughts on what this all means going forward, but first, here's what we know about the operation, at least so far.

Overnight, U.S.

forces carried out what officials are now calling an apprehension mission in Venezuela.