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Maduro arrives in Manhattan as flurry of law enforcement seen at heliport · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: I do want to go to Omar Hamenez, who is
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  Speaker 1: following these helicopters landing in New York, which you are
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  Speaker 1: looking at just moments ago.
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  Speaker 2: Omar, what are you seeing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you heard John Miller talking about three helicopters
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  Speaker 3: that took off from Newburgh headed out this way. We
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  Speaker 3: just saw three helicopters land matching roughly the time it
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  Speaker 3: would take to fly by helicopter here. What you're looking
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  Speaker 3: at right now is what has been an increased law
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  Speaker 3: enforcement one that's increased pretty steadily over the last few
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  Speaker 3: hours since we've been out here. We actually have been
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  Speaker 3: pushed much further back. This is the heliport here where
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  Speaker 3: all of this the variety of law enforcement predominantly NYPD,
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  Speaker 3: but we've seen federal officers here as well, including DEA agents,
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  Speaker 3: a mass of them that just came in within the
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  Speaker 3: last few minutes to this area as well. We're waiting
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  Speaker 3: to see you can hear the helicopters. We saw them
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  Speaker 3: land just beyond our view here, three of them, it appeared.
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  Speaker 3: So we're waiting for them to go into what would
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  Speaker 3: be sort of this this indoor area and then they
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  Speaker 3: would come out come into presumably one of these vehicles
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  Speaker 3: where they would or they would then go for processing
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  Speaker 3: here at a federal building in New York City. Now,
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  Speaker 3: for those that aren't familiar with sort of the geography
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  Speaker 3: of Manhattan and New York City, we're on the west
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  Speaker 3: side of Manhattan what's known as the West Side Highway.
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  Speaker 3: Both lanes in both directions have been closed off by
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement to this point. This is typically a very
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  Speaker 3: busy area. We are now seeing lights from the New
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  Speaker 3: York Police Department turn on. That has not been the
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  Speaker 3: case previously to this point. We can still hear the
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  Speaker 3: motor of the helicopters to this but I can't stress
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  Speaker 3: enough this has been the highest level of law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: presence we have seen to this point, one that has
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  Speaker 3: been steadily increasing over the past few hours.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica, Yeah, and Omar. When we see the DEA agents,
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  Speaker 1: they are walking past the cameras as well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Omar, stay with us. Let's bring John.
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  Speaker 1: Miller back in to help us understand what we're looking
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  Speaker 1: at here. John Omar describing the scene.
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  Speaker 2: We're in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually very close to where we're broadcasting from right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's right behind our building. But we're in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of Manhattan where this is happening.
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  Speaker 2: To take us through what you're seeing in this.
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  Speaker 4: Scene, well, what you're seeing is a joint force. You
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  Speaker 4: have DEA agents, FBI agents, and a contingent of NYPD
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  Speaker 4: people broken into specialized units that are going to make
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  Speaker 4: this critical move. Obviously, this is done under very tight
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  Speaker 4: security because you're dealing with an individual who is charged
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  Speaker 4: with being in league with some of the most violent
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  Speaker 4: drug cartels in the world, who is also a world
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  Speaker 4: leader in his own right, or was at least until
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  Speaker 4: this morning. But what you're looking at there is a
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  Speaker 4: armored vehicle that is what they call a bear Cat.
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  Speaker 4: This is an armored vehicle that can say that contains
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  Speaker 4: what they call a cat team, a counter assault team,
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  Speaker 4: which is part of this motorcade. So you'll have a
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  Speaker 4: vehicle that will contain President Maduro and his wife maybe
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  Speaker 4: in a separate vehicle. You'll have the escort vehicles which
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  Speaker 4: are from NYPD's highway Patrol. They have the route between
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  Speaker 4: where they are and the location they are going to frozen.
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  Speaker 4: As we watch that move out, we see the van,
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  Speaker 4: and then we're going to see the armored vehicle following that,
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  Speaker 4: which is a counter assault team.
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  Speaker 2: Are they they're driving to Brooklyn? Now, is that the plan?
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  Speaker 4: They're driving to a separate location for security reasons. We're
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  Speaker 4: not going to get into that location on the air live,
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  Speaker 4: but that location is a secure law enforcement facility. They
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  Speaker 4: are going to go through the booking process there and
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  Speaker 4: then they are going to go to that other location.
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  Speaker 4: So you see the armored vehicles, you see the van,
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  Speaker 4: you see the ambulance which is part of the contingent
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  Speaker 4: because they've already you know, had to deal with some
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  Speaker 4: medical issues along the way.
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  Speaker 1: It is pretty remarkable. I'm going to go to Omar
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  Speaker 1: for a second as we're watching this happen. Omar, this
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  Speaker 1: is a Saturday night in Manhattan, and this.
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  Speaker 2: Is just an incredible law enforcement likely again with with
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  Speaker 2: the with the you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, now ousted president of Venezuela having traveled here.
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  Speaker 2: Describe the scene for us this is somewhat surreal.
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  Speaker 3: It really is, and for those that have even just
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  Speaker 3: been passing by on the street. I mean, you see
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things in New York City, but the
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  Speaker 3: amount of police and law enforcement presidence just in this
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  Speaker 3: part of Manhattan is even mind blowing. For those that
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  Speaker 3: live here in the city and if you were following
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  Speaker 3: that motor I mean the motor caid essentially that appeared
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  Speaker 3: to hold Maduro and his and his wife, but they
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  Speaker 3: have all cleared out of this area. Was that quick?
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  Speaker 3: And I can tell you when we are a little
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  Speaker 3: bit closer earlier in the day, we were able to
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  Speaker 3: get basically right up to the heliport area. We saw
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  Speaker 3: them sort of what appeared to be tracing a path
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  Speaker 3: from the exit of the heliport through the gate over there,
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  Speaker 3: and the way they positioned their vehicles, it appeared that
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  Speaker 3: it was just going to be a very quick transfer
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  Speaker 3: from that heliport into the vehicles pull out. And that
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  Speaker 3: is exactly what we just saw happen a few minutes
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  Speaker 3: ago here. And as you saw the level of law
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  Speaker 3: enforcement presence just going down the West Side Highway, from
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  Speaker 3: the armored vehicles to that variety of law enforcement, it's
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  Speaker 3: astounding to see on a city street here in New York.
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  Speaker 2: Jessica, Yeah, it certainly is.
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  Speaker 1: I want to go back to John Miller, if he's
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  Speaker 1: still with us, because I have another logistical question for him, John,
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  Speaker 1: which is, you know, when I lived in DC, you
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  Speaker 1: were used to seeing motorcades and they are very used
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  Speaker 1: to clearing streets there.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously New York can do.
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  Speaker 1: That because it gets its fair share of dignitaries as well.
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  Speaker 1: But to move through the New New York streets like this,
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  Speaker 1: what does that take for law enforcement?
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  Speaker 2: How do they keep everybody safe?
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  Speaker 4: You know, in New York City? And I say that
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  Speaker 4: as someone who used to be in charge of these
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  Speaker 4: movements for various presidents, including presidents of the United States.
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  Speaker 4: This is a very experienced team. The NYPD Highway Patrol
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  Speaker 4: team is used to being able to freeze a route
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  Speaker 4: or navigate a route that's unfrozen. In this case, the
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  Speaker 4: route between where they landed and where they're where they're
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  Speaker 4: going was frozen. They have a lot of experience in that.
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  Speaker 4: And that's for dignitaries. This is different, Jessica. This is
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  Speaker 4: a high threat prisoner in charge in a major narcotics
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  Speaker 4: trafficking case who happens to be formally, as a few
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  Speaker 4: hours ago, president of a sovereign nation in our region.
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  Speaker 4: So that is very similar to what they did with
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  Speaker 4: the El Chapo situation, where you had the head of
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  Speaker 4: a major cartel. This is the kind of person that
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  Speaker 4: had a lot of money behind them the resources to
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  Speaker 4: arrange people who could either attack such a motorcade, try
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  Speaker 4: to free a prisoner, try to stage a breakout, So
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  Speaker 4: layers and layers and layers are added on. We saw
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  Speaker 4: a lot of them right there, in terms of the
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  Speaker 4: armored vehicle, the counter assault team in case there was
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  Speaker 4: an assault on motorcade, the numerous blockages of traffic between
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  Speaker 4: where they are and where they're going. But that is
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  Speaker 4: something that they've experienced, and you will see that as
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  Speaker 4: they move from that jail to the court for the
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  Speaker 4: arraignment on Monday, and if there's a trial, you may
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  Speaker 4: see it on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 1: Right, It's really fascinating, all right, John, thank you. I
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  Speaker 1: do wanted to go to Jim Shudeow as well. As
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  Speaker 1: we're watching this play out, Jim.
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  Speaker 5: Jessica, I would just say, we have to remember how
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  Speaker 5: we got to this moment of those helicopters landing on
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  Speaker 5: the West Side Highway. Nicholas Maduro was president of Venezuela,
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  Speaker 5: a Latin American country of tens of millions of people,
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  Speaker 5: until this morning, when he and his wife were taken
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  Speaker 5: out of their bedroom by the US Delta Force in
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  Speaker 5: a highly complex military operation. To in effect decapitate the
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  Speaker 5: leadership of a major country in Latin America. It is
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  Speaker 5: a remarkable I don't say ending, but just next chapter
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  Speaker 5: write this arrival in New York for prosecution in an
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  Speaker 5: enormous event with a whole long list of questions still
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  Speaker 5: to be answered, one of the most prominent of which
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  Speaker 5: is who's going to replace Nicholas Maduro? And who does
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  Speaker 5: the US, which carried out this operation want to replace
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  Speaker 5: Nicholas Maduro? Because it was the position of the Trump
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  Speaker 5: administration till a short time ago, till weeks perhaps months ago,
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  Speaker 5: that it should be the opposition, for instance, the Nobel
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  Speaker 5: Prize winner Maria Karina Machai, and there were public statements
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  Speaker 5: of support. Those have waned and today this morning and
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  Speaker 5: the President, as he announced this operation and Maduro's removal,
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  Speaker 5: was praising Maduro's deputy, the vice president of that country,
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  Speaker 5: Delsi Rodriguez, saying that she wants to do everything she
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  Speaker 5: can and I'm paraphrasing to some degree here to make
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  Speaker 5: Venezuela great again. This is quite remarkable if that would
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  Speaker 5: be this administration's position, to prosecute Maduro, bring him to
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  Speaker 5: the US, replace him with a vice president from that
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  Speaker 5: same regime. We'll see, and then we'll also see what
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  Speaker 5: the US investment is going to be in assuring such
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  Speaker 5: a transition or moving on to new elections. He says
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  Speaker 5: he's willing to put US troops on the ground, how
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  Speaker 5: many and for how long. Quite a remarkable several hours here,
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  Speaker 5: given what we're seeing now in New York. But what
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  Speaker 5: it means for what Maduro left behind