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Tom Cotton: “This was a US Operation that was designed to remove Nicolas…”

Featuring: Tom Cotton, Republican | U.S. Senate, Arkansas

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Marco Rubio, Sen. Chris Van Hollen and more | "Face the Nation" Full Broadcast - Jan. 4, 2026

Published | Video Starts at 21:46

Because there has been speculation, based on testimony to Congress back in 2019 by one of Trump's top Russia advisors, Fiona Hill, that Russia has been floating a Venezuela for Ukraine deal here for some time. Is there any such deal? No. This was a US Operation that was designed to remove Nicolas Maduro because he was a US Indicted drug trafficker. And you don't get immunity from American justice when you're indicted by our courts just because you're the illegitimate communist dictator of another country. But to be clear, that's not what I'm saying here. (21:46–21:55)

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Asserts that the US operation aimed to remove Nicolas Maduro due to his indictment as a drug trafficker.

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