Top officials from the Trump administration arrived on Capitol Hill to defend one of the most audacious military operations in recent US history: the forcible capture of a sitting head of state from his own capital.
Secretary of state Marco Rubio, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, attorney general Pam Bondi, CIA director John Ratcliffe and Gen Dan Caine, chair of the joint chiefs of staff, briefed the Senate and the House on Operation Absolute Resolve, the lightning raid that plucked the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, from his Caracas residence and deposited him in a New York jail cell.
