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Rules and restrictions may apply. First things first, if you look at what the president's most focused on, on international relations, it is finally in our hemisphere and it is in Venezuela. Two days ago, the big story was the taking of the tanker containing $80 million of illicit oil that was Iranian. We've been looking at this called the Skipper, this ship for a while.
So we just fast-roped onto it, took it over, and said, Now we're going to bring it home. And that's more pressure on Venezuela. The other thing that why it's so important. Important for Maduro to go out of our hemisphere is because he was told to hold free and fair elections by a previous president. He held those elections.
He tried to cheat, but he still lost overwhelmingly to the party of Maria Karina Machado. And he stayed in power and tightened his grip, surrounded by Cubans and Iranians and Hezbollah. We're all going to allow that in our backyard for the president of the United States, led by Secretary of State, National Security of Arbor Mark Aruba. The answer is no. But one of the key is having something to replace Maduro with, and that is Machado's party.
She got picked as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Would she be able to get Norway to accept it? Yes. Why? Because of Brian Stern and Gray Bull Rescue.
And guess who joins us now? Former U.S. Army and Navy Counter-Intel Officer Brian Stern. Brian, welcome back. Hey, Brian, how are you?
Great. Could you tell me. How you got involved and what you did. It was as tough as being a ballerina at 46 and 6. I can tell you that.
Not a like, but certainly a challenge. We got contacted a week ago today actually last Friday around twenty one hundred around nine p.m. by a friend who was connected to Maria's team and asked if we were doing stuff in Venezuela they knew we were doing stuff in Venezuela, but asked if we would particip you know, if we'd be willing to hear out a very complicated case. We didn't know it was Maria at first. We learned that it was Maria either late Friday or early Saturday morning, I'm not sure.
Figured out that it was her. Uh That changes everything. As you know, we've been doing stuff, we do stuff all over the world. We call this operation Golden Dynamite. That's her name for us.
Um Because of who she is, this changes everything. We have a lot of things all over the world. This was our 800th mission that we've done. 800 missions. But this is the hardest thing we've ever done.
This is the first thing we've ever done for someone who has a Wikipedia page, right? She's the second most popular person in the Western Hemisphere ever. Which means if she spotted, it would be over.
So you had to disguise her. We had to do all kinds of things, all kinds of things, discuss all kinds of things which are we can't get into. But that was so that all started on Saturday. We started planning Saturday all day, started plan continued to plan Sunday. We deployed forward to the region, went back to the region on Sunday.
And set conditions for Monday, and we initiated operations on Tuesday. And uh Here we are.
Some on land, some on sea? There was a land piece, a maritime piece, a very large maritime piece and also an aviation component as well. She had to fly to Norway from the Caribbean. When at what point during the operation did you feel like it was secure? Uh, when I saw her in Norway.
Wow. That was it. When I saw Maria hug her daughter, is when I took a deep breath because at that point we're out of the g you know, our piece is done. We were out of the game at that point. We we actually did not do the aviation piece.
We were about we were supposed to, we were about to, we were ready for it, but for lots of really good reasons, we didn't have to. They they had that sorted out, so that was better for us. Did that have anything to do with the F-16s or the fighter jets that flew over seventy two hours ago? No, um, no, it was more about uh Maria has people on her team that have access to cheap, cheaper planes than we do. It was really a cost.
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So you got her, you had to get her out. You had to get her through checkpoints, and people would recognize her.
So I imagine she had to be disguised. I don't want to get into how everything went down on the land because we still have ops going on. This is still we don't want to put sources of methods that are at risk. But um suffice it to say, Uh it was dangerous for her. Very dangerous for her, dangerous for everybody involved, frankly.
She did not complain, you said, and it was extremely cold. And you also said the w the waters were extremely choppy, but that helped you. How?
So we were in five to ten fre seas depending on timing, which was miserable in a small fishing boat. I will tell you we had on one of the boats, we had a very seasoned operator who's a very former Marine who is a very seasoned guy, and he was vomiting for nine hours, for perspective. It was cold, it was wet. This is happening in the middle of the night in pitch black darkness with cloud cover and almost no moonlight. And Maria didn't complain once.
I've never, it was inspirational. She's been a hero of mine for years. this that being asked to participate in this, let alone lead this operation, is probably the greatest privilege that I'll ever have in my career, for sure.
So when I met her, I was frankly starstruck. She's a hero of mine. I know I've been following her free. I've been on her Twitter feed for years. To meet her and then to watch her.
be the Iron Lady that she is. Went from, you know, I thought she was a rock star to pretty impressive. Pretty impressive. And I'm sure that's its reassurance, too, because there's no doubt about it. Maduro's got to go, and she's the one that will replace.
She says she's got a hundred-day plan, and I believe her. Brian, congratulations on your courage and your success. For people, if you have some money and time, go on to Great Bull Rescue's website and help them out. They're a nonprofit, just saving the good people in this world. Brian, thanks so much.
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