The United States is weighing what is next for Venezuela following the capture of the South American country’s president and flying him out of the country, President Donald Trump said Saturday.
"We'll be involved in it very much" as to who will govern the country, Trump said.
"We can't take a chance in letting somebody else run and just take over what he left, or left off," Trump said in an interview with Fox News hours after the capture.
Meanwhile, Venezuelan ruling party leader Nahum Fernández told The Associated Press that Nicolás Maduro and his wife were at their home within the Ft. Tiuna military installation when they were captured.
"That's where they bombed," he said. "And, there, they carried out what we could call a kidnapping of the president and the first lady of the country."
Maduro was captured from a highly guarded "fortress," Trump said, adding that no Americans were killed in the operation.
"You know, that we had nobody killed was amazing," he said, adding that a "couple of guys were hit, but they came back and they're supposed to be in pretty good shape."
Trump said he watched the daring raid live, saying it looked like "a television show."
"I mean, I watched it, literally, like I was watching a television show. And if you would have seen the speed, the violence," Trump said.
"We watched every aspect of it."
He also said the U.S. is going to be "very strongly involved" in Venezuela's oil industry in the wake of Marudo’s removal.
"We have the greatest oil companies in the world, the biggest, the greatest, and we're going to be very much involved in it," he said.
