Bloomberg Talks

President Donald Trump said the US would run Venezuela until a transition could be organized, hours after a US operation captured leader Nicolás Maduro, ousting the strongman from power after months of mounting military and economic pressure on his regime.“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said Saturday at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. “So we don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years.”Trump said the US administration of Venezuela would include deploying US oil companies to the country, though indicated that his embargo “on all Venezuelan oil remains in full effect” and that US forces would stay on alert. Bloomberg's Joe Mathieu and Christina Ruffini speak with: Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Illinois) Justin Logan, director of defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Democracy Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center and Bloomberg Politics Contributor & Lester Munson, Principal of the International Practice at BGR Group and Republican Strategist See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bridge Bank CEO Bob Curley speaks on the company's performance and expected M&A action in 2026 for companies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dana Peterson, Chief Economist at The Conference Board, weighs in on whether we will get a clear picture of the US economy post-government shutdown. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra joins Bloomberg to discuss the future of health care once the ACA subsidies expire. He says healthcare costs will rise in an environment where consumers are already struggling.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Applications for US unemployment benefits decreased by 16,000 to 199,000 in the week ended Dec. 27, falling to one of the lowest levels this year. Claudia Sahm, chief economist at New Century Advisors, examines the data.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.