Israel is working to destabilize the region and divide and fragment countries.

We will pursue all diplomatic and legal avenues to express our rejection of the Israeli violation of our sovereignty.

We call on the Israeli government to immediately withdraw its illegal recognition of the so-called Somaliland region.

You have my commitment that we will not rest for a single minute until we bring Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores back.

We will not stop condemning the criminal aggression against the Venezuelan people that occurred in the early morning of January 3.

It will go down in history as a major stain on relations between the United States and Venezuela.

The Venezuelan government and the United States government are exploring avenues for opening embassies. For what purpose?

To reiterate our condemnation of the aggression suffered by our people, because our women, our men, our girls, and our boys were deeply affected by an aggression of this nature.

The Venezuelan people do not deserve this treatment; they do not deserve this aggression from a nuclear power. But our response will be through diplomacy. We will meet face-to-face in diplomacy.

We will use our Bolivarian diplomacy of peace to defend the peace of Venezuela, the stability of Venezuela, the future, our independence, and our sacred and inalienable sovereignty.

Anyone who comes here claiming that they rule and control things — no.

There is a government here, and a popular government, to defend this country and this territory.

This is the Gran Colombia, it was Bolívar's idea and I propose by constituent vote of the population that we rebuild it as a confederation of autonomous nations.

We would have common policies in the matters that the people propose. Undoubtedly the commercial policy toward industrialization and being what it is geographically a center of the world and of Latin America. A center of clean energies, of knowledge, of high-technology infrastructures for mobility and communication.

On those there would be a Gran Colombian parliament, a court of justice and a government council, like in the European Union or in the federal USA.

A potential for tourism and for world connectivity.

Today, at approximately 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces, alongside partner forces, conducted large-scale strikes against multiple ISIS targets across Syria.

These strikes are part of Operation Hawkeye Strike, which was launched and announced on Dec. 19, 2025, at the direction of President Trump, in direct response to the deadly ISIS attack on U.S. and Syrian forces in Palmyra, Syria, on Dec. 13, 2025. That ambush, carried out by an ISIS terrorist, resulted in the tragic deaths of two American soldiers and one U.S. civilian interpreter.

The strikes today targeted ISIS throughout Syria as part of our ongoing commitment to root out Islamic terrorism against our warfighters, prevent future attacks, and protect American and partner forces in the region. U.S. and coalition forces remain resolute in pursuing terrorists who seek to harm the United States.

Our message remains strong: if you harm our warfighters, we will find you and kill you anywhere in the world, no matter how hard you try to evade justice.

We will never forget, and never relent.

You all have refused to back down. You all have decided that this resistance is not one that can be intimidated.

We are showing the nation that regardless of what the tyrant in the White House believes, we know that we are here to stay and this is our country.

We are going to make a life here, and we are going to stand up for our neighbors here in Minneapolis. As many of you know, they came to terrorize, abduct, and deport Somali immigrants here in Minnesota.

When they couldn't find any because the majority of us are legal residents and citizens, they decided to terrorize our Latino immigrants.