NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump told Fox News on Saturday that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were aboard US warship Iwo Jima and headed to New York, where they will face prosecution.

The US carried out the lightning military strike on Venezuela early Saturday, capturing President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and spiriting them out of the country. American officials say the pair will face narco-terrorism charges in US courts.

In the interview Saturday morning Trump said that the US will be making decisions on what is next for Venezuela.

“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 hours after the capture.