00:02former venezuelan president nicolas maduro and his wife celia flores are asking a u.s federal
00:07judge to dismiss the drug trafficking indictment against them on the grounds that they have
00:12immunity as the leader and first lady of a foreign country in papers filed in a manhattan federal
00:18court lawyers for maduro said a judge was required by law to reject the indictment
00:23because it cannot be brought against a foreign leader maduro and flores have been jailed in
00:29brooklyn since january when u.s forces captured them in a nighttime raid on their home in caracas
00:37maduro has called himself a prisoner of war and his capture a kidnapping while the trump
00:42administration has defended it as a surgical law enforcement operation prosecutors say maduro
00:48carried out a conspiracy to move thousands of tons of cocaine into the u.s by colluding with venezuelan
00:54officials to protect drug traffickers both have pleaded not guilty and face possible life sentences
01:02maduro and his wife are scheduled to go on trial on drug trafficking charges next june
01:07and oral arguments have now been set for november on motions to dismiss the indictment
