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Trump has 'no problem' with releasing video of second strike on alleged drug boat
NBC News· 2025-12-03 22:00
You released video of that first boat strike on September 2nd, but not the second video. Will you release video of that strike so that the American people can see for themselves what happened. >> I don't know what they have, but whatever they have, we certainly release.No problem. You know, we stopped every boat we knock out. We saved 25,000 American lives.>> And if you look at our if you look at our numbers, >> uh the drugs coming in through sea are down 91%. I'm I'm surprised it's 9%. You want to ask.I do ...
‘He must resign’: Maddow on Pete Hegseth shifting blame for Caribbean boat strikes after backlash
MSNBC· 2025-12-02 22:15
here, but there's not a story that I've more desperately wanted to talk to you about since this this post story just blew this unbelievable fact out into public view. And I wonder your thoughts on all of it. I am um disturbed by this, I think, as everybody is.I taking a step back from this, Nicole. I don't understand why we're going to war with Venezuela and I'm not sure the administration has even bothered to try to come up with anything even internally coherent in terms of explaining why Trump has proclai ...
Hegseth says 'we have only just begun' striking narco boats coming for the US
Bloomberg Television· 2025-12-02 22:05
And then it's getting after and going after narco terrorists and designated terrorist organizations in our own hemisphere. Uh as I've said and I'll say again, we've only just begun striking narco boats and putting narot terrorists uh at the bottom of the ocean because they've been poisoning the American people. And President Trump said, "No, we're taking the gloves off. We're taking the fight to these designated terror organizations." And that's exactly what we're doing.So we're stopping the drugs. We're st ...
Trump talks strikes on alleged drug boats and immigration at Cabinet meeting
NBC News· 2025-12-02 19:45
We've been listening to President Trump and members of his cabinet speak at the ninth cabinet meeting of Trump's administration. It lasted just over two hours. We heard the president and Secretary Hegsth discussing a September strike on a boat the administration said was carrying naroterrorists.Secretary Hegsth saying he did not personally see survivors after the first strike on the boat and that he was not physically present when the boat was struck a second time, though he continued to support that decisi ...
Son of ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges
NBC News· 2025-12-02 13:43
One of the sons of Mexican drug king Penel Chapo is taking a plea deal in a major US drug trafficking case. In a federal court in Chicago yesterday, Waqin Guzman Lopez pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking and continuing a criminal enterprise. He admitted to overseeing the transport of tens of thousands of kilos of drugs into the US through underground tunnels.Comes months after his brother also entered into a plea deal. The pair is accused of running a faction of the Sinaloa cartel once led by t ...
White House confirms second strike on alleged drug boat
NBC News· 2025-12-02 00:45
After months of deadly boat strikes near Venezuela, tonight President Trump is meeting with his national security team, including Defense Secretary Pete Haggath in the Oval Office, discussing their next move. It comes as Congress is demanding answers about this attack on September 2nd. The Trump administration now confirms it hit an alleged drug boat, not once, but twice.The second strike ordered after the first failed to kill everyone on board. A US official and a source familiar with the Pentagon's action ...
'This is completely out of control': 4-Star Army General slams bombshell Hegseth report
MSNBC· 2025-12-01 20:51
Joining us, MS Now congressional reporter Michael Schnell, editor and chief of foreign policy and host of FP Live, Ravi Agarwal, and retired fourstar general and MS Now military analyst, General Barry McCaffrey. Interesting to see um so many Republican lawmakers today, Michael, saying that they're concerned and they need more more answers out of the Pentagon. >> Yeah, Katie.And notably, it's the bipartisan lawmakers, including those Republicans from a pair of key committees, both the House Armed Services Co ...
Trump declares Venezuelan airspace closed, something he has no authority to do
MSNBC· 2025-11-29 22:44
escalating tensions in and around Venezuela after a vague social media post from President Trump earlier today. He left many scratching their heads after telling airlines and pilots in all caps, quote, "Consider the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety." Now, Trump claims his administration is targeting Nicholas Maduro over drug trafficking. Well, Alex, the president does not have the authority to control the airspace over or surrounding Venezuela.And nonetheless, he's issui ...
Guinea-Bissau Interim Leader Vows Drug, Graft Crackdown
Bloomberg Television· 2025-11-28 10:41
Guinea-Bissau's new interim military leader is vowing a crackdown on drug trafficking and corruption after taking power General. And Tom was sworn in a day after soldiers arrested the president and ordered last weekend's election results to be suspended. For more.Let's bring in Bloomberg's on Darrell Ganga, who joins us now with the latest on terror. What more do we know. Good morning, Tom.A lot has escalated in Guinea-Bissau in the last 48 hours. First, it started with gunfire. The presidential palace was ...