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It's pop quiz time. Don't worry, this one's easy. Try to think about what the following people have in common.First, Ross Olrich, sentenced to life in prison 10 years ago for building what was at the time the single largest digital black market for illegal drugs, and other illicit items. Then there's Larry Hoover, Chicago gang boss, convicted in 1997 of conspiracy, extortion, and money laundering. The third name is Garnett Gilbert Smith.He's a Baltimore drug kingpin found guilty of charges related to distri ...

Uh, Republican Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri repeatedly dodged questions about whether he supported President Trump's pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the US. The Republican lawmaker instead insulted the show's host and attempted to defend Trump's boat strikes while claiming to not know the details of the widely reported pardon story. I think that happened here.>> Do you support this pardon of the former Hondur ...

At a ceremony last night for the Kennedy Center honores, President Trump said the US military is prepared to launch even more air strikes in the Caribbean. This time on land as he announced a drop in drug trafficking by boat with numbers that can't be substantiated. By the way, drugs coming into our country by sea down 94%.Okay, down 94%. And I'm trying to figure out who the other 6% is because frankly I think they are the most that they got to be the bravest people. Who are the 6% that are still trying to ...

And joining me now is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee who was in those briefings this week, Republican Tom Cotton of Arkansas. Senator Cotton, welcome back to Meet the Press. >> Thanks for having me on, Kristen.>> Thank you so much for being here after a very big week. I want to ask you about our new reporting. NBC News is reporting this morning that defense secretary Pete Hgsith, his order was to kill all 11 individuals on that boat because they were on a list of narco terrorists who inte ...

Danielle. We didn't know we'd be talking about this because this just broke a couple of moments ago. If this information is true, how does it change the complexion of this story.You know, I don't think it changes it that much. The challenge for us is not what happened. I think the challenge for us is what whether whether the action that the president is taking in towards Venezuela and towards these drug boats is considered legal.And depending on your perspective, you are going to either say, we are at war. ...

Under a microscope and facing growing calls for transparency, the Pentagon is barreling ahead with its strikes on alleged drug boats. Defense Secretary Hegth announced another strike yesterday. This one in the Eastern Pacific.It was carried out on the very same day that top commanders were briefing key lawmakers about the controversial first strikes of this campaign which resulted in a so-called double tap in September that killed two shipwrecked survivors. Julia, let's start on this new strike. What do we ...

Donald Trump keeps justifying the killing of more than 80 men on boats in the Caribbean, including two who were shipwrecked, as a way to save Americans from the deadly scourge of drugs. But then just this week, amidst this whole scandal, he pardoned a man who helped traffic more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. Last year, the ex-president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, was convicted here in the US for basically running his country like a narco state.The jury returned its verdict after a two-week ...

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 ...