Professor, it's great to see you. Thanks for being with us. Was the seizure of this tanker illegal.On its face, it sure looks like it. We had a warrant issued by a U.S. federal court. We had sanctions in place, actually, and a pretty comprehensive regime against both this particular tanker and as well as numerous sanctions against the Venezuelan government and nation going back to 2005.But against this tanker, there were sanctions against it going back to 2022, in fact, for allegedly illegally smuggling oil ...

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have raised questions about the Trump administration's deadly boat strike campaign. And yesterday, they finally got some answers. During a briefing with top military officials, a group of congressional leaders viewed unedited footage of that highly scrutinized September 2nd attack for the first time.That's a so-called double tap strike that killed shipwrecked survivors who were seen clinging to the broken alleged drug boat after the initial impact. Multiple members descr ...

In just a moment, I'm going to play you an incredibly newsworthy and incredibly alarming interview I did today with Congressman Jim Hemes. Jim Heims, of course, is the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who was one of the very few people in the room today during a classified briefing on the unfolding scandal that has absolutely engulfed the Trump administration. That is, of course, the September 2nd operation to take out a suspected Venezuelan drug boat and the decision to launch a second ...

Joining us now to break down all this, Punch Bowl News co-founder and MS Now political contributor Jake Sherman, staff writer for The Atlantic, Missy Ryan, Wall Street Journal national security reporter Vera Bergen Gruin, and retired commander of US Army Europe, Lieutenant General Mark Hurtling. It's good to see all of you. General Hurtling, I'll begin with you.Knowing more about the September 2nd boat strikes, what do you think Democrats were so disturbed by after that briefing from the Admiral. probably t ...

President Trump and Republican Senator Ran Paul are clashing once again. This time it's over the US's strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean in addition to Paul's continued opposition to that Republican funding bill. Now, in recent weeks, there have been at least five instances of the US striking those alleged drug boats in international waters.The White House has claimed that those boats were smuggling drugs that could eventually reach the US. Now, Senator Paul, he had some sharp criticism of the m ...

No matter how many drug boats are blown up, drug smuggling is not going to disappear. On the contrary, it is probably coming to a port near you. We explain why https://t.co/LJaMeMM2cIPhoto: AP https://t.co/ndlmUKcl6e ...

We are getting more details about that US strike on a Venezuelan speedboat the administration says killed 11 people on Tuesday. And many of those details only raise more questions. According to the New York Times, Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters.That is so extraordinary it's it's out of step with even the worst American administrations. I mean, the Bush White House after 91 ...

We are getting more details about that US strike on a Venezuelan speedboat the administration says killed 11 people on Tuesday. And many of those details only raise more questions. According to the New York Times, Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters.That is so extraordinary it's it's out of step with even the worst American administrations. I mean, the Bush White House after 91 ...