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Speaker 1: Stay signed Richard Donold, good morning, Good morning, Mike. They

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Speaker 1: underway with the questions.

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Speaker 2: They are these briefings by the Navy admiral who reportedly

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Speaker 2: gave the orders for the US military to fire on

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Speaker 2: those survivors of an attack a Llegou drug boat that

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Speaker 2: they were targeting. So those briefings are taking place a

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Speaker 2: serious or classified sessions. But lawd makers always make their

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Speaker 2: opinions known, and Democrat Jim Hymes on the House Intelligence

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Speaker 2: Committee came out a few moments ago saying this, after

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Speaker 2: seeing some of the video was one of.

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Speaker 3: The most troubling things I've seen in my time in

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Speaker 3: public service. You have two individuals in clear distress without

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Speaker 3: any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, who were

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Speaker 3: killed by the United States. Any American who sees the

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Speaker 3: video that I saw will see the United States military

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Speaker 3: attacking shipwrecked sailors. Bad guys, bad guys, but attacking shipwrecked sailors.

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Speaker 2: So that would be against the Geneva conventions. The publican side,

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Speaker 2: there is division which has been interesting. Some say the

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Speaker 2: accounts they're hearing clear the Defense Secretary pet higgsys Others

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Speaker 2: like Republican Senator around, Paul say, Nope, the bugs should

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Speaker 2: stop with the Defense Chief himself and not with the

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Speaker 2: Navy Admiral Frank Bradley and the Senate. It says, these

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Speaker 2: military attacks on the alleged Venezuelan drug boats are pretty

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Speaker 2: dodgy in his view of the whole operation, says Rand Paul.

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Speaker 3: I frankly think it's absolutely illegal.

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Speaker 2: As for the video of the twin attacks on the boat,

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Speaker 2: Trump suggests he would support the release of that material.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what they have, but whatever they have

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Speaker 3: would certainly release, no problem.

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Speaker 2: So is that simply talk or is it likely to happen?

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Speaker 2: The administration accounts of all this have been shifting around

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Speaker 2: a lot. The admiral reportedly is denying there was a

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Speaker 2: kill all order given by Higgsyth. The Defense Secretary says

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Speaker 2: he did not see survivors after the first strike. He says,

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Speaker 2: quite the thing that on fire are exploded in fire

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Speaker 2: and smoke, you can't see it now. The Pentagon is

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Speaker 2: suggesting that the two survivors were trying to continue their

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Speaker 2: drug run, and maybe we're attempting to salvage drugs or

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Speaker 2: to radio in for backup.

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Speaker 1: Can both be true?

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Speaker 2: Any of the boat mostly blown to pieces, and still

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Speaker 2: argue the operation was continuing. A Democratic Senator Corry Booker

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Speaker 2: is calling for a full and open inquiry.

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Speaker 3: I need to do this investigation now.

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Speaker 1: The facts to me that I'm hearing are not satisfactory.

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Speaker 2: Well, this incident is playing out as Pentagon Watchdog has

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Speaker 2: found that Hegstas put military personnel at risk when he

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Speaker 2: used that open chat app signal to send info about

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Speaker 2: an attack on Whotius and Yemen back in March. HEGs

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Speaker 2: says shared information that was classified with people, including his

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Speaker 2: wife and a reporter who was sitting in a supermarket

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Speaker 2: parking lot when he was advised of the pending US attack.

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Speaker 2: Hegseth says this review clears him, but he refused to

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Speaker 2: take part in interviews for the investigation and instead claimed

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Speaker 2: he has the power to declassified material mentally, the same

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Speaker 2: thing that Trump argues. So even before he realized he

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Speaker 2: was telling people outside the Pentagon the what, when, and

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Speaker 2: where of the attack, he mentally declassified that same information.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't make much sense speaking of Hegsas sore, they're pleading

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Speaker 1: the New York are going to try the first and

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Speaker 1: the fifth Amendment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, New York Times has gone to court over this,

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Speaker 2: accusing the Pentagon of violating their constitutional rights by imposing

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Speaker 2: there's limits on what can be reported out of that building.

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Speaker 2: Times claims the new Pentagon restrictions ignore the Constitution when

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Speaker 2: it comes to free speech, for restricts journalists ability to

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Speaker 2: do what journos always have done and challenged public statements.

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Speaker 2: Back in September, of course, the Pentagon called on reporters

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Speaker 2: to sign a twenty one page form where they would

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Speaker 2: agree to potential punishments for gathering any info that was

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Speaker 2: not approved officially. The Pentagon then stripped several media outlets

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Speaker 2: of their workspaces in the place, offering them instead to

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Speaker 2: pro Trump outlets. They also expanded limits on where reporters

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Speaker 2: could move around the Pentagon building. This follows the Trump

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Speaker 2: exclusion of the Associated Press from the wine House pull

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Speaker 2: after the AP failed to follow the Trump call to

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Speaker 2: rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

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Speaker 1: You have a good whole today season, Richard will catch

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Speaker 1: up in twenty six. Appreciate your if it's in your

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Speaker 1: energy every morning, Richard Arnold stateside.

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