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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold, US correspondent to Richard, Very good morning.

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Speaker 2: He yes, so, more.

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Speaker 1: Details about the second strike with heigst Yeah, it's ongoing.

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Speaker 1: Heigg Seth has skirted questions about releasing the video of

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Speaker 1: that controversial second boat strike off Venezuela. Critics have called

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Speaker 1: that second strike against the two survivors of the initial

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Speaker 1: attack troubling, potentially a war crime. Heggs seth Now is

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Speaker 1: avoiding a clear response to questions about whether that second

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Speaker 1: strike video should be made public. Here's what he's saying,

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Speaker 1: reviewing the process and we'll see. I'll see that is

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Speaker 1: different from what Trump was saying about this just last week.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what.

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Speaker 2: They have, but whatever they have would certainly release, no problem.

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Speaker 1: Well. Heggs seth Now is doubling down on his assertion

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Speaker 1: that the second strike was legal and necessary. Here's what

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Speaker 1: he is saying.

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Speaker 2: I fully support that strike.

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Speaker 1: I would have made the same call myself. It has

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Speaker 1: also immerged in recent hours at this boat was not

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Speaker 1: even headed towards the US of A. It was traveling

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Speaker 1: southward Suriname, where it's believes that drugs would eventually be

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Speaker 1: headed to Europe or Africa. So was this a valid

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Speaker 1: so called war target for the United States. Republican Senator

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Speaker 1: Tom Cotton argues that in his thinking.

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Speaker 2: It was any boat loaded with drugs that is trapped,

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Speaker 2: that is crewed by associates and members of foreign terrorist

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Speaker 2: organizations that are trying to kill American kids, I think

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Speaker 2: is a valid target.

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Speaker 1: Many Democrats disagree, and even some Republicans like Senator Around Paula,

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Speaker 1: calling the entire operation of Venezuela illegal. Meantime, we're hearing

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Speaker 1: more about the twelve hours of testimony that this Admiral

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Speaker 1: Mitch Bradley gave enclosed door sessions to lawmakers. He says

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Speaker 1: that US Intel had confirmed the identities of all eleven

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Speaker 1: people on the drug boat, so that's something we hadn't

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Speaker 1: heard before. The admiral says his orders from Higseth were

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Speaker 1: to kill individuals on the approved target list. He told

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Speaker 1: lawmakers that while the first strike disabled the boat, the

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Speaker 1: two survivors were able to flip over part of the wreckage,

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Speaker 1: and that some bags of cocaine had not been ejected

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Speaker 1: by the first strike. The US attack team saw the

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Speaker 1: survivors taking off their shirts to check they had no wounds,

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Speaker 1: and they say there was another larger boat spotted in

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Speaker 1: the area that the targeted boat was supposed to link

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Speaker 1: up with, but the admiral said the larger boat was

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Speaker 1: not on the approved US target list. Meantime, another Trump

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Speaker 1: aid is in the spotlight right now. There is groin

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Speaker 1: talks that Homeland Security Chief Christie Nome could be fired

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Speaker 1: and replaced by outgoing Governor Glenn Younkin. Nome is dating

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Speaker 1: former Trump aid Corey Lewandowski, and there is concern about

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Speaker 1: Lewandowski's growing role at that agency. Nome has been trying

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Speaker 1: to stay in Trump's good books by heaping flattery on him,

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Speaker 1: saying in a recent cabinet session that this was a

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Speaker 1: mild hurricane season and telling Trump, quote, you kept the

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Speaker 1: hurricanes away. We appreciate that. Yeah, okay, well anybody would,

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Speaker 1: now I can't.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it seems to me it's obviously a problem

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Speaker 2: if WEIMO doesn't recognize kids and school buses.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it seems to be WEIMO was having this

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Speaker 1: new issue. The self driving taxi started service in San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: then they expanded onto La and the Phoenix and to

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Speaker 1: Austin in Texas. So it's a couple of thousand of

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Speaker 1: these things on the streets right now, and they plan

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Speaker 1: to move into many US cities in the months ahead. Now,

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Speaker 1: this problem, these robo taxis have been scooting past school

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Speaker 1: buses when the buses have stopped to load and unload

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Speaker 1: the school kids. The law here is when the school

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Speaker 1: buses stopped, they put out the sign. Other drivers then

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Speaker 1: must halt as well so they don't accidentally run over

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Speaker 1: the kids. Well, the weimos have not been doing this.

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Speaker 1: They just right on by. There have been nineteen documented

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Speaker 1: cases of this in Texas. It's happened also in Arizona.

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Speaker 1: So now WEIMO has ordered a massive recall of the

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Speaker 1: software on these cars. That recall will get underway this week.

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Speaker 1: WEIMO official Vche Nihilani saying, however.

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Speaker 2: I don't think people should expect perfection.

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Speaker 1: What's really important, though, is that we're learning from all

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Speaker 1: the different scenarios that we encounter. Perfection. Avoiding school kids

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Speaker 1: seems like a key safety concerned, doesn't it. So far,

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Speaker 1: no one has been killed. Yeah, so far, Yeah, Hey,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. Richard really appreciated. Richard Arnold us

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