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Sitting directly to the president's left, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he was no longer in the room on September 2 when a Navy admiral ordered a second strike on this suspected drug boat. A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander had made-- which he had the complete authority to do. And by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat.
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The first strike reportedly killed nine people, and the second killed the final two, who were clinging to debris. That is the part that has many in Congress outraged. I think there's a broad consensus that it's illegal to kill people who are clinging to wreckage. Let me be very clear. Killing shipwrecked survivors is a war crime.
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In the cabinet meeting, Trump stood by Hegseth. Pete has done an amazing job.
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But he also set off Democratic alarm bells with this comment. I want those boats taken out, and if we have to, we'll attack on land also, just like we attack on sea.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that would require an act of Congress first. If Trump were to order an attack on land, that would be an act of war, and Congress would invoke the War Powers Act.
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The more than two-hour cabinet meeting touched on a variety of topics, from inflation-- The word affordability is a con job.
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--to immigration. We're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.
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The president stoking a new controversy with these comments about people who came to the US from the African nation of Somalia. I don't want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks, and we don't want them in our country. He's been talking about Somalis ever since the story broke last week about a fraud ring in Minnesota, which has the nation's highest concentration of Somali Americans. A US official tells CBS News that ICE is now planning to surge resources to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to crack down on individuals there with deportation orders. Gayle. All right, Nancy, thank you.
