If you pick a Fox News cable host to lead the largest, most complicated federal agency of all, you get burnt. And Hegseth is just way beyond what anyone would imagine in how bad he is at that department. In the past few days, more questions have arisen about Hegseth's order to attack alleged drug trafficking vessels off the coast of Venezuela. It is possible those strikes, which may have included verbal orders from the Secretary of Defense to, quote, kill everybody on those boats, violated the law. But this is the problem. (02:17–02:26)
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Asserts that questions have arisen about Pete Hegseth's order to attack vessels off Venezuela.
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