If you're on a boat full of cocaine or fentanyl or whatever headed to the United States, you're an immediate threat to the United States. And The President, under his authority as Commander in Chief, has a right under exigent circumstances to eliminate imminent threats to the United States. And that's what he did yesterday in international waters and that's what he intends to do. We're not going to sit back anymore and watch these people sail up and down the Caribbean like a cruise ship. (12:31–12:39)
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Asserts that the U.S. President has the authority to eliminate imminent threats under exigent circumstances.
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