And you've been briefed on what legal authorities are being invoked. Do you think they are insufficient at this point? They had a very hard time explaining to us the rationale, the legal rationale for doing this and the constitutionality of doing it. When you consider what you know, the law of warfare, especially at sea, was a very convoluted argument. It also included, by the way, a secret list of over 20 narco organizations, drug trafficking, cartels. (01:40–01:50)
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