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'Tell Us What Your Legal Authority Was': Tim Kaine Demands Answers On Caribbean Boat Strikes

Published | Video Starts at 00:09

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll just continue the line of not inquiry because I don't have a question about this, but I just want to follow up on Senator Slotkin. 25 of us in the Senate wrote a letter to the President a week ago and we asked questions about these operations in the Caribbean. Give us the evidence that these boats were carrying drugs. Tell us who was on the boats. Tell us what your legal authority was to take a military strike, and that had not been authorized by Congress. (00:09–00:18)

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