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These drugs are weapons of mass destruction · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Books coming in through the sea by sea are down
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  Speaker 1: ninety one percent.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know who the nine percent is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure either circus, but down ninety one percent
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  Speaker 1: by sea.
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  Speaker 2: And Secretary of warpete Hegsas said, it's only the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: We've only just begun striking Narco boats and putting Narco
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  Speaker 1: terrorists at the bottom of the ocean because they've been
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  Speaker 1: poisoning the American people. And Joe Biden tried to approach
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  Speaker 1: it with kid gloves and allow them to come across
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  Speaker 1: the border. Cartels takeover community. Twenty million people, hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: thousands of Americans poisoned, and President Trump said, no, we're
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  Speaker 1: taking the bluffs off. We're taking the fight.
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  Speaker 2: To these designated terror organizations. Now, the talk amongst Democrats
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  Speaker 2: and much of the media has been that second boat strike,
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  Speaker 2: and that was addressed by the secretary.
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  Speaker 1: So you did see any survivors, to be clear, after
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  Speaker 1: that first start, I did not personally see, but I
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  Speaker 1: stand because the thing was on fire, that was exploded.
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  Speaker 1: In fire or smoke, you can't see any digital there's
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  Speaker 1: this is called the fog of war.
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  Speaker 2: So let's look at the legal justification for just one
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  Speaker 2: moment that deministration is using for the attack on these
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  Speaker 2: drug boats. By combining several legal frames, they find the
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  Speaker 2: legal ground for the strikes on these boats off Venezuela. One,
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  Speaker 2: they look at the maritime drug control laws that allows
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  Speaker 2: the Coastguard, for example, to board, inspect, and prosecute drug
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  Speaker 2: cartel members. They've also designated the traffickers as terrorists unlawful combatants.
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  Speaker 2: They've added in the idea that a non international armed
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  Speaker 2: conflict exists with the drug cartels. And then their fourth
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  Speaker 2: is the US constitutional right to self defense. Now, Democrat
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  Speaker 2: Senator Mark Kelly, he doesn't buy it. That is against
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  Speaker 2: the Geneva Conventions. That's against the laws of war, which
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  Speaker 2: we should always be abiding by. We're the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America. We are not Russia.
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  Speaker 1: We're not a rack, We're not a ram.
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  Speaker 2: We have to hold our people to a higher standard.
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  Speaker 2: This is really serious. He's talking about the follow on strike,
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  Speaker 2: the second strike on a singular drug boat, the one
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  Speaker 2: that much of the press is talking about, where there
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  Speaker 2: are reported the survivors after the first strike and a
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  Speaker 2: second strike hit those survivors. Their initial report came from
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  Speaker 2: the Washington Post, but the New York Times now has
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  Speaker 2: a report out and it contradicts what was reported by
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  Speaker 2: the Washington Post. In fact, it says that heg Seth
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  Speaker 2: did not order the killing of the survivors. And for
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  Speaker 2: all of this hand ringing, for all of this conversation,
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  Speaker 2: it's important to remember is it genuine? Is this concern over,
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  Speaker 2: for example, the Geneva Convention, or is this yet another
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  Speaker 2: example of Trump derangement syndrome? Anything in everything to attack,
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  Speaker 2: even through Pete Hegseth, the President Donald Trump. Well, one
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  Speaker 2: indicator on the sincerity of this attack is how did
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  Speaker 2: they react when President Obama launched over five hundred and
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  Speaker 2: forty missile attacks during his terms, thousands and thousands of missiles,
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  Speaker 2: one of which targeted and an American citizen. I'll let
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  Speaker 2: you be the judge on the sincerity or yet another
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to simply flex your TDS. Joining me now is
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  Speaker 2: former Navy JAG officer Don Brown. Don, thanks for being
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  Speaker 2: with us here today. You're a JAG officer. You are
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  Speaker 2: of the type that are being invoked today a lot
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  Speaker 2: of JAG officers appearing on CNN or MSNBC talking about
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  Speaker 2: violations of the Geneva Convention. In this second boat strike.
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  Speaker 3: What say you, well, good to be back with you
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  Speaker 3: will I say that's ridiculous. Listen. The legality of protecting
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  Speaker 3: American citizens on the high seas is vetted in international
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  Speaker 3: law and goes back to the beginning of the Republic,
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  Speaker 3: when Thomas Jefferson sent the Marines in the Navy and
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  Speaker 3: the Mediterranean against the Barbary pirates. Lincoln sees the RMS
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  Speaker 3: Trent and even FDR ordered the Navy to shoot and
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  Speaker 3: sink German U boats almost a year before Pearl Harbor.
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  Speaker 3: We can protect our people on the high seas. And
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  Speaker 3: it goes into custom. The statues that you cited are important,
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  Speaker 3: but the inherent right of the Commander in Chief under
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  Speaker 3: Article two of the Constitution gives President trumpet right to
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  Speaker 3: do this. But the difference is this, Well, we lost
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  Speaker 3: more Americans in one year to fentanyl than ten years
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  Speaker 3: of the Vietnam War. And you know, all of us
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  Speaker 3: know folks who have lost their kids. This is these
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  Speaker 3: are weapons of mass destruction. The consequences are high. And
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  Speaker 3: at that boat was still in the water, we had
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  Speaker 3: every right to take it out because it was carrying
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  Speaker 3: about all accounts, weapons of mass destruction. Applaud Pete hedgseet's
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  Speaker 3: the Secretary of War and President Trump and taking action
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  Speaker 3: here to protect Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I want to follow up on that last point,
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  Speaker 2: But it seems that there's two buckets for this conversation.
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  Speaker 2: One the legal framework which we've just laid out, and
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  Speaker 2: you added the Article two powers of the President to
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  Speaker 2: conduct these strikes, to conduct these strikes. The second bucket, though,
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  Speaker 2: is the one that is currently at the forefront of
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  Speaker 2: the conversation everywhere else, and that is the second strike
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  Speaker 2: on this one drug boat where there were reported survivors.
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  Speaker 2: Now you heard the Secretary of War, it's the fog
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  Speaker 2: of war. Something the journalists are very and by the way,
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  Speaker 2: I think you would probably say something similar about JAG
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  Speaker 2: officers are very unfamiliar with. It's the second guessing. It's
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  Speaker 2: the looking over the shoulder of guys that make critical
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  Speaker 2: decisions in the moment. And it's very easy for a
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  Speaker 2: journalist sitting in a studio in New York City to say,
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  Speaker 2: you know what one should or shouldn't have done. But
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  Speaker 2: what do you say about this conversation of the second
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  Speaker 2: strike on that boat.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, first off, it should not be the role of
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  Speaker 3: JAG officers, the second guest commander in chief, but to
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  Speaker 3: reinforce good order in discipline and military. Here's what I say.
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  Speaker 3: Those boats have weapons of mass destruction that will take
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  Speaker 3: out Americans. If the boat is still in the water
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  Speaker 3: with those drugs on it, whether some terrorists is hanging
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  Speaker 3: on or not, you blow up the hell out of
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  Speaker 3: the water because it's going to kill Americans. That's exactly
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  Speaker 3: what I say.
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  Speaker 2: Will Okay, Well, we appreciate you joining us today to
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  Speaker 2: look into this issue. Thank you, don thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Will appreciate you.
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