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'Since when is murder okay for not being innocent' Fmr. Assistant Attorney slams Trump · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: A US military strike targeted another boat in the Caribbean yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: and for the first time there are survivors. Two people
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  Speaker 1: are now in US custody. According to new reporting from
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  Speaker 1: NBC News, this is the sixth time the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: has targeted a boat in international waters, claiming a connection
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  Speaker 1: to Venezuelan drug cartels. So far, at least twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: people have died. And now the commander who has overseen
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  Speaker 1: these strikes is stepping down suddenly and without explanation, head
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  Speaker 1: of the US Southern Command. Here he is Admirable Admiral
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  Speaker 1: Alvin Holsley will retire at the end of this year,
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  Speaker 1: joining US down MSNBC Pentagon correspondent Pria Strether and former
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  Speaker 1: Assistant US Attorney Sean P. Murphy. What do we know
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  Speaker 1: about this resignation?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, so we know that he actually posted
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  Speaker 2: on Acts just yesterday. It's been an honor to serve
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  Speaker 2: our nation, the American people, in support and end the
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  Speaker 2: Constitution for over thirty seven years. I'm confident that you
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  Speaker 2: will forge ahead, focused on your mission that strengthens our
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  Speaker 2: nation and ensure its longevity as a beacon of freedom
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  Speaker 2: around the globe. Keep charging Now, this is a thirty
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  Speaker 2: seven year career that's going to end on December twelfth.
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  Speaker 2: As you mentioned, he's the commander of US Southern Command,
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  Speaker 2: which is the area of the world where these highly
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  Speaker 2: controversial strikes have been happening in the Caribbean. As you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: the sixth one was conducted just yesterday. The Trump administration
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  Speaker 2: has been saying that the justification for this is self
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  Speaker 2: defense because tens of thousands of Americans are dying from drugs,
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  Speaker 2: and he's saying that these vessels are drug carrying vessels
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  Speaker 2: which are originating from Venezuela and carrying drug cartel members. However,
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  Speaker 2: many lawmakers are saying that there's no oversight, there's no transparency,
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  Speaker 2: we have no insight into the intelligence gathering mechanisms that
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  Speaker 2: are verifying this information. That's justifying that aspect of self defense,
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  Speaker 2: and that's why some lawmakers on Capitol Hill held a
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  Speaker 2: vote on the War Powers Act, which would have mandated
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  Speaker 2: Congress to authorize any of these military strikes, but that
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  Speaker 2: was voted down. Now, there has been some reporting from
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  Speaker 2: the Washington Post in the New York Times indicating that
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  Speaker 2: Admiral Halsey was opposing these strikes. And had raised concerns
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  Speaker 2: to Defense Secretary Hegseth about these strikes. The chief Pentagon spokesperson,
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  Speaker 2: Sean Parnell responded to that reporting on acts, posting, this
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  Speaker 2: is a total lie. Never happened. There was no hesitation
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  Speaker 2: or concerns about this mission, just more fake news. And
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  Speaker 2: obviously this all comes as the President also made the
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  Speaker 2: shocking and mission this week that he did in fact
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  Speaker 2: authorize the CIA to conduct covert lethal actions inside of
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  Speaker 2: Venezuela's borders, which is obviously raising the questions whether all
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  Speaker 2: of this is going to escalate into an even larger
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  Speaker 2: military conflict.
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  Speaker 1: Sewan, I want to play what Donald Trump just said
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  Speaker 1: in the White House about one of these strikes.
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  Speaker 3: It was we attacked a submarine and that was a
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  Speaker 3: drug carrying submarine built specifically for the transportation of massive
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  Speaker 3: amounts of drugs. Just say you understand this was not
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  Speaker 3: an innocent group of people. I don't know too many
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  Speaker 3: people that have submarines, and that was an attack on
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  Speaker 3: a drug carrying, loaded up submarine.
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  Speaker 1: And these strikes legal, they're not, they're not.
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  Speaker 4: There's been a lot of folks who have weighed in
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  Speaker 4: on whether or not they violate international law, it's important
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  Speaker 4: to note that they don't even they're not even consistent
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  Speaker 4: with United States law. So we have something in the
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  Speaker 4: United States Code that's called the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act.
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  Speaker 4: It's specifically pursuing to the felonese clause of the Constitution,
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  Speaker 4: which is addressed in Article one of the United States Constitution,
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  Speaker 4: meaning it's a power of Congress, not of the President.
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  Speaker 4: But nothing was followed here. And I think for someone
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  Speaker 4: President Trump, who's made a political career out of saying
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  Speaker 4: the quiet part out loud, he said the quiet part
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  Speaker 4: out loud there at the end of that press conference
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  Speaker 4: luncheon thing, where I won't repeat him a verbatim for
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  Speaker 4: obvious reasons, but he said, you don't mess around with America.
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  Speaker 4: And he was very proud of that line. All of
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  Speaker 4: his uh bros next to him were very proud of
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  Speaker 4: that line as well. But that showed his true intent
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  Speaker 4: in what's going on here. He's throwing law to the wind.
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  Speaker 4: He's throwing conventions to the wind, Jus ad bellum, the
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  Speaker 4: rules of war, the rules of engagement. He is this
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  Speaker 4: is all pretext, it's all pretense for him wanting to
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  Speaker 4: engage in a massive show of force against Venezuela, and
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  Speaker 4: they're he's killing people. He's murdering Pete. Maybe they're not
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  Speaker 4: innocent people. He says they're not, and chances are they aren't.
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  Speaker 4: But since when do we as a country, Since when
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  Speaker 4: do we as Americans think that murder is okay for
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  Speaker 4: being not innocent? I mean, that's that's a bit of
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  Speaker 4: a problem. And if we're gonna start saying that that
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  Speaker 4: this kind of drastic action, this murder of Venezuelan fishermen,
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  Speaker 4: Colombian fishermen, Trinidadian fishermen, and citizens of other countries is
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  Speaker 4: just okay, and that that's okay in defense of the
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  Speaker 4: American families and the American well being. I can't wait
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  Speaker 4: to see what Trump does when someone tells him what
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  Speaker 4: the leading cause of death for American children is.
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  Speaker 1: It's guns.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 1: It is great