Hi there, everyone. It's now 4 o'clock in New York. There is brand new explosive reporting today on how the Pentagon is now struggling to deal with survivors of their boat strikes in the Caribbean, a practice which is already under intense scrutiny because of the September 2nd strikes that

killed two survivors. From that new reporting in the New York Times based on interviews with

multiple officials, quote, Pentagon officials largely kept State Department counterparts in the dark

about strike operations, then scrambled to try to enlist diplomats to help deal with survivors,

whom military officials referred to by specific terms that included, quote, distressed mariners.

That phrase is usually used in a peacetime and civilian context.

The talks took place after the first attack on September 2nd, when the U.S. military killed two survivors with a second strike.

The New York Times reports that Pentagon lawyers made an extraordinary suggestion regarding the two survivors from an October strike.

Quote, they asked whether the two survivors could be put into a notorious prison in El Salvador,

to which the Trump administration had sent hundreds of Venezuelan deportees.

Three officials said.

The State Department lawyers were stunned.

One official said and rejected the idea that brand new reporting underscores just how important

any investigative effort by Congress would be.

It's the kind of alarming new reporting in detail about these strikes in the Caribbean that has had lawmakers across the political spectrum clamoring for answers and accountability.

Here's what members of Donald Trump's own political party have been saying in the wake of news reporting about that second strike.

I think what we have heard shocked us all.

And I think most would say that when you have two individuals that are literally floating

in the water, a second order to kill them all is not something that we would consider

within the rules of war.

Obviously if that occurred, that would be very serious.

And I agree that that would be an illegal act.

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