Hi there, everyone. Happy Tuesday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Donald Trump's

handpicked Secretary of Defense, the former Fox News weekend host, Pete Hegseth, is today sweating

under the cleat lights of congressional oversight and intense public scrutiny. At this very

moment, Heggseth is on Capitol Hill alongside other top Trump officials as a bipartisan push

to force the release of video of the September 2nd boat strike in which survivors of an initial

strike were killed, along with materials relating to other boat strikes in the region,

rapidly gained bipartisan momentum.

The New York Times reports this, quote,

The annual defense policy bill on track to clear Congress in the coming days would compel the

Pentagon to provide lawmakers with the specific orders behind the strikes that the U.S.

military is taking on boats in

international waters, as well as unedited video of the attacks. And the bipartisan bill takes a

decidedly bad cop approach to forcing Pete Hegseth to bow to congressional oversight. More from

that Times report. Quote, it would withhold 25% of Defense Secretary

Pete Higg says travel budget if he failed to give the Congressional National Security Committees

a copy of the execute orders behind the strikes, or to outline how he planned to facilitate

future briefings about the operation with lawmakers in accordance with federal law.

That bill, if passed, would wind up on the desk of Donald Trump, who has suddenly flip-flopped

on releasing the video of the second strike, complete with unhinged, misogynistic, lashing out

at a female journalist for asking questions, doing her job, and simply quoting Trump

back to Trump. That is just the latest twist in what is a well-established pattern by the Trump

administration of being less than transparent about these strikes. For reference, here's how those who

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