Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett.

And I'm Omnavaz on the News Hour tonight. A classified briefing on the Pentagon strike of an alleged drug boat

opens up partisan divides over the attacks' legality.

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We speak with Ukraine's ambassador to the United States.

Welcome to the news hour. A new bipartisan divide has broken open after senior U.S. military officers showed Congress video of multiple strikes on a boat in the Caribbean in early September.

Republicans backed the decision by a special operations forces commander to target survivors

of the first strike in the administration's campaign against alleged drugboats.

But Democrats accused the commander of targeting a shipwreck, which would be a violation of

international law. Both sides agreed that Secretary Hegsef did not provide what would have

been an illegal order to kill everyone on board. Nick Schifrin begins our coverage.

Admiral, General, what's your message to the American people?

On Capitol Hill today, the U.S.'s most senior military officer and the Admiral at the center

of a contentious strike gave their version and revealed more video of the September 2nd attack

that targeted what the administration says were 11 narco-terrorists. A U.S. official tells

PBS News Hour that Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley and chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dan

Cain, told lawmakers in classified briefings that the first strike killed nine people and that after

the first strike, the boat was still seaworthy. The men on board still had drugs and communications,

which meant they were still combatants, and a rescue boat was approaching. Bradley then ordered

the second strike 30 to 60 minutes later to kill two more people. A third and fourth strike sunk

the boat. That narrative embraced by Republicans, including Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton.

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