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President Trump says the U.S. plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.

NPR's Franco-Ordonias reports the Saudi Crown Prince is expected to meet Trump at the White House tomorrow.

President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are expected to discuss the fighter jets as well as security and efforts

to normalize relations with Israel.

I am planning an ally.

You've got a solid ally.

They've got to like us very much.

Look at the Iran situation, what we did in terms of obliterating, you know, we obliterated their nuclear capability.

Yeah, I will say that we will be doing that. We'll be selling F-35s.

Experts say the sale of F-35s would change the military balance in the region

while raising questions about Washington's long-held position of maintaining Israel's, quote,

qualitative military edge, which was signed into a 2008 law.

Franco, Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.

The Trump administration says it is blowing up suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and

Eastern Pacific Ocean to stop the flow of illegal

drugs into the U.S. The strikes are a big change from what the U.S. has done for decades.

And as NPR's Ryan Lucas reports, current and former officials are questioning their legality.

So I spoke with nine current and former officials for this story.

They are all people who spent much of their careers focused on transnational criminal organizations and drug trafficking. So they have a lot of experience.

They are not fans of drug cartels. They all question the legality of the Trump administration's

military strikes. Many of them refer to the strikes as murder. And they point out that there's

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