Live from NPR News, I'm Jail Snyder.

I make questions about the legality of U.S. military strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean.

And at Majority Leader John Thune says lawmakers will be looking into the situation.

With regard to the latest question that you all been raising, that the Senate Armed Services Committee,

which is going to look into and get the facts on some of the events that have happened down the Caribbean, that we will get

those answers in due time. But I have every confidence that the policies that this administration

is employing when it comes to keeping people in this country safe in ensuring that our policy

is one of peace whose strength that those policies are being adhered to and followed.

Thune, speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, following a Washington Post report that Defense Secretary

Pete Hagseth gave a verbal order to kill everybody during an operation in September.

During Tuesday's cabinet meeting at the White

House, Hegss said he did not see any survivors of that military strike, but was not in the

room when a Navy Admiral ordered a follow-up, but he said the Admiral made the right call.

President Trump's special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner, are in Moscow for talks with Russian President

Vladimir Putin. NPR's Charles Mainz reports a White House envoys are expected to try to bridge

differences with the criminal leader over a revised peace plan in Ukraine. Putin has said he sees

the American plan as a possible framework for a peace settlement.

Yet ahead of his meeting, the Kremlin leader touted recent Russian battlefield advances

and accused Ukraine's leadership of being weak and out of touch with reality on the ground.

Putin also said he preferred negotiating with the U.S. to Europe,

accusing Europeans of providing obviously unacceptable conditions aimed at prolonging the war.

Putin's comments appeared part of an effort to convince the White House. It should pressure Ukraine

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