a ton, a ton of news to get to tonight, a lot of it concerning and battled defense secretary

Pete Heggseth. And we're going to get into all of it. In just a moment, I'm going to play you

an incredibly newsworthy and incredibly alarming interview I did today with Congressman Jim Himes.

Jim Himes, of course, is the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who was one of

the very few people in the room today during a classified briefing on the unfolding scandal that has absolutely engulfed the Trump administration.

That is, of course, the September 2nd operation to take out a suspected Venezuelan drug boat and the decision to launch a second strike to kill its shipwrecked

survivors. An action that appears to almost exactly fit the textbook definition of a war crime.

Now, Congressman Himes was one of, again, only a handful of lawmakers authorized to attend

that meeting today. So only a few people have access to the information he has access to, where for

the very first time, they were able to watch the full unedited video of that strike. And also, of course,

question Admiral Frank Bradley, who's the Navy commander who oversaw that operation. Now, the headlines

out of that meeting so far today have mostly covered the news that Bradley said he did not get a reported order from Secretary Hegeseth to kill everyone on the boat and leave no survivors.

And that is certainly significant news.

And in my interview with Congressman Himes, you're going to hear what he says when I ask him more about that.

But what took place in that closed door meeting wasn't exactly in any way reassuring to the

lawmakers who were there. And frankly, I knew I had to talk to Congressman Himes after I saw him say

this about what he saw and heard in that room today. What I saw in that room was one of the most

troubling things I've seen in my time in public service.

You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion with a destroyed vessel who were killed by the United States.

Now, I think I know why he had that reaction, because based on what Congressman Himes told me today,

there's reason to doubt a number of things we've heard from Trump officials and anonymous administration sources

that have been the basis of a number of stories out there about that strike.

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