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Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

Report: Follow-up strike ordered on alleged drug boat

Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

MS NOW, Ali Vitali

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Report: Follow-up strike ordered on alleged drug boat

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0:00.0

Plus, new polling shows President Trump's approval ratings slipping, even among his own supporters.

0:05.1

The question is, what could this mean for the upcoming midterm elections?

0:08.6

And it's Cyber Monday, with Americans set to spend more than $14 billion today.

0:14.3

The question is, what does that say about the state of the U.S. economy?

0:18.3

It's way too early for this.

0:34.7

Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is still stuffed, frankly, from Thanksgiving,

0:37.6

but also carrying that gratitude forward as well.

0:40.1

I'm Ali Vitale on this Monday, December 1st.

0:41.4

We'll start with the news.

0:45.9

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are demanding answers from the Trump administration about recent U.S. military operations in the Caribbean.

0:49.4

This bipartisan scrutiny comes in the wake of new reporting from the Washington Post,

0:53.3

claiming that during one attack on a boat suspected of smuggling drugs, a follow-up strike was ordered after the initial

0:59.1

impact left some survivors on board. This is according to the Post, citing two sources with

1:03.9

direct knowledge. They write in a September 2nd strike, which is the first in the administration's

1:08.1

ongoing offensive, Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth gave a verbal

1:11.5

command to kill everybody on the boat. After the missile hit and the smoke cleared, two survivors

1:17.2

were seen clinging to the wreckage. The paper goes on to report that the special operations

1:21.7

commander overseeing the attack, then ordered a second strike to comply with Hegeseth's initial

1:26.8

instructions. As the Post puts it,

1:29.6

the two men were blown apart in the water. MS now has not independently verified that report.

1:35.9

President Trump, though, put out this video of the attack later that day, but it didn't show any

1:40.2

footage of a subsequent strike. Now, Republican-led committees in both chambers of Congress

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