Secretary on Defense: Questions Over Caribbean Strikes
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, December 2nd. Are we aiming for boats or are we aiming for kills? We start here. |
| 0:08.4 | The White House acknowledges that as men clung to debris from their blown out boat, troops got orders to hit him again. |
| 0:15.7 | Admiral Browley worked well within his authority and the law. Questions now mounting about whether strikes near Venezuela are actually crimes. |
| 0:23.6 | A court reviews the case against Luigi Mangione. |
| 0:26.6 | A 3D printed gun, along with a red notebook where prosecutor said Mancione revealed his plan. |
| 0:33.6 | Attorneys say a key piece of evidence should be packed up forever. |
| 0:36.6 | And there are 434 other seats in the House. |
| 0:39.8 | Why does this one matter so much? |
| 0:41.5 | The whole world is watching Tennessee right now. |
| 0:44.2 | What makes today's special election in Tennessee so special? |
| 0:49.3 | From ABC News, this is Start Here. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm Brad Milkey. |
| 1:07.4 | Last week, one of the big stories in Washington was about the White House attacking democratic lawmakers who had released this video. |
| 1:13.3 | Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You can refuse illegal orders. |
| 1:19.7 | You must refuse illegal orders. Republicans were expressing outrage. Who are these Democrats inferring the Pentagon would ever issue illegal orders? That would be absurd, they said. |
| 1:25.1 | The Trump administration went a step further and started announcing investigations by federal agencies. |
| 1:30.5 | I was notified of a potential court-martial through a tweet. |
| 1:37.4 | We've had report after report of legal officer, JAG officers coming forward and saying, |
| 1:42.6 | look, I push back on this. I'm not sure that |
| 1:44.9 | this is legal. Well, remember those strikes that the U.S. is conducting down off the coast of South |
| 1:51.0 | America, where we've blown up boats belonging to suspected drug traffickers without any arrests |
| 1:56.8 | or trials. Well, in the last few days, new revelations have prompted officials to ask whether |
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