The U.S. military has now killed at least 37 people in strikes on suspected drugboats.

The lead starts right now.

The Pentagon expands where it's targeting suspected drug boats with yet another hit in the eastern Pacific.

President Trump moments ago calling cartels the ISIS of the Western Hemisphere.

But now one country's leader says he's moving missiles amid growing tensions with the U.S.

Plus, inside the wild, massive scandal rocking the NBA.

Officials say current and former NBA players and coaches and for mafia families are involved in illegal sports gambling and poker rigging schemes.

And the new images today of the east wing of the White House confirming it's totally gone.

A whole lot of history now reduced to rubble as the White House doubles down on the donor list for the president's massive $300 million new ballroom.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We start with our world lead on the heels of a diplomatic victory in the Middle East.

Is the Trump administration risking an entirely new conflict even closer to home?

Last night, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hagseth confirmed a ninth U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat. Alleged. This one was the second such strike in the Pacific after a string of strikes on boats

in the Caribbean and Atlantic. Those strikes fueling a deepening public rift between President Trump

and Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro. This afternoon,

Petro said, Colombia has been incredibly effective in seizing cocaine on its own, and he accused the U.S.

of carrying out extrajudicial executions, a charge repeated in the halls of Congress as well.

On Wednesday, Maduro up the ante, claiming he has 5,000 Russian missiles in, quote,

key air defense positions to guarantee peace, unquote.

Here's how President Trump put the U.S. position just moments ago.

I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war.

I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country.

Seamus Christen Holmes is at the White House.

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