We come on the air tonight with breaking news.

The U.S. has launched a military strike against a boat in the Caribbean, killing 11 people on board.

So starting on September 2nd, the United States started striking boats in international waters as they were leaving Venezuela.

The president says the boat was part of a cartel operation carrying drugs from Venezuela and heading right towards the U.S.

The way the United States justified is that they said these are narco-terrorists that pose a threat to the United States.

And the way to combat the fentanyl overdose problem in the United States is to take out the source of it, which is these boats.

This is Atlantic staff writer Nancy Yusef, who covers national security.

The problem is we don't know who are on these boats, why these boats versus

others are being targeted, what was on those boats. In addition, fentanyl doesn't come from

that part of the Caribbean. We want to keep fentanyl out of the United States. And I don't know how

widely known this is, but those routes through the Caribbean are predominantly used to bring cocaine to Europe.

That was Senator Mark Kelly, and he's right.

According to the DEA and DHS, most of the fentanyl trafficked into the U.S. comes from Mexico.

In the boats that we've seen sunk,

they look like small fishing vessels that would struggle to make the thousand-mile journey

to the U.S. Despite what Trump says about Venezuela and President Nicholas Maduro, fentanyl does not

come through the Caribbean. So why is the Trump administration killing people over it?

If fentanyl's not coming from there and you've declared that that is the problem drug,

and the boats can't reach the United States, I'm having a hard time understanding what

legal justification there is.

I'm not saying you have to let them all go, but to use military

action to put that threat down rather than using the law enforcement measure. That's what I'm

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