Trump’s Deadly Attacks in the Caribbean Sea

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Since the start of September, President Donald Trump has ordered a series of lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea, killing dozens of people. His administration has justified the attacks by accusing the boats of carrying drugs. But, we’re more than two months in, and we still haven’t seen any substantial evidence that the people killed were involved in trafficking narcotics. Meanwhile, Trump appears to be focused on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and last week, Trump acknowledged he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela. So, to talk more about Venezuela and the legality- or lack thereof- of the Trump administration’s ongoing campaign in the Caribbean Sea, we spoke with Tess Bridgeman, co-editor-in-chief of Just Security and Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. She previously served as Special Assistant to the President, Associate Counsel to the President, and Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council (NSC), and at the U.S. State Department in the Office of the Legal Adviser. And in headlines, Vice President JD Vance visits Israel as Hamas continues to return the bodies of hostages, ICE recruits are going up against fitness testing, and the government is as shutdown as ever.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, October 22nd. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day. The show's
0:06.4	sounding warm, well, cool thoughts to users of the 8th Sleep Pod mattress. See, the 8th Sleep
0:12.9	Pod mattress is a smart bed which uses Amazon Web Services to control temperature and other settings.
0:18.3	And when AWS went down Monday, so did the temperature control settings on the smart mattress, which led to overheating and other settings. And when AWS went down Monday, so did the temperature control
0:21.8	settings on the smart mattress, which led to overheating and other seriously annoying problems
0:26.2	for people who just wanted to sleep on their mattress like normal people. Many things can
0:31.0	and should be smart. You, maybe your phone, and your watch. But I think it's okay if your mattress is dumb.
0:46.8	On today's show, ICE is losing the fight to push-ups.
0:50.9	And President Donald Trump channels his inner Regina George
0:53.8	by inviting every GOP senator to a White House luncheon,
0:56.9	except for Kentucky Republican Senator and fugly slut Rand Paul.
1:00.8	But let's start with a question.
1:02.9	Are we going to war with Venezuela?
1:05.4	Because after more than two months of strikes on boats off the coast of the South American country,
1:09.9	that the Trump administration has alleged are involved with cartels and, quote, narco-terrorists.
1:15.1	I'm not exactly sure. See, Trump keeps saying that this is all about stopping the flow of
1:20.6	fentanyl into the United States. Here's House Speaker Mike Johnson speaking to ABC's Jonathan
1:25.1	Carl on this week last Sunday. Don't you have questions for him about what's happening in Venezuela? We have this buildup
1:31.3	around Venezuela. We have the targeting of these boats. I mean, you must at least have
1:36.0	questions. The targeting of the boats? You have drug cartels bringing in fentanyl and boat loads of it
1:41.0	that would kill potentially hundreds of thousands of Americans.
1:44.7	What we're doing is restoring. You have no questions about how they're doing this. No, I believe in peace through strength. And here's Eric Trump, who's not actually a part of his dad's administration, but, you know, who cares about rules, explaining on Fox News last week that, yes, this is all about stopping fentanyl from entering the U.S. And now every single time a boat goes out of Venezuela, it's get blown up into a million pieces, Martha.
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