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🗓️ 3 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Wake up, Mr. President. |
| 0:04.0 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:06.0 | From the man who coined the term Sleepy Joe, President Trump appearing to doze off during his own cabinet meeting. |
| 0:16.0 | Well, just minutes earlier, we learned new details about that second follow-up strike on the suspected drug boom. |
| 0:23.2 | Plus, on this Giving Tuesday, how about $6 billion, billion with a B from the Dells, |
| 0:30.5 | the couple behind one of the biggest tech companies in the world, making a mega donation towards Trump accounts for kids. |
| 0:36.9 | And he's been trolling Sean Diddy Combs for years, and now rapper Fiddy Cent is dropping his |
| 0:41.8 | Netflix doc, the revealing scenes that have Diddy's lawyers taking legal action. |
| 0:52.2 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start in our politics lead. The Trump |
| 0:55.7 | administration today in a two-hour-plus long cabinet meeting defended military strikes of |
| 1:02.1 | questionable legality against alleged drugboats in the Caribbean, even amid growing bipartisan |
| 1:07.9 | concerns on Capitol Hill, that that follow-up strike, killing survivors |
| 1:12.8 | on September 2nd, may have constituted a war crime, one that the Secretary of Defense seems |
| 1:19.7 | suddenly eager to note that he did not specifically order. |
| 1:25.8 | We've only just begun striking narco boats and putting narco terrorists at the bottom of the ocean. |
| 1:33.3 | We always have the back of our commanders who are making decisions in difficult situations. |
| 1:39.3 | Okay, so that last part is Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth referring to Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley, |
| 1:46.2 | who at the time of that second strike was commander of joint special operations. |
| 1:49.7 | The White House also says that Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct those strikes |
| 1:54.7 | and kill everyone on board. |
| 1:56.7 | Here was Hegseth himself on Fox, however, just one day after that strike. |
| 2:01.6 | I watched it live. We knew exactly who was in that boat. We knew exactly what they were doing, |
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