Good morning. It is Sunday, September the 7th. I'm Ali Velshi. Some troubling developments in the last 96 hours,

as four of the most senior people in the executive branch have signaled that they and the U.S. military are above the law as long as whatever they do is in service of the wishes of Donald Trump. This isn't hyperbole. On Tuesday, the U.S. military are above the law as long as whatever they do is in service of the wishes of

Donald Trump. This isn't hyperbole. On Tuesday, the U.S. surveilled a boat until it entered international

waters and then conducted a military strike on it. The administration says the boat was carrying

drugs from Venezuela with the final destination for those drugs eventually being the United States.

The administration claims 11 people were on board that boat, people it describes, as

narco-terrorists. Importantly, they were not given a chance to surrender. They were apparently

identified, determined to be guilty, sentenced to death, and killed. No court of law, no administrative

tribunal, no authorization of the use of

military force. The administration has not offered any evidence to back any of its claims about the

boat or its occupants or what it was carrying up. We're just all meant to take their word for it.

And as for a legal justification for this use of military force, it's been astonishing in its flimsyness and seeming

disregard for both domestic and international law. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, says,

quote, instead of interdicting it, meaning intercepting it on the president's orders, we blew it up,

and it will happen again. We're not just going to hunt for drug dealers with a little fast boat

and say,

let's try to arrest him. No, we're, the president has said he wants to wage war on these groups,

end quote. Defense Secretary Pete Huxeth says President Trump is willing to go on offense in ways

that others have not been and won't stop with just this strike. Anyone else trafficking in those waters

who we know is a designated narco-terrorist will face the same fate, end quote. And Vice President

J.D. Vance says, quote, I mean, the legal authority, and I want to talk about these kids, is that

there are people who are bringing literal terrorists who are bringing deadly drugs into our country,

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