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Anderson Cooper 360

U.S. Conducts New Strike On Alleged Drug Boat, Killing Four

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. military strikes another alleged drug boat, as lawmakers are shown classified video of the earlier strike that some have called a possible war crime. We have new exclusive CNN reporting that undercuts a major claim made by defense officials about that secondary strike. Plus, a suspect is arrested and charged in the 2021 Washington, D.C. pipe bomb case. Authorities say he planted bombs outside Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters, the night before the January 6th attack.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 360, the U.S. military strikes another alleged drug boat as lawmakers are shown classified video of the earlier strike that some have called a possible war crime.

0:10.3

We have new exclusive CNN reporting that undercut a major claim made by defense officials about that secondary strike.

0:17.0

Also tonight, no dice. Twice. A grand jury declines to re-indict New York's Attorney General.

0:22.5

Just days after, a judge tosses the first indictment dealing a second major defeat to the president's campaign of legal retribution.

0:29.9

And later, is this the January 6 bomber, the man who planted bombs outside Democratic and Republican headquarters in Washington, the before the January 6th attack in 2021.

0:39.3

The fed say it is, and they make an arrest. Plus, after gutting the agency, firing its leadership

0:44.7

and all but shutting it down, why is the president now putting his name on the building of the U.S.

0:49.7

Institute of peace? Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin with breaking news on the boat strikes.

0:54.6

A news strike was announced just before airtime.

0:57.3

This is new video just in of it, according to the Defense Department.

1:01.0

It happened today in the Eastern Pacific.

1:03.2

They say the boat was carrying narcotics along a known drug trafficking route and that four

1:07.0

men were killed in the strike.

1:09.0

But we also have exclusive new reporting on the earlier strike back in September,

1:12.7

which killed 11, including two who initially survived it.

1:16.1

CNN has learned that Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley,

1:18.5

who oversaw the operation, told lawmakers today on the Hill

1:22.6

that the two survivors did not,

1:24.8

as some defense officials have been claiming for months

1:27.3

behind the scenes,

1:28.3

radio for backup before a second strike killed them. That's according to two sources with direct

1:33.8

knowledge of today's closed-door briefings, during which a slight group of senators and

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