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Trump defends Pete Hegsef amid outrage over his alleged kill order on a suspected Venezuelan drug boat.

We have the details. Then...

There's more work to be done. This is delicate, it's complicated. There are a lot of moving parts.

Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner head to Moscow for Ukraine peace talks.

Christiane speaks with former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry about the Trump administration's

approach to diplomacy.

And nobody never put their hands on my face and tell me he loved me. I think my father,

my real father. So, you know, like, see he to do that continuously, you know, like, I feel love.

Fatherless no more. Pastor Tim Johnson embeds himself in one of America's most infamous prisons.

I ask him about his new documentary setting inmates on a better path. Also ahead.

All of these gaps, especially the achievement gaps between white students and black students,

especially have started to widen. The steep decline in the U.S. education system.

New York Magazine features writer for Christian Amunpur.

We begin with outrage and confusion in Washington over the Trump

administration's pressure campaign against Venezuela and the Maduro regime. A bipartisan group of

lawmakers is calling for an investigation into a so-called double-tap strike by the U.S. military,

targeting survivors from an alleged drug trafficking vessel.

President Trump says the second strike wasn't at his hit's request, and he's backing his

defense secretary Pete Hexeth, who insists all U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats are lawful.

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