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The Rich Zeoli Show

WaPo Report: Was Caribbean Boat Strike Lawful?

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: 6:00pm- A Washington Post report states that Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized a series of deadly strikes on a drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean, ordering military officials to “kill everybody.” The directive, according to the report, led to a second strike killing several crew members that survived the initial assault on the vessel. 6:20pm- Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, and Johns Hopkins surgeon, Dr. Marty Makary weighed in on a theory that Lyme disease may have originated from a bioweapons laboratory. 6:40pm- In her latest editorial for The New York Post, Miranda Devine writes that a “damning report” labels the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a “rudderless ship” and “all f*cked up” under the leadership of Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino. The report alleges that Bongino has an “unfortunate obsession with social media.”

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0:00.0

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0:16.0

So the question, of course,, are the drug boat strikes legal?

0:21.6

And if not, how do you make them legal?

0:24.6

That is the question.

0:26.6

Welcome back to the show.

0:27.6

Glad you're here today.

0:28.6

855, 8.5, 8.9, 12, 10 on this be nice to Matt DeSantis week.

0:33.6

I hope you're having a wonderful day and it had a great Thanksgiving and we got a big

0:38.2

busy week ahead. This hour, I want to get into a bunch of stuff, including Lyme disease, because I've long said it's a bio-weapon and Dr.

0:46.0

Martin McCarrie was on a podcast talking about this very, very subject. So I want to get into that as well as the show goes on this hour as well.

2:01.6

And so the strikes on the drug boats, look, you got to understand, I believe the president should go to Congress. And I think he should ask Congress for authorization to take out these drug boats and these cartels and just protect himself legally. They'll give it to them. You put Democrats on the offensive against it. I just think we're playing with fire here. I really do. We're playing with fire. And you know me, the Constitution exists. It's a rule book. It's a playbook. The minute you've got to start trying to figure out, like, legalese to justify this, justify that, just have Congress give you the authorization. You got the votes. It's not a declaration of war, but give the president authorization to take out the cartels. And then you're covered. And in this way, if the Democrats get back in charge, they have to impeach him over something else. I don't know. It's just makes sense. He's going to keep doing it. So it's not like he's planning on stopping anytime soon, but then you're going to get into situations like you had where you have this Washington Post story that said the Secretary of Defense said kill them all. The administration obviously denies that. Then they said there were two survivors and the order was given to kill them. The administration's denying that that was the case.

2:06.0

You're playing with constitutional fire here.

2:10.7

You're playing with giving the Democrats something, and you're also just giving the media something.

2:11.1

So think about it.

2:12.8

If the Republicans pass a resolution, authorizing the president for the use of force to go after the drug cartels in our hemisphere, then there you go.

2:23.3

And then this way, if something goes wrong, well, he's covered.

2:28.4

And like I said, he's going to keep doing it.

2:31.2

So, you know, it's long past the debate of whether or not he should he's

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