Today, Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth rejected calls to publicly release the full video of a boat strike that the military carried out in early September.

That attack was the first of more than two dozen strikes on what the administration calls narco-terrorists, but it has become the most contentious.

At the same time, the Senate is debating and is expected to pass its largest annual bill to authorize the Defense Department. Nick Schifrin and Lisa Desjardin are here. They've been covering this all. So, Nick, let's start with you. What did Secretary Hegset say today? Well, Omna, as you just said, Hexas shot down the idea of releasing the second video from September the 2nd publicly.

Now, reminder, this was the very first strike in what the administration called today,

a highly successful counter-drug mission.

On September 2nd, the U.S. military says it fired a single missile that killed nine people

and a second strike, some 30 minutes later, that killed two people who were not killed in the first strike.

Now, many Democrats, you see the first strike there.

Many Democrats and former military lawyers

have argued that the second strike killed shipwrecked sailors.

That would make it illegal.

But today, Heggseth called the whole video classified.

In keeping with longstanding Department of War policy, Department of Defense policy,

of course we're not going to release a top secret, full, unedited video of that to the general

public.

Some Democrats today argued that President Trump himself released the first part of this video

and the administration

could take the very same steps to release the second strike video.

And Lisa, some in Congress are seeing this as a very important moment when it comes to the

balance of power.

Why?

That's right.

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