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White House confirms second strike on alleged drug boat

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Politics, Ms Now, Washington, Giest, Government, Election, Issues, Nbc, Campaign, Brezinski, President, News, Congress, Scarboro

48K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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White House confirms second strike on alleged drug boat

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0:00.0

That's what it comes down to is what the intention of the second strike was.

0:05.0

Was it to demolish the rest of the boat that had been hit but not completely destroyed?

0:11.0

Or was it for the principal purpose of eliminating the survivors?

0:15.0

Eliminating the survivors would be a big problem if that was what they were, that was all about.

0:19.0

If they were killed in the course of the rest of the boat being destroyed,

0:22.4

if it was sufficiently intact to cause U.S. military personnel down there to think that

0:27.8

the job had not been finished, that's another matter.

0:30.1

So I think it's going to be, you know, that's going to be what we're going to see

0:32.9

investigated here in the weeks ahead.

0:35.6

That is Fox News chief political analyst.

0:38.5

Britt Hume warning that Trump administration officials would have to answer for their actions.

0:44.1

It comes as the administration is admitting to a second strike on the survivors,

0:50.8

but placing the blame on the Admiral overseeing the mission.

0:54.9

That won't work, and Brid Hume had a tweet for that.

0:59.9

We will go through the very latest on all of that.

1:02.9

Also ahead, we're going to dig into the pardon of the former president of Honduras,

1:08.3

who was convicted of drug trafficking last year. The White House claims it was

1:12.7

the result of a politicized trial overlooking the fact that the investigation started during

1:19.7

Trump's first term. Plus, there is a special election today for a congressional seat in Tennessee.

1:29.7

In a district, Trump won by 22 points last year, but the latest bowling shows the contest is a dead heat. We'll take a look

1:36.4

of what the race could mean for next year's midterms and good morning. I mean, we'll see what

1:42.0

happens there. I mean, it's a Republican seat. I'm sure Republican, there's a, I mean, things would have to be horrible for that thing to be even within five, five points.

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