Hegseth says he learned of second Venezuela strike ‘hours later’ amid growing outcry

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00:00Now, the first couple of strikes, as you would, as any leader would want, you want to own that responsibility.

00:05So I said, I'm going to be the one to make the call after getting all the information and make sure it's the right strike.

00:10That was September 2nd. I watched that first strike life.

00:14As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do.

00:17So I didn't stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs.

00:24So I moved on to my next meeting.

00:25A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander had made what he had the complete authority to do.

00:31And by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat.