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00:00The Navy Admiral, who controversially directed multiple strikes against a boat full of suspected

00:04drug runners back in September, told lawmakers that after the initial strike, he believed the

00:10survivors were attempting to finish their mission, and so he ordered follow-up strikes to finish

00:15his mission. Admiral Frank Bradley spoke in a closed-door meeting with members of Congress

00:20Thursday. The meeting came amidst criticism that the double strike was inhumane and could

00:25constitute a war crime. Since the meeting wasn't public, we don't have all of the details,

00:30but Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton shared some of what went on, revealing that Bradley shared a

00:35video of the incident. Cotton says that he saw two survivors try to flip the boat over, quote,

00:40so they could stay in the fight. He also said they were told other narco-terrorists were in the area

00:46coming to the aid of the blasted boat. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave the initial order to

00:51destroy the boat, and according to the Wall Street Journal, Hegseth stopped watching surveillance

00:55video after the first strike. The survivors were discovered about an hour later, and so Bradley

01:01was the one left to decide if the survivors were, quote, out of the fight or not. Given the other

01:06narco-traffic in the area, he deemed that they were indeed still in the fight, and so he ordered the

01:11additional hits. There's a rift growing at the FBI over how to proceed with the, quote, seditious six.

01:19Those are the six Democratic members of Congress who posted that video telling military service

01:24members to disobey illegal orders. FBI headquarters wants the D.C. field office to open a formal

01:30seditious conspiracy investigation. Remember, sedition is a crime punishable by death, so in this case,

01:37the death of senators and U.S. representatives. But leaders inside of the D.C. field office are telling

01:42the brass to slow their roll, claiming there is a, quote, lack of legal and factual basis to

01:48initiate a criminal case. Now, the FBI and the Justice Department have asked to interview the

01:55six lawmakers, all of whom were either in the military or part of the intelligence community

01:59before being elected. And I told you last week how the Pentagon promised to look into one of those

02:04legislators in particular, Mark Kelly, who, as a retired naval commander, is still subject to the

02:10Uniform Code of Military Justice. So which side of the FBI will win? Well, Bloomberg Law, who first

02:15reported this story says no decision has been made just yet, and the Post got no response from both

02:20the FBI HQ and the D.C. field office as of Thursday night. A University of Oklahoma student's failing

02:27Bible-based essay on gender norms created an absolute firestorm on campus. The assignment sparked a

02:34discrimination complaint resulting in the suspension of the transgender grad student and instructor and a win

02:40for the college junior. Samantha Fulnecki's professor, Mel Kurth, assigned the essay and then flunked Fulnecki

02:47because she wrote that, quote, belief in multiple genders was demonic. The student filed a complaint

02:53with the school, which just ruled that the failing grade will not have any impact on her overall course

02:58grade. Kurth, who uses she, they pronouns, had asked the class to write a 650-word response to an

03:05academic article that dealt with gender norms, popularity, and bullying. Fulnecki wrote that she

03:10was frustrated with the premise of the study because, based on her understanding of the Bible,

03:15she does not believe that there are more than two genders. Now, she initially received a zero on the

03:20paper, which would have been three percent of the final grade in the class. Now, Kurth was put on

03:25administrative leave while the school investigated and will remain on leave until the end of the semester.

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