Congress briefed on drug boat 'second strike'

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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 video

00:35of 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 destroy

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

00:56the first strike. The survivors were discovered about an hour later, and so Bradley was the one

01:01left to decide if the survivors were, quote, out of the fight or not. Given the other narco-traffic in

01:07the area, he deemed that they were indeed still in the fight, and so he ordered the additional hits.