00:00Why wasn't this video shown to the senators?
00:03Well, it has been made to those with jurisdiction.
00:05Not every senator has the same clarification.
00:08We all get a TS, but depends on your classification of the committee that you're in,
00:13that has jurisdiction over it.
00:14Now, every senator can go get read in, and every senator can be asked.
00:18But to hold it as a whole, because of the sensitivity, not of the strike,
00:21but of the assets that was used, it's not available to everybody.
00:25That's why we have committees of jurisdiction over certain areas.
00:28Isn't that your oversight responsibility to understand?
00:30Each committee?
00:32Well, not everybody's on intel, and there's a reason, but not everybody's on intel.
00:37You know that.
00:38You've been up here covering it for a long time.
00:39You know committees have certain jurisdiction.
00:41So the question you're asking is why?
00:44They don't have jurisdiction over it.
00:45The question is a classification question.
00:48It is a classification issue.
00:49Listen, let's talk about the whole big picture here.
00:52No, we do, because I'm on the committee that has jurisdiction over it.
00:57Not everybody's able to go on the intel skiff either.
00:59You know this.
01:00How long have you been up here covering this?
01:01Okay, but this is a full senator briefing.
01:03But this is a full senator briefing.
01:04You asked about the video.
01:06I told you about the video, why it's not being sold.
01:08And if you don't like the answer, I can't help that.
01:09I don't make the classification.
01:10I'm trying to understand.
01:12I told you the classification of it.
01:14I'm not trying to be combatant here, guys.
01:16This is the classification of it.
01:17If you don't like classification, talk to the White House about it.
01:19Can you just talk about what the stated goal is?
01:21Let's talk about the whole picture here as a whole.
01:24Guys, I'm losing patience on the whole thing because I think it's ridiculous that we're
01:27having this conversation.
01:28Because underneath Obama, he had 500 strikes, 3,700 different individuals were killed.
01:33There wasn't a big show about this.
01:35What you guys are all upset about is the hemisphere that it's working in.
01:38The hemisphere is these are drug terrorist organizations.
01:40The same people that Obama went after, some people we've been over for the last 24 years,
01:44were terrorist organizations that were wanting to kill Americans.
01:48There has been more Americans killed because of these terrorist cartels drugging our streets,
01:52drugging every one of your old streets, every one of your old towns, every one of the audience's
01:55towns.
01:56They killed more people in 2024 on our streets than we lost in the entire Vietnam War for
02:01U.S. personnel.
02:03These are terrorist organizations that are poisoning our streets.
02:06The president has the authority to do so.
02:08The argument is, is it's too close to our shores.
02:11Does anybody doubt that these are terrorist organizations?
02:13Does anybody have a question about these being terrorist organizations?
02:16So what's the difference between Obama attacking these individuals when they were deemed terrorist
02:21organizations in the Middle East versus the ones that are here right now poisoning our
02:25streets?
02:26That's what the whole conversation is about.
02:27I have a question.
02:28Go ahead.
02:29When it comes to, is it about stopping drug trafficking?
02:31Yes.
02:32Or is it about, as Susie Wilde said in the interview, making Maduro cry on gold?
02:36No, it is about, we have 20, there's a difference, Maduro is sponsoring the drugs flowing through.
02:44The other 23 terrorist organizations are cartels that are poisoning our streets.
02:49So it's the bigger picture of the whole thing.
02:51It's about stopping the drugs, poisoning our streets.
02:53Go ahead.
02:54Go ahead.
02:55Go ahead.
02:56Go ahead.
02:57Go ahead.
02:58Go ahead.
02:59Go ahead.
03:00Go ahead.
03:01You're voting on the NDAA that has substantial punishment for the secretary who does not
03:15The secretary in this administration, I'm going to support the NDA, this is the 22nd bipartisan brief between both chambers that this administration is briefed on, 22nd.
03:29This is a full briefing here, and tomorrow they're briefing the committees of jurisdiction is going to show the video, the committee of jurisdiction that has the clearances to watch it.
03:39That's because of the assets, the sensitivity of it.
03:41Not every member, as I'll say again, has all the same clearances.
03:45Because they're not on the committee of jurisdiction.
03:47When I was on intel, I had separate access to information that not every member had.
03:52When you're on SASC or you're on HASSC, you have separate information that not every senator has.
03:58However, any senator can be asked to be read in on it if they choose to.
04:02Every senator has the authority to authorize more.
04:05Go ahead, Chad.
04:08I don't know.
04:09I think it's highly unlikely, Chad, because we have the noms to do today.
04:14We have the NDAA still do, and we're trying to get on the package.
04:17I think trying to get to health care before the Christmas recess will probably be hard.
04:21Go ahead.
04:22I mean, you said that certain senators have committees of jurisdiction.
04:25Yes, we know this.
04:26Right, we know this.
04:27But every senator has the authority to authorize war.
04:30They can vote to authorize war.
04:31Sure they can.
04:32Vote over their budget.
04:33Authorization to vote is different.
04:34Why not give everybody the access to this information that could inform their key vote?
04:41Because there's a lot of members that's going to walk out of there that's going to leak classified information,
04:46and there's got to be certain ones that you hold accountable.
04:48So not everybody can go through the same background checks that need to be to be able to get cleared on this.
04:52Do you think Omar needs to have all this information?
04:54I will say no.
04:55Is that what they said?
04:56No, no, they're not saying that.
04:57That's my opinion.
04:59Go ahead.
05:03Oh, I don't know.
05:06Well, do they leak?
05:08They call you guys a leak, and some of this stuff, tell me if there's no, no, I'm just saying,
05:12you guys answer your own question.
05:13Is there any, is there leaking information?
05:17There is stuff that gets leaked out of classified meetings all the time, and you guys know that.
05:22I don't know.
05:23You don't think that they're trying to over-classify it to deny the public?
05:26No, because I said as soon as I walked to the mic, because of the sensitivity of some of the equipment
05:32that were being used and the techniques, it's at a highly classified level.
05:36I said that as soon as I came here.
05:37It has nothing to do with over-classifying it.
05:39This administration has been highly transparent, a lot more transparent than the Obama administration
05:45and the Biden administration on all this stuff.
05:48And for you guys to be all upset about it, I'll repeat myself.
05:51The only reason why this is a thing is because of the hemisphere to which they're operating in.
05:55Because no one threw a big fit about this when it was happening in the Middle East.
05:59Yes?
05:59Mr. Blaker, did the secretary have said to talk about what time the girls were on the vote, allegedly?
06:05Was it fentanyl?
06:07I know.
06:08We've always heard it's been mainly cocaine.
06:10It doesn't matter.
06:11It's drugs.
06:11How many deaths are in the country?
06:13To what?
06:14How many deaths are in the country?
06:16I don't know.
06:18What's the difference?
06:19It's a drug.
06:21Did the briefers provide any timetable for how long these targeted strikes will last?
06:26As long as they're still both boys in our streets coming to our seans, dropping the drugs off,
06:30they're going to continue these strikes.
06:31Is the vote regime changed?
06:32Yes, I am okay.
06:33Is the vote regime changed?
06:34That wasn't the conversation here.
06:35Does Congress have any rules to play?
06:37Like, if they continue striking the votes, or is there any level at which Congress will
06:42step in and say, I'm going to need to authorize this?
06:45We've been using this same technique for 24 years.
06:49Nothing has changed except the hemisphere to what we're operating in.
06:52That's it.
06:53Do you have any question?
06:53You've made naval assets.
06:55Yes, and they should be.
06:56I mean, think about this.
06:57We have ARC aircraft carriers operating in our hemisphere now, not in other hemispheres.
07:02I like the idea that they're right here.
07:04I like the idea that we're not only doing that, but we're also getting China's attention, too,
07:07by overfishing our international waters close to our shores.
07:10So I love the idea that we have these assets right around.
07:12It makes me feel cozy when I sleep at night.
07:14But what would you do with this idea?
07:15You say...
07:15Do what?
07:16Sorry?
07:16What would you do with this idea of using the same authorization for 24 years?
07:20Yes.
07:20There's been a lot of criticism that those two organizations are welcome to be counseled by.
07:24If it's that important, if you laid out the tasers, why not do an authorization?
07:29There isn't any other authorization that's required.
07:35They have been deemed a terrorist organization.
07:38We didn't deem terrorist organizations based on the hemisphere that they're operating in, Chad.
07:41We deemed the organizations terrorists or we didn't.
07:44That's why we gave that authorization based on a strike at the World Trade Center in 2004.
07:47Yeah, that happened here.
07:48That happened here, and we said we'll go after terrorist organizations no matter where they're operating.
07:53They're killing our loved ones, our families, and our friends on our own streets.
07:58There are terrorist organizations.
07:59There's been 24 of them deemed terrorist organizations, and we're going to use the authority we have.
08:03Do you support a strike on Venezuela against Maduro?
08:08No, not against Maduro.
08:09Do I agree going after chemical facilities that's on shore?
08:15Absolutely I will.
08:16Do I want to commit troops to Venezuela?
08:19Absolutely not.
08:20Do they tell you to expect that, do they tell you to expect lambs strikes?
08:23Sorry?
08:23Do they tell you in that room you can expect lambs strikes?
08:26No, that wasn't the conversation, but I would support it.
08:29I'm just saying.
08:30I have to run.
08:30The big picture question here is that did the U.S. do something, and I understand the point
08:36of the Obama administration, and what's happening now, you're a senator now, values, American
08:42values, do you believe that we're part of American policy, that we should not kill defenses and
08:49they're not defenseless.
08:50The weapon that they're bringing is, I know, but you said defenseless.
08:55They're not defenseless.
08:56These aren't our brothers and sisters that's trafficking it.
08:59They're killing our brothers and sisters.
09:01I have zero feelings for someone that's poisoning our streets.
09:04I'm sorry, but what is the American fire?
09:06In general, is that our...
09:08I will do anything to protect my family.
09:11Anything to protect my family.
09:12They're bringing poison into our streets.
09:15It's affected everybody that's standing here.
09:17Everybody here has been affected by someone that has been affected by drug overdose.
09:22I promise you, you have, because it's that outrageous.
09:25I have zero problems sitting in the bottom of the ocean, and I hope they rot in hell for
09:30it, because they know what they're doing when they get on that boat and they're trafficking
09:33the drugstore streets.
09:34Do you think they care about our family?
09:36Heck no.
09:37They don't care.
09:37And so I don't care about them.
09:39Is it better to err on the side of fatal strikes?
09:42No, there is...
09:43Absolutely not.
09:44There is a lot of checks.
09:45There's a lot of checks and balances that go in place.
09:47Every boat that's coming across the Caribbean, we're not striking.
09:51There's some of them that we decide to have interdiction with the Coast Guard because they
09:55don't miss, they don't make all their criterias.
09:57There's multiple layers of criterias before we actually decide to make that strike.
10:02There's multiple criterias that take place.
10:04If one of them's not missing, then we do interdiction.
10:06Senator, did you bring them up there?
10:07Yes, and there's been more interdiction over this same period than we have actually had strikes.
10:11Did you bring them up there?
10:13No.
10:14No.
10:21No.
10:22No.
10:25You
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