Charlie Savage

And two, it didn't just take one strike to settle the matter.

Even after the first strike disabled the boat, they struck it several more times to make it sink.

That's apparently what the unedited surveillance video shows.

And there was such controversy surrounding this thing the U.S.

military had done that it wasn't clear whether this was going to be a one-off or they were going to keep going.

But then last week, Trump announced a second one-off

and then a third strike on two more boats.

Each time, in those cases, he said they had killed three people aboard each of those vessels.

That's right.

And we actually know less about them in some respects.

In the second attack, Trump said that it was Venezuelans aboard, didn't identify a particular organization.

Third attack, he didn't even give a nationality for who was aboard or identify a particular cartel or gang he said was behind the smuggling.

We do know that they have said each of these attacks so far has taken place in international waters.

And the third attack took place off the coast of the Dominican Republic.

And interestingly, the Dominican Republic forces went out to the site of the attack over the weekend and have said that they were able to recover some floating bales of what appear to be drugs.

And they released some photographs of that.

And that's the first evidence we have that there was, in fact, drugs on board, apparently, at least one of these vessels.

Not under any traditional understanding of how constraints, both in domestic law and international law, and the use of force works.

Any more than a police officer who sees someone he thinks is dealing drugs on a street corner can just pull out his gun and shoot the person dead.

Drug smuggling...