John Bickley (Host)

And look, while President Trump is certainly motivated by his desire to bring peace, something he calls his favorite part of the job, there are also economic incentives at play here as well.

Despite being among the poorest countries on earth, both Congo and Rwanda are home to enormous rare earth mineral deposits.

Congo in particular is actually the world's largest producer of cobalt and second largest producer of copper.

So Trump helped move the deal along basically by telling them, if you stop the fighting, we'll send a lot of business your way.

Here he is speaking to new economic partnerships that were signed as part of this agreement.

And it is worth noting this conflict includes a number of violent militia groups.

And there are some questions over whether those groups are going to abide by this deal.

But it's certainly noteworthy that the governments themselves have agreed to a ceasefire.

Yeah, indeed.

Let's move over to the hill where top military officials appeared before Congress.

A lot of eyes on this.

What did they have to say?

Yeah, Congress is moving full speed ahead on their investigation of the airstrikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.

On Thursday, they heard closed-door testimony from, among others, Admiral Frank Bradley.

He's the one who oversaw the operation in question and reportedly claimed that he was given no orders to kill survivors by Pete Hegseth.

That contradicts the now infamous Washington Post report.

Members were also shown footage of the attack in question.

Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican, said it proved that there were two survivors who, in his words, were, quote, trying to flip a boat loaded with drugs bound for the U.S.

back over so they could stay in the fight.

Democrat members, as you can expect, though, had a very different take.