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had given an order to kill everyone aboard alleged drug boats and that this order led to a second strike in which those survivors were killed.
Here's Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, speaking on the CBS News program Face the Nation.
Ag Seth has called the Post report fake news, and Trump, speaking with reporters last night on Air Force One, backed him up.
But the House and Senate Armed Services Committees have vowed to increase oversight of the boat strikes.
Yeah, you know, ever since his first term, Trump has been pushing for regime change in Venezuela.
Its president, Nicolas Maduro, has crushed the country's democracy and its economy, prompting about 8 million Venezuelans to flee overseas.
Trump has also confirmed that he recently talked to Maduro on the phone, though he didn't provide any details.
On Sunday, Venezuela's vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, read a statement from Maduro claiming that this is all about oil.
government of trying to take control of Venezuela's vast oil reserves.
But experts say the 15,000 U.S.
troops based on warships in the Caribbean are not enough to take control of Venezuela.
Trump could instead order limited attacks on Venezuelan territory, or he might just stick to these boat strikes.
Yeah, the timing on this is quite strange amid Trump's anti-narcotics campaign.
And just before the Honduran presidential election that took place on Sunday.
But Trump has also been quick to defend former presidents elsewhere in the world who get into legal hot water.
Juan Orlando Hernandez is a former Honduran president who was sentenced last year in the U.S.
to 45 years in prison for helping to traffic more than 50
400 tons of cocaine into the US without providing any evidence.
Trump claimed that Hernandez was, quote, set up by the Biden administration and that he deserves a full pardon.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated the so-called Cartel de los Soles