Michael Barbaro

Here's what else you need to know today.

Members of Congress have put language into their latest defense spending bill that would require the Pentagon to provide them with the specific orders that have led to the deadly airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and unedited videos of those attacks.

That requirement, supported by members of both parties, signals bipartisan frustration with just how little information the Trump administration is giving Congress about the controversial airstrikes which the White House claims are killing drug dealers.

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On Monday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared ready to make it easier for President Trump to fire independent government officials, despite laws meant to insulate them from political pressure.

Under questioning from Justice Clarence Thomas, a lawyer for the president argued that Trump's authority to fire such officials

even from independent federal commissions, was total.

However, the court's liberal justices disagreed, saying that the White House argument would give President Trump far too much authority.

Today's episode was produced by Claire Tennesketter, Rochelle Bonja, and Luke Vanderplug.

It was edited by Mark George with help from Paige Cowett.

Contains music by Alishaba Etube and Pat McCusker and was engineered by Chris Wood.

That's it for The Daily.

I'm Michael Barbaro.

See you tomorrow.

From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

This is The Daily.

For four months, hundreds of men from Venezuela said they endured physical abuse, mental abuse, and sexual abuse.

inside a notorious prison.

Today, what my colleague Julie Turkowitz found actually happened inside that prison and why many now see it as perhaps the darkest chapter of all in President Trump's program of mass deportation.

It's Monday, December 8th.