Michael Barbaro

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On Sunday, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, told NBC News that the alleged shooter may not have become radicalized until after he immigrated to the United States.

That conclusion, if true, could undermine the Trump administration's claims that the Biden administration had failed to properly vet him before he arrived into the country.

We'll be right back.

Here's what else you need to know today.

Over the past few days, President Trump has carried out a series of profoundly contradictory actions in his war against drug cartels.

Trump declared in a post on social media that the airspace above and around Venezuela, which he is accused of flooding the U.S.

with drugs, should now be considered closed.

It was his latest threat against the regime of Venezuela's authoritarian leader, Nicolas Maduro.

But at the same time, Trump announced a full pardon of a former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who has been convicted in U.S.

federal court of conspiring with local drug cartels to bring vast amounts of cocaine into the United States.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, members of Congress from both parties said that the Trump administration may have committed a war crime in its offensive against boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean.

According to the Washington Post, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a verbal order to kill everyone aboard such boats, leading a U.S.

military commander to carry out a second strike to kill those who had survived an initial airstrike back in September.

Both Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona on CNN and Republican Representative Mike Turner of Ohio on CBS said that such a second strike would violate the rules of war.

Turner said that the post-reporting on the second strike would become the focus of an existing congressional investigation into the airstrikes on the boats.

Today's episode was produced by Rochelle Banja and Muj Zaydi.

It was edited by Patricia Willans with help from Michael Benoit and was engineered by Alyssa Moxley.

Contains music by Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, and Diane Wong.