Senator Mark Kelly

aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now that are striking these boats.

And whether or not this is legal or are they going to find out on some future date that what they did was not consistent with our laws here in the United States and laws of international conflict.

There's no authorization for the use of military force.

The United States Congress has not given that to the president.

He hasn't asked.

He's just doing this, saying that this is a threat to the United States.

And on some level, yeah, it is.

I mean, these are drug smugglers, but we have not.

as far as I know in the history of our country, authorized kinetic action as the first step against, you know, drug smugglers.

We board these ships, we interdict them, we arrest them.

That's probably the way we should continue to do that.

We should step it up.

We should do more of it.

That is clear.

You know, nobody wants these drugs coming into the United States.

But I do worry about the the aviators out there and the drone operators who may have been put in a legally challenging position.

Well, I mean, it's just ridiculous, uncalled for, and un-American comments from a commander-in-chief to address the military and make it so political in the way he did, uncalled for.

I think the reaction of those in the room said it all, stone-faced, no response, entirely professional and apolitical.

And I imagine the president and the secretary of defense walked out of there

not happy that is not the response they they expected from the senior leadership of the united states military you know the president just looks for every single opportunity to divide us as a nation to divide us