Tom Bowman

An official not authorized to speak publicly says this drone strike was carried out by the CIA, not the military, as we've seen so far with the attacks on some two dozen alleged drug boats, often using drones as well.

And those military strikes are continuing.

Another boat was hit just yesterday, killing two people on board.

But this is the first strike on land, clearly ramping up pressure on the Maduro regime.

President Trump has already indicated the fight would move to land, so this could be just the first one.

Well, it said that two to four hours before the airstrikes by American F-18 pilots, Secretary Hegseth, he was getting a classified briefing from General Eric Carrillo about the upcoming attacks on Houthi rebels.

A lot of detail about the number of planes, the targets, the timing.

And while Hegseth was getting this, he was sharing it on a signal chat with other officials and on another chat with his wife, his brother and his lawyer.

None of those three had security clearances and

All of this was secret information, the report said.

Well, Secretary Hegseth's spokesman said the IG report exonerates him.

That is not true.

Nothing in the 76 pages says anything close to that.

It does say that the Pentagon should be aware of proper procedures on the handling of classified information.

It only states facts, Steve, not what should happen next.

Well, Admiral Mitch Bradley, the top commander overseeing Central and South America, appeared behind closed doors to explain what happened.

Lawmakers said he defended that second missile strike, saying basically the survivors of the initial strike were still kind of being active there.

trying to reach their comrades by radio, trying to corral drugs on the boat that was nearly destroyed.

So Bradley, again, ordered this second missile strike to kill them and then two more to sink the boat.

Secretary Hegseth said he was only there for the first missile strike on the boat and didn't see the others.