Tom Bowman

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.

He had meetings, he said.

Now, lawmakers are asking, you know, did the second missile strike result in an illegal killing, a war crime?

Because, Steve, the Pentagon's Law of War manual lays out what is an illegal order that no service member has to obey.

And the manual has this example.

Get this.

Quote, for example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.

I don't think there is.