Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” network host Rachel Maddow predicted Republican lawmakers will ask Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to resign because of a report alleging impropriety over his handling of drug boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea.
Maddow said, “I don’t understand why we’re going to war with Venezuela, and I’m not sure the administration is even bothered to try to come up with anything, even internally coherent.”
She continued, “So what are we doing there in the first place? Why are we blowing out of the water and killing people in boats with outboard motors, some of which aren’t even pointed towards the United States, let alone verified to have drugs on them, let alone even if they did, if they were coming to the United States and they had the capacity to reach the United States, and they were filled with drugs, why isn’t it possible to just interdict them the way that we do with the Coast Guard, where you go and take the drugs and then put those people on trial and investigate and then follow the drugs to their source of origin and then take care of it?”
Maddow added, “It’s a catastrophe. I think Pete Hegseth, it’s impossible to imagine that he survives this as Secretary of Defense. I think he must resign, and I think Republicans will ask for that ultimately once they investigate this.”
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