Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander of the Sept. 2 attack, is set to provide an account of his role for the first time in a closed briefing.

Lawmakers are demanding answers after Hegseth responded to a report that he ordered the military to kill all passengers aboard a boat suspected of ferrying drugs.

Hegseth has defended the second strike as emerging in the “fog of war,” saying during a Cabinet meeting this week at the White House that he didn’t see any survivors but also “didn’t stick around” for the rest of the mission.

The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The family of 42-year-old Alejandro Carranza Medina, who was killed on Sept. 15, insisted he was a fisherman just doing his job on the open sea.

A look at what Pete Hegseth has said about the deadly strike in the Carribean—and how his explanations have changed

As lawmakers from both parties question the legality of a “double-tap” boat strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, Senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee tells Dana Bash,