La., says he won't prejudge the Sept. 2 Caribbean strike as House and Senate Armed Services committees plan oversight hearings.

North Carolina Republican Senator tells Kaitlan Secretary of Defense Hegseth is responsible for the boat strike in the Caribbean killing survivors

New satellite imagery has emerged showing the USS Gerald R. Ford positioned in Caribbean waters close to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tensions are rising in the region as U.S. continues to build up its military presence close to Venezuela.

That’s what the Washington Post alleges that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commanded in a September 2 missile strike on a boat off the coast of Venezuela. After a missile exploded the boat, the Post article says,

Leavitt said Admiral Frank Bradley directed a second strike to “ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat of narco-terrorists to the United States was completely eliminated.”

The Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday said Secretary Pete Hegseth had confirmed to him there was a second US strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September — an attack that has drawn bipartisan scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

Michael Froman, Council on Foreign Relations president, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the meeting between a U.S. delegation led by special envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin, state of the Russia-Ukraine war,

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is coming under a congressional microscope over reports of a second strike to take out survivors or an earlier strike on a boat allegedly carrying drus and