Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth brief Senate lawmakers on classified September 2nd Caribbean strikes—the 22nd/23rd bipartisan update—successfully dismantling drug cartels and terrorist groups supplying weapons to the U.S., with Hegseth citing Admiral Bradley’s leadership. Unedited top-secret footage will be shown only to House/Senate Armed Services Committees, not the public, but Senator Chuck Schumer insists all 100 senators must review it. The mission’s focus on countering drug-fueled threats underscores a broader shift in hemispheric security strategy. [Automatically generated summary]
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth briefed Senate lawmakers on the recent U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean.
Coming up, we'll show you remarks by Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth, followed by a reaction from senators.
We're headed to the House now to do a similar briefing and provide updates on this counter-drug mission, which is focused on dismantling the infrastructure of these terrorist organizations that are operating in our hemisphere, undermining the security of Americans, killing Americans, poisoning Americans.
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And this has been a highly successful mission that's ongoing and continued.
And we're pleased to be here today to update Congress on how that's developing and how that's moving forward.
As I said, I believe it's our 22nd, 23rd such engagement, certainly been at least the fourth or fifth that I've been involved in, and those will remain and be ongoing.
It is the 22nd bipartisan briefing we've had on a highly successful mission to counter designated terrorist organizations, cartels, bringing weapons, weapons meaning drugs, to the American people and poisoning the American people for far too long.
So we're proud of what we're doing, able to lay it out very directly to these senators and soon to the House.
It's all classified, we can't talk about it now.
We're also going to tomorrow allow the Hask and SASC to see the unedited video of September 2nd, alongside with Admiral Bradley, who has done a fantastic job, has made all the right calls, and we're glad he'll be there to do it.
But in keeping with long-standing Department of War policy, Department of Defense policy, of course, we're not going to release a top-secret, full unedited video of that to the general public.
Hask and SASC and appropriate committees will see it, but not the general public.
Look, I reiterated my demand of Secretary Hegseth in front of all 100 senators that he allow every senator to see the unedited version, the unedited video of what happened on September 2nd.