War Secretary Pete Hegseth said he was not in the room when the order to strike an alleged drug boat a second time on Sept. 2 was given.

“I watched that first strike live. As you can imagine at the Department of War, we’ve got a lot of things to do. So I didn’t stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive sight exploitation digitally occurs, so I moved on to my next meeting,” Hegseth said during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.

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