WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., defended the Trump administration’s Sept. 2 strike that killed the survivors of an initial strike on an alleged drug boat, telling NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that the survivors “were not incapacitated.”

The senator also argued that President Donald Trump did not have to seek congressional approval if he continued boat strikes past the window designated by the War Powers Resolution , which puts checks on the president’s ability to use the armed forces without congressional approval.

Cotton, who serves as the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was briefed by Adm. Frank M. Bradley last week on the September strikes. Bradley briefed the leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees and the leaders of the House and Senate armed ser

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