Five days after President Trump said he was ok with releasing video of the U.S. military’s first attack on alleged drug trafficking boats off the Latin American coast, he backed away from that pledge Monday, telling reporters he’d let his embattled Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth decide.

Dec. 3: “I don’t know what they have, but whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem,” Trump told reporters (read a transcript via Roll Call , here ).

Dec. 8: On Monday, a reporter asked the president if he still felt that way. “Mr. President, you said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on Sept. 2 off the coast of Venezuela. Secretary Hegseth now says—” the reporter said before the president interrupted her.

“I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t

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