Days after President Donald Trump declared he had “no problem” releasing a video of a second strike on a boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2 that killed two alleged drug smugglers hanging to remnants of the hull, he reversed himself on Monday and said he would let Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decide whether to make it public.

The video was shown to a few members of Congress last week, in the Pentagon’s first effort to tamp down intense criticism, some from Republicans, of the decision to attack the boat again. Some members of Congress have said that if the follow-on strike was intended to kill the remaining two survivors of the crew of about 11, it could be a war crime as well as a violation of the U.S. military’s own code of conduct.

Democrats who emerged from a showing of the video desc

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