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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said the military’s actions in the Caribbean on Sept. 2 were “entirely appropriate” after getting a classified video about the two strikes on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat.

“The individuals on that vessel were not helpless castaways, they were drug runners on a capsized drug boat and by all indications attempting to recover it so they could continue pushing drugs to kill Americans,” Johnson told reporters.

“What the video shows is that these individuals were there, they were able-bodied, they were not injured, and they were attempting to recover the contents of the boat, which was full of narcotics.”

He said there was “another vessel” in close proximity that the two survivors were “waving their arms” toward so t

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