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Possible war crime puts Trump's 'illegal orders' freakout in new context - Rachel Maddow - MS NOW
Rachel Maddow relays the details of a new Washington Post report that Donald Trump's Secretary of Defense, former weekend cable news host Pete Hegseth, gave orders to kill everyone on board a boat he accused of running drugs to the United States, which meant finishing off the survivors of an initial strike that destroyed the boat — the literal textbook definition of an illegal order.
Rep. Adam Smith, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee joins to discuss a new, bipartisan push to investigate Hegseth's orders. - Aired on 12/01/2025.