Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) claimed the Trump administration’s first military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean was either a “war crime” or “murder.”

Partial transcript as follows:

JONATHAN KARL: So let me ask you about that Washington Post report on the — on the attack on that Venezuelan alleged drug boat. What do you make of what happened there? Do you think there was a war crime committed?

VAN HOLLEN: I think it’s very possible there was a war crime committed. Of course, for it to be a war crime, you have to accept the Trump administration’s whole construct here.

KARL: That we’re at war.

VAN HOLLEN: Which is we’re in armed conflict, at war with this particular — with the drug gangs. Of course, they’ve never presented the public with the i

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