WASHINGTON - A senior Ohio Republican on the House Armed Services Committee said Sunday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would have committed an illegal act if he gave orders for the U.S. military to “kill everybody.”

U.S. Rep. Mike Turner of Dayton told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the reported actions “would be very serious, and I agree that would be an illegal act.”

Turner said leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees have opened probes into whether Hegseth gave a spoken directive to “kill everybody” aboard a vessel targeted off the coast of Trinidad on Sept. 2, as The Washington Post has reported.

Hegseth has denied the report.

“Congress does not have information that that had occurred,” noted Turner, a former chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Int

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