As Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continue to defend and expand their boat strike campaign, bipartisan alarm is intensifying. New briefings raise fresh questions about the legal rationale for a second strike that killed men already adrift at sea. Democrats now say the administration’s framing obscures the scale of the mission, which has included at least 22 strikes since September. Retired four-star Gen. Barry McCaffrey and retired Navy JAG officer Todd Huntley, now director of the National Security Law Program at Georgetown University Law Center, join The Weeknight to break down the stakes.

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