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Pete Hegseth won't say yes or no on releasing the boat strike video, and Jimmy Kimmel notices

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On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel's monologue takes on the reported "double tap" follow-up strike on the people aboard a boat, after Trump and lawmakers from both parties said the video should be released. In the clip, Pete Hegseth is asked if he will release the full video and says only "we are reviewing it right now" before pointing to ongoing operations in the Caribbean. Kimmel's jokes are comedy; the dodge is on tape.

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Who
Jimmy Kimmel
Where
monologue - Jimmy Kimmel Live
Original footage
Jimmy Kimmel Live · watch the full video from this moment
Length
51 seconds, unedited within the cut
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Mi Wong, the bombs keep dropping on our secretary of war crimes, Pete Hegseth, who is a front -runner for the next presidential pardon, after the so -called double tap on that boat, or should I say on the people who were in the boat before the boat was capsized by U .S. missiles. The president and top lawmakers from both parties say they want the video of the strike to be released. But Pete Hegseth, even though he claims it was all legal and clean, he doesn't seem so eager to want that. So, Mr. Secretary, you will be releasing that full video. We are reviewing it right now. Is that a yes or no? That is for... the most important thing to me are the ongoing operations in the Caribbean? The right. No, no, no. Listen, he doesn't have time to release potential evidence of horror crimes. He's very busy committing new ones right now.

Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.

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