The Hill
@thehill·2.1M subscribers·45.9K videos
Happening Now: Trump Holds Cabinet Meeting As Hegseth Faces Heat Over Drug Boat Strikes
Posted
December 2, 2025
Views
10,863
Likes
88
Comments
12
Engagement
0.92%
December 2, 2025
10,863
88
12
0.92%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
2:58:16Now PlayingPresident Trump is hosting a Cabinet meeting at the White House Tuesday morning as the administration responds to war crime allegations against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth related to strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.
Hegseth came under scrutiny after reports surfaced that he ordered military leaders to “kill everybody” during subsequent strikes in September. The White House confirmed the Defense chief’s role in the operations but placed much of the credit on Navy Adm. Frank Bradley.
The administration has largely defended its moves as tensions with Venezuela rise.
The meeting also comes as special envoy Steve Witkoff travels to Moscow to sell Trump’s peace plan to end the war in Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin and as immigration enforcement ramps up following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C., last week.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. EST.
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
