Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Sunday defended the Trump administration’s strikes on boats “crewed by associates and members” of drug cartels designated as foreign terrorist organizations and urged that they continue.
In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Cotton — chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee who attended briefings on the operation — said the mission’s purpose is straightforward: “Destroy these drug boats” that he said are pushing narcotics toward U.S. shores and fueling overdose deaths across the country.
“The order, like the entire operation, Kristen, is to destroy these drug boats, which are running drugs into our country from foreign drug cartels and traffickers that are killing hundreds of Arkansans every year and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Cotton told host Kristen Welker.
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