'Double strike' boat controversy: Trump throws Pentagon chief under the bus; 'What Pete wants...'

US President Donald Trump clashed with a reporter during a press interaction over the possible release of full footage from a September 2 strike off the coast of Venezuela. Dismissing the question as “fake news,” Trump said any decision on releasing the video rests with Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. He defended maritime drug interdiction operations, claiming each intercepted boat saves “25,000 American lives,” and criticised the reporter’s line of questioning as misleading.