"Listen, you're once again making assumptions, Mullin said. That's not even kind of accurate, I don't believe. All we're doing is talking about an assumption. This isn't been proven. It hasn't been said it was actually true. Mullin added, In this particular situation, you're talking about, once again, is alleged over an anonymous source, which the media is really good about, always trying to name some anonymous source. And then they make a big deal about it as though it's true."
"You don't think it's true information? Bash asked as Mullin spoke over her. Full stop. Do you know that it's not true? Why would it be true? Mullin asked. And then we know thatthe Navy or the coast guard has picked up survivors already and sent them back to the country. So, now we're saying that they did it once and they didn't do it again. I don't believe this at all."
The Washington Post reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of everyone on board a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2, a move critics say could amount to a war crime. Senator Markwayne Mullin declined to endorse consequences, calling the report an unproven assumption reliant on anonymous sources. Mullin pointed to recovered survivors and questioned the accuracy of the allegation. CNN's Dana Bash pressed him, and Mullin defended aggressive action against traffickers by arguing that traffickers do not care about American lives and framing the situation as a form of war.
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