Kash Patel Responds Exclusively, WH Defends Boat Strike, Luigi Mangione in Court： AM Update 12⧸2
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The White House confirms a second strike was ordered on a suspected drug vessel, as President Trump s top advisors discuss next moves in Venezuela. It shows a cold, calculated, premeditated murder. And Luigi Mangione in a New York courtroom seeking to exclude key evidence in his trial. All that and more coming up in a moment on Your AM Update.
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It's Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
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AM Update with new and exclusive reaction from FBI Director Kash Patel to an attack on FBI
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Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes.
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The White House confirms a second strike was ordered on a suspected drug vessel as President
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Trump's top advisors discuss next moves in Venezuela.
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It shows a cold, calculated, premeditated murder.
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And Luigi Mangione in a New York courtroom seeking to exclude key evidence in his trial.
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt yesterday confirming reports that a second strike was
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conducted on an alleged drug boat heading for America on September 2nd, as two suspected
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narco-terrorists who survived the first strike clung to the battered boat in the sea.
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The Washington Post reporting Friday the, quote, double tap was ordered by Admiral Frank Mitch
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This following an earlier order prior to the initial strike from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,
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authorizing kinetic strikes to take out these vessels.
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The Washington Post and subsequent reporting intensely focusing on the legality of Admiral
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Bradley's order, contending that the survivors did not pose an ongoing threat to the U.S.,
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As adjunct Cornell law professor and retired U.S. Army soldier Brian Cox has argued and will
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explain today live on the MK Show, if this boat were just disabled, as the Washington Post reports,
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and not entirely destroyed after strike number one, the order to strike again would be entirely
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Caroline Levitt from yesterday's briefing reading a prepared statement moments after denying that
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the order for the second strike came directly from Secretary Hegseth.
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President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have made it clear that presidentially designated narco-terrorist
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groups are subject to lethal targeting in accordance with the laws of war.
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With respect to the strikes in question on September 2nd, Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley
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Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law, directing the engagement to ensure
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where the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated.
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And I would just add one more point to remind the American public why these lethal strikes
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Because this administration has designated these narco-terrorists as foreign terrorist organizations.
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The president has a right to take them out if they are threatening the United States
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of America and if they are bringing illegal narcotics that are killing our citizens at a record
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And under the previous administration, there was enough fentanyl trafficked into our country
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to kill every American man, woman, and child many times over.
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Levitt saying Admiral Bradley ordered the second strike, but stopping short of addressing whether
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it was intended specifically to kill survivors.
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The Post initially reporting four strikes total on the boat, two to kill everyone, and two more
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The topic consuming about half of the briefing, with intense focus on the nature of the order
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What was the initial order from Secretary Haig said, everyone be killed, and did that
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I would reject that the Secretary of War ever said that.
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However, the president has made it quite clear that if narco-terrorists, again, are trafficking
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illegal drugs towards the United States, he has the authority to kill them.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries reacting bluntly at a press conference.
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The White House is lying, but that's no surprise, because they lie for a living, and the American
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The House and Senate Armed Services Committees, led by Republicans, launching inquiries into
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Secretary Hegseth posting on social media yesterday evening, quote,
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Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support.
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I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made on the September 2nd mission and all
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Also yesterday, President Trump meeting with his national security team in the Oval to
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CNN reporting Secretary Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Raisin-Kane, Secretary
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of State Marco Rubio, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, among
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The president ramping up pressure on Venezuela in recent weeks as part of a campaign to crack
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down on cartels trafficking drugs into the U.S.
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U.S. military ships and troops amassing in the region.
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Last week, President Trump saying operations to halt trafficking via land routes would begin
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On Saturday, President Trump posting to Truth Social, quote,
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To all airlines, pilots, drug dealers, and human traffickers, please consider the airspace
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above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety, leaving many to wonder if
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On Sunday, President Trump confirming he had recently spoken to President Maduro.
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The New York Times reported that you had a phone call with Maduro.
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Last week, the administration designating President Maduro as the head of a foreign terrorist
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organization, saying he and other members of his government head the Cartel de los Solis,
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a step U.S. officials say provides wider legal authority to conduct operations inside Venezuela.
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Coming up, a new report goes after FBI Director Cash Patel.
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Director Patel responds on the record to AM Update.
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And accused murderer Luigi Mangione is in court seeking the dismissal of critical pieces of evidence.
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A new report compiled by a group of active duty and retired FBI agents
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painting an unflattering image of FBI Director Cash Patel,
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and to a lesser degree, his Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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The 115-page report, a mostly scathing assessment of Patel's first six months in office,
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reportedly set to be presented to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees this week.
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The New York Post's Miranda Devine getting her hands on the report,
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The report, citing multiple internal FBI sources,
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the breadth of experience needed to be successful.
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lacks the requisite experience to be FBI Director.
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for those claiming this report is from a bunch of disgruntled FBI staffers
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who don't like change or are salty ex-FBI critics of Cash and Dan,
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you're wrong. It's from an alliance of patriotic operational insiders opposed to the abuses and
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corruption of the FBI, which accelerated under Joe Biden.
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AM Update spoke exclusively with Director Patel about the report,
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who rejected that characterization, dismissing the report as a, quote,
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dossier compiled by anonymous, disgruntled sources, end quote,
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whom, he argued, do not know what they're talking about.
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He scoffed at the notion that the FBI is, quote, rudderless,
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pointing out that under his leadership, the Bureau has made almost 30,000 arrests this year,
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a 100% increase from 2024, 25,000 of those for violent crimes,
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including over 100 MS-13 gang members and 200-plus Trenda Aragua members.
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6,000 missing children have been found, a 22% increase over last year.
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1,700 child predators have been arrested. That's up 10% from last year. Human trafficking arrests are up
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15% from last year. Domestic terrorism arrests, up 30%. 1,900 kilos of fentanyl have been seized.
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That's enough to kill 127 million Americans. Four of the top 10 most wanted criminals in the U.S.
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have been nabbed under his leadership. That's the same number President Biden's FBI arrested
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over four years. In short, Director Patel maintains, the numbers speak for themselves.
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This FBI is succeeding beyond anyone's expectations. Director Patel also responding
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to allegations in the report of his alleged behavior around the Charlie Kirk murder.
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We will have that piece of the story for you on the MK Show later today.
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Last week, MS Now reporting three unnamed sources saying President Trump is considering removing
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Director Patel as top aides grow frustrated by the negative headlines. Caroline Levitt calling
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that report completely made up, with the president himself weighing in, saying of Patel, quote,
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Luigi Mangione in New York State Court yesterday for the start of a multi-day pretrial hearing,
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asking a judge to exclude evidence collected during his arrest last year. The defense arguing
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Mangione's rights were violated when cops searched his backpack and questioned him before obtaining
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a warrant and reading him his Miranda rights. 27-year-old Mangione accused of assassinating United
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Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside of a Manhattan hotel on December 4, 2024. The brutal slaying
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captured on surveillance video showing the suspect approaching Thompson from behind and opening
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fire at close range before fleeing. Thompson hit in the back and in the leg, dying from his
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injuries. Prosecutors say the words deny, delay, and depose were written on the ammunition, echoing a
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phrase used to describe how insurance companies dodge paying claims. They argue that they have a
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substantial body of evidence against Mangione, including video placing him at the scene of the
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shooting and a manifesto obtained from his backpack upon arrest. The attack leading to a five-day
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manhunt. Cops arresting Mangione at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, about 230 miles from Manhattan.
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Former prosecutor Joey Jackson on CNN explaining the rules governing police interrogations and the
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circumstances requiring Miranda warnings. Does the prosecution acknowledge they never told Mangione
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he has a right to remain silent? Indeed they do. But however, there are other arguments, even though
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they eventually did. But at the time that they were making an accusation towards him, if it's a custodial
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interrogation, doesn't mean you're in cuffs. But if you're not free to leave and they're asking
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questions that could incriminate you, you have to give Miranda. However, if you're simply investigating a
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case and not really questioning him such that you're eliciting guilty statements, you don't.
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And so there's a fine line with respect to investigatory information being supplied and
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incriminatory, meaning you're looking for evidence to incriminate them. The police say we just needed
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to know what the lay of the land was. And that was the basis upon which we asked those questions.
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While cops were talking to Mangione, one officer searching his backpack, saying she wanted to ensure
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there wasn't a bomb or anything inside. Mangione's team arguing that statement was
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designed to cover up an illegal, warrantless search of the backpack. In the bag, cops finding
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a loaded magazine, silencer, 3D-printed gun, electronic devices, and a journal. According to
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court filings, Mangione's journal allegedly containing an entry reading,
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quote, I finally feel confident about what I will do. The target is insurance. It checks
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every box. Mangione faces life in prison on the state charges, which include second-degree murder
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in addition to multiple federal charges. And that'll do it for a raspy AM update. Thanks
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