Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on alleged war crimes, Kristi Noem's potential replacement, and Waymo

United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will not confirm whether the video footage of a strike on a Venezuelan boat will be released.

Critics have called the strike a war crime. 

President Donald Trump is reportedly considering the replacement of long-time ally and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

And, self driving car company Waymo has recalled software after its cars repeatedly failed to stop for school buses.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Richard Arnold, US correspondent to Richard, Very good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
He yes, so, more.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Details about the second strike with heigst Yeah, it's ongoing.
Heigg Seth has skirted questions about releasing the video of
that controversial second boat strike off Venezuela. Critics have called
that second strike against the two survivors of the initial
attack troubling, potentially a war crime. Heggs seth Now is
avoiding a clear response to questions about whether that second

(00:24):
strike video should be made public. Here's what he's saying,
reviewing the process and we'll see. I'll see that is
different from what Trump was saying about this just last week.
I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
They have, but whatever they have would certainly release, no problem.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Well. Heggs seth Now is doubling down on his assertion
that the second strike was legal and necessary. Here's what
he is saying.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I fully support that strike.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I would have made the same call myself. It has
also immerged in recent hours at this boat was not
even headed towards the US of A. It was traveling
southward Suriname, where it's believes that drugs would eventually be
headed to Europe or Africa. So was this a valid
so called war target for the United States. Republican Senator
Tom Cotton argues that in his thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
It was any boat loaded with drugs that is trapped,
that is crewed by associates and members of foreign terrorist
organizations that are trying to kill American kids, I think
is a valid target.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Many Democrats disagree, and even some Republicans like Senator Around Paula,
calling the entire operation of Venezuela illegal. Meantime, we're hearing
more about the twelve hours of testimony that this Admiral
Mitch Bradley gave enclosed door sessions to lawmakers. He says
that US Intel had confirmed the identities of all eleven
people on the drug boat, so that's something we hadn't

(01:41):
heard before. The admiral says his orders from Higseth were
to kill individuals on the approved target list. He told
lawmakers that while the first strike disabled the boat, the
two survivors were able to flip over part of the wreckage,
and that some bags of cocaine had not been ejected
by the first strike. The US attack team saw the
survivors taking off their shirts to check they had no wounds,
and they say there was another larger boat spotted in

(02:03):
the area that the targeted boat was supposed to link
up with, but the admiral said the larger boat was
not on the approved US target list. Meantime, another Trump
aid is in the spotlight right now. There is groin
talks that Homeland Security Chief Christie Nome could be fired
and replaced by outgoing Governor Glenn Younkin. Nome is dating
former Trump aid Corey Lewandowski, and there is concern about

(02:25):
Lewandowski's growing role at that agency. Nome has been trying
to stay in Trump's good books by heaping flattery on him,
saying in a recent cabinet session that this was a
mild hurricane season and telling Trump, quote, you kept the
hurricanes away. We appreciate that. Yeah, okay, well anybody would,
now I can't.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I mean, it seems to me it's obviously a problem
if WEIMO doesn't recognize kids and school buses.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, yeah, it seems to be WEIMO was having this
new issue. The self driving taxi started service in San Francisco,
then they expanded onto La and the Phoenix and to
Austin in Texas. So it's a couple of thousand of
these things on the streets right now, and they plan
to move into many US cities in the months ahead. Now,
this problem, these robo taxis have been scooting past school

(03:10):
buses when the buses have stopped to load and unload
the school kids. The law here is when the school
buses stopped, they put out the sign. Other drivers then
must halt as well so they don't accidentally run over
the kids. Well, the weimos have not been doing this.
They just right on by. There have been nineteen documented
cases of this in Texas. It's happened also in Arizona.
So now WEIMO has ordered a massive recall of the

(03:32):
software on these cars. That recall will get underway this week.
WEIMO official Vche Nihilani saying, however.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't think people should expect perfection.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
What's really important, though, is that we're learning from all
the different scenarios that we encounter. Perfection. Avoiding school kids
seems like a key safety concerned, doesn't it. So far,
no one has been killed. Yeah, so far, Yeah, Hey,
thank you very much. Richard really appreciated. Richard Arnold us
corresponding

Speaker 2 (03:58):
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