Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that he only learned of the second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean — the strike that targeted survivors — a “couple of hours” after it was carried out in early September. “I watched that first strike live. As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do, so I didn’t stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs,” he told reporters during a Cabinet