Top military officials briefed lawmakers and defended their actions against cartels in the southern Caribbean Sea on Thursday. The Trump administration has warned that land strikes could begin soon.

A man accused of planting two bombs in Washington before the Jan. 6 Capitol breach has now been identified. What are investigators saying, and why did the case take this long?

With the D.C. pipe bombing suspect in custody, what do we know about a possible motive? And, in the Caribbean boat strikes, are drug traffickers considered enemy combatants? We discuss with Jason Palmer and Amanda Makki.

President Donald Trump is tightening immigration restrictions further. The White House also hosted the leaders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda to facilitate a peace deal.

House lawmakers are stressing the importance of staying ahead of China’s ambition to be the world leader in space.

A Stanford department chair was also found to be working with China’s nuclear weapons program by proxy. And a new book describes the regime’s stealing of defense secrets. The author of “The Great Heist” and former acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency David Shedd joins us to discuss.