'Get your story straight!' Senator accuses Trump admin of lying in classified briefing

A Senate Democrat bashed the Trump administration's classified briefing on its strikes against alleged drug boats during an interview on CNN.

On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a classified briefing to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where they contradicted several key parts of the administration's narrative about the strikes. For instance, they said the boats were likely traveling to Europe, not the United States, as the administration claimed. They also admitted that the ships were likely carrying cocaine and not fentanyl, which President Donald Trump recently declared a "weapon of mass destruction."

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) discussed parts of the briefing on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" on Wednesday.

"I don't trust their leadership, Slotkin said.

"Literally, as Mr. Rubio and Secretary Hegseth are telling us, the only thing they're doing is going after these boats because they're carrying drugs. At the same time, we have the chief of staff to the president, you know, captured in the Vanity Fair article talking about, 'The whole point is just to get Maduro out,' right? It's regime change," she added.

"Get your story straight before you come and brief the Senate," she continued. "And again, it's the leadership I have concerns about."