Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivers remarks as he and Secretaries of State and Defense, including Marco Rubio, host their Australian counterparts for bilateral talks at the State Department in Washington, Dec. 8, 2025. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
"I think we need to see all of the video footage, particularly of the second strike from Sept. 2," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital.
Lawmakers in the upper chamber don’t know who slipped the provision into the colossal legislative package, including Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker, R-Miss., who told reporters, "I would imagine that it got added at the leadership level."
The massive legislative package sailed through the House on Thursday and is set for a series of procedural tests in the Senate beginning on Monday. And many lawmakers broadly support the release of the footage, particularly of the double-tap strike, to Congress.
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Fox News Digital that his committee, and "maybe the [Senate] Intel Committee," should have complete access to the unedited footage.
"And then, based upon that, we can decide whether or not we would push further," Rounds said. "But let us look at the facts first."
GOP FRACTURES OVER HEGSETH'S 'DOUBLE-TAP' CARIBBEAN STRIKE AS CONGRESS PROBES LEGALITY
Senate Democrats' three-year extension of expiring enhanced Obamacare subsidies was destined to fail on Thursday as the Senate prepared to vote on dueling proposals. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
During the week, the so-called "Gang of Eight," which includes Republican and Democratic leadership from the Senate and House along with the chairs and ranking members of the intelligence committees in both chambers, met with Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for a briefing on the strikes.
Neither Thune nor Senate Intel Committee Chair Tom Cotton, R-Ark., commented on the briefing, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., characterized it as "very unsatisfying."
"I asked Secretary Hegseth, Secretary of Defense Hegseth, would he let every member of Congress see unedited videos of the Sept. 2 strike? His answer, ‘We have to study it well,’" Schumer said. "In my view, they've studied it long enough. Congress ought to be able to see it."
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Some Republicans support more transparency on the matter, too, including Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., who told Fox News Digital that he didn’t "have any problem" releasing the footage.
But he emphasized that the entire point of the strikes was to combat the flow of drugs into the country.
"We’re losing sight of the most important narrative, and that is, more Americans have died of illegal drugs in the last seven years than World War I, World War II and Vietnam combined," Daines said.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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