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In remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday morning, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to publicly release the full video of the attack on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea on Sept. 2, which killed survivors of a military strike against a suspected drug boat.

"Pete Hegseth should release the full tapes of the Sept. 2 attack. Both the first and second strike. Not a clip. Not some edited or redacted snippet. The full unedited tapes of each strike must be released so the American people can see what happened with their own eyes," Schumer said on the Senate floor. "Now Pete Hegseth said he did nothing wrong. So prove it."

Schumer called the "failure of leadership" at the Pentagon a "national embarrassment."

Schumer called for Department of Defense briefings on the strikes and said that Hegseth should be present for those briefings.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin

Trump continued to go after Somali immigrants in Minnesota, alleging that they had been "ripping people off."

"They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country," the president said.

There are more than 58,800 Minnesotans of Somali descent as of 2018, according to the Minnesota government.

Trump referred to the Somalis as "garbage" and claimed that all they do is "complain."

"We don't want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it," he said as he ended the meeting and received applause from Cabinet leaders.

Hegseth clarified comments he gave back in September after the boat strike on Sept. 2 of a suspected drug boat where he claimed he saw the attack take place live.

At the time, he and the White House did not disclose that a second strike was ordered on the boat.

Asked if he saw survivors of that second strike, Hegseth reiterated that he did see the initial strike live, but did not see the follow-up attack -- and did not personally see survivors.

"As you can imagine, 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 said.

"So I moved on to my next meeting. A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander had made the -- which he had the complete authority to do," Hegseth added.

The Defense Secretary later added he did not see any survivors.

"I did not personally see survivors ... because that thing was on fire," he said. "It was exploded and fire and smoke, you can't see anything ... This is called the fog of war."

Kingsley Wilson, the Pentagon press secretary, gave her first on-camera press briefing on Tuesday, where she criticized The Washington Post's reporting of the second strike on an alleged drug boat on Sept. 2, saying the comments attributed to Hegseth ordering to kill everyone aboard the boat to be "totally fabricated."

"He never said them," Wilson said.

She pointed to the White House comments from Monday that "the decision to restrike the narco-terrorist vessel was made by Adm. Bradley operating under the clear and long-standing authorities to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States was eliminated."

She added that "at the end of the day, the secretary and the president are the ones directing these strikes, and any follow-on strikes like those which were directed by Adm. Bradley, the secretary 100% agrees with."

Wilson also said that "without a shadow of a doubt, every single one of our military and civilian lawyers knows that these individuals are narco-terrorists."

-ABC News' Luis Martinez