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An MS NOW host refused to let a Republican lawmaker off the hook Wednesday over questions on President Donald Trump's pardon of an international drug kingpin.

MS NOW host Mika Brzezinski pressed Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) on his thoughts about Trump's pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández.

At the end of the live interview segment, MS NOW host Jonathan Lemire asked Marshall about the administration's attacks on alleged drug boats off the coast of Venezuela and the pardon of Hernández, who ran a large-scale drug trafficking operation that reportedly brought narcotics to the U.S. ...

An analyst Tuesday called President Donald Trump's war on drugs "just incoherent" — and revealed what his strategy might actually show about Trump's motives.

Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton wrote how Trump's pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández counters his strategy to stop Venezuelan “narco-terrorists” following multiple lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea, just off the coast of Venezuela. Last week, Trump gave the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro a week to leave the country, after accusations "mostly related to money laundering and corruption," she argued.

"In fact, the cocaine drug trade from Venezuela doesn’t even come to America; it’s directed almost entirely at Europe," Digby Parton said. The Trump administration has indicated it is trying to stop fentanyl from reaching the U.S. with its attacks, but the drug is "almost exclusively smuggled over land from Mexico." ...

Honduran leftist presidential candidate Xiomara Castro vowed Friday to deliver proof of the fraud she claims cheated her out of the presidency.

Political tension loomed over violence-torn Honduras on Monday as the conservative candidate led the early count in presidential elections while his leftist opponents claimed fraud.