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Trump has said the administration would have "no problem" releasing the video of the strike in question, but Hegseth was noncommittal when asked Saturday.

"Whatever we were to decide to release, we'd have to be very responsible about it so we're reviewing that right now.," Hegseth said at the Reagan National Defense Forum. "I'm way more interested in protecting that than anything else. So, we're viewing the process, and we'll see."

Smith argued the strike video lawmakers were shown is "no different" than the strike videos the administration has already publicly released.

"It seems pretty clear they don't want to release this video because they don't want people to see it, because it's very, very difficult to justify," he said.