On Saturday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Alex Witt Reports," House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) dismissed "this idea that we have to hold people accountable, we have to fix this" in the wake of the August 29 drone strike and stated, "It happened. The people are dead and there isn't a damn thing that anyone's going to do to bring them back." Smith further said that the most important thing is focusing "on not using the military as aggressively as we have, and that's a huge part of Biden's agenda."