President Trump attacks the Atlantic and its Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg after his top officials leaked a conversation about the Yemen strike to him.
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00:00Mr. President, are you going to change any of the practices that your national security
00:04officials used after a reporter was inadvertently added to a group chat about attacks on Yemen?
00:10Well, I think it's a question I've been asked now and I've given a few answers and they've
00:17all been the same.
00:19We have an amazing group.
00:20Our national security now is stronger than it's ever been.
00:24We have had a very, very successful numerous attacks on that area.
00:29These are people that shoot down ships, not only our ships, ships all over the world.
00:33They're shooting down right out of the water and damaging them badly.
00:37Or they're going down.
00:38They're also shooting anything that happens to be flying in the area.
00:41We hit them very, very hard.
00:44There was no classified information, as I understand it.
00:48They used a app, if you want to call it an app, that a lot of people use, a lot of people
00:55in government use, a lot of people in the media use.
00:58And I think I'll ask, Mike, Mike is here.
01:00Do you want to respond to that, please?
01:02Yes.
01:03Mr. President, you asked about lessons.
01:04I think there's a lot of the lessons, there's a lot of journalists in this city who have
01:08made big names for themselves, making up lies about this president, whether it's the Russia
01:14hoax or making up lies about gold star families.
01:17And this one in particular, I've never met, don't know, never communicated with.
01:22And we are and we are looking into and reviewing how the heck he got into this room.
01:27But I'll tell you what, the world owes President Trump a favor.
01:31Under Biden, global shipping was shut down, pinprick attacks, months between them, our
01:36destroyers being fired upon dozens of times.
01:40President Trump took decisive action with his national security team, took out the head
01:46missileer, knocked out missiles, knocked out headquarters, knocked out communication sites.
01:52And for once, as we hear, as you all hear from every one of our allies, thank God for
01:57American leadership again.
01:59Thank God for American strength.
02:01You're a welcome here.
02:04And we have a national security team that was coordinating these efforts.
02:11As Director Ratcliffe testified today, his first day on the job, he was introduced to
02:16this app on his government systems at the CIA and at the State Department and otherwise.
02:22So look, this journalist, Mr. President, wants the world talking about more hoaxes and this
02:29kind of nonsense rather than the freedom that you're enabling.
02:33And a key part of our sovereignty is open sea lanes and knocking the crap out of terrorists,
02:38which is exactly what your team and Pete Hex, a good friend and fellow veteran, is leading
02:43the charge on.
02:44We had a very, very successful.
02:46Excuse me.
02:47We had a very, very successful evening and we've had numerous successful evenings and
02:53days in that area.
02:54The hoodies are absolutely on the run.
02:57The worst of them have been killed.
03:01This should have been done a long time ago by Biden, but Biden was an incompetent president.
03:05He couldn't do anything.
03:06He would.
03:07He didn't know where where he was going.
03:08He had no clue.
03:09This guy had no clue.
03:10This should have been done a long time ago as they shoot missiles at ships, randomly
03:15shoot missiles at ships and and they make their own missiles.
03:19You know, this is not an incompetent group of people.
03:21They make their own missiles.
03:23They get the missiles also from Iran.
03:26It's an offshoot of Iran.
03:27Another offshoot.
03:28You have Hamas.
03:29You have Hezbollah.
03:30You have the hoodies.
03:31You got a lot of stuff going on with Iran.
03:34And we sent a letter to Iran.
03:35You're going to have to be speaking to us one way or the other pretty soon because we
03:39can't let this happen.
03:41But that's an app that a lot of people use.
03:44And somebody got on.
03:45I mean, I happen to know the guy's a total sleazebag.
03:48The Atlantic.
03:49The Atlantic is a failed magazine does very, very poorly.
03:52Nobody gives a damn about it.
03:54It gives this gives it a little bit of a shot.
03:58And I will tell you this, that they've made up more stories and and they're just a failing
04:04magazine.
04:05The public understands that he's a very good man.
04:07That man is a very good man right there that you criticize so slowly.