Trump looking into how reporter added into 'Yemen attack' chat group; Waltz takes responsibility

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The Trump administration on March 25 said it is finding out how a magazine journalist was included in a group discussion of 'war plans in Yemen'. US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who created the chat, said he would take responsibility for the “embarrassing” incident.   The administration said no classified information was shared in that chat.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00money that's going to these two public news outlets if this if they're

00:07successful I know Senator Kennedy has backed it Marjorie Taylor Greene Congress

00:11has backed it. Mr. President are you going to change any of the practices that your

00:15national security officials used after a reporter was inadvertently added to a

00:19group chat about attacks on Yemen? Well I think it's a question I've been asked

00:26now and I've given a few answers and they've all been the same we have an

00:31amazing group our national security now is stronger than it's ever been we have

00:36had a very very successful numerous attacks on that area these are people

00:41that shoot down ships not only our ships ships all over the world they're

00:45shooting down right out of the water and damaging them badly or they're going

00:49down they're also shooting anything that happens to be flying in the area we hit

00:53them very very hard there was no classified information as I understand

00:58it they used a a app if you want to call it an app that a lot of people use a lot

01:06of people in government use a lot of people in the media used and somebody

01:10got on I mean happened to know the guys in total sleazebag the Atlantic the

01:14Atlantic is a failed magazine does very very poorly nobody gives a damn about it

01:19it gives this gives it a little bit of a shot and I will tell you this that

01:24they've made up more stories and and they're just a failing magazine the

01:30public understands that he's a very good man that man is a very good man right

01:33there that you criticize so strongly the attack was totally successful it was I

01:40guess from what I understand took place during and it wasn't classified

01:44information so this was not classified now if it's classified information it's

01:49probably a little bit different but I always say you get it you have to learn

01:52from every experience I think it was very unfair the way they attacked

01:55Michael he's a good person the person that was on just happens to be a

02:02sleazebag so maybe that's just coincidence I don't know I said we'll

02:05look into it but everybody else seems to be using it it seems to be the number

02:10one used device or app whatever you want to call it and we will certainly look if

02:17it was up to me everybody would be sitting in a room together the room

02:20would have solid lead walls and a lead ceiling and a lead floor but you know

02:26life doesn't always let you do that in the meantime the attack itself that we

02:30were talking about and discussing has been an unbelievable success possible

02:36that there could be a firing of even a lower mid-level official once that

02:40person is identified no I don't think he should apologize I think he's doing his

02:46best it's equipment and technology that's not perfect and probably he

02:52won't be using it again at least not in the very near future it's embarrassing

02:57yes we're gonna get to the bottom of it we've have I just talked to Elon on the

03:01way here we've got the best technical minds looking at how this happened but I

03:05can tell you I could tell you for 100% I don't know this guy I know him by his

03:12horrible reputation and he really is the bottom scum of journalists and I

03:16know him in the sense that he hates the president but I don't text them he

03:20wasn't on my phone look I take full responsibility I built the I built the

03:24group to make my job is to make sure everything's coordinated I mean I don't

03:29mean to be pedantic here but how did the number have you ever had a have you ever

03:31had somebody's contact that shows their name and then you haven't and then you

03:35have somebody else's number there those mistakes right you've got somebody else's

03:39number on someone else's contact so of course I didn't see this loser in the

03:43group that's the part that we have to figure out and that's the part that we

03:47were embarrassing yes but Pete and I are veterans we know these operations we

03:53made a mistake we're moving forward and we're going to continue to knock it out

03:58of the park for this president would you care if the rest of this information

04:02came out look I mean I would prefer certainly as a president was saying

04:07today if we could all sit in a steel line let you know steel line lead room

04:11and have all of these conversations I certainly want our deliberations to stay

04:16confidential this was an encrypted app that the CIA had on sitting there as

04:21John Ratcliffe was confirmed and walked into the building from the prior

04:24administration it's on other agency apps and so no of course I don't want it all

04:31out there because these were conversations back and forth that you

04:35should be able to have confidentially

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