A political firestorm has erupted in Washington over a Yemen Signal leak involving Team Trump. Intel and FBI chiefs face tough questions from the Senate regarding the accidental addition of The Atlantic's editor-in-chief to a private high-level Signal chat discussing military plans.
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00:00Big political firestorm, Team Trump is trampling to contain the fallout from a Yemen signal leak
00:05that has rocked Washington. After the Atlantic's editor-in-chief was accidentally added to a private
00:11high-level chat on the messaging app Signal, where military plans are being discussed, Intel
00:16and FBI chiefs Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel are facing tough questions from the Senate.
00:23While Gabbard maintains that no sensitive material was exposed, the Senate is demanding
00:28transparency and the investigation continues to unfold. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has reacted
00:33to the leak, defending his team amid the storm, saying the National Security Advisor
00:38Mike Pauls is a good man and he has learned his lesson.
00:58These are important jobs. This is our national security.
01:03Bobbing and weaving and trying to, you know, filibuster your answer. So please answer the
01:09question. If this was a right, Director Gabbard, if this was a rank-and-file intelligence officer
01:17who did this kind of careless behavior, what would you do with them?
01:22Senator, I'll reiterate that there was no classified material that was shared
01:26in that. And if there's no classified materials, share. Senator, I was on a Signal messaging group.
01:33So you were the John Ratcliffe on that chat? I was. Thank you. Thank you. Can I provide some
01:38context, Senator, to that? Yes, but I've got a series of questions. But I think it's important
01:43because at the outset you made a couple of comments about Signal messaging using encrypted apps,
01:49so that we're clear. One of the first things that happened when I was confirmed as CIA director
01:54was Signal was loaded onto my computer at the CIA, as it is for most CIA officers.
02:02One of the things that I was briefed on very early, Senator, was by the CIA records management
02:08folks about the use of Signal as a permissible work use.