Pat Ryan Calls On GOP Colleagues To Demand Accountability For Leaked Group Chat About War Plans

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Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) called on Republicans to demand accountability for the leaked group chat.

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00:00Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. They made the big mistake of letting

00:20an Army person be in charge, so I take accountability for any miscues out of the gate. Accountability,

00:27something we have not heard much of from the White House lately. So I'm honored to

00:31be here with fellow colleagues, all of whom at various phases of their lives and careers

00:37have worn the uniform in service to our nation, put their life on the line, not for party

00:43or themselves, but for country. And this is a watershed moment, we believe, in our country

00:48where we need to speak up, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as patriots, and say it

00:53is absolutely unacceptable that sensitive security information, operational information

01:00that would put American lives, lives of our constituents in harm's way. And you're going

01:07to hear from all of us today several common themes. One, accountability. All of us knew

01:14this serving in uniform. You're responsible for everything your organization does and

01:19fails to do. At a minimum, we're calling on our Republican colleagues to share in that

01:24joint call for accountability. That there needs to be a fulsome and transparent investigation

01:30into what happened with the leakage of the information that we know about, and potentially

01:34much more sensitive national security information out there. And then the second piece is, we're

01:41continuing to call on the House Armed Services Committee, through their oversight means,

01:47to hold a hearing on this. And if that is not answered, we'll continue to escalate on

01:53behalf of our constituents, on behalf of the American people, to have that transparency

01:57and to have that accountability. So again, I want to thank all my colleagues for being

02:01here, and I'm going to hand it to Congressman Mike Thompson next.

Pat Ryan Calls On GOP Colleagues To Demand Accountability For Leaked Group Chat About War Plans

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