During a White House Press Briefing Wednesday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on the government's use of the group messaging app Signal following growing national security concerns after top administration officials had their plan to strike the Houthis in Yemen leaked to the Atlantic.
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00:00Thank you, Caroline.
00:01I appreciate it and this opportunity for Merit TV.
00:04Two questions, if I may.
00:06One on Signal.
00:07One on the economy.
00:08Sure.
00:09On Signal, how comfortable is the President with what was shared so far now that the chain
00:14has been released?
00:15The President's view on all of this remains the same today as it did yesterday.
00:21And I think it speaks volumes about the leadership of this President that he went directly to
00:25all of you, members of the press corps.
00:27He was asked, do you want someone else to go out and do a briefing?
00:30And he said, no.
00:31I will tackle this story.
00:32I will discuss it.
00:33The people need to hear from me about this situation.
00:36And so his thoughts on this remain the same today.
00:39He has placed great trust in his national security team.
00:43And as for the usage of Signal, as the President said yesterday, as the CIA director has testified
00:48under oath, this is an approved app.
00:51It's an encrypted app.
00:52The Department of Defense, the Department of State, the CIA has it loaded onto government
00:57phones because it is the most secure and efficient way to communicate.
01:01As for, again, the original situation in this messaging thread, the National Security Council,
01:06the White House Counsel's Office continues to look in to how this mistake, which the
01:09National Security Advisor has owned, occurred.
01:13And the President has ensured they are doing that.