At a House Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) spoke about the Signal scandal in the Trump administration.
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00:00Question for Congressman Himes and Smith.
00:05As ranking members on the committees of jurisdiction, we've seen a lot of letters from the committees
00:10to the various agencies involved in the Signal Gate issue.
00:14Have you received responses from any of those agencies?
00:18Yeah, not yet.
00:21The HPSE letter went out at the end of the day yesterday, so we anticipated that we would
00:27get a response by now, but we will be making sure that there is a response to that letter.
00:32Same answer, basically, no, we have not received that response, except to add one thing.
00:36I am concerned about the lack of respect that the executive branch has shown for the legislative
00:42branch.
00:42This has been an ongoing problem now for the last couple of months in terms of their responsiveness
00:47to our requests.
00:48It's much slower, much less responsive than at any point in my career, and that's even
00:53the whole Democratic-Republican thing.
00:56And they are not honoring our oversight in the way that previous administrations of both
00:59parties have.
01:00Maybe that's because they haven't gotten a position yet, we'll see, but I'm concerned
01:04about that aspect of it as well.