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Exclusive: Senator Schiff Calls for Trump Admin Resignations
Wed, 26 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the significance of the leaked classified information?
I'm joined by Senator Adam Schiff. Senator, how big of a deal is this leak of classified information on text threads about war plans now that we've had a day or so to process it all?
Well, there's no sugarcoating it. It's a massive fuck-up dealing with some really highly sensitive national security information. These were detailed war plans, detailed plans to strike military targets. in Yemen, Houthi targets, the time of the attacks, the sequencing of the attacks, the ordinance that's being used.
All of this laid out in a commercial app, including people on the app who were in foreign countries at the time, one of whom, Steve Witkoff, the envoy to the Middle East and to Russia, was apparently in Russia, may have been even in the Kremlin while he's texting in this chat. So massive screw up by the administration. And, you know, there's so much to be shocked about by this.
I chaired the House Intelligence Committee. When I would travel overseas, I wouldn't bring my personal electronics. I would bring, if anything, a burner phone. I was made aware anything I texted, anything I emailed. I should assume that foreign governments have access to. There is no privacy. They're going to be deeply interested in anything that's said over these communications.
So to be discussing this jeopardized potentially the safety of the American pilots conducting these operations, jeopardized the potential success of the mission. And the fact that no one on this chat, not the vice president, not the secretary of defense, not the national security advisor, not the head of the CIA, not the head of the
the DNI, Director of National Intelligence, none of them apparently bothered to say, hey, folks, we shouldn't be talking about this shit in a commercial chat, on a commercial app. This is the most negligent handling of highly sensitive information. No one even bothered to say that, which tells me this wasn't the first time.
It also tells me that beyond negligent, they're just arrogant and feel they can do whatever they want. There's no accountability. Hegzeth, when he's first confronted, basically used the go-to for the Trump administration, and that is he went straight to the lie.
um accusing jeffrey goldberg of making this up it's all a big lie never discussed war plans etc that's their fallback and the results of this ought to be his resignation i think tulsi gabbard should resign if she can't be trusted to know better with national security information she can't be trusted with the nation's secrets the same is true of ratcliffe and if whitcoff was
in texting from the Kremlin or from Russian soil, he should be gone. They should be fired or they should quit.
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Chapter 2: Who is involved in the leak scandal and what are the consequences?
She refused to say if she was the TG because she wouldn't say that she was in it. But she also said that it's not classified. Let me share with you what was said so our audience can hear it as well. Then I'll ask you about it.
Contact the defense secretary or others after this specific military planning was put out and say, hey, we should be doing this in a skiff. There was no classified material that was shared in that. So there was no classified material.
So when she's saying under oath there that there was no classified information, you've had the ability to read those messages, as has the public at this point. What do you say to that?
Well, if they weren't classified, they should have been classified. And I think what she's doing is the same thing that Hegseth tried to do, which is play with the language. So Hegseth says, well, these weren't war plans. So he's going to fall back on the excuse. We're not in a state of war with the enemy. Therefore, these are not war plans.
None of that matters if you're discussing details of military strikes. The risk is the same. And what Gabbard is saying basically is this information, because it was in real time, there was no agency opportunity to classify it. Well, that's giving a technical answer to obfuscate the truth, which is this is deeply sensitive national security information, which, by the way, is a crime to mishandle.
And they recklessly mishandled this information, having this conversation. And while the conversation itself, they can argue about the material contained in the conversation, the details of this attack and the timing and the targets, all of that should be classified.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was on Fox, Laura Ingraham moments ago, trying to normalize what went down. And he was like, you know what happens when you just like put in like the wrong person's number in your phone and like this happens to all of us, right? Let me show you what they're doing on Fox right now. Let's play it.
president. But I don't text him. He wasn't on my phone. And we're going to figure out how this.
So you don't know what staffer is responsible for this right now?
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