News recently broke that the Trump administration had top secret war chats on their personal phone devices. Now Republicans are crying foul, saying the casual conversation about war maneuvers was likely picked up by Russia and China. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00News recently broke that the Trump administration had top-secret war chats on their personal phone
00:04devices. The news broke because National Security Advisor Mike Waltz reportedly accidentally
00:10invited Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic News editor, into the signal chat. The conversation
00:15involved discussing recent airstrikes on Houthis in Yemen, with the editor claiming to have had a
00:19minute-by-minute account of events as they unfolded. Now even Republicans are crying foul,
00:25saying their casual conversation about war maneuvers on private phones is a, quote,
00:29security violation. Others included in the chat were Fox News host turned Defense Secretary Pete
00:34Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Vice President Vance. Republican and Nebraska
00:40Representative Don Bacon recently told CNN, quote, I will guarantee you 99.99% with confidence
00:48Russia and China are monitoring those two phones. Bacon is a former Air Force Brigadier General
00:53and serves on the House Armed Services Committee. He added that he has always
00:57had concerns over Hegseth and his appointment as the Secretary of Defense. With Bacon going
01:02on to say, they intentionally put highly classified information on an unclassified
01:07device. I would have lost my security clearance in the Air Force for this, and for a lot less.