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Karoline Leavitt WH Briefing March 26, 2025 · Gil I Am

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, everybody. Good to see you all. Since inauguration Day,
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Speaker 1: President Trump has secured trillions of dollars in private and
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Speaker 1: foreign investments. Every single day, more money is pouring into
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Speaker 1: our country, which will create more jobs for hardworking Americans. Today,
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Speaker 1: Schneider Electric pledged to invest more than seven hundred million
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Speaker 1: dollars in the United States to boost American energy, infrastructure
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Speaker 1: and AI. On Monday, Hyundai announced a twenty billion dollar
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Speaker 1: investment in the United States, including five point eight billion
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Speaker 1: dollars for a new steal plant in Louisiana, which will
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Speaker 1: create nearly fifteen hundred high paying jobs. President Trump is
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Speaker 1: truly turning America back into a manufacturing superpower. Yesterday, President
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Speaker 1: Trump marked National Medal of Honor Day by meeting with
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Speaker 1: twenty one of our nation's bravest hero and incredible patriots
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Speaker 1: who have been awarded the highest military honor Beautiful Picture.
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Speaker 1: The President also signed a historic executive order to protect
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Speaker 1: the integrity of American elections by strengthening voter citizenship verification
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Speaker 1: and banning foreign nationals from interfering in US elections. These
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Speaker 1: are the common sense solutions that only Democrats could oppose,
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Speaker 1: but voters deserve elections they can trust, and critical confidence
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Speaker 1: is being restored thanks to President Trump's leadership. Later this
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Speaker 1: afternoon in the Easter Room, President Trump will mark Women's
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Speaker 1: History Month by honoring the exceptional women around our country,
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Speaker 1: including the highly talented women in his administration and his cabinet.
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Speaker 1: And on an additional scheduling update, the President will hold
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Speaker 1: a press conference in the Oval Office today at four
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Speaker 1: o'clock PM to announce tariffs on the auto industry, and
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Speaker 1: I will leave that to him to make that announcement later. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: all of this good is happening for our country. This
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Speaker 1: administration is working hard on behalf of the American public
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Speaker 1: every day, but the mainstream media continues to be focused
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Speaker 1: on a sensationalized story from the failing Atlantic magazine that
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Speaker 1: is falling apart by the hour. Here are the facts.
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Speaker 1: The National Security Advisor has taken responsibility for this matter,
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Speaker 1: and the National Security a Council immediately said, alongside the
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Speaker 1: White House Council's Office, that they are looking into how
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Speaker 1: a reporter's number was inadvertently added to this messaging thread.
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Speaker 1: We have said all along that no classified material was
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Speaker 1: sent on this messaging thread. There were no locations, no
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Speaker 1: sources or methods revealed, and there were certainly no war
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Speaker 1: plans discussed. The Atlantic has even admitted this themselves. Their
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Speaker 1: release of these internal messages validates the truth which we
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Speaker 1: have been saying all along. If this story proves anything,
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Speaker 1: it proves that Democrats and their propagandists in the mainstream
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Speaker 1: media know how to fabricate or orchestrate and disseminate a
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Speaker 1: misinformation campaign quite well. And there's arguably no one in
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Speaker 1: the media who loves manufacturing and pushing hoaxes more than
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Goldberg. Goldberg is an anti Trump hater. He is
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Speaker 1: a registered Democrat. Goldberg's wife is also a registered Democrat
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Speaker 1: and a big Democrat donor who used to work under
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Speaker 1: who Hillary Clinton. This is the same Jeffrey Goldberg who
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Speaker 1: infamously lied about weapons of mass destruction to get us
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Speaker 1: into the Iraq War, which cost trillions of dollars in
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Speaker 1: thousands of American soldiers. And how else has Goldberg discredited
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Speaker 1: himself by absurdly claiming that President Trump was Vladimir Putin
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Speaker 1: during the twenty sixteen campaign by peddling the Russia Russia
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Speaker 1: Russia hoax that tried to hijack President Trump's first term
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Speaker 1: by inventing the Suckers and losers hopes to help Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden in the twenty twenty election by peddling a hoax
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Speaker 1: about President Trump involving gold Star families to help Kamala
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Speaker 1: Harris in the twenty twenty four election, which our campaign
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Speaker 1: at the time vigorously denied. Jeffrey Goldberg didn't care. There's more,
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Speaker 1: but we don't have all day, and we can now
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Speaker 1: add this signal hoax to this very long list. The
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Speaker 1: real story here is the overwhelming success of President Trump's
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Speaker 1: decisive military action against Houthy terrorists. On March fifteenth, President
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Speaker 1: Trump ordered a series of military operations against the terrorists
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Speaker 1: toothis to defend US shipping assets in the Red Sea,
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Speaker 1: restore freedom of navigation for international shipping, and defend the
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Speaker 1: United States from enemy threats. United States forces successfully struck
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Speaker 1: dozens of targets across Huthy controlled territory, and as a
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Speaker 1: result of these actions, several Houthy leaders were killed, including
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Speaker 1: the Houthy drone chief, his deputy, and several of their
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Speaker 1: jone experts and other key leaders. We also destroyed command
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Speaker 1: and controlled facilities weapons manufacturing facilities and advanced weapons storage locations.
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Speaker 1: And it's important to remember why this powerful action took
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Speaker 1: place in the first place. Because of Joe Biden's incompetence
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Speaker 1: and pathetic weakness on the world stage. Four years, the
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Speaker 1: Houthy terrorists grew emboldened. Immediately after taking office, in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one, Joe Biden removed the iron backed Hoothis from
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Speaker 1: the Foreign Terrorist Organization in specifically designated Global Terrorists list.
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Speaker 1: Did anybody in this room ask the Bided administration at
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Speaker 1: the time why they made such a stupid mistake. This
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Speaker 1: reckless action undid the designation put in place by President
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Speaker 1: Trump during his first term, and what followed was predictable
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Speaker 1: in devastating. The Houthis targeted US military ships and aircraft,
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Speaker 1: hit commercial ships including US flagged vessels, threatened our personnel overseas,
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Speaker 1: and attacked our allies in the region. This resulted in
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Speaker 1: more than a year of US flagged commercial ships being
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Speaker 1: prevented from safely sailing through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea,
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Speaker 1: and the Gulf of Aden. This had a massive negative
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Speaker 1: impact on global trade of the economic security of the
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Speaker 1: United States. Joe Biden was the commander in chief, and
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Speaker 1: he sat on his hands while the United States of
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Speaker 1: America was bullied and embarrassed by terrorists. President Trump and
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Speaker 1: his team are putting a stop to these threats in
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Speaker 1: restoring American strength around the world. The Trump peace through
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Speaker 1: Strength approach means no terrorist force will stop American commercial
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Speaker 1: and naval vessels from freely sailing the waterways of the world.
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Speaker 1: But unfortunately, this is not what the Democrats in the
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Speaker 1: media want to talk about. They are focused on a
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Speaker 1: coordinated campaign to try and sow chaos in this White House.
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Speaker 1: And this has been the most successful first two months
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Speaker 1: of any administration ever, which is exactly why they are
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Speaker 1: doing this. We are not going to bend in the
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Speaker 1: face of this insincere outrage. And here's just one example
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Speaker 1: of how bad faith the Democrat's criticisms are. Democrat Senator
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Speaker 1: Mark Warner is hysterical over the year use of Signal,
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Speaker 1: which is an approved decryptid app in the killing of
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Speaker 1: houthy terrorists. But Senator Warner himself used Signal to work
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Speaker 1: with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch to connect with
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Speaker 1: it to connect the disgraced Steele dossier author who started
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Speaker 1: the Russia hoax, which Jeffrey Goldberg later reported on how ironic.
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Speaker 1: We're not going to lose focus of the bottom line,
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Speaker 1: which is that Joe Biden's weakness enabled and emboldened hoothy terrorists,
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Speaker 1: and President Trump's strength and resolve eliminated those terrorists. Here
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Speaker 1: in our new media seat today, we have Lindsay Keith.
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Speaker 1: She is the managing editor for Merit TV and serves
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Speaker 1: as their White House correspondent. Merrit TV launched one year
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Speaker 1: ago and creates and distributes content across diverse platforms. We're
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Speaker 1: glad to have you with us, Lindsay. Please kick us off.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Carolyn.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate it and this opportunity for Merit TV.
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Speaker 4: Two questions, if I may, one on Signal, one on
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Speaker 4: the economy.
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Speaker 1: On signal how comfortable is the president with what was
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Speaker 1: shared so far? Now that the chain has been released,
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Speaker 1: the President's view on all of this remains the same
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Speaker 1: today as it did yesterday, And I think it speaks
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Speaker 1: volumes about the leadership of this president that he went
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Speaker 1: directly to all of you members of the press corps.
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Speaker 1: He was asked, do you want someone else to go
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Speaker 1: out and do a briefing, and he said, no, I
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Speaker 1: will tackle this story. I will discuss it. The people
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Speaker 1: need to hear from me about this situation. And so
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Speaker 1: his thoughts on this remained the same today, plays great
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Speaker 1: trust in his national security team. And as for the
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Speaker 1: usage of signal, as the President said yesterday, as the
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Speaker 1: CIA director has testified under oath, this is an approved app.
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Speaker 1: It's an encrypted app. The Department of Defense, the Department
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Speaker 1: of State, the CIA has it loaded onto government phones
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Speaker 1: because it is the most secure and efficient way to communicate.
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Speaker 1: As for again the original situation in this messaging thread,
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Speaker 1: the National Security Council, the White House Counsel's Office continues
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Speaker 1: to look in to how this mistake, which the National
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Speaker 1: Security Advisor has owned, occurred, and the President has ensured
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Speaker 1: they are doing that.
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Speaker 5: On the economy, super confidence hit a four year low
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Speaker 5: this month.
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Speaker 1: Can you help explain to the American people how tariffs
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Speaker 1: will help them in the long run. Yeah, absolutely, and
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Speaker 1: I'm grateful for the question. The American public will hear
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Speaker 1: later to this afternoon from the President directly on the
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Speaker 1: topic of tariffs. And as you all know, April second day,
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Speaker 1: President Trump has proudly dubbed it Liberation Day for our country.
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Speaker 1: What he means by that is it will be a
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Speaker 1: day where the United States of America will no longer
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Speaker 1: be ripped off by nations around this world. It will
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Speaker 1: be a day where Americans finally see free and fair
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Speaker 1: trade practices restored. We are no longer going to allow
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Speaker 1: our allies, our competitors, and our adversaries to take advantage
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Speaker 1: of American workers. And if you think about your hometown
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Speaker 1: in the state that you grew up, main Street looks
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Speaker 1: a lot different today than it did many years ago.
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Speaker 1: And President Trump wants to restore America as a manufacturing
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Speaker 1: superpower around the globe. He wants products to be made
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Speaker 1: right here in the in our great country with great,
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Speaker 1: hardworking American hands that will ultimately result in higher wages
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Speaker 1: and more money in the pockets of the American people.
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Speaker 1: And he's also, in addition to tariffs, also determined to
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Speaker 1: pass tax cuts later this year, as he did successfully
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Speaker 1: in his first term, to put even more money back
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Speaker 1: into the pockets of hardworking Americans.
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Speaker 6: Peter Cher laugh, I can ask you very quickly about
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Speaker 6: the information we've seen, just to set the predicate to
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Speaker 6: all this. Has the President been briefed and physically seen
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Speaker 6: the He's seen all the details of the chat as
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Speaker 6: printed by the olier.
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Speaker 1: I just spoke to the president about it.
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Speaker 7: Yes, then let me ask you if I can very
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Speaker 7: quickly in the chat, Pete heggs at the Defense Secretary
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Speaker 7: details AT eighteen's tomahawks with some of the weapons that
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Speaker 7: were used. He details the timing involved for this, all
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Speaker 7: of which occurred thirty one minutes before, as he says,
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Speaker 7: AT eighteens would launch. The DoD manual details classified information
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Speaker 7: as significant military plans, saying that is secret, that that's classified.
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Speaker 7: So what about there are no methods, there are no sources,
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Speaker 7: But that's not what determines what's classified. So what is
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Speaker 7: it about what Pete Hegseth wrote that makes you say
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Speaker 7: this is not classified.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's not just me saying that, Peter, it's the
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Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense himself who is saying this as well.
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Speaker 1: And he put out a very strong statement earlier today
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Speaker 1: listing all of the things that were not included in
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Speaker 1: that message that he sent to the group. And again
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Speaker 1: this message, there was no classified information transmitted, there were
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Speaker 1: no war plans discussed. Why did the Atlantic downgrade their
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Speaker 1: allegation about war plans to attack plans. They're now playing
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Speaker 1: word games because they know this was sensationalist spin from
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Speaker 1: a reporter who is well known for doing this. We
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Speaker 1: have said all along, no war plans were discussed, no
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Speaker 1: classified material was sent. You have the Secretary of Defense
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Speaker 1: saying that, you have the director of the CIA, the
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Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence, the FBI director all testifying to
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Speaker 1: that under oath, and they should be trusted with that.
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Speaker 7: So nuclear Americans can make the decision for themselves. But
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Speaker 7: whether it's that you said, you said it's not war plans,
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Speaker 7: would you characterize these as military plans military operation plans?
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Speaker 1: I would characterize this messaging thread as a policy discussion,
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Speaker 1: a sensitive policy discussion, surely amongst high level cabinet officials
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Speaker 1: and senior staff. And I'm so glad, Peter that you
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Speaker 1: said the American public can decide for themselves, because I
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Speaker 1: think the American public should decide them for themselves based
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Speaker 1: on the outcome of this operation and what happened in
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Speaker 1: this operation. Terrorists that were allowed to run wild by
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Speaker 1: the Biden administration were killed because of the direction in
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Speaker 1: the determination of this president and his team. And this
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Speaker 1: message also shows. This messaging thread also proved that President
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Speaker 1: Trump has an incredibly dynamic team who is working incredibly hard,
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Speaker 1: flying all over the world to secure world peace and
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Speaker 1: to fix up the foreign policy crises that the previous
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Speaker 1: administration left for this team to inherit.
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Speaker 7: So to be clear, we all in this room and
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Speaker 7: around the country would agree that we're glad no American
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Speaker 7: service members were harmed, and we're glad that the mission
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Speaker 7: was a success.
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Speaker 6: We'll stipulate that.
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Speaker 7: But the President said that Pete Hegseth said none of
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Speaker 7: this was classified. So, given the President has seen it now,
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Speaker 7: and given the President understands that significant military plans are
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Speaker 7: deemed classified as secret, how does the president view none
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Speaker 7: of this, which details times and weapons and more, as
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Speaker 7: being not classified.
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Speaker 1: I've already been asked and answered this question. The President's
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Speaker 1: thoughts on this remained the same today as they were yesterday,
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Speaker 1: as well as the Secretary of Defense. This question has
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Speaker 1: been asked and answered. There was no classified material. Discussig jackets.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead, jackiety you Caroline, So.
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Speaker 5: Why aren't launch times on a mission strength classified?
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Speaker 1: Again? I would defer you to the Secretary of Defense's
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Speaker 1: statement he put out this morning there were various reasons.
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Speaker 1: He listed things that were not included in that messaging
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Speaker 1: thread that were not classified. And again going back to
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Speaker 1: the American public, do you trust the Secretary of Defense,
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Speaker 1: who was nominated for this role, voted by the United
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Speaker 1: States Senate into this role, who has served in combat,
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Speaker 1: honorably served our nation in uniform, or do you trust
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Goldberg, who is a registered Democrat and an anti
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Speaker 1: Trump sensationalist reporter. This president and this national security team
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Speaker 1: are putting our national security and the American people first.
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Speaker 1: We are restoring American strength around the world, and the
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Speaker 1: results of this operation speak for themselves.
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Speaker 5: So what I get touch Jeffrey Goldberg, though, just you know,
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Speaker 5: for American service members who are going to have to
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Speaker 5: carry out these missions in the future. What I guess
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Speaker 5: the message that's coming from the response to all this
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Speaker 5: that we're hearing is that, you know, nothing sensitive happened.
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Speaker 5: And I guess the logical conclusion of that is that
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Speaker 5: if these messages had gone out publicly prior to the launch,
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Speaker 5: that that wouldn't have been a risk to service members.
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Speaker 5: I don't know that they're comfortable with that, So can
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Speaker 5: you explain, you know, had these messages been published, would.
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Speaker 1: The plans have moved forward? Would the launch have still
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Speaker 1: taken off? What I can tell you is that the President,
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Speaker 1: as the Commander in chief of our United States Armed Forces,
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Speaker 1: and Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is an incredible man and
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Speaker 1: a war fighter himself, take the lives of our American
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Speaker 1: service members with the utmost responsibility, and they would never
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Speaker 1: do anything intentionally to put their lives at risk. And again,
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Speaker 1: they are working hard on that every single day, and
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Speaker 1: we are protecting our service members while also restoring peace
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Speaker 1: throughout this globe. It's something the previous administration has not done.
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Speaker 1: And I would just add one more point. We are
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Speaker 1: not going to be lectured about national security and American
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Speaker 1: troops by Democrats in the mainstream media who turned the
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Speaker 1: other cheek when the Biden administration, because of their incompetence,
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Speaker 1: left thirteen service members dead in Afghanistan, and not a
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Speaker 1: single person in the previous administration was held accountable for
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Speaker 1: that botched withdrawal. Joe Biden said, in fact, it was
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Speaker 1: a great operation that is despicable. It's unacceptable to this president,
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Speaker 1: in this Secretary of Defense, the National Security Advisor has
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Speaker 1: taken responsibility for this inadvertent number being added to the
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Speaker 1: messaging thread. But above all, we take the lives of
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Speaker 1: our troops, safety, security, prosperity around the globe with the
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Speaker 1: utmost seriously, Solberg's.
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Speaker 5: Do you believe Jennifer released that to embarrass the administration
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Speaker 5: ahead of the worldwide threats?
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Speaker 1: Jennifer, go ahead.
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Speaker 8: Given what you've said about the President's trust and his
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Speaker 8: national security team, can you say definitively that no one
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Speaker 8: will lose their jobs, No one will lose their job
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Speaker 8: at all because of this signal situation.
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Speaker 1: What I can say definitively is what I just spoke
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Speaker 1: to the President about, and he continues to have confidence
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Speaker 1: in his national security team.
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Speaker 8: That's one work here on the targets and Yemen on
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Speaker 8: March fifteen, Can you say we're one hundred percent of
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Speaker 8: the targets that were planned for March fifteenth?
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Speaker 2: Were they all destroyed?
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Speaker 8: Because that would be an indication if some of them were.
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Speaker 9: Moved, but they were not all hit that maybe perhaps
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Speaker 9: some of the enemies were able to get some of
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Speaker 9: the information in that singles.
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Speaker 1: What I can say about the operation is what the
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Speaker 1: Department of Defense has put out there I would refer
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Speaker 1: to them for any further operational details, but there have
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Speaker 1: been more than one hundred strikes conducted against Toothy targets
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Speaker 1: and they have hit key Hoothy leaders, air defense systems,
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Speaker 1: commanding control nodes, headquarters, weapons manufacturing and storage facilities. And
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Speaker 1: these operations will continue until the freedom of navigation in
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Speaker 1: our seas is restored and US shipping can safely transmit
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Speaker 1: without the fear of attack. And again, we believe that
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Speaker 1: this has been a very successful operation thus far, and
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Speaker 1: it will continue until this administration feels it no longer
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Speaker 1: has to. And these terrorists have been taking out which
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Speaker 1: again is something the previous administration should have done, but
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Speaker 1: they didn't, and now we've inherited this crisis. Steven, I'd
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Speaker 1: like to.
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Speaker 10: Clarify something about the investigation and also asking about some
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Speaker 10: conservative commentary on the investigation. Mike Waltz said last night
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Speaker 10: that he had spoken to Elon Musk about figuring out
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Speaker 10: how Jeffrey Goldbroup's number got.
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Speaker 4: In his phone.
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Speaker 10: You mentioned the NSC and the White House Council's Office investigating.
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Speaker 10: You just clarify who is investigating, who's leading that, And
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Speaker 10: also Dave Portnoy who endorsed the President Trump said today
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Speaker 10: that he thinks that Mike Waltz should leave.
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Speaker 1: Could you respond to that? Sure, great respect for Dave Portnoy,
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Speaker 1: but I just answered that previous question from Jennifer. As
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Speaker 1: for your original question about who's leading looking into the
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Speaker 1: messaging thread, the National Security Council, the White House Counsel's Office,
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Speaker 1: and also, yes, Elon Musk's team. Elon Musk has offered
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Speaker 1: to put his technical experts on this to figure out
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Speaker 1: how this number was inadvertently added to the chat again,
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Speaker 1: to take responsibility and ensure this can never happen again.
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Speaker 1: I have two questions.
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Speaker 2: One not a follow up on something you just said,
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Speaker 2: but since we have these messages released and you said
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Speaker 2: that the President has now personally reviewed them at the chat.
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Speaker 2: At one point, Pete I said, wrote fourteen fifteen strike
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Speaker 2: drones on target and in all caps, he said, this
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Speaker 2: is when the first bombs will definitely drop. Does the
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Speaker 2: President few that he was misled by his national security
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Speaker 2: advisors whoever it was that told him there was no
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Speaker 2: classified information in there, Now that he's seen these messages, I've.
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Speaker 1: Now been asked and answer this question three times by
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Speaker 1: the both of you, and I've given you my answer.
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Speaker 1: The President feels the same today as he did yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Phil I'm sorry, I might follow up on what you
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Speaker 1: would go ahead, Philip, Kaitlyn, I'm not taking your follow.
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Speaker 2: Up, Philip, I have a followed on something you just said, though, Caroline,
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Speaker 2: that's Caitlin.
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Speaker 1: I'm not taking your follow up, Philip, go ahead, I
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Speaker 1: have called on you.
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Speaker 3: The Vice President seemed to express some frustration that Europe
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Speaker 3: wasn't doing more police waterways in their backyard, noting in
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Speaker 3: the signal thread that of European trade goes.
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Speaker 10: Through the US.
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Speaker 3: Now does the President share that opinion and frustration, and
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Speaker 3: then going forward, should the Europeans be responsible for policing
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Speaker 3: that waterway?
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Speaker 1: Well, the President was asked this question yesterday by the
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Speaker 1: pool in the Cabinet room, and he answered this question.
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Speaker 1: He said, yes, he believes that Europe has been, as
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Speaker 1: the Vice President put it, free loading on the backs
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Speaker 1: of American taxpayers and on the off the backs of
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Speaker 1: the United States of America, and he wants to ensure
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Speaker 1: that Europe pays their fair share. He's always been very
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Speaker 1: honest and upfront about that, and I think the Vice
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Speaker 1: President shares those concerns with him as well.
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Speaker 3: Sure you know enlisted soldiers, sailors, and marines would face
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Speaker 3: consequences if they shared this type of information inadvertently with
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Speaker 3: a reporter. Can you tell us more why the president
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Speaker 3: is so willing to give Mike Waltz I'm all again
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Speaker 3: here again.
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Speaker 1: I have now been asked and answered the same question
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Speaker 1: using different language multiple times. If anybody has another question,
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of different things going on in the world.
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Speaker 1: We have tariffs possibly being implemented later today. The President
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Speaker 1: is going to talk about that at four o'clock this afternoon.
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Speaker 4: We're going okay, thank you for taking my question. I
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Speaker 4: wanted to first and foremost think the Administration for the
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Speaker 4: Election Integrity Executive Order, because so many journalists for four
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Speaker 4: years were banned from talking about this very subject. So
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Speaker 4: thank you to the administration for that. My question is
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Speaker 4: yesterday's President Trumplin sign and the order said that there
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Speaker 4: was more to calm when it comes to election integrity
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Speaker 4: with that include same day voting and hand counted paper ballots.
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Speaker 4: And why are Democrats so against election integrity measures like
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Speaker 4: obviously group of citizenship when it comes to voting in
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Speaker 4: a United States election?
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Speaker 1: Well, it's a very good question. You'll have to ask
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Speaker 1: the Democrats why they are against so many common sense things,
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Speaker 1: not just mandating voter id Why are they against men
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Speaker 1: and women's sports. Why are they against deporting foreign terrorists
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Speaker 1: from American soil who have been designated a foreign terrorist organization.
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Speaker 1: I'm referring to trendy Aragua. As for the Election Integrity
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Speaker 1: Executive Order that the President signed yesterday, this is in
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Speaker 1: an effort to restore trust in American elections. There were
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Speaker 1: more than ten steps taken, ten executive actions taken throughout
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Speaker 1: this one order. It directs the Department or the Attorney
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Speaker 1: General rather in Homeland Security to prevent non citizens from
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Speaker 1: any involvement and administering elections. There's also another host of actions.
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Speaker 1: We can provide the fact sheet for you, but it's
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Speaker 1: a very strong Election Integrity Executive Order, and the President
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Speaker 1: would also like to see Congress do something about this
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Speaker 1: very important issue. Sure, go ahead, Caroline.
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Speaker 9: The Republicans and Democrats alike have been expressing some concern
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Speaker 9: about the frequency of which senior Trump officials have been
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Speaker 9: using this signal. App has there been discussion where there'll
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Speaker 9: be a review about how often they use Signal and
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Speaker 9: if you could explain to us how they might be
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Speaker 9: considering other applications to get away from something like this
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Speaker 9: happening again.
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Speaker 1: Sure well again, First of all, Signal has been an
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Speaker 1: approved app for government use. It's an encryptive app, and
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Speaker 1: as I said, it's the most safe and efficient way
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Speaker 1: of communicating, especially when people can't be in a skiff
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Speaker 1: or inside a room physically together. I think, as the
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Speaker 1: President said yesterday, he wishes that everybody could be in
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Speaker 1: the room, and it's our goal to ensure that everybody
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Speaker 1: can be. But again, no classified information was discussed in
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Speaker 1: this chat, and any time classified information is discussed amongst
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Speaker 1: high level officials across this administration, secure lines of communication
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Speaker 1: are used, including by the way, our Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff,
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Speaker 1: who I understand, the Wall Street Journal erroneously reported that
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Speaker 1: he was on this Signal chat on a personal device
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Speaker 1: while in Moscow. That is absolutely false. Steve Whitcoff did
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Speaker 1: not have his personal device, nor did he have his
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Speaker 1: government device with him. He was given a classified protected
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Speaker 1: server by the United States government, and he was very
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Speaker 1: careful about his communications when he was in Russia. So
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Speaker 1: rest ashured to the American public. This administration is taking
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Speaker 1: every precaution when it comes to protecting our national security.
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Speaker 1: And that's why the American people re elected this president,
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Speaker 1: because they know that our national security is in good
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Speaker 1: hands with the President of the United States. Speaking of
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Speaker 1: the Vice President, I understand he's going to be speaking
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Speaker 1: any moment now. I would hate to counter program the
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Speaker 1: Vice president of the United States. You'll also hear from
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Speaker 1: the President at three o'clock. He will be honoring women's
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Speaker 1: history at the Women's History Month celebration. We have a
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Speaker 1: lot of great women across our cabinet who will be
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Speaker 1: in attendance, so we'll see you all there. And then
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Speaker 1: you'll also hear from the President again at four o'clock
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Speaker 1: when he talks about tariffs. So plenty of time for
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Speaker 1: more questions. Sorry, it's a bit shorter today, guys. We'll
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Speaker 1: see you later. Democrat and anti Trump order, yeah,