'That's Not What I Said': Trump Pressed By Reporter About Whether He'll Ban Use Of Signal After Leak

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President Trump is asked by reporters if he'll ban the use of Signal by his officials.

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00:00And that's what we're doing.

00:01The Press.

00:02Do you worry that national security was put at risk, Mr. President?

00:03Do you plan to ban the use of senior officials using signal?

00:04Do I plan to ban who?

00:05The use of signal to communicate from senior officials.

00:06Well, I don't know what this — I don't know anything about signal.

00:07I wasn't involved in this, but I just heard about it.

00:08And I hear it's used by a lot of groups.

00:09It's used by the media a lot.

00:10It's used by a lot of the military and, I think, successfully.

00:11But sometimes, somebody can get onto those things.

00:12That's one of the prices you pay.

00:13But I don't know.

00:14I don't know.

00:15I don't know.

00:16I don't know.

00:17I don't know.

00:18I don't know.

00:19I don't know.

00:50out of this, because we've had two perfect months.

01:07We're bringing — we are bringing in business.

01:10We have another one announced tomorrow, a big one, very big.

01:13Like, in the history of our country, nobody has ever seen anything like it.

01:17And I think, probably, a lot of people are saying it's —

01:20they started by saying it was the greatest first month

01:23that a president has ever had, and I think that's true.

01:26And now they say it's the best second month,

01:28and they had to find something.

01:29And this — certainly, we'll look at this.

01:33But the main thing was, nothing happened.

01:36The attack was totally successful.

01:38It was, I guess, from what I understand, took place during.

01:42And it wasn't classified information.

01:45So this was not classified.

01:46Now, if it's classified information,

01:48it's probably a little bit different.

01:50But I always say, you got to —

01:51you have to learn from every experience.

01:53I think it was very unfair, the way they attacked Michael.

01:57He's a good person.

01:59The person that was on just happens to be a sleazebag.

02:02So maybe that's just coincidence.

02:03I don't know.

02:05The Press.

02:06Mr. President, would it be a problem if the Atlantic

02:09released all the text messages, if they're not classified?

02:11Well, I don't know.

02:12I'd have to ask the military about that,

02:13because, you know, maybe you wouldn't want that.

02:14I don't know.

02:16But I guess that, from what I heard,

02:18the man that we're talking about,

02:20who's not somebody that I don't think

02:24most people have ever heard of, he left —

02:27he found it very boring, and he left early.

02:29He got off the line very early.

02:32So I can't speak to it other than that.

02:35So he's made up a lot of stories.

02:37And, you know, I think he's basically bad for the country.

02:39But it's a failing venture, a very failing venture.

02:43They're very upset.

02:45And a thing like this is publicity for them.

02:47But I don't think we should allow people

02:50that are very good, like that man

02:52sitting right at the end of the table,

02:53who's done a great job —

02:55we shouldn't allow them to be hurt by it.

02:57Mr. President, you know I'm saying that.

02:59Yeah, go ahead.

03:00Are you saying you're okay with the continued use of Signal

03:03by administration officials?

03:04No, that's not what I said.

03:05I said, we'll look into it.

03:07But everybody else seems to be using it.

03:09It seems to be the number-one-used device

03:13or app, whatever you want to call it.

03:15And we will certainly look.

03:17If it was up to me, everybody would be sitting

03:19in a room together.

03:21The room would have solid lead walls

03:24and a lead ceiling and a lead floor.

03:26But, you know, life doesn't always let you do that.

03:28In the meantime, the attack itself

03:30that we were talking about and discussing

03:33has been an unbelievable success.

'That's Not What I Said': Trump Pressed By Reporter About Whether He'll Ban Use Of Signal After Leak

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