During remarks on the Senate floor Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demanded the White House release the full, unredacted, Signal chat involving high ranking members in the Administration.
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00:00So, Mr. President, the more we learn about the unsecure text exchange of sensitive military
00:08operations, the more questions we have about how such an egregious breach of military intelligence
00:15occurred in the first place.
00:19What the Atlantic released today is confounding and extremely disturbing to any American who
00:25worries about our national security and our safety.
00:29It is appalling.
00:31Worst of all, it confirms our darkest assumptions about mishandling of sensitive military operations.
00:43So the release of this letter was extremely important.
00:47But many outstanding questions are not answered by this letter's release.
00:52So we need the full text exchange released by the administration.
00:58This morning's report reinforces the need for immediate answers, transparency, and
01:05accountability from President Trump, Secretary Hexith, and all the others who were involved.
01:13So today, I wrote a letter with top Senate Democrats to President Trump and Secretary
01:19Hexith demanding they release the full, unredacted transcript of all texts in their signal chats.
01:29Many outstanding questions are simply not answered by the Atlantic's release of the
01:33text messages this morning.
01:36That is why we need all the texts in the signal chat.
01:40This includes all text exchanges that occurred after Mr. Goldberg removed himself from the
01:46group chat.
01:48Goldberg released his information.
01:50So now the administration must release theirs.
01:54Again, what is so damaging is not just the presence of a reporter, as bad as that was.
02:01It's that these sensitive conversations happened on an unsecured channel at all.
02:06And that's why we need all the texts.
02:10Director of National Intelligence Gabbard testified that no classified information was
02:14shared in the text chain.
02:16So what is the administration hiding by not releasing the full and complete transcript
02:21of this text chain?
02:23If no classified information was shared, the administration should have no issue with the
02:28full transcript being shared with Senators.
02:31Again, this is something that cannot be answered by this morning's report from the Atlantic,
02:38as important as Mr. Goldberg's release was.
02:43We have other questions in our letter, too.
02:46Americans need to know if any officials in the chat used personal devices that lacked
02:53government overwatch and cybersecurity protections.
02:58How many of these officials were overseas during these conversations, susceptible to
03:03foreign surveillance?
03:05It is alarming, alarming, that Director Gabbard refused to answer repeated questions on whether
03:11or not she was using her personal phone.
03:15That should be very easy, of course not, but it didn't come from her.
03:20Were there any other individuals without any security clearance erroneously included in
03:26the text chain?
03:28Has the intelligence community fully assessed the damage caused by the potential leak of
03:33classified information?
03:36Are there any other Cabinet-level officials using unsecure channels like Signal to discuss
03:42classified or sensitive information?
03:47And another important question.
03:49Are there any other conversations that have taken place like this?
03:54These are all questions we have asked in our letter.
03:57They're all very important.
03:58They all follow on what Mr. Goldberg released.
04:02But as I said, there are so many outstanding questions even after the release of Mr. Goldberg's
04:09text that we need answers to.
04:13The American people need answers to these questions.
04:16What we learned this morning from The Atlantic is appalling, confounding, disturbing.
04:24And it reinforces the need to get answers to the questions in our letter.
04:29Our letter seeks to get to the bottom of these things to ensure this never, never happens
04:35again.