Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump responded to a question about GOP Senators' concerns over the Signal leak.
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00:00You never asked me for anything.
00:01Sir, also, what's your response to Republican lawmakers who have said today that your administration
00:02should take more accountability and not downplay what's happened with the signal that we've
00:03seen in these messages today?
00:04What is your response?
00:05Well, I don't know about downplaying.
00:06The press upplays it.
00:07I think it's all a witch hunt.
00:08That's all.
00:09I think it's a witch hunt.
00:10I wasn't involved with it.
00:11I don't — I wasn't there.
00:12But I can tell you the result is unbelievable, because the Houthis are looking to do something.
00:13They want to know, how do we stop — how do we stop having these attacks?
00:14They want to know, how do we stop having these attacks?
00:15They want to know, how do we stop having these attacks?
00:16They want to know, how do we stop having these attacks?
00:17I don't know.
00:18I don't know.
00:19I don't know.
00:20I don't know.
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00:43I don't know.
00:44I don't know.
00:45I don't know.
00:46They only have about 20 percent of the ships going through.
00:48They have to go through a different way,
00:50which takes weeks of travel, and that really affects commerce.
00:55But the Hooties have been hit hard
00:57and they want to negotiate peace.
01:00But I don't think they're quite —
01:01The Press Do you still believe there was nothing classified
01:03that was shared?
01:04The President Say it?
01:05The Press Do you still believe nothing classified was shared?
01:07The President Well, that's what I've heard.
01:08I don't know. I'm not sure.
01:09You'll have to ask the various people involved.
01:11I really don't know.
01:12I can only tell you this.
01:14You know, you don't want to talk about it.
01:17The Hooties have been horrible to the world,
01:21what they've done — killed a lot of people
01:24and knocked down a lot of ships and planes and anything else.
01:27You know, it's not just the ships.
01:28And they have been hit —
01:30they have been hit harder than they've ever been hit.
01:32And they want us to stop so badly.
01:35And they've got to stop. They've got to say no mas.
01:39But I can only say that the attacks —
01:43you know, it's attacks every day, every night.
01:45It's not just the one. You're talking about one.
01:48The attacks have been very successful,
01:50even beyond our wildest expectations.
01:53We've hit them very hard, very successfully.
01:56And we're going to do it for a long time.
01:58We're going to keep it going for a long time.
01:59The Press Senator Republicans have asked for —
02:02Senator Republicans have asked —
02:04said that they have formally asked the administration
02:05for an inspector general report on the signal issue.
02:10Will you agree to that?
02:11It doesn't bother me. I don't know.
02:13You know, I want to find out if there's any mistake
02:16or if a signal doesn't work.
02:18It could be the signal is not very good.
02:20You know, it's a company. Maybe it's not very good.
02:22I think we'd rather know about it now.
02:25There was no harm done because the attack
02:27was unbelievably successful that night,
02:30and it has been unbelievably successful every single night
02:34for the last four or five nights.
02:36So —
02:37And that's the thing that you should be talking about.
02:40This is something that should have been done
02:42by sleepy Joe Biden, but he was asleep at the wheel,
02:44other than when it came to stealing money, of course.
02:48Joe Biden should have done this attack on Yemen,
02:51which is basically a certain group within Yemen, the Houthis.
02:55And this should have been done by Joe Biden, and it wasn't.
02:59And that's caused this world a lot of damage and a lot of —