JD Vance attacks media during Signalgate questioningSource Reuters
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00:00When can we expect an update on the internal investigation into that Signal chat leak?
00:05Has that investigation concluded, and what are the findings?
00:08I think we'll get an update soon.
00:10Look, we take it very seriously.
00:12We all accept that a journalist should not have been invited into the chat, and members
00:17of the administration, including my dear friend Mike, have taken responsibility for it.
00:21But I find the American media's obsession with this issue very, very interesting, because
00:26I happen to remember about four years ago when American military leadership made a catastrophic
00:32error that got 13 innocent Americans killed in Afghanistan and had about $80 billion of
00:39military equipment turned over to one of the worst terrorist organizations in the world.
00:43And for years, the American media ran cover, ran cover for a Biden administration that
00:49refused to fire any generals or even launch an internal investigation that was meaningful
00:55and substantive about what happened.
00:57And now the same American media that covered for the Biden administration after the untimely
01:02death and the unnecessary death of 13 brave Americans is really, really interested in
01:08forcing the president of the United States to fire someone because of a Signal chat,
01:13because of a Signal chat.
01:15That is not honest behavior from the American media.
01:18And if you think you're going to force the president of the United States to fire anybody,
01:22you've got another thing coming.
01:24President Trump has said it on Monday, on Tuesday, on Wednesday, on Thursday.
01:28And I'm the vice president saying it here on Friday.
01:30We are standing behind our entire national security team.