Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday on Newsmax that his takeaway from Tuesday’s testy committee hearing was that “much ado” is being made “about nothing” in regards to the furor over President Donald Trump’s Cabinet’s leaked Signal chat.
“We’re in an annual worldwide threats hearing where we’re talking about Iran and about China and about the threats that are coming at our nation from cartels in Mexico, and the obsession on the Democrats were, ‘Tell me a little bit more about this internal chat,'” Lankford told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “I will tell you, every single one of the senators there has a group chat about something where they’re talking through logistics, talking through ideas and such.”
The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg said Monday that he was accidentally included in a conversation among senior White House officials who were discussing the administration’s plans for military action against the Houthis in Yemen. The group chat took place on the Signal messaging app.
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