Trump Responds To GOP Senators' Concern Over Signal Leak

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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 —

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