During Thursday’s White House Press Briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answered questions about the leaks of classified information about Trump's strikes on Iran.
00:00Mary Margaret. Go ahead. Thank you, Caroline. Sure. You just laid out a lot of different stories about disinformation that Natasha, excuse me, that Natasha Bertrand had pushed during her time at Politico and at CNN. Why would any member of the Trump administration leak anything to her?
00:16Ms. Well, again, as I just said, we're investigating who that leaker was. It could have been someone in the intelligence community or it could have been someone on Capitol Hill who had access to this document. We are, the FBI is searching for that person. Go ahead.
00:30Thanks, Caroline. The President was obviously-
00:32Ms. And clearly it was done to undermine the President, to answer your question.
00:34And I'm sorry, I really wanted to follow up on that really quickly. Before the strikes on Iran, we saw a number of other leaks about Tulsi Gabbard, the Vice President, and Vance.
00:43Is there an effort to divide the President's team when it comes to these leaks and which reporters they choose?
00:49Ms. I do believe there's an effort on the outside of this building to try to divide the President's team on the inside. And sometimes you have to look at these headlines and laugh because I've been in meetings where I know these things are absolutely not true.
01:00And again, we do our best here, I believe, to try to push back and correct the record with all of you. But there is fake reporting. That's just the reality of this country, unfortunately.
01:09But I can assure you the President's team is strong, especially the national security team. Everyone is very proud of the President, of our Commander-in-Chief, and of our military for the successful operation that took place on Saturday night.
