Trump’s top intel official Tulsi Gabbard’s words thrown in her face after Yemen war plans text leak: Live updates

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior US Political Reporter:

Senator Ron Wyden called for the resignation of the NSA and Minister of Defense after the war plans were shared on signal.

During his interrogation, CIA director John Ratcliffe and DNI Tulsi Gabbard both said that they did not participate in a group chat with classified information.

None of the protection of an audit to ensure that this was not the case. Ratcliffe said he would do what the National Security Council considered appropriate.

None of the protection of an audit to ensure that this was not the case. Ratcliffe said he would do what the National Security Council considered appropriate.

Wyden also asked if FBI director Kash Patel had participated in chats on national security on non -classified phones from administration officials.

“Not that I can remember,” he replied.

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior US Political Reporter:

Senator Mark Warner asked DNI Tulsi Gabbard if she participated in the group cat.

She refuses to answer which Warner urged if she was 'TG' in the group cat, but she continued to reduce.

“Do you refuse to acknowledge that you were in this chat?” The ranking of the Senate Infloor Committee asked.

She said that it was currently 'under review' when Warner was busy with whether it was not classified for.

When Warner Cia director John Ratcliffe asked if he was in the group cat, he answered.

“I was,” he said, but he tried to expand it.

He said that the signal was loaded on his commuters at the CIA and it is 'allowed to use' for employees, provided that the decisions were also noted through registered channels.

He argued that his communication was 'fully permitted and legally'.

After he had offered a response, Gabbard also stated that no classified material had been shared on signal.

“No classified materials had been shared,” she said.

Warner pushed back that if the material was not classified, they should be able to share the messages with the committee.

The Democratic senator not only called it sloppy, but said during the hearing that it could have jeopardized American life.

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior US Political Reporter:

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has issued an opening statement, while the best national security officers of the Trump government witnesses before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Global Threats.

“China is our most capable strategic competitor,” said Gabbard.

The DNI said that the country “tries to position itself as a leading force on world stage, economic, technological and military.”

Gabbard noted that China's most serious challenge is the slowing economy.

Gabbard also noted that the capacities of Russia make it a 'formidable competitor' because of its 'nuclear and conventional military capacities, together with the demonstrated economic and military resilience'.

She also discussed how Iran continues to seek influence in the middle. She said that the US assesses that the country does not build a nuclear weapon and has not authorized its leader the Nuclear Weapons program.

“Iran's enriched uranium supplies is at the highest level and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons,” she noticed.

Gabbard added that since 2022 China, Russia, Iran and Noord -Korea have come closer.

During the hearing, she is accompanied by FBI director Kash Patel, CIA director John Ratcliffe and others.

President Donald Trump defended his national security adviser Mike Waltz in the aftermath of the Signal app scandal and called him a “good man” who “learned a lesson.”

His support comes in the midst of calls to the national security adviser to resign, with an official calling him an 'f *** ing idiot'. Waltz started the text chain to discuss the plans to bomb the Houthis in Yemen and added the editor -in -chief of the Atlantic Magazine Jeffrey Goldberg.

'Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: Mike Waltz is finished*

Trump, however, told NBC News: “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson and he is a good man.”

Insiders from the White House have spoken out their anger against National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, with a reportedly an 'F *** ING idiot' after he appeared that he had added a prominent journalist to a secret group cat that unveiled very sensitive war plans.

'Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: Mike Waltz is finished*

The editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic Magazine revealed yesterday that he was invited by Waltz to participate in a chat on the encrypted app signal entitled 'Houthi PC Small Group'.

Karoline Leavitt argued that 'no classified material' was placed in the Signal App Group that contained Atlantic editor -in -chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

“No” war plans “were discussed” and “no classified material was sent to the thread,” she wrote on X.

She also said that the office of the Witte Huis' office has provided guidelines on a number of different platforms for staff to use to communicate.

The White House has to do with the consequences of the revelation of Goldberg.

Clinton expressed her shock after Atlantic Magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally admitted to a group cat with the entire Donald Trump defense team about a military attack on Yemen.

“You are joking,” posted the former State Secretary on X, in addition to the big eyes emoji.