In-town pool #8 - Cabinet room on Signal leak

Q: Are you going to change any of the practices that your national security officials used after a reporter was inadvertently added to a group chat about attacks on Yemen.

“Well, I think it's a question I've been asked now, and I've given a few answers, and they've all been the same. We have an amazing group national security now is stronger than it's ever been. We have had a very, very successful numerous attacks in that area. These are people that shoot down ships. Not only are ships, ships all over the world, they're shooting down right out of the water and damaging them badly, or they're going down, they're also shooting anything that happens to be flying in the area. We hit them very, very hard. There was no classified information, as I understand it, they used a a app. You want to call it an app that a lot of people use, a lot of people in government use, a lot of people in the media use.

“But that's an app that a lot of people use, and somebody got out, I mean, happened to know the guy's a total sleeper the Atlantic. The Atlantic is a failed magazine. Does very, very poorly. Nobody gives a damn about it. It gives, just gives it a little bit of a shot. And I will tell you this, that they've made up more stories, and there's just a failing magazine, the public understands that he's a very good man. That man is a very good man, right there, that you criticized [pointing to Mike Waltz sat down the table]. So he's a very good man, and he will continue to do a good job. In addition to him, we had very good people in that meeting, and those people have done a very, very effective job.

Q: Will you ban Signal

“Well, I don't know, I don't know anything about Signal. I wasn't involved in this, but I just heard about it, and I hear it's used by a lot of groups. It's used by the media a lot. It's used by a lot of the military, and I think, successfully, but sometimes somebody can get onto those things. That's one of the prices you pay when you're not sitting in the Situation Room with no phones on, which is always the best, frankly. But you know, you the best is to be there. In fact, oftentimes I've been, in fact, just last week, I was in the Situation Room on something very important, and we had a couple of people hooked up by line. And I said, cancel the line. Sorry, fellas, what you do is, we'll tell you all about the meeting, because I know people do get on those lines, whether it's signal or anything else.

Q: But will you change procedures

“Well, I mean, look, we look at everything, and, you know, they've made a big deal out of this, because we've had two perfect months. We're bringing we are bringing in business. We have another one announced tomorrow, a big one, very big, like in the history of our country, nobody's ever seen anything like it. And I think probably a lot of people are saying it's they started by saying it was the greatest first month that a president has ever had. And I think that's true. And now they say it's the best second month, and they had to find something, and this certainly will look at this.

“But the main thing was, nothing happened. The attack was totally successful. It was, I guess, from what I understand, took place during and it wasn't classified information. So this was not classified now, but classified information& It's probably a little bit different. But I always say, you get you have to learn from every experience. I think it was very unfair the way they attacked Michael. He's a good person. The person that was on just happens to be a sleaze bag, so maybe that's just coincidence.

More coming

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Hugo Lowell

White House Correspondent

The Guardian

Washington DC Bureau

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