In-town pool #9 - Cabinet room on Signal part 2

Q: Would it be a problem if the Atlantic released all the text messages if they're not classified?

“I'd have to ask the military about that, because, you know, maybe you wouldn't want that. I don't know. I will say this, that from what I heard, the man that we're talking about, who's not somebody that I don't think most people have never heard of, he left. He found it very boring, and he left early. He got off the Line very early. So I can't speak to it other than that. So he's made up a lot of stories. And, you know, I think he's basically bad for the country, but it's, it's a failing venture, very failing venture. They're very upset, and a thing like this is publicity for them, but I don't think we should allow people that are very good, like that man sitting right at the end of the table, who's done a great job.

Q: FBI Investigation possibility

“It’s not really an FBI thing. It's really something having to do with security, security like, uh, will somebody be able to break it? Are people able to break into conversations? And if that's true, we're gonna have to find some other form of uh device. And I think that's something that we may have to do. Some people like signal very much. Other people probably don't, but we'll look into it. I think, Michael, I've asked you to immediately study that and find out if people are able to break into a system. Now, in this case, it wasn't that the this attack was going on, and nobody found out anything. And again, the person that was on, as I understand it, he left very early because he didn't find it very exciting. But I think it's something we should look into.”

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Pool was ushered out at 3:18p ET

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Hugo Lowell

White House Correspondent

The Guardian

Washington DC Bureau

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