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Administration officials involved who are among the highest ranking in the US Government insist no classified information was shared. Moments ago, a follow up, Goldberg posted a follow up piece entitled Here are the attack plans that Trump's advisers shared on signal. He writes in part this the statements by Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe and Trump combined with the assertions made by numerous administration officials that we are lying about the context of the Signal texts have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions. And then laid out in this latest piece which broke just now in the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire, everyone can see the text for themselves. Yeah, the screenshots of the text are included in this piece that Jeffrey Goldberg and Shane Harris just posted on the Atlantic's website. We'll go through a little bit of it now. The White House, as you just mentioned, has insisted time and again two things, that nothing in here was classified and that no war plans were included. As Jeffrey and Shane Wright, take a look for yourself. I'll read a little bit of here. These are texts from Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, Talking about at 11:44 Eastern that day, weather is favorable. Just confirmed with CENTCOM. We are a go for mission launch. 12:15 Texts in this chat, F18's launch declares this the the first strike package at 145 talks about how the trigger based strike window begins. Target terrorist is at known location as here. We are here. Second strike at 15:36. More to follow. We are currently clean on OPSEC, of course. Secretary of Defense declares they're clean on OPSEC in a text chain read by the editor of the Atlantic who is inadvertently added to that group. And we'll note a short time later we have further updates from Michael Waltz, the national security advisor who talks about how the target has been hit, declaring positive identifications. So these are would seem to me the very definition of attack plans. And I've already talked to a former Pentagon official who says reading these screenshots hurriedly, of course, everything in here would be classified. And as you say, you're, you're allowing readers to decide for themselves what they mean. But just walk us through some of the text you saw there from particularly the Secretary of Defense and then later the national security adviser about the operation that day in Yemen. Right. Look, the key thing here is this is an interesting one you have up on the screen. This is Mike Waltz in a commercial messaging app providing real time intelligence updates about the consequences of an American attack. Obviously there's a challenge here for secrecy because if you know this, the question then arises, how do they know this? And what kind of assets do they have technical or human assets that would know that? But the core of, of this chain is the, is the statement is the long text issued by Pete Hegseth two hours before the first bombs fell in Yemen. Everybody can find it on the Atlantic website now. In which he goes hour by hour, sometimes minute by minute, here's what's going to happen. And the thing that really struck me as I'm again reading this on my phone in a Safeway parking lot, the thing that really struck me is that he's, he's telling me and others that an attack hasn't even begun yet, but the planes are launching in 31 minutes. You know, like imagine this text went to someone else. I mean, if that's not secret classified information about, or the most sensitive kind of government information in the world, I don't know what is. I mean, if Caroline Levitt is arguing that it's not a war because Congress didn't declare war on Yemen, okay, fine, she wants to play a semantic game. But this is operational details about a forthcoming attack on an enemy that has anti aircraft capabilities. They've allegedly shot down our drones before. So why you would tell anyone in the world on a messaging app that American pilots are about to fly into a. Sorry for the expression war zone. That's an interesting question. So I'm curious, what are your thoughts about the fact that Secretary of State Rubio was on this chain, this signal chain, when he probably knows more about the proper, the proper steps to take for passing intel information along then may most, most. Okay, we're going to bust into this. We're going to go to the House Intelligence Committee. This is live. Let's. The entire intelligent crew yesterday is there. Let's go live to house intelligence agent of the ccp. And after four years of a catastrophic open border policy and limited and in many cases no vetting, we have seen an explosion of illegal migrants crossing our border since 2021. In fiscal year 2024, 516 were identified to be known or suspected terrorists, 106 of whom tried to sneak into our country between ports of entry. And these are just the ones we caught. Of the nearly 3 million encounters recorded by Customs and Border Protection, we've also seen an ISIS affiliated human smuggling network bringing more than 400 migrants into the United States. And this occurs through networks associated with cartels and gangs from Sinaloa to CJNG who present an unacceptable risk to the security of the American People in the midst of such threats, many have understandably lost trust in the intelligence community. One reason I'm particularly concerned about is the pattern of lapses I've seen in analytic integrity and objectivity in some of the assessments provided by the IC in the last few years. From President Trump Russia collusion fiasco to the origins of the COVID 19 pandemic to anomalous health incidents, there have been numerous instances of the IC suppressing certain reporting, using substandard reporting to support a pre decided thesis and failure or refusal to consider plausible alternative analyses. That combined with many other examples of weaponized government results in a situation where the United States is facing very real threats. While many of our citizens lack trust and those they empower to inform on or counter these threats. Look, I've been honored to serve our country for many years now. First as an Explosive Ordinance Disposal Technician in the army, now as a representative for the first District of Arkansas and Chairman of this committee. In my time here, I've traveled the world and met with countless ICE employees from everyday Americans doing challenging and often dangerous work of intelligence to agencies directors like yourselves. The vast majority of those people are honest, hard working, patriotic Americans that silently and without accolades do difficult jobs, often in austere places, sacrificing time with their families and in some cases putting themselves in danger. All in order to serve the United States. These silent warriors deserve our gratitude and our respect. They do not deserve to have their reputations besmirched by poor leadership. Unfortunately, in recent years we've seen instances of politicized, self serving, dishonest leaders, sustaining the reputation of our institutions and patriots by abusing the powers and sacred trust given to them by the American people. We have some real work to do. You and your roles as leaders of prestigious organizations and us as members of this committee charged with conducting honest and rigorous oversight, must ensure that our institutions work for the American people. Those that don't uphold the stringent standards of integrity that the American people expect and deserve must be held accountable. In the instances where trust is breached, those involved must be held accountable. This helps. This will help rebuild the trust between the American people and those that serve them. In the intelligence community today, we need you to be candid about the threats facing the United States. I have deep concerns that many threats have been downplayed. Okay, that's the chairman right there, Crawford. He's going through a basic opening. They're going to heims in a second. Pick it up. Jack. Posobie is with me. Jack, let me bring you quickly we opened with the reporter from the Atlantic. Dropped the receipts this morning. Oh, hang on. Let's go to Himes right now. This is the Democrat. This is going to be pretty volatile today. Let's hear it. The American people to hear directly from the senior leadership of the intelligence community about the threats that our nation faces. I read the unclassified report and I found a lot of continuity in the IC's assessment about critical threats to our national security compared to last year's assessment. The IC continues to see threats from our principal adversaries, China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. I must say, though, that after these last two months, I'm worried that the call may be coming from inside the House. This report calls Russia, and I quote, an enduring potential threat to US power presence and global interests. But as far as I can tell, we're now on Team Kremlin. We vote with them and against our allies in the United Nations. We humiliate President Zelensky in the Oval Office. The President's chief Russian negotiator, Steve Witkoff, is repeating Russian talking points and participating on a madcap signal chat about an attack on Yemen. While inside Russia, USAID is gone and with it all American soft power. If I had time, I would ask the generals at this table about what it means to our national security to give up our soft power. We're no longer helping struggling nations in Africa, China, or worse. Terrorists are filling the vacuum. I wonder how many of those African countries will be named in next year's threat assessment. Thanks to Doge, the men we paid to guard the most vicious ISIS terrorists in the world in Syria walked off the job. Do you think we'll see their names in this document next year? Elon Musk fired the people who maintain our nuclear weapons. Does that feel like a threat to you? Apparently all of this mayhem is cheered by the President of the United states and by 20 somethings with laptops and nicknames like Big Balls. But I've been doing this for a long time. And I know that Moscow and Beijing and Tehran and Pyongyang cannot believe their luck. Now we come to learn that people in the most dangerous and sensitive jobs on the planet put extremely specific pre decisional discussions about a military attack on signal which could be intercepted by the Russians and the Chinese. Everyone here knows that the Russians or the Chinese could have gotten all of that information and they could have passed it on to the Houthis, who easily could have repositioned weapons and altered their plans to knock down planes or sink ships. I think that it's by the awesome grace of God that we are not mourning dead pilots right now. The two general officers sitting at the table and the people who work for all of you know that if they had sat up and participated in the signal chat, they would be gone. And they know that there's only one response to a mistake of this magnitude. You apologize, you own it, and you stop everything until you can figure out what went wrong and how it might not ever happen again. That's not what happened. The Secretary of Defense responded with a brutal attack on the reporter who did not ask to be on the signal chain. Yesterday. Our former colleague Mike Waltz did the same in the White House and then went on Fox to call Jeff Goldberg a loser. What do you think the people who work for you are seeing and learning from that now? Except for that last part, almost all of the mayhem slowly eroding our safety, our standing and our security in the world has largely happened outside the ic. If you had a part in that, and I suspect you did, I thank you. I'll say it now and I'll say it again every time we see each other over the next couple of years. You must protect the thousands of patriots who go to work every day under you to keep us safe. You need to go to work every day thinking about their morale, their well being and their protection. I've done intelligence oversight for more than a decade. It's my job to ask you the tough questions and maybe even make you uncomfortable. John. I don't ever walk through your lobby and look at those 140 stars on the wall without choking up over the fact that men and women, far better than I, will give their lives to keep us safe. There's about a dozen people in this room who know all their stories. And you know and I know that many of the men and women who have stars on that wall died because of bad decisions or poor judgment by their leaders. We've all worked together before, and recent events notwithstanding, we need you to succeed. Your people and our safety requires you to succeed. I really hope you do. But let me say now that if some over caffeinated 20 year old succeeds in firing your linguists or your mathematicians or your paramilitary officers, if you shut down some unit because Steve Bannon or Seb Gorka doesn't like it, America will be less safe and people will get hurt. And I and this committee and history will be very unkind. So the House. House Intelligence. Jack set the frame here this morning. They dropped the receipts as we knew they were. That's why yesterday's Yesterday's hearing was so, you know, I think it went in the wrong direction. It was too chatty. They should have hunkered down, put in perspective what we saw this morning from the Atlantic magazine, the strike package, the information, and what does that mean for this hearing today? Well, Steve, let's. Let's not bury the lead here either, because he just name dropped Steve Bannon. He's talking about the war room audience. Those guys saw this show yesterday. They saw everything that went through here. They're terrified of this audience. They know that the War Room Posse is the force that needs to be reckoned with in Washington, D.C. that's who's battering down the doors, figuratively when it comes to all of this. Those are the people that they're out watching. Say, wait a minute. Batting and posto. These guys were talking yesterday about how this is in operation. And then, boom, here comes the drip, drip, drip of, oh, we've got, you know, this. This information that came out, which we told you about, which you said. And then you were chatty, by the way, Steve, we were the ones on the program yesterday saying, stop giving the information. Just take the hard lines, like Tulsi Gabbard, the DNI did yesterday. Don't get caught up in this syntax. Don't get caught up in the semantic games. And now the semantic games are coming out more and more because you knew that we said this. We said, Goldberg probably has more going to try to catch them in a perjury trap. He's going to drop more tomorrow. And then he's going to say, oh, look, they lied. Because the thing they said yesterday doesn't match what I saw in the chat. That. And that's when he was on with Tim Miller and we talked about this in the 5:00 show, and he, oh, I can't. I can't release those extra texts. I can't do it. What are you, my lawyer, Tim? What do you want? My lawyer. I'm not going to. And of course he was, because he was planning to do it all along the next day. That was the point of the operation. Now Judge Boberg comes in. Judge Boasberg did it coming in. That's moving the artillery into the firing line. This has become the route. Look, the Democrats were demoralized. They were demoralized. They were defeated. The media was defeated. And now they have civil. Yeah, there's a. Okay, there's a civil suit that just got filed against Pete Hegseth about this entire thing. They randomly selected the judge in Washington, D.C. and it's Judge Boasberg. We told you, this is a pincer move between the deep state and the judicial insurrection. Now, Boasberg is the connective link. We told you. Wait, it gets in the court. They're already trying to get it to court. Boseberg's taken on. They're going to have, I think, emergency hearing this afternoon or tomorrow on this, Jack. This is a pincer move against the Trump administration. That's what they have to hunker down today. They're doing the opening statements, but we're going to get into the question. We'll handle the Democrats. Given the information, Jack, that you saw, let's call balls and strikes. The information that you saw and assume right now it's correct. I'm sure it's already been verified on the, on the information that was on the text. Was that information classified into your perspective as a Naval intelligence officer? Well, you know, if you, if I put it this way, if I was in the intel community, I wouldn't be sharing that information over open comms. Operational stuff that I've always seen has always been at the secret level. I've never done work with operational information like that that would be on a genser server or on anything unclassified, anything open source. Now, obviously the Secretary of Defense has some originator classification authority for those operations. And so he has the ability to declassify various things if he wants to. And so the issue here, Steve, is for the average person at home watching this, trying to figure out what's going on, they're going to say that looks like information that I wouldn't want to see up on Twitter, Telegram or anywhere else. Why? Because the average American does actually care about the, the, the MAGA soldiers, the MAGA troops that are out there, the sailors, the pilots, etc. And by the way, these guys, these Democrats, they don't care. These are the guys who got the 13 killed at Abbey Gate. And Joe Biden couldn't even show up without staring at his watch the whole time and claim that it didn't happen. And all the rest of it completely sold them out. They don't care. They don't care at all. This is a drama act. What you're seeing is theater kids. This is the theater kid, occupied government. And you got the congressman up there. Oh, I'm so upset. I'm so tired. He's, he's going for his Oscar. I guess he, he heard that, you know, Snow White collapsed at the, at the box office. So he's thinking he can get up there for best Actress maybe. But the idea that, the idea that they have any care whatsoever for this, it's a joke and it always has been. Yeah, we're going to lose you. So I want to what should the audience look for today when we go back to the questions and answers where they're going to try to chop people up twice as much as yesterday because they're going to put up on the screen actually what the, what the carrier battle group with the strike, what the strike pilots were doing at a specific time. In fact, I think they're going to claim it happened 30 or 31 minutes before the actual launch from the carrier battle group. What should people look for today, sir? Right, and I'll talk operational. We've talked about this before, Steve. The Iranians have given the Houthis and there's been reports of these standoff drones that have the ability to hover, essentially hover in midair waiting for the jets to come by and then they have a booster rocket on them that would fire. And so they're going to get into all of this. They're going to explain the operational capabilities of the Houthis. They're going to get into the Red Sea. You're going to see that opental obviously the carriers can't really maneuver because it's so tight of a space, especially if they're in that slock of the straight of Babelman Deb and so you're going to get into all of that. But what I want you to see also look at is look at the contours of the operation as it moves. The Tapper, msnbc, the intel committees. Natasha Bertrand this is an intel op against the Trump administration the same way that Russiagate was. Where was Russiagate born? Started in the committees and then it moved where into the courts. That's what you're going to look for. So from the administration I want to see are we going to get more interviews on Fox News? We're going to see more of these sit downs or are we going to get the hard line of Tulsi Gabbard? Hunker down. Hard line. Hard line, Jack. And by the way, that's what Obama would do. I'm sure Obama would say we've addressed this, taken care of it. Oh, Barack Obama would, would say, would not admit anything and everybody would move on. So just do what Obama would do. Go to the mat, you would go to the mattresses which you have to do today. Okay, Jack, we'll check you will grab you by by phone as you travel back to dc. Thanks everybody. The White House Jack puts over thank you. I'm going to go back to hearing. MTG is also on a Doge oversight committee. She's lighting up pbs. We're going to cut into that too. Let's go back to the committee. We're going to dip in and out. Try to do it commercial free as much as possible. Thank rv. Let's go live to the hearing. Advancing its cyber capabilities for sophisticated operations aimed at stealing sensitive US Government and private sector information and pre positioning additional asymmetric attack options that may be deployed in a conflict China's cyber activities have been linked to multiple high profile breaches, including last year's massive compromise of U.S. telecom infrastructure, commonly referred to as salt Typhoon Beijing currently dominates global markets and strategically important supply chains, for example with the mining and processing of several critical minerals. In December, China imposed an export ban to the United States on gallium, germanium and antimony, all of which are important to the production of semiconductors and our defense technologies. This was in direct response to US Export controls on chips designed to broadly limit PRC access to advanced chips and chip making equipment. China also aims to compete in other critical global industries including AI, legacy semiconductor chip production, biomanufacturing and genetic sequencing, and medical and pharmaceutical supply production. Russia's nuclear and conventional military capabilities, along with its demonstrated economic and military resilience, make it a formidable competitor. Moscow has more nuclear weapons than any other nation that could inflict catastrophic damage on the United States and the world in the event of a major war that Russian leaders feared put them and their regime at serious risk. In late 2024, Russia announced updates to its public nuclear doctrine, expanding the conditions under which Russia would consider using nuclear weapons. Russia is building a more modern and survivable nuclear force designed to circumvent US Missile defense through reliable retaliatory strike potential. It intends to deter the US by holding the US Homeland at risk and by having the capabilities to threaten nuclear war in a conflict. Russia's developed advanced cyber capabilities and has attempted to pre position access to US critical infrastructure for asymmetric options and make it a persistent cyber threat. Russia's cyber activities have been linked to multiple high profile breaches, including the 2023 hack of Microsoft. Russia is also fielding new capabilities and anti satellite weapons meant to degrade US and allied space infrastructure. Among Russia's most concerning developments is a new satellite intended to carry a nuclear weapon as an anti satellite weapon, violating long standing international law against such activity and putting the US and global economy at risk Iran continues to seek to expand its influence in the Middle east despite the degradation to its proxies and defenses. During the Gaza conflict, Iran has developed and maintains ballistic missiles, Cruise missiles and UAVs, including systems capable of striking US targets and allies in the region. They've shown a willingness to use these weapons, including during a 2020 attack on U.S. forces in Iraq and in attacks against Israel in April and October 2024. Iran's cyber operations and capabilities also present a serious threat to US networks and data. The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2000. We continue to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program. In the past year, we've seen an erosion of a decades long taboo in Iran on discussing nuclear weapons in public, likely emboldening nuclear weapons advocates within Iran's decision making apparatus. Iran's enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons. Iran will likely continue efforts to counter Israel and press for US military withdrawal from the region by aiding, arming and helping to reconstitute its loose consortium of like minded terrorist actors, which it refers to as its axis of resistance. Although weakened, this collection of actors still presents a wide range of threats, including to Israel's population and US forces deployed in Iraq and Syria, as well as US and international military and commercial shipping and transit. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is pursuing stronger strategic and conventional capabilities that can target US forces and allies in the region as well as the US homeland to bolster North Korea's leverage and stature, defend its regime and achieve at least tacit recognition as a nuclear weapons power. Kim's recently cemented strategic partnership with Russia supports these goals by providing him with greater financial, military and diplomatic support, reducing its reliance on China and providing North Korean forces and weapons systems with war fighting experience. Kim views his strategic weapons advances, its deepening ties with Russia and its economic durability as strengthening his negotiating position against Washington demands for denuclearization and lessening Kim's need for sanctions relief. Since 2022, China, Russia, Iran and North Korea have grown closer. Removing the accelerant of the war in Ukraine is unlikely to revert these bilateral relationships to a pre war 2021 baseline, leaving room for new strategic priorities in world events to create new incentives or challenges to their expanded cooperation. Russia has been a catalyst for much of this expansion, driven heavily by the support it has needed for its war against Ukraine including protection from U.S. and Western sanctions. In addition to exchange of military and other resource capabilities with North Korea, Russia has relied more heavily on China's financial and defense industry backing and has increased combined military exercises with China with Iran. Russia has also expanded financial ties to mitigate sanctions. Iran has become a critical military supplier to Russia, especially of UAVs in exchange for Russian technical support for Iranian weapons intelligence and advanced cyber capabilities. The threats that we see to the US To US national security are both complex and multifaceted. In closing, I want to address briefly the Signal Chat issue that I know many of you are concerned about. The President and National Security Advisor Waltz held a press conference yesterday with a clear message it was a mistake that a reporter was inadvertently added to a Signal Chat with high level national security principals having a policy discussion about imminent strikes against the Houthis and the effects of the strike. National Security Advisor has taken full responsibility for this and the National Security Council is conducting an in depth review of along with tech technical experts working to determine how this reporter was inadvertently added to this chat. The conversation was candid and sensitive, but as the President National Security Advisor stated, no classified information was shared. There were no sources, methods, locations or war plans that were shared. This was a standard update to the National Security Cabinet that was provided alongside updates that were given to foreign partners in the region. The Signal Message app comes pre installed on government devices in December of 2024. CISA stated quote, we strongly urge highly targeted individuals to immediately review and apply best practices provided in the guidance to protect mobile communications, including consistent use of end to end encryption and they named Signal as an app as an example of such an end to end encrypted messaging app. Ideally, these conversations occur in person. However, at times fast moving coordination of an unclassified nature is necessary where in person conversation is not an option. I'm also aware that a suit was a lawsuit was filed yesterday on this issue. As a result of that pending litigation, I'm limited in my ability to comment further on that specific case. My Office of General Counsel will be in close contact with the Department of Justice on this matter. The most important thing to the American people and to all of us is the success of this military operation against terrorists who have been and continue to attack American service members was extremely successful. Thanks to the leadership of President Trump and the actions of our brave men and women in uniform as the heads of the American people's intelligence community, we will continue to provide the President, you and Congress and our war fighters with timely, unbiased relevant intelligence to keep our country secure, free, prosperous and at peace. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Director Gabbard. We now turn to member questions. I'll recognize myself for five minutes. I want to talk about. Before I get into the threats, I want to talk about something we've talked about in this committee and in this setting before. We've had IC Agency leaders commit to complying with our document requests, but not follow through. I don't know if this is due to direction from previous administration or middle management obstruction, but I find it. You split screen it. Okay. We're going to be calling a lot of audibles. MTG is over. Also grilling pbs. She's on the Doge Oversight Committee right there. Here's the news. Tulsi Gabbard, I don't know. Doubled down, tripled down. Makes the case for the signal app. She did say at the time she broke some news there. Her legal counsel is in touch with the Department of Justice. One of the things we warned about yesterday and why we felt it was very important to. It was very important to make sure that this thing did not merge with the radical judges over to Washington D.C. what they want to do is put the administration in a vise grip or have an anvil in a hammer. Think of the radical judges, particularly in the D.C. court led by Boasberg, the district court, which. He's the head judge of the district court, not the appellate. The district court. You've seen how radical he's been. The administration had to. Had to invoke the State Secrets act on the deportation of the. And by the way, let me know when we go back to the Democrat. I'm going to produce life here as soon as you go back. We want these Democrats. We want to hear the snarky questions they're asking our intelligence community, the intelligence heads. We're going to go back to Radcliffe in a moment. It doesn't mean. Said that they filed a suit last night, civil suit. It's supposed to be totally random. How the judge is supposed to put it in and just spin a wheel. Random. Boasberg gets the call and they're going to go in for an emergency hearing this afternoon, tomorrow. It's a total setup. It's a total setup. Boasberg, who's in the middle now we're at an appellate court to even get him removed. Right. The Commander in Chief of the United States has had to invoke the State Secrets act because he's want to get. 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I want to turn to Director Patel real quick in the time that I have left, if you can flesh this out for me just a little bit. You indicated something that caught my attention in the proceeding yesterday, and that was your involvement with the judicial drug task force that you partner with at the state level and how that has yielded positive results with regard to cartel activity. Can you put a little finer point on that to describe those partnerships in the. In the 53 seconds we have remaining? Yeah. I'll try to be brief. Mr. Chairman. Mr. Vice Chairman. Thanks for having us. Ranking member. My priorities at the FBI have been to partner with state and local law enforcement in ways that we have not done so before, particularly on information sharing. And it's a two way street. And in order for us to effectuate drug seizures and narcotics interdictions in the 50 states, we treat them as all border states because that's what's happening. We have an American citizen die of a drug overdose every seven minutes. That is wildly out of control and unacceptable. But the FBI cannot do that mandate and secure the American people from Washington, D.C. so we're putting resources in the field. We were working with our partners at the state and local level, and we are seeing immediate results, as we are seeing in Arkansas, as I outlined yesterday, with hundreds of arrests, thousands of pounds of narcotic seized, dozens of weapons, and multiple indictments. Thank you, Director. I'm going to yield and recognize ranking member Himes for five minutes. Thank you. Mr. Chairman. If there's something I care as much about as the national security of the United States, it's the powers and prerogatives of this Congress in its oversight duties. So I want to spend a minute or so on yesterday's testimony in front of the Senate and direct these questions in particular to Director Patel and Director Gabbard. Yesterday Senator Heinrich asked, did this conversation referring to the signal chat include information on weapons packages, targets, or timing? Director Patel, you said. Not that I'm aware of. Director Gabbard, you said, same answer. This morning we learned that the signal chat included the following update. Forward looking update from the Secretary of defense. Time now. 11:44 Eastern Time. Weather is favorable. Just confirmed with CENTCOM. We are go for mission launch. 12:15 Eastern Time. F18 launch first strike package. 13:45, trigger based F18 first strike window starts. Target terrorist is at his known location, so should be on time. Also, strike drones launch MQ9s. 14. 10 more F18s. Launch second strike package. Do either of the directors want to reflect on their testimony yesterday in the context of what I just read? Sure. One, I was not on that signal chat. Two, I have not reviewed it. And three, as you just indicated, that was made public this morning. But Director, you didn't prior to yesterday's Senate. Senate, you were on this. You were on the signal chat, correct? No. Okay. But did you review. Did you review the material on the signal chat? No, I wasn't on it. Director Gabbard. Yes, ranking Member. My answer yesterday was based on my recollection, or the lack thereof, on the details that were posted there. I was not. And what was shared today reflects the fact that I was not directly involved with that part of the signal chat and replied at the end, reflecting the effects, the very brief effects that the National Security Advisor had shared. So it's your testimony that less than two weeks ago you were on a signal chat that had all of this information about F18s and MQ9 reapers and targets on strike, and you, in that two week period, simply forgot that that was there? That's your testimony. My testimony is I did not recall the exact details of what was included there. That was not your testimony. Your testimony was that you were not aware of anything related to weapons packages, targets and timing. As the testimony yesterday continued on, there were further questions related to that where I acknowledged that there was conversation about weapons. And I don't remember the exact wording that I used, but I did not recall the specific details that were included. Director Gabbard, we've. You've reasserted that there was no classified information. I think we can all agree that that information shouldn't have been out there. But let me ask you this. Are you familiar with the ODNI's classification guidance? I'm familiar with that. I've actually got a copy right here. If I read you a part of that guidance, I wonder if you could tell me what the level of classification indicated is. I'm reading from your classification guidance, and the criteria is information providing indication or advance warning that the US or its allies are preparing an attack. Do you recall what your own guidance would suggest that that be classified? I don't have the specifics in front of me, but it would point to what was shared, would fall under the DoD's classification system and the Secretary of Defense's authority. Let me help you because there's a very clear answer. You don't, I guess you don't have it, but information providing in this is the ODNI guidance. Information providing indication or advance warning that the US or its allies are preparing an attack should be classified as is top secret. Do you disagree with that? I don't disagree with that. I just point out that the DoD classification guidance is separate from the ODNI's classification guidance. Do you think it would be materially different? Ultimately, the Secretary of Defense holds the authority to classify or declassify. Do you think it's likely that DoD guidance is materially different from what I just read? I haven't reviewed the DoD guidance, so I can't comment. Director Gabbard, a lot of this suggests sort of a lack of sobriety. When there's punch emojis and fire emojis, it's a lack of sobriety. I don't mean that literally. But I have one last question for you, because I think people really listen to what you have to say. You on March 15, as DNI retweeted a post from Ian Miles Chong, who is listed on rt, that's Russia Today's website, as, quote, a political and cultural commentator who has contributed content to RT since at least 2022. Director Gabber, do you think that it's responsible for you as head of the intelligence community and the principals Presidential intelligence advisor to retweet posts from individuals affiliated with Russian state media? That retweet came from my personal account and I would have to go back to look at the substance of the tweet. Can I just. A lack. Just so that we don't have a lack of confusion amongst our allies and enemies and us. Can I act perhaps, that you not think that you should be saying one thing on your personal account that you say, officially, I maintain my First Amendment rights to be able to express my own personal views on different issues. Thank you. I yield back. Mr. Chairman. Gentleman yields. Now recognize the distinguished Vice Chairman, General Kelly. Yeah, I. Now, for the first 30 seconds, Mr. Ratcliffe, or Director Ratcliffe, formerly known as Texas, from this Mississippi guy, I'd like to give you 30 seconds if you have anything to respond to what Ms. Gabbard, just. Director Gabbard, I'm sorry, just said, well, MS, it's good to see you again and I appreciate the opportunity. You know, there's so much talk about this Atlantic article and about things that were said and that could have happened instead of a focus on what did happen. So my responsibility as CIA director, one of its responsibilities is to kill terrorists. And that's exactly what I did, along with President Trump's excellent national security team. That's what we should be focused on with regard to that article. I also would appreciate the opportunity to relay the fact that yesterday I spent four hours answering questions from senators as a result of that article that were intimating that I transmitted classified information because there were hidden messages. Those messages were revealed today and revealed that I did not transmit classified information and that the reporter, who I don't know, I think intentionally intended it to indicate that that reporter also indicated that I had released the name of an undercover CIA operative in that signal jet. In fact, I had released the name of my chief of staff, who is not operating undercover. That was deliberately false and misleading, and I appreciate the opportunity to reflect that. My answers haven't changed. I used an appropriate channel to communicate sensitive information. It was permissible to do so. I didn't transfer any classified information. And at the end of the day, what is most important is that the mission was a remarkable success, is what everyone should be focused on here, because that's what did happen, not what possibly could have happened. Thank you, Director Ratcliffe, Director Patel, thank you for the great job that you've done. So, first of all, your coordination and trying to comply with the letter that was sent last year and the year before asking for the baseball shooting, of which what I got was basically what happened on the field. And I was there, so I don't need to know that. Although no one from the FBI ever talked to me about what happened, they talked to people who were not there. But I appreciate your commitment to getting us the full unredacted report or the redactions are to protect innocent people who are not part of the process, not the people who made decisions to classify that as suicide by cop, as opposed to an assassination attempt of many members of Congress, of which I was one. Thank you for your commitment, Director Patel, because I know that you will give us what we have asked for so that we can put this to rest. Mr. Winstrup, myself, and several others. Can I get your commitment to do that, Director Patel? In fact, I just got an update, Mr. Vice Chairman, for my team. You'll have all of those materials to you and your committee by the close of business today or at the latest tomorrow morning. And just really quickly, Director Ratcliffe and I don't want to go over time. I think it's so important for everybody to have their time. Can you tell me the impact that Doge has had in causing you to fire people you shouldn't have fired or released, people who are instruments of national security no longer there. Tell me if you've had any impact, specifically that Doge has caused you to lose someone who was necessary for national security? Given the fact that as of this date, no one from Doge has been on the CIA campus, and I've had no direct communication with Doge other than conversations with Elon Musk at Cabinet meetings, I would say the impact is zero. Director Patel, I'm in a similar situation. We do work with Doge on government efficiencies, but I have not seen any negative impacts at the FBI. Thank you very much. And, Director Gabbard, it's good to see you again, too. You know, I think we were freshmen together, you and I and Director Ratcliffe, and I'm here, and you guys are, like, there. Have you seen any impact across the whole IC that Doge has caused things that you can't respond to? Thank you, Congressman. It's great to see you all again here. The answer is no. Similar with Director Ratcliffe, Doge has not been at odni. The President understands the essential national security mission that we have, and we are going through our own internal assessments to ensure we're achieving the effects in an efficient way that is responsible to the American taxpayer. Yield back, Mr. Chairman. Gentleman yields, Mr. Carson. Thank you, Chairman. To the witnesses, many of whom I've worked with in the past. It appears that this year's report omitted any discussion of transnational concerns like global health, security, infectious diseases, and the role of conflict, violence, and political instability play as drivers of migration. Coupled with the administration's cuts to USAID and other international assistance, particularly health and humanitarian assistance, won't these reductions and eliminations increase regional instability and volatility in areas already at high risk for threats? Was the IC consulted at all in the decisions to eliminate such critical funding? And why weren't these risks included in this year's report? Thank you for the question, Congressman. Mtg's hearing. Get a taste of her putting PBS under the DOGE watch. Let's go to that. And we'll come back to intelligence compliance in with the FCC's inquiry. And we'll continue to cooperate. I remind you, you're under oath. And violations of the Communications act comes with a fine up to $10,000 and possibly up to a year in prison. Does PBS air for for profit commercials? Ms. Kirger? We are underwriting announcements, and we believe we are in full compliance with the fcc. And we look forward to delivering the material required in this part of this investigation. We look forward to that, too. I'm assuming both of you are concerned about this and that's why you brought so many attorneys with you today. Ms. Kirger. Using taxpayer subsidies, PBS funded independent lens to make documentaries for part of your programming. In 2016, Real Boy was aired about a trans teen navigating adolescent sobriety and the ramification of his gender identity. In 2022, the same series aired our league, in which a trans woman comes to her old school Ohio bowling league in a story about transition. Then in 2024, a racist trees was aired telling a story of how in Palm Springs, a black neighborhood fights to remove a divisive wall of trees. Do you think PBS needs to fund ridiculous material such as this that the taxpayers are having to pay for? These are documentary films that are point of view pieces that are part of our primetime schedule for adults and parents. And adults don't trust that type of programming. Thank you. Madam Chair. I ask a unanimous consent to enter into the record this letter from 72 public radio stations serving rural communities across the country where they emphasize how important federal funding is to the ability to provide vital public safety information. Without objection, so ordered. Okay. I also have a similar letter from Georgia, from the Georgia PBS NPR station, also asking for consideration for federal funding. Without objection, so ordered. Thank you. Ms. Kirger. And Ms. Marr, can we talk a little bit about the educational service you provide for children of low income families and how that is received and the trust that you've generated among families in that situation? Yes. A significant part of our broadcast day is devoted to programming for children. We focus on preschool that goes back to the legacy of Fred Rogers, who believed that media could be a tool to help to instruct children as well as a tool of entertainment. Our programming is focused on core skills that kids need to develop before they enter school, in math and in learning numbers and in learning letters so that kids that don't have the opportunity to be in a formal pre K program have a chance to walk into school for the first time on equal footing with kids that have more opportunity. And that's the heart of what we think about in the programming that we develop for kids. Now, I know you've done some well, independent groups have done assessments on trust, the trust factor that parents have on PBS Kids, which is one of your most popular services. Can you talk about that? Where did you come in in terms of the, you know, the comparison to other stations? Yeah, we are the most trusted media brand. In fact, Parents magazine this week just ran the results of a study that was done on Daniel Tiger's neighborhood, actually looking at 16 year olds that remember some of the basic skills they learned as small children. And what we're focused on is to make sure again that every child has the opportunity to learn and be excited about the world around them when they enter a school for the first time and to give them those core basic skills that we can see they carry forward in life. Ms. Marr, I'd like you to focus on the work that public media is doing in relation to public safety. Communications. How important is this function of public broadcast media particularly? I'm talking about the most rural, most remote communities in this country. Thank you so much, Congressman. We are part of the national Next Generation Warning system for which we've received a significant investment over the course of the last few years. And many thanks to Congress for supporting that appropriation. Our stations are busy implementing that across the nation. We also are part of the national. Sorry, excuse me. The statewide emergency plans for more than 20 states. You'll see the importance and value of public radio in particular when we face climate or. Sorry, excuse me, extreme weather. Okay, here we go. We're going to go back to Intel. Two things are happening at the same time here. Today there is a hearing in which MTG is running to defund PBS and make PBS defend all this transgender and basically Marxist cultural ideology they put into little kids heads. And PBS not doing a very good job. MTG on the attack there. She's chairing that subcommittee. Back at the House Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard tripling down. Ratcliffe doubling down. Going back to the testimony yesterday said what they said was 100% accurate. There's going to be, I'm sure, some fireworks from these Democratic congressmen as they try to chop block President Trump's intelligence team. Big news is that the courts are getting involved. Boasberg is taking on a civil suit against Pete Hegseth. He's put himself right in the middle of this, as we said he would. They're going to use the federal courts as the anvil. The deep state's going to be the hammer. That's what President Trump and his team are up against. Also wobbly Rhinos Wicker of South Carolina has said that he's going to initiate a Senate Armed Services investigation with Jack Reed. Who you saw Jack Reed on the attack yesterday. On the intel side, let's go back to the testimony in the Intelligence Committee with probably the most recent one. In terms of 702 query reviews, we only have about 200 left when it comes to US persons and we will promulgate that those findings to you. But as of today, of all the US persons queried in the 702 databases, there's only been one instance of negligent conduct. We have already implemented limited access to those who actually know how to use the Fisa process in 702. And we have implemented a direct reporting structure to the Office of Director and the Deputy Director to make sure that anyone, anyone, whether it's intentional or unintentional abuses, the 702 query system is brought to our attention immediately, and we will take that on for action directly. And in terms of piggybacking off Director Ratcliffe's. The public defender in me realizes the importance of constitutional due process more than anyone. The staffer and me from the House Intelligence Committee may be the only person who has worked more on FISA reform and exposing FISA abuse in modern congressional history. And the terrorism prosecutor, me and the JSOC civilian in me tells me that we cannot do away with 702 or FISA Title I and Title 3, but we can work with you and your committee to make it better. I don't know all those ideas. I don't have all those answers. But you have my commitment that we will use it appropriately going forward. Thank you, Director. I yield back. Gentleman yields. Mr. Castro, thank you. Chairman Tulsa, you and I came into the Congress together in 2013 and cash, you and I. I was serving on the Intelligence Committee when you worked on the Intelligence Committee. And John, you and I are both from Texas and we both serve together on the Intelligence Committee. The idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee, would not be classified, y'all know, is a lie. That's ridiculous. I've seen things much less sensitive be presented to us with high classification. And to say that it isn't is a lie to the country. I want to ask the generals. Now, the NSA is principally in charge of intercepting things like signals intelligence from other countries. General, I want to ask you if your organization, your agency, intercepted something like this from Russia or China or some other country, would you consider this classified information? Representative. We would be classifying based off of our sources and methods. Methods. So those would be the things that in terms of how we process, how we would be able to obtain the information and how we'd report it, we would classify based off of our source and method. So if you knew that the Secretary of Defense and the National Security Advisor of Russia or China and the head of the Foreign Ministry and all of the folks who were associated with that signal chain, if you intercepted that information, General, would you consider it classified? So it would be classified based off of our collection. So the NSA would classify it based on determinant is classified. The protection of our own source and method, not necessarily based off the content, but how we collected that information. But it would be classified. Well, we certainly wouldn't be collecting on a US Person. Conversation. No, I understand. I'm saying if we. But if you did your job and collected it from the Russian Foreign Ministry and the National Security Advisor and the Secretary of Defense and the president's chief advisor. There is no way, no way, having sat on this committee for nine years, that somebody would come in with that information and give us something that says unclassified. You can walk out of this room with this information and give it to whomever you want. You know, with all respect. You and I worked on the committee at the same time. Tulsi, you and I came in together. I've never had an issue of beef with you. John, you and I are both from Texas. Y'all know that's a lie. It's a lie to the country. I want to ask about the Alien Enemies act really quick, while I have time. The President has used the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime authority last used to detain German and Japanese nationals during World War II, to summarily deport people accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang Trend. To invoke this law, the President must demonstrate the United States is under invasion by a foreign. Foreign nation or government. They have alleged that we are under invasion by the Venezuelan government. The idea that we are at war with Venezuela would come as a surprise to most Americans. The unclassified version of the annual threat assessment the intelligence community just released makes no mention of any invasion or war that we are fighting with the nation of Venezuela. You would think our nation being at war would merit at least a small reference in this threat assessment. And Director Ratcliffe, does the intelligence community assess that we are currently at war or being invaded by the nation of Venezuela? We have no assessment that says that. Thank you. In invoking the law, the president alleged that Trend AGUA is, quote, undertaking hostile actions against the US at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela. Director Gabbard, does the intelligence community assess that the Venezuelan government is directing Trende Agua's hostile actions against the United States? There are varied assessments that came from different intelligence community elements. I'll defer to Director Patel to speak specifically to the FBI assessment. Well, let me ask you. So you're saying there are conflicting assessments that have come from the ic? That's correct. Okay, thank you. We'll take it up in closed session. All right. You know, your threat assessment makes issue of highlights fentanyl trafficking as a top threat the United States. Yet support for law enforcement cooperation with Mexico has been put on hold. And there has been a threat of invasion to Mexico by the United States. You assess that Russia's advanced cyber capabilities make it a persistent counterintelligence cyber threat. Yet the administration shut down the unit at the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency tasked with stopping Russian cyber attacks. There are so many other ways that the actions of this administration have contradicted this threat assessment. And the administration is making the world and the United States more dangerous. I yield back. Gentlemen. Yields. Gentlemen from Pennsylvania, Mr. Fitzpatrick, thank you. Chair McCrawer, thank you to all of our witnesses for being here. I look forward to working with each and every one of you to keep our country and our planet safe. I wanted to carry on on the topic of section 702 reauthorization. Representative LaHood and I did a lot of work on this over the past two years. As you all know, last Congress's committee worked in a bipartisan manner to advance the reauthorization of what most of us, if not all, deem to be our country's single most important national security tool. The result was what was titled the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America act, which not only reauthorized Section 702, but equally important, it provided necessary reforms to our intelligence community in an effort to address past abuses. This was the largest single reform of the FBI and the IC in a generation, making sure that there are appropriate compliance guardrails that enhance accountability while still protecting the critical tools necessary for our nation's security, just to name a few. In 2009, Section 702 protected our nation from an attack by an Al Qaeda member who intended to detonate explosives in the Manhattan subway lines. In 2014, Section 702 helped prevent attacks by assisting in the removal licensed leader hai ji ma. 702 is important, but we're trying to get a lot done today in a limited amount of time. The Democrats are going to come back right there. Congressman Castro called Radcliffe, the head of the CIA, and Tulsi Gabbard liars to their face about their testimony. So there'll be much more of this later. I want to go. Our crack team was able to cut Congressman Comer of Kentucky in a full. Lighten up, pbs. I want to go ahead and play this in its entirety. Let's go ahead and play it. You for the audience. Madam Chair. Mr. Ullman, I'm glad you brought up a point. It's been mentioned a couple of times already at the early start of this hearing about rural and remote. And I have to tell this story. When I graduated from college with a degree in agriculture, I went back to rural Monroe County, Kentucky and worked on a farm, my farm, for five years. Full time farm to this day, but full time. I was in a tractor, sometimes 10, 1214 hours a day. And I listened to the radio. And the only radio station I could get that had news was public radio. So I listened to as many hours of public radio as anyone on this panel, I can assure you, and it was a great Service. That was 30 some years ago today in that same remote area. I mean, you've got Sirius xm, you've got podcasts, there's Internet access now, there's a whole menu of media options now. So. But over time, and I still occasionally listen to NPR because I just want to hear what they have to say. And I don't even recognize the station anymore. It's not news. I feel like it's propaganda. I feel like there's disinformation every time I listen to npr. And you know, a media entity like MSNBC or Huffington Post that in my opinion consistently spews disinformation, they can do that. They're a private company. But NPR gets federal funds. And you know, I have a problem with that because if people in Alaska, if all they have is public radio, then all they know is what these headlines say and they're wrong about COVID 19 and the headlines are in the background. Don't have time to go over all these headlines that are wrong about Russian collusion, Wrong. Wrong. About the Hunter Biden laptop, Wrong. And then there's a story about me and part of what we went through on this committee during the Biden investigation, which by the way ended with Joe Biden's last act as president of the United States, pardoned his entire family preemptively for an 11 year period, which just so happened to be the 11 year period that this committee investigated the Bidens, that we had subpoenaed bank records. I don't think NPR reported about the pardons, but they reported a lot about how there was no evidence of any wrongdoing and things that just weren't true. In fact, there's a story. NPR Lawmaker Leading Hunter Biden House Investigation accused of owning a Shell company. Well, that's me, Ms. Mayor. Are you familiar with that, that story that NPR wrote about me at the height of the Biden investigation, when you all were disputing every aspect of our investigation that is 100% factual. We have hundreds of pages of evidence, hundreds of pages of bank records, hundreds of pages of emails. Do you remember the story that NPR wrote about me saying I had a shell company? Congressman Nye was not at NPR at the time, and I'm unfamiliar with this. Where do you get your sources on something like that's? A very serious accusation because we're investigating a president and his family who had 28 shell companies. I have an LLC, had five properties in it. It's in my financial disclosure form. I've gone into great detail, given lots of interviews, but people that listen to npr, they're totally disinformed on the truth. And you know, I have a problem with that because you get federal funds. And I do believe there was a role for public radio 30 years ago, maybe 20 years ago, maybe five years ago. But because of technology today, I don't think there's a role for public radio anymore. And I think you've abused the privilege that you had with receiving federal funds because these headlines here are not true. This is disinformation on some huge topics. Do you want to dispute anything that I said in the remaining 30 seconds? Thank you, Congressman. First of all, I want to recognize your concerns. One of the first things that I did in coming in in May was to be up our editorial standards. I directed my editor in chief, by the way, Comer nailed him right there. Let's go. Let's go to the House intel right now. Back information shall be classified. If it's unauthorized, disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause describable damage to national security. This includes military plans, weapon systems or operations. You don't disagree that I quoted that accurately, right? That's also an accurate quote. Can I show you the. I'd like to show you the text that Secretary Hegseth actually published to the world. Now, Lieutenant General Cruz, as ranking member Himes said it says time now weather is favorable. Just confirmed with centcom. We are a go for mission launch. Then it says at 1215 Eastern, F18, F18s launch first strike package. F18s are military systems, correct? Weapon systems? They are. Okay. 1345 trigger based F18 first strike window starts. Target terrorist is at his known location, so should be on time. Also strike drones launch MQ9s. MQ9s is a weapon system, correct? They are. Okay. I think applying the executive order as well as the DoD manual to this fact pattern, we clearly have weapon systems that have been identified. That is classified information. Now, the reason why it's important that this information not be disclosed is that we don't want the adversaries to know what's about to happen. Right, sir. Well, I would draw a small distinction there. You referenced and asked if that platform, those two platforms are weapon systems. They are, but those terms are used all across the globe in a lot of contexts. So it's really about how they're used in the context of this particular document. I just want to clarify that the use of those, I understand in this situation, those are operational details. They are operational details, but again, as you quoted the DoD instruction, it's about operations. So as you further go down into what are the operational details, I think as we had a discussion yesterday, the important aspect, I think all of us are very familiar. This is classified information. This is classified information. It's a weapon system, as well as sequence of strikes, as well as details about the operations. And so. So I think that just piggybacking off of what some other members have said, using the DOD's manual, as well as the executive order in operation today with the Trump administration. This text message is clearly classified information. Secretary Hegseth has disclosed military plans as well as classified information. He needs to resign immediately. He needs to resign immediately. And a full investigation needs to be undertaken with regard to whether other similar signal chats are occurring in this administration. I'd like to turn my attention to another topic, Director Patel. According to the DOJ, in 2022, the FBI led Joint Terrorism Task Force JTTF in my hometown of Chicago, valiantly led efforts to prevent a plot to attack Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois. You don't dispute that, do you, sir? I'm not familiar with it, but I don't dispute what you're telling me. Thank you. A memo obtained by ABC 7 News of Chicago said that this task force will now be, quote, actively supporting, close quote, the Department of Homeland Security and its immigration enforcement. You don't dispute that either, do you? I'm just not familiar with it, sir. Okay. Sir, I just have to say the DOJ has now tasked JTTFS to shift some resources to immigration enforcement efforts. And I don't say this lightly. If there's a terrorist attack anywhere in the country, including in Chicago, and it was because the JTTFs, in part, shifted resources, there'll be held to pay. Thank you, sir. Gentlemen's time's expired. Gentlemen from Georgia, Mr. Scott. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Director Gabbard, was the target terrorist named in the text, or was it simply referred to as terrorist? Terrorist? The target was not named. Thank you. Was the location named, Congressman? No. No locations were named. Thank you. Director Patel, there was a specific accusation made about how close we are working with Mexico currently. My understanding, and I want to congratulate you on this, and I think it shows a shift of focus at the FBI since you've taken over to what it should have been doing all along, which is which is chasing the 10 most wanted that are threatening our country. My understanding is that two of the three were actually arrested in Mexico and are being extradited back to the United States. Is that correct? Yes, sir. We have been working. One of the first meetings I took as FBI director was my counterpart, Secretary Farouche, in Mexico. And subsequent to that we have repaid or extradited or expelled from Mexico to top 10 of the FBI's most wanted list and 33 other criminals. Well, it sounds to me like we're working closer with them today than we have in the last several years and that the focus of the FBI has shifted to actually protecting American citizens instead of arresting pro life. There's Cash Patel. So we're trying to juggle two things. Today right there you saw the Democratic representative from Illinois call for the immediate firing of Pete Hexith, that Pete Hexit would not resign as secretary of Defense. Well, that's not going to happen. So it's going to be more fireworks. We're going to take a short commercial record. 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