The fallout continues after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Magazine says he was inadvertently included in a group chat discussing plans for an attack in Yemen, and that information was leaked to the press. President Trump stands by his National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
00:05:41.720We're going through Signal Gate and all of Washington is, of course, talking about this rather than talk about what the administration is actually doing and actually up to.
00:05:50.760So I wanted to get the Washington Bureau Chief for Brakeport News, Matt Boyle, back on the program to break down all the ins and outs of it.
00:06:45.820And that means that they've got a hard shift, change this topic, deliver some major victories.
00:06:50.820And I think that they have to have a complete mindset change in the West Wing from the senior staff on down through the cabinet, et cetera.
00:07:18.760You know, we just saw a Pennsylvania special election in a Senate seat where Democrats took a seat for, I think, the first time in more than 160 years.
00:07:27.400There are special elections coming up in Florida that are probably too close, a lot closer than the Republicans would like.
00:07:35.860And in Wisconsin for the Supreme Court race.
00:07:38.980The fact is, is that the White House needs to wake up and they need to realize the other side is playing for keeps and that they did not win the war yet.
00:07:48.660One of those special elections, by the way, for the seat of former Congressman Mike Waltz, who's, of course, at the center of the whole signal gate thing.
00:07:56.320So, you know, it's just amazing to me to think that I think it's even tied to that.
00:08:01.520Like, I think the timing of this is even tied to that.
00:09:06.240You mean like the communication system that Alexander Vindman was leaking about in the first administration?
00:09:12.200And Eric Charamella and all these various systems that you had the deep state flunkies with access to that they started leaking to the media immediately, like David Ignatius and the general flooding calls.
00:09:26.180As crazy as it is, one of the reasons that, and I'm not defending this practice, by the way, but I'm explaining what's going on, is one of the things that this is going to do is push people back to those systems that the government controls.
00:09:40.040And, oh, by the way, who has access there?
00:09:43.200Well, the next Alexander Vindman and Eric Charamella and all the rest of those.
00:09:48.380So people have to understand why haven't there been these major leaks that we've seen, these major operations before this moment here.
00:09:55.080We're in March and we haven't had, you know, almost into April and we haven't had anything like this in the Trump admin.
00:10:00.220And it's because they've been protecting their communications from all of these deep state flunkies that do, by the way, still exist in the government, that are still holdovers, that are still sitting out there.
00:10:11.600And so from one perspective, I get it.
00:10:14.060And I certainly, by the way, when I saw that Walt mentioned that he's talking to Elon Musk about creating something better than signal that they can use, and I hope that he does.
00:10:26.460You need this end-to-end encryption, you need the deleting messages, and I think there are real questions.
00:10:31.500I think there's real questions, and it does need to be investigated how this guy got into that chat group in the first place, obviously being done on government phones, government devices.
00:10:42.140There are serious questions behind this.
00:10:44.420You know, Mike Walton says he doesn't know how it happened.
00:10:50.960But that's why you want to hold a real investigation, and that's why the Democrats are trying everything they can do to force this out in public, where you're putting Gabbard and Ratcliffe in bad situations because they're out there where they don't have the information yet because the investigation hasn't taken place.
00:11:05.660And you've got Democrats up there like a firing line.
00:11:07.920So, Boyle, what should the immediate response be to media and the Democrats on this?
00:11:12.540Well, first off, the answer is that, first and foremost, all questions have been asked and answered here, right?
00:11:19.420There's nothing the administration's hiding.
00:11:21.760Everybody was doing their job in this whole thing.
00:11:24.540There's only one mistake here, and it's that the Atlantic guy, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added into the group chat.
00:11:31.600Other than that, there's nothing wrong with what any of the people in that chat did.
00:11:35.520And from Hexeth to Waltz to Gabbard to Rubio to Ratcliffe, all of them, right?
00:11:43.820Like, everything, everything, all they did was show that these people were doing their jobs, right?
00:11:49.540Like, so you raise the important question here is why signal if not something else?
00:11:56.340Well, there isn't anything else, right?
00:11:57.960Like, I mean, I can tell you right now, I know for a fact that the Democrat senator you see on the screen right there, Mark Warner, he's using signal, right?
00:12:06.500Like, he was using signal to perpetrate the Russia hoax, right?
00:12:09.860Like, the entire Biden White House was using signal.
00:12:13.920The entire Trump White House uses signal.
00:12:17.760What's funny is there's actually an article from 2017 about signal and the use of it by Obama, Biden, and Trump that's written in the Atlantic.
00:12:29.080They all use signal because it's the only option out there.
00:12:31.760So maybe Elon Musk is able to develop a better high-side government option for classified discussions or, you know, more sensitive discussions.
00:12:40.720But the fact of the matter is, is that it is the only option right now for this type of communication.
00:12:48.400It's not realistic to expect all of these different high-level individuals to be in the same room at the same time in a skiff somewhere.
00:12:57.020But in real time, they're moving very quickly at the orders of the president and with the mandate that we talked about there that the president has and carrying out his agenda.
00:13:08.460So it's totally unreasonable to expect that they all regularly get together in a room in a skiff to discuss this stuff.
00:13:17.060So they have to be able to communicate.
00:13:19.000They have to be able to communicate in real time.
00:13:21.620And there has to be a reasonable option for that.
00:13:23.580So maybe they can develop something to that effect.
00:13:25.940But, again, I think the White House needs to stop being defensive about this.
00:14:12.520So the fact is the Democrats on the other side are seeking to weaponize anything and everything they can against the White House and against the administration.
00:14:22.100And the mentality in there needs to be on war footing, right?
00:14:25.880They need to recognize they're at war with the left and the establishment media.
00:14:31.720And I don't think they fully do yet, right?
00:14:34.320Like, I mean, look, there's been a lot of good changes and whatnot in the White House with regard to how they deal with the media in terms of the shift to the new media and things like that.
00:14:44.680But the establishment media is sitting there lurking and waiting, right?
00:14:49.160These people, they haven't changed the seating chart in the briefing room.
00:16:03.560And I think you have some new information that they're even starting to bring a bit of their heavy artillery online.
00:16:09.780Yeah, so first off, no, the White House and the administration do not understand that they are at war, like based off my conversations with a bunch of different people.
00:16:19.840They've been in La La Land for a few weeks and before even this.
00:16:58.460Like and the other side is coming for them.
00:17:01.360This all connects back to the judicial overreach that we're seeing from leftist judges, because now just breaking right now, the the there's a lawsuit on signal gate.
00:17:15.140That a leftist group called American Oversight has already filed.
00:17:19.140And guess who the judge is that's been appointed to to to oversee the case?
00:17:25.240It's Boesburg, the same that we've been talking about for the last two weeks.
00:17:31.060This whole thing is they are at war with President Trump and everyone in the White House from Carolyn Levitt to Susie Wiles on down.
00:17:41.440Everyone else in there needs to understand that we are at war with these radical left psychopaths and these establishment media people.
00:18:20.180They're completely against the economic policies of Scott Besson and President Trump.
00:18:24.820They're completely against the idea that the working man and working woman and working families and the middle class in this country should actually see a pro growth agenda that President Trump is showing, which is going to be predicated on those manufacturing jobs.
00:18:38.780And J.D. Vance is out there singing its praises like a cheerleader because he's experienced it in his own life.
00:18:50.240Lighthizer went on Tucker and he said, guys, we have allowed the ultra wealthy to get to become ultra wealthy in this country while selling out everybody else.
00:19:00.860And you know something that has been part of Trump's agenda since the 1980s when he was on Oprah talking about it.
00:19:07.700And we were doing this with the Japanese.
00:19:30.020So, look, the Wall Street Journal is out there advocating using this signal gates, you know, faux conspiracy here to get Republicans to reign in the White House.