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Hegseth and other senior administration officials have repeatedly denied that he shared classified info in the group chat.
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Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle called for an investigation into the use of Signal and the inclusion of Goldberg in the chat but Trump stood by Waltz.
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National security advisor Mike Waltz and his office have repeatedly come under fire since news broke on the Signal chat leak with a journalist.
US Rep. Jason Crow stopped by the Denver7 studios on Thursday to talk tariffs, the Signal chat leak, and the possibility of Democrats flipping the House majority back to their control next year.
Just seven days after the Signal chat scandal erupted, the White House announced that it doesn’t want to talk about it anymore. In fact, it was Monday when press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that, as far as she and her colleagues are concerned, “this case has been closed.”
The Pentagon’s inspector general will investigate whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used the encrypted commercial app Signal to discuss classified information about a military strike in Yemen. Hegseth and other administration officials have denied any classified information was mentioned.
Officials were crisscrossing the world as they sent and received sensitive messages on Signal about an imminent U.S. attack on Yemen.
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Last week, the White House said the National Security Council, the White House counsel office and President Trump adviser Elon Musk were all looking into the mishap. But now, that probe has wrapped
US Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) stopped by the Denver7 studios on Thursday to talk tariffs, the Signal chat leak, and the possibility of Democrats flipping the House majority back to their control next year.
The independent watchdog said it would assess whether the defense secretary followed department policies when he shared military strike plans in a group chat.