Senator Ruben Gallego on Signalgate, Veteran Protections & Winning Male Voters
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What is the significance of the leaked Signal chat?
It's a big pleasure of mine. I've been waiting a long time in life to be able to talk to you. And I feel like it's the perfect moment on the news of the day front to talk about the Jeffrey Goldberg Atlantic piece where the editor-in-chief was invited into the war planning signal chat. I've seen some of the comments you've posted on X, even saying that Secretary Hegseth needs to resign over this. Can you talk a bit more about how you're feeling and what you're thinking about it? Yeah, I mean, when I first saw this, I was like, WTF? Like, it's just like one of those things that you never can imagine actually being real. Like, it's something that came out of Veep. The problem is like, this is like real serious shit. Like, this is not. We should be very concerned for a couple reasons. Number one, it wasn't just like a signal chat.
It was a signal chat of basically our whole national security team. We had people that were overseas commenting on this signal chat. And for us that have been involved, I was the past chairman of Intel Special Operations, we know how our enemies have some very good signal gathering capability. And we don't know how far it went and how far it goes when it comes to this group. And the fact is, like, they put men and women in danger. You know, obviously, when you're about to launch a war, you are moving assets around. You're moving ships around. You're moving men and women around. You're exposing, make them more vulnerable. And for us that have been in the military, you put the whole operation in danger or compromised it because, you know, the Houthis may not have the best signal gathering intelligence, but the Iranians certainly do. You know, Russia certainly does, and sometimes will feed information to the Houthis and to the Iranians.
And if they had, you know, gotten a heads up, they may have actually moved some of our targets or their targets that we wanted to target, all because... I have a couple reasons of number one, simple things that I learned in the Marines called operational security that Pete Hexeth should have known. And number two, they're treating this as a game, right? This is war fighting. People are going to die, whether it's the enemies, hopefully, but sometimes even us. And you can't be treating this as if it's just another lackadaisical communication and taking it seriously and making sure you're doing everything from one end to the other like a professional is what matters. And that's why Pete Hexeth at this point has to resign.
The fact that he was sharing exact weaponry that he's going to use and targets on a signal chat, it wasn't to clearly show what needs to be done or whether targeted needs to be approval. It was to show off, and that showing off compromised our security. He does not have the maturity. He does not have the experience, nor do I think does he have the confidence of the military at this point.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the significance of the leaked Signal chat?
0:58–3:58
2
Why is Secretary Hegseth under scrutiny?
3:58–14:39
3
What are the implications of Medicaid cuts in rural Arizona?
14:39–20:45
4
How can Democrats regain support from male voters?
20:45–24:21
5
What is the Putting Veterans First Act?
24:21–29:47
6
What challenges do veterans face currently?
29:47–35:23
7
How does Senator Gallego view the current political landscape?
35:23–36:38
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