Sec. Hegseth on Signal Chat: This Is All About ‘Trying to Get at President Trump and His Agenda’

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HEGSETH: "If you remember, when this all started, the first go-around, because this is the second go-around, right, they peddle old stuff, they kick it back up, I said repeatedly, 'No one’s texting war plans.' You know why I said that? Because I’m in the bowels of the Pentagon every single day. Just 10 minutes ago, I was looking at actual war plans of things that were ongoing or pending things to happen, because that’s on the regular basis on classified systems. That’s my job for the war fighters, for the president of the United States. I look at war plans every single day. What was shared over signal, then and now, however you characterize it, was informal, unclassified, coordinations for media coordination, other thing. That’s what I’ve said from the beginning. At the beginning, it was left-wing reporters from The Atlantic who got a hold of it and then wanted wanted to create a problem for the president. This is what it’s all about, trying to get at President Trump and his agenda.”