Fox's Heinrich Grills Karoline Leavitt: 'Why Aren't Launch Times On A Mission Strike Classified?'

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Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich questions Karoline Leavitt about the leaked Signal group chat.

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00:01HARF So why aren't launch times on a mission strike classified?

00:07MS.

00:08HARF Again, I would defer you to the Secretary of Defense's statement he put out this morning.

00:11There were various reasons he listed, things that were not included in that messaging thread

00:15that were not classified.

00:17And again, going back to the American public, do you trust the Secretary of Defense, who

00:21was nominated for this role, voted by the United States Senate into this role, who has

00:25served in combat, honorably served our nation in uniform?

00:28Or do you trust Jeffrey Goldberg, who is a registered Democrat and an anti-Trump sensationalist

00:33reporter?

00:34This President and this national security team are putting our national security and

00:39the American people first.

00:40We are restoring American strength around the world, and the results of this operation

00:44speak for themselves.

00:45QUESTION Putting aside Jeffrey Goldberg, though, just for American service members who are

00:49going to have to carry out these missions in the future, what – I guess the message

00:55that's coming from the response to all this that we're hearing is that nothing

01:00sensitive happened.

01:02And I guess the logical conclusion of that is that if these messages had gone out publicly

01:08prior to the launch, that that wouldn't have been a risk to service members.

01:13I don't know that they're comfortable with that.

01:14So can you explain – had these messages been published, would the plans have moved

01:22forward?

01:23Would the launch have still taken off?

01:24MS.

01:25HARF And what I can tell you is that the President, as the Commander-in-Chief of our United States

01:28Armed Forces, and Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is an incredible man and a warfighter

01:33himself, take the lives of our American service members with the utmost responsibility.

01:39And they would never do anything intentionally to put the – their lives at risk.

01:45And again, they are working hard on that every single day, and we are protecting our service

01:49members while also restoring peace throughout this globe.

01:52It's something the previous administration has not done.

01:55And I would just add one more point.

01:58We are not going to be lectured about national security and American troops by Democrats

02:04and the mainstream media who turned the other cheek when the Biden administration, because

02:08of their incompetence, left 13 service members dead in Afghanistan, and not a single person

02:14in the previous administration was held accountable for that botched withdrawal.

02:18Joe Biden said, in fact, it was a great operation.

02:22That is despicable.

02:23It's unacceptable to this President and this Secretary of Defense.

02:26The National Security Advisor has taken responsibility for this inadvertent number being added to

02:30the messaging thread.

02:32But above all, we take the lives of our troops, safety, security, prosperity around the globe

02:36with the utmost seriousness.

Fox's Heinrich Grills Karoline Leavitt: 'Why Aren't Launch Times On A Mission Strike Classified?'

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