'Major Problem': Jason Crow Calls Out Pam Bondi's Response To Signalgate

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On "Forbes Newsroom," Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) shared his unvarnished take on Signalgate.

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00:00Congressman, before I let you go, I do want to ask you about a story that broke a little

00:04over a week ago.

00:06It's been dubbed signal gate.

00:07But just to recap, the editor in chief of The Atlantic says he was inadvertently added

00:11to a signal group with the nation's top security leaders talking about an imminent airstrike

00:17against the Houthis in Yemen.

00:20I know that you've called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

00:24What else are you looking for?

00:26How do you think the administration can rectify the situation?

00:29Well, I want a thorough and complete investigation.

00:31Listen, I'm primarily concerned here about the safety and the well-being of our service

00:35members who are tens of thousands of them, actually hundreds of thousands around the

00:40world, fighting, doing difficult missions for us, keeping us safe.

00:45And more and more revelations come out every day about dozens of these unsecure chat chains

00:51on everything from Ukraine and Russia to China to Iran issues.

00:58We're learning more and more by the day.

01:00This just needs to stop, right?

01:02We need to stop this recklessness, this carelessness.

01:05Somebody needs to clean this up.

01:06The administration still hasn't admitted that it's wrong.

01:09They still haven't admitted that it's a problem.

01:11So they have to admit that it was a mistake.

01:13Then they need to do an investigation to figure out the scope of it.

01:16And then we need to figure out what we need to do to clean it up, because that's what

01:19our troops who are doing dangerous stuff on our behalf deserve.

01:22Congressman, in your opinion, who is that somebody that needs to clean it up?

01:27Because there were a lot of our nation's top security leaders in that group chat, including

01:31Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, even the National Security Advisor

01:36Michael Waltz.

01:37He was the one who set that up.

01:38Yeah, well, the two obvious organizations would be the Department of Justice, right?

01:43It can't be just one organization, DOD, the National Security Council, State Department.

01:50The DOJ should have authority over this and does have authority over an investigation

01:56of this type.

01:57Unfortunately, Attorney General Bondi has refused to conduct the investigation, which

02:01is obviously a major problem.

02:04So notwithstanding that, Congress has both authority and a responsibility to do it.

02:10So a group of us from the Intelligence Committee, the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee

02:14on which I sit, wrote a letter to the administration demanding the convening of a full investigation

02:21under Congress and asking Republicans, our colleagues, to join us in that effort.

02:27We hope that they will.

02:28I'm not holding my breath.

02:29But this is really the right thing to do and what our troops deserve.

02:33So a congressional investigation should be started quickly, in my opinion, but we need

02:38Republicans to join us.

'Major Problem': Jason Crow Calls Out Pam Bondi's Response To Signalgate

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