Top Intel Democrat calls for Hegseth and Waltz to resign

Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration for using a Signal chat to discuss plans for carrying out bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign while saying others would have been fired for the same actions.

Warner said national security adviser Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not “conduct hygiene 101” in failing to realize there was a journalist on the group chat after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added.

“There’s plenty of declassified information that shows that our adversaries, China and Russia, are trying to break into encrypted systems,” Warner said of the chat service Signal during his opening remarks during the Senate panel’s annual worldwide threats hearing.