Jayson Campadonia has the latest on Trump Administration's National Security Advisor

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, is there much to do about nothing here? Or
is this a big deal here? They're calling it signal
gates over there on the left, and it looks like
now they did make a change with Michael Waltz and
the administration been serving as the National Security Advisor. He's
now been nominated to be the US Ambassador to the
United Nations. It all happened when he admitted that he

(00:22):
inadvertently added that journalist from was it the Washington it
was The Examiner, one of the publications, a reporter or whatever,
a writer on confidential chat text messaging using signal in Washington,
and there was some you know, sensitive things discussed there

(00:44):
shouldn't have happened. Vice President jd Vance backs this move
to get him out of the position he was in
and talks about him being the UN ambassador.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I like Mike. I think he's a great guy. He's
got the trust of both me and the President.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
But we also thought that he'd make a better Are
you an ambassador? Yeah, well, I mean, let's just talk
a little bit more about this with our correspondent, Jason Campadonia. Jason,
welcome in. I mean something had to be done there.
He took the fall for this, but you know, I
think the fact that they kept him on board is
a nominated ambassador says Donald Trump still believes in him, right, right.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
And it's also one of those deals where if you
just fire somebody, it looks bad on everybody, right, it's
kind of like, wow, then you kind of admit the mistake, right, So, yeah, well,
well took the fall for this. I think this is
this is Trump's genius as far as a businessman goes,
and as far as the strategist goes, because he's the product,

(01:43):
he's the one that he's trying to sell to the
American people himself. So if he takes a guy who
made a mistake and says here, why don't you go
over here, and then you have to be you know,
approved by committee and the Democrats saying let me at him,
let me at him, and he doesn't get approved, then

(02:04):
it's kind of like, hey man, that really sucks for you,
but not my fault. So see you later, have a
great day. We're going to go over here now. And
you know, that's just kind of what happens this way.
It's not a flat out firing. I think it's a
strategic move in the long run to get somebody who
might have made a major mistake. I mean, look, humans

(02:24):
are creatures of habit, right, we always text, we never call.
But I think guys on that level, guys and gals
on that level need to be who am I speaking with?
Where am I speaking? You know, how am I speaking
to these people? And you know I'm guilty of it,
which I'm sure most of us have, replying all to
an email when it should have went to a certain

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colleague or coworker or whatever, and he said the wrong
thing or gave up some information. Sure, that's one thing,
but this is national security. We're talking about. That kind
of stuff cannot happen.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, and they admitted this was a mistake here, And
a lot of attention went to pech Seth in the
initial reports on this as this whole thing was made
available and exposed to that journalist from the Atlantic, and
what happened to the focus on Pete Hegseth As Mike
Waltz comes in and says, no, that this was on me,
totally clears Pete hegg Seth is He's still in the

(03:17):
crosshairs in some people's eyes.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
He's got to be in the crossairs because here's the deal.
Just because mikel Wealth says, hey, it was my fault
for adding the reporter, it's still access responsibility that when
he starts communicating about war plans, to make sure that
he's in a secure spot, in a safe place to
be able to do so. He was obviously not. Again,
it might have been okay, well, I trust well, so

(03:41):
I know where I'm at and I think it's safe.
But at the same time, on that level, man, and
you're talking about big time war plans, you got to
you have to take personal responsibility for that. And I
don't think he's come out and said, hey, I made
a mistake and didn't double check. You know, I think
that it's the thing. And why are these guys talking

(04:02):
on an app about anything that can be hacked by
anybody and it's open to the public like this, The
United States government really needs to get it, you know,
with the Times and create their own app, the their
own secure messaging platform that has got the highest level
of security. Get Musk, get you know whatever, meta guy

(04:23):
Mark Zuckerberg, right and Musk in a room and say,
come up, come up with something. Well, you know, it's
because these guys who creating this. They're working for the
private sector, not the government seer.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I would imagine there's going to be some changes in
the technology and how they do communicate, and there are
other platforms that they go to once it gets beyond
just bullet point discussion on text messaging. But everybody in
DC uses that app and they assume it's a little
bit more secure than you know, just you and I
text messaging each other. But you know, if you're on
a group text, you're right. The buck kind of does

(04:53):
stop with Pete and you ought to know who's on that.
But yeah, big mistake, and they took care of it.
But you know, Mike Waltz going to be part of
what's happening if he's confirmed. You think there's any problem
moving forward to him being confirmed as the ambassador to
the United Nations.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
I think right now, at this point in time, the
Democrats are actually salivating to get him in front of
to get in front of him and start asking him questions.
I think that's what we can know. We know for
sure whether or not, whether whether he be confirmed or not.
I can't predict the future, but I can tell you
that it's going to be tough firing.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Squad all right, very good. Jason Campedonia, Thank you, Buddy.
I appreciate you