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Can you share how your information about war plans against the Houthis in Yemen was shared with a journalist in the Atlantic? And were those details classified?
Uh, so I, you're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of pedalling hoaxes time and time again. To include the—I don't know—the hoaxes of Russia Russia Russia, or the "fine people on both sides" hoax, or the "suckers and losers" hoax. So this is a guy that peddles in garbage; this is what he does.
Uh, I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign because of the skill and courage of our troops. I've monitored it very closely from the beginning, and you see we've been managing four years of deferred maintenance under the Trump administration. Our troops, our sailors, were getting shot at as targets; our ships couldn't sail through, and when they did shoot back, it was purely defensively, or at shacks in Yemen. President Trump said, "No more. We will reestablish deterrence, we will open freedom of navigation, and we will ultimately decimate the Houthis," which is exactly what we're doing as we speak.
From the beginning, overwhelmingly, why were those details shared on Signal? And how did you learn that a journalist was privy to the targets, the types of weapons used? I've heard—I've heard it was characterized—nobody was texting war plans, and that's all I have to say about that. Thank you, appreciate it. The NC said it was authentic, Mr.