>> First off tonight, the Trump administration is playing defense after shocking reports yesterday that senior officials accidentally shared details of imminent attack on Yemen to a journalist over an unclassified group chat President Donald Trump this afternoon downplayed the intelligence blunder.

>> I pretty much looked into it.

It's pretty simple.

To be honest, it's not.

It's just something that can happen.

It can happen.

>> But many observers say the episode shows the administration is lax about national security and that heads should roll.

Earlier this afternoon, we spoke with Senator Tammy Duckworth who's calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's firing.

We began by asking her whether she has any expectation the administration or Congress will take action >> well, I know the Senate Armed Services Committee is going to have a hearing, at least according to Senator Roger Wicker, going to be pushing him very far to have that hearing.

We have to have an investigation.

The port long when there's a security breach like this is very clear across government and especially clear in the Department of Defense, every single official on that signal chain needs to hand over their electronic devices so that it can be investigated.

We can look and see what data they have actually uploaded onto the signal chain, every one of because JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard, Mr.

Wants all of them need to turn over their devices.

I am calling on them to have the hearings and an investigation.

Whether or not they'll follow through with it within the Trump administration is another question.

But frankly, this is an egregious breach national security that put service men and women's lives on the line endanger those pilots flying that mission that Texas shared the sequencing and the timing of when that mission is going to happen.

Those lives were put into danger when he did that.

>> How do you think allies with whom we share intelligence view this kind of a breach?

>> I think they're horrified.

And there I can tell you right now that they are reconsidering whether or not they will share a future intelligence with us, which then puts the lives of men and women in uniform for a great nation in danger in the future because we will not have the full intelligence picture when we are putting our men and women in the military out to do missions for us around the world because we will not be getting that data, that information that we desperately need from allies because we share information with They're not going share information with us because they know that under this incompetent secretary of state under this incompetent national intelligence director of national intelligence, the CIA director who are not capable securing Scott supply data.

>> One speaking of those service members, the Trump administration has been pursuing massive cutbacks to the federal workforce, including the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Many veterans who are themselves.

Federal workers have been facing layoffs.

What can Democrats do to try and mitigate the impact of those cuts?

>> Well, one of the things that we can do is I actually have put forward a bill called the Protect Veterans Jobs Act, which basically get the Republicans to vote on to the Trump administration must rehire all of the veterans that they fired we actually have a vote on just the week before last when we had the budget shutdown vote.

I introduce it as an amendment and all the Republicans voted against giving their veterans their jobs back.

So I want parents understand if you were fired by the Trump administration a week and a half ago, we had the opportunity to get you your job back and our Republican colleagues voted against you.

That is where the Trump administration is.

They are at high that right.

And they fired all those veterans who are serving our nation after having served in uniform and they would even give you your jobs back.

>> You know, all these cuts are part of a sort of a tsunami of moves.

The administration has made many, you know, headed up by Elon Musk in the so-called a Department of government efficiency.

There are some critics who have been upset at Democrats for what they see is perhaps a scattershot are tone deaf response.

How do you think elected leaders who disagree with these moves can push back as strenuously and effectively as possible?

>> What we're doing exactly what not doing a communicating to people and put it forward because the legislation like I did and forcing the Republicans to vote.

And it's very clear that they voted against veterans.

It is very clear that the Trump administration continues to lie and we have to hold them accountable.

I have secretary of Veterans Affairs said that he didn't fire and everybody who is working on the veterans crisis hotline.

And yet I personally was able to get at least 2 of them in Illinois were fired their jobs back and we were able call them on it because I was able to put those particular veterans on the phone with reporters confronted the Trump administration, confronted the second button to fair to wait a minute, you did fire We have the recedes.

I have 3 C's and we're going to make sure we hold them accountable.

>> You know, on Ukraine, you've, you know, slammed this administration for the suggestion that Russia didn't start the war.

We saw that extraordinary blowup in the Oval Office with President Zelensky.

Are you concerned the U.S. might be backing off its support for Ukraine?

>> With Trump administration is backing off its support as Ukraine because is very clear that owns Donald Trump.

Donald Trump filed down he's kissing Putin speed and he he loves rush as opposed to being somebody who is leading the greatest democracy in the face of United States of America that should be opposed to Russia.

Russia invaded Ukraine.

We need to stand up and stop new commandant rusher from continuing this offensive in Ukraine.

And remember that if Ukraine falls the next countries in the line fire.

far as Russia has been trying our NATO allies and there's article 5 of the NATO treaty that says a poll done, for example, is in comes under attack by Russia.

We as states obligated to come Poland's defense.

Its mutual defense frankly, by bowing down to Russia, Donald Trump is putting American service members further on the line because we will be called into action.

If Richard steps be on Ukraine.

The people of Ukraine have been valued in their fight.

They have said thank you to multiple times.

President Zelenskyy said thank you to a small portable times.

They are fighting for their nation.

But it's more than just about Ukraine.

It is the freedom of of the world.

It is about the security of Europe, which also is important to America's national security.

>> You mentioned that continuing resolution that prevented a government shutdown.

Some Democrats supported it, including Minority Leader Schumer, your counterpart, Senator Durbin, what's your reaction to those votes?

>> I was furious with Leader Schumer and I told him we needed to go and fight.

we cannot you know, I could not disagree with Leader Schumer more.

We should have stood up to the Republicans.

I was a minority of Democrats who voted for I am appalled that we basically gave Donald Trump permission to basically continue to raid government.

This is why he's shutting down the Department of Education.

This is why the spy ring employees at the Department Veterans Affairs.

He is rating through the night.

It's government to cut down on benefits for veterans for seniors, people with disabilities so that he can fund tax cuts for billionaires.

That's what they're doing.

You know, they're they're not trying to look for government efficiencies that they want look for government efficiency.

happy to work with the eye passed legislation to go out the waste, fraud and abuse and department of Defense when they're trying to do is find 2 trillion dollars to fund tax cuts for people who met more than fought for $1000 a year for his mid billionaire buddies.

And the way they're going to do they're going to cut Medicaid East Cobb, Social Security, a Ponzi scheme.

>> They're going after 80,000 jobs in the Department of Veterans Affairs, their funding tax cuts for the billionaire buddies on the backs of middle-class Americans and whatever kind of those those handful of Democrats, including led by Schumer did was to give them permission to do that.

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