From PBS NewsHour.

Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., gave an opening statement Tuesday in a hearing on worldwide threats, a day after the revelation that senior Trump administration officials discussed sensitive U.S. military attack plans in a Signal app group chat and inadvertently included a journalist.

“This incompetence, this disrespect for our intelligence agencies and the personnel who work for them is entirely unacceptable. It’s an embarrassment,” Bennet said.

The text chain, in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen, included Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who were scheduled to testify in the hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. They were joined by FBI Director Kash Patel, NSA Director Timothy Haugh and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Jeffrey Kruse.

In the time since the group chat was reported, national security experts and lawmakers have expressed concern about the major lapse in security.

When asked by reporters about the communications around the plans late Monday, Hegseth said “nobody was texting war plans.”

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