Dem Sen. Warner: Using Signal Chat Is Worse than Hillary ‘Using the Wrong Email’ or 13 Dead Americans in Afghanistan Due to Biden’s Incompetence

WARNER: “Can I ask you —”
KERNEN: “Yeah.”
WARNER: “We’ll see. We’ll see what happens when they say there’s nothing there. And if the text comes out and there is packaging and target information from the DoD delivered on this channel, that’s one of the reasons why I think Secretary Hegseth should step down for the good of the administration. And again, I just — I think there is a little richness of what you said in the fact that if you go back, way back in the old days as well, and oh my gosh, Hillary Clinton was using the wrong emailer —”
KERNEN: “Right.”
WARNER: “— Joe Biden’s incompetent. Come on guys, you know, if you don’t think this is a case of incompetence and a pattern after a variety of other kind of sloppy use of classified information, then you’ve not been following the last 60 plus days that I’ve been following.”
KERNEN: “But in terms of going after terrorists and in terms of, you know, what we’ve seen accomplished, I mean, even this was a success in what happened. And some of the — I thought some of the, what we know about the text was fairly thoughtful. You remember the Biden Administration started with the biggest F-up in history with Afghanistan and 13 dead Americans. Let’s not get too sanctimonious and high and mighty about screwing up, senator.” [crosstalk]
WARNER: “So should we also — should we go back even to — should we go back to the Hillary servers?”
KERNEN: “Okay, that’s only four years. That’s only four years.”
WARNER: “Should we go back — should we go back — I’m surprised Joe, you’re not going to throw in — you’re not going to throw in —”
KERNEN: “Yeah, I am. I just did.” (Laughter)
WARNER: “— the Hillary servers. But let’s — Joe, Joe —”
KERNEN: “Wipe that clean, with the cloth, remember?”
WARNER: “At least acknowledge, acknowledge this was a screw up.”
KERNEN: “No, I do. I do. I do.”
WARNER: “If the — if the Houthis, the bombing was a — a success, God bless. Thank God. The person on the line wasn’t an Iranian —”
KERNEN: “Right.”
WARNER: “— spy and they could have given that to the Houthis and that bombing success might have turned into something that costs American lives. At least acknowledge that’s what at stake. And if that kind of mistake is made, and I go back to what I said in the earlier teaser, if this was a military officer or a CIA case officer, their butts would be fired.”