Live updates: Democrats call on Hegseth to resign over Signal leaks

Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, chair of the Senate Armed Companies Committee, mentioned he and Sen. Jack Reed, the committee’s prime Democrat, will request an inspector general investigation into using Sign by prime nationwide safety officers to debate army plans. Wicker’s transfer is notable given the Trump administration’s defiance that no categorised info was posted to the Sign chat.

Wicker’s announcement got here as Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe have been questioned earlier than Congress about how a journalist was added to a group chat wherein they mentioned American army strikes in Yemen. Democrats during the hearing referred to as on Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, who shared within the group chat the precise timings of warplane launches and when bombs would drop, to resign over the leak.