Squawk Pod: Sen. Mark Warner & A Signal chat: You’d be fired - 03/26/25 | Audio Only

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

After a Signal group chat of government officials discussing pending military strikes inadvertently looped in a journalist, Vice Chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence Senator Mike Warner (D-Virginia) called for two of those officials, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, to resign. Sen. Warner discusses his concerns about national security and competence in the administration. Plus, a US judge has set Boeing’s 737 Max fraud trial, and the Treasury Department is set to furlough a “substantial number” of workers. Senator Mark Warner - 18:29 In this episode: Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:04.3	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:07.1	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.8	The signal chat heard round the world, debating who heard what military plans and what to do about it,
0:16.3	with Vice Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Mark Warner.
0:20.8	If you are a military officer or a CIA case officer and you were so sloppy that you communicated on a non-secure channel
0:28.6	and then you didn't even check who was on the line, your ass would be fired.
0:32.6	The technology's security.
0:34.6	Why are we using signal?
0:35.6	It was downloaded on everyone's app already when they got there.
0:39.4	And what impact this will all have on the administration staffers involved, like National Security
0:45.0	Advisor, Mike Walts. I think Waltz said it was embarrassing. You think? Plus, the rest of today's
0:51.7	news that got us squawking, tariff liberation day approaches, Boeing on trial, and layoffs across the federal government.
1:00.0	It is Wednesday, March 26th, Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:05.4	Stand back you by in three, two, one.
1:08.2	Cure, please.
1:10.3	Good morning, everybody.
1:11.9	Welcome to Squawk Box right here on CNBC.
1:14.5	We're live from the NASDAQ market site in Times Square.
1:17.5	I'm Becky Quick, along with Joe Kernan.
1:19.8	Andrew is off today.
1:21.9	And this may be more confusion on exactly what type of tariffs we're talking about.
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