Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday while answering questions from reporters that he expects there will be changes moving forward after a Signal chat group of top Trump administration officials leaked because a journalist was accidentally added to the group.
Rubio made the remarks alongside Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness during a joint press conference as he visited the island nation.
“This thing was set up for purposes of coordinating how everyone was going to call,” Rubio said. “When these things happen, I need to call foreign ministers, especially of our close allies. We need to notify members of Congress. Other members of the team have different people they need to notify as well. And that was the purpose of why it was set up.”
“Obviously, someone made a mistake,” he continued. “Someone made a big mistake and added a journalist, nothing against journalists, but you ain’t supposed to be on that thing. So they got on there and this happened.”
He said that all he did in the group was identify his point of contact like he was asked and later congratulated the team on its success.
“I’ve been assured by the Pentagon and everyone involved that none of the information that was on there, though not intended to be divulged — obviously that was a mistake and that shouldn’t have happened and the White House is looking at it — but that none of the information on there at any point threatened the operation or the lives of our servicemen,” he said. “And in fact, it was a very successful operation, and it’s an ongoing operation, but that was the intent behind it.”
Rubio backed up Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s assertion that there were “no war plans on there.”
“This was a sort of description of what we could inform our counterparts around the world when the time came to do so,” he said. “Again, I think the White House is looking at this entire thing. How did that journalist get on there? Why was this the appropriate I think there’ll be reforms and changes made. So this never this was not going to happen again. It can’t. But I wanted everybody to understand why this thing was even set up in the first place, and also understand very clearly the mission was successful and at no point was it endangered.”
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.@SecRubio: “Obviously, someone made a mistake — someone made a big mistake and added a journalist — nothing against journalists, but you ain’t supposed to be on that thing.” pic.twitter.com/CcAepT7fHi
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 26, 2025
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday while answering questions from reporters that he expects there will be changes moving forward after a Signal chat group of top Trump administration officials leaked because a journalist was accidentally added to the group.
Rubio made the remarks alongside Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness during a joint press conference as he visited the island nation.
“This thing was set up for purposes of coordinating how everyone was going to call,” Rubio said. “When these things happen, I need to call foreign ministers, especially of our close allies. We need to notify members of Congress. Other members of the team have different people they need to notify as well. And that was the purpose of why it was set up.”
“Obviously, someone made a mistake,” he continued. “Someone made a big mistake and added a journalist, nothing against journalists, but you ain’t supposed to be on that thing. So they got on there and this happened.”
He said that all he did in the group was identify his point of contact like he was asked and later congratulated the team on its success.
“I’ve been assured by the Pentagon and everyone involved that none of the information that was on there, though not intended to be divulged — obviously that was a mistake and that shouldn’t have happened and the White House is looking at it — but that none of the information on there at any point threatened the operation or the lives of our servicemen,” he said. “And in fact, it was a very successful operation, and it’s an ongoing operation, but that was the intent behind it.”
Rubio backed up Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s assertion that there were “no war plans on there.”
“This was a sort of description of what we could inform our counterparts around the world when the time came to do so,” he said. “Again, I think the White House is looking at this entire thing. How did that journalist get on there? Why was this the appropriate I think there’ll be reforms and changes made. So this never this was not going to happen again. It can’t. But I wanted everybody to understand why this thing was even set up in the first place, and also understand very clearly the mission was successful and at no point was it endangered.”
WATCH:
.@SecRubio: “Obviously, someone made a mistake — someone made a big mistake and added a journalist — nothing against journalists, but you ain’t supposed to be on that thing.” pic.twitter.com/CcAepT7fHi
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 26, 2025
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