Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Jim Acosta show. It is April Fool's Day. Read into that,

what you will. There's a lot of foolishness going on in Washington these days. And as you can see,

on screen with me, joining me on today's show is Congressman Robert Garcia of California.

Congressman, thanks for doing this. I usually start with some headlines and jump right into it, but I did want to ask you,

is this your first substack live shot, uh, that's happening right now?

Yeah, this is my first substack show. So I'm obviously happy to, happy to be on and,

and happy to be on, um, obviously we've done some interviews in the past, and so look forward to it. Absolutely. Well, great to have you on. I'm going to have Don Levin, my old friend from cable news days.

He's coming on a little bit later on in the program. And a lot of folks know Anon from Substack.

He's going to be joining me in just a few moments as well. So stay tuned for that.

But Congressman, in the meantime, let me

talk to you about this Signalgate controversy because, I mean, I suppose you could say we are

tracking the foolish fallout from the Signalgate fiasco. The Washington Post is reporting

that members of Trump's National Security Council, including the National Security Advisor,

Michael Waltz, that they have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts,

according to documents reviewed by the Washington Post. This is obviously on top of using the

Encrypted Messaging Act Signal. Gmail is a lot less secure, as you know, Congressman,

than Signal. And I just have to get your take on this before we dive into a bunch of other

things. This literally just happened. This report from the Washington Post just came out.

Your thoughts, your comments. I mean, completely irresponsible. There's no question that multiple people here need to resign or be fired, right? I mean, completely irresponsible. There is no question that multiple people here need to resign or be fired, right?

I mean, Pete Hankseth, I think his actions being the head of the Pentagon and leading our Defense Department, he should be fired or resign.

You know, Mr. Wallace or the National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, and these are people

that are at the highest levels of government and the fact that they are using unsecure systems

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