Tulsi Gabbard stunned into silence as Dem hammers her over war plans: 'Share the text!'

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) grilled two of President Donald Trump's top intelligence officials after they participated in a group chat that revealed secret war plans to a journalist for The Atlantic.

During a Tuesday Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Warner noted that the chat "was not only sloppy, not only violated all procedures, but if this information had gotten out, American lives could have been lost."

"I'm not going to get into the specifics," Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard responded.

"So you refuse to acknowledge whether you were on this group chat?" Warner pressed. "Is it because it's all classified? Because this is currently under review by the National Security because it's all classified."

"If it's not classified, share the text now," the senator demanded, but Gabbard refused to answer.

Turning to CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Warner repeated his questions.

"So my communications, to be clear, in a Signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information," the CIA director said.

"Well, we will make that determination because if it's not classified, share the text with the committee," Warner replied.

The senator's request was met with silence from both.

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"Did you contact the defense secretary or others after this specific military planning was put out and say, hey, we should be doing this in a SCIF?" Warner asked Gabbard.

"There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal," the DNI said.

"So then if there was no classified material, share it with the committee," Warner told a silent Gabbard. "You can't have it both ways."

"Senator, I'll reiterate that there was no classified material that was shared in that," Gabbard again repeated.

"Ma'am, if there's no classified materials, share," Warner advised. "And then if there's no classified materials, then answer — you can't even answer the question whether you were on the chat."

Watch the video below from the Senate Intelligence Committee.