Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee is calling for resignations from Trump administration senior officials amid reports of an editor being added to a Signal chat.

“When the stakes are this high, incompetence is not an option. Pete Hegseth should resign. Mike Waltz should resign,” Warner posted to X as he was to deliver his opening statement Tuesday at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that was planned before the news broke Monday night.

Warner said national security adviser Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth failed to “conduct hygiene 101,” even if Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe testified Tuesday there was no classified information shared with The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who was inadvertently added to a group chat discussing potential strikes on Houthi terrorists in Yemen.

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