Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark breaks down whether the Signal chat message would be classified
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, draws upon his decades of military experience to explain to Wolf Blitzer why the messages sent by Trump officials in the Signal chat leak would be classified.
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