When speaking on the campaign trail or facing Trump on the debate stage, the gravity of moments in the Situation Room weighed heavily on my heart and mind. I will never discuss, here or anywhere else, the conversations in that room, the middle-of-the-night calls to gather there, the dramas that unfolded. Unlike the current national security team, we did not hash out our plans on Signal. America’s national security relies heavily on classified information that our adversaries try very hard to acquire. Why make it easy for them? And where is the professionalism, where is the self-discipline?
