Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene refused to answer a question from a Sky News reporter who asked her about the recent leak of classified war plans on Signal: ‘I don’t give a crap about your opinion.’
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Cameras captured Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene snapping at a Sky News reporter during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
The Georgia Republican refused to answer a question from reporter Martha Kelner, saying it was because the journalist was not from an American outlet.
Video shared by Sky News Kelner asked Greene to respond to the recent leak of U.S. classified war plans on encrypted chat app Signal. In response, the congresswoman asked for Kelner’s nationality. Kelner said she is from the United Kingdom.
Greene quickly told Kelner to concern herself with the affairs of her own country, specifically a high migrant crisis in the UK.
“I don’t give a crap about your opinion or your reporting. Why don’t you go back to your country where you have a major migrant problem,” Greene said, repeatedly interrupting Kelner’s responses, video shows. “You should care about your own borders. No, no, let me tell you something. Do you care about people from your country? What about all the women that are raped by migrants.”
The Georgia representative then called on another reporter, saying: “Yeah, this an American journalist.” Video shows the reporter tell Greene that as an American, he would like to hear her answer to Kelner’s question.
“I’m not answering her question because I don’t care about her network. If you would like to ask, I can answer,” she said.
Exchanged followed DOGE hearing about defunding public media
The news conference followed a DOGE congressional subcommittee hearing during which Greene emphasized Republicans’ desire to defund National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. The hearing was called Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable.
Greene called the heads of NPR and PBS “radical, left-wing echo chambers for a narrow audience of mostly wealthy, white, urban liberals and progressives, who generally look down on and judge rural America.”
After the lively exchange with Kelner, Greene had another tense back and forth with the U.S. reporter who also asked about the Signal leak. Greene deflected and bashed the Biden administration while praising the Trump administration before circling back to the purpose of the news conference.
“We’re talking about NPR and PBS today. We’re talking about fake news that was funded with federal funding from American tax payers,” she said. “That is what this is about today. Not journalists from the UK.”
Greene proceeded to walk away when Kelner followed to say: “A journalist is being vilified for exposing failings in the way your government conducts itself. Is that not that journalist doing a good job?”
Greene defends Pete Hegseth after group chat leak
Greene refused to engage with Kelner’s questions any further until she was asked whether Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth needs to resign.
“Absolutely not, he’s doing a great job,” Greene replied.
Hegseth was included in the group chat along with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense and CIA Director John Rafcliffe. The chat unintentionally included the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
In a Fox News interview Tuesday, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz took full responsibility for Goldberg’s presence in the Trump administration officials chat discussing plans for a looming military strike on the Houthis in Yemen.
“I take full responsibility. I built the group,” Waltz said. “It’s embarrassing. We’re going to get to the bottom of it.”
Contributing: Miguel Legoas and Vanessa Countryman, Athens Banner-Herald