Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., vowed Sunday on “Face the Nation” that President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Mike Waltz, will face a “brutal, brutal” confirmation hearing to be the next United Nations ambassador.

“It will be a brutal hearing,” she told host Margaret Brennan. “He is not qualified for the job just by nature of the fact he participated in the Signal chain. In fact, I believe everybody on that Signal chain needs to be fired, because not a single one of them spoke up and said, ‘Hey, this is inappropriate and we need to be in a secure channel.'”

The senator’s criticism comes after the editor-in-chief at The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed he had been invited, reportedly by accident, into a Signal group chat, where war updates were being chatted about regarding attacks on Yemen.

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