Marjorie Taylor Greene tells reporter to 'go back to your country' in wild interview footage

Republican politician Marjorie Taylor Greene has told a UK journalist to ‘go back to [her] own country’, while remarking that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was doing a ‘great job’, despite Signal failings in an explosive interview.

On Wednesday (26 March), the heads of the National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) spoke at a congressional subcommittee hearing titled ‘Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable’.

The hearing, which was supposed to advance ‘long-held Republican arguments against PBS and NPR, according to CNN, saw Georgian politician Greene claim they had become ‘radical leftwing echo chambers’.

After accusing NPR of having a ‘communist agenda’, the 50-year-old took questions from journalists in the US Capitol Visitor Center.

Sky News reporter Martha Kelner began by asking Greene if she had seen The Atlantic article, ‘The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans’, and the latest update ‘Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal’.

The original piece, published by magazine editor Jeffery Goldberg, explains how the journalist was accidentally added to a Signal WhatsApp group with members including Defense Secretary Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and even Vice President JD Vance.

Greene attempted to shut down the conversation, telling the reporter: “We’re talking about NPR and PBS, not The Atlantic.

“The [Trump] Administration has said it’s not classified information. I think this is a continuance of someone like you to try and push and issue that isn’t even relevant and I think we’re carrying on, thank you very much.”

Kelner pushed Greene further, remarking that details of timings and weapons were published in the text.

Ignoring her, the US representative of Georgia’s 14th congressional district took a question from somebody else.

Later in the clip, Greene asked if there were any more questions from reporters, which Kelner determinedly began: “Should the defense secretary-,”

“-Wait what country are you from?” the far-right politician cut in.

Greene said she wouldn't be taking questions from the reporter after telling her to 'go back to [her] own country' (Sky News)

After hearing the journalist was from the United Kingdom, Greene said: “Okay we don’t give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don’t you go back to your country where you have a major migrant problem?

“You should care about your own borders.”

The wild clip then sees Kelner asking Greene whether she ‘cares’ that American lives could be at risk following the group chat leak.

“Listen, do you care about people from your country? What about all the women that are raped by migrants? I don’t care about your fake news.”

Greene then took a question from an American journalist, who said: “Yes, I’m an American journalist and I would like to know the answer to what [Kelner] is asking.”

“I’m not answering her question because I don’t care about her network,” she responded, before alleging the Biden Administration ‘ripped open’ the United States’ borders to allow ‘terrorists’ and cartel members to enter the country.

“My comment to you is that I am grateful to President Trump. He’s leading us out of wars. That he’s ending the war in Ukraine where American lives could have been killed if Joe Biden was still President today.”

As Greene began to walk away from the podium, she remarked that she didn’t believe that Defense Secretary Hegseth needed to resign over Signal's failings.

“Absolutely not,” she said in a parting message. “He’s doing a great job.”

Defense Secretary Hegseth's position has been defended by US President Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker / Staff / Getty)

Democratic congressman Hakeem Jeffries, a minority leader of the US House of Representatives, is one of the politicians calling for US President Donald Trump to sack Hegseth from his position.

Calling him the ‘most unqualified Secretary of Defence in American history’, Jeffries wrote: "His continued presence in the top position of leadership at the Pentagon threatens the nation's security and puts our brave men and women in uniform throughout the world in danger,

"His behaviour shocks the conscience, risked American lives and likely violated the law.

"Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth should be fired immediately."

Meanwhile, Trump, 78, claimed the leaked group chat featured ‘no classified information’, adding that Waltz had ‘learned a lesson’ and he was a ‘good man’.