217: Jessica Yellin on Our Anxiety Producing News Cycle

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A potentially catastrophic breach of security within The White House has set off alarm bells for both Republicans and Democrats in D.C. Independent journalist Jessica Yellin joins us to discuss SignalGate. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz are both under fire after The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a group chat that contained top secret war plans (or was it just attack plans?). Will anyone get fired for this?

Plus, we talk about the Trump administration's lawlessness when it comes to deportations. What happens when a President blatantly defies a court order?

And Jessica shares why she left mainstream news and the importance of independent, online journalism, like her platform - News Not Noise.

Subscribe to Jessica's substack: https://newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/

Follow Jessica on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicayellin

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1:04.2	Hey, everybody. We got a great one today. You know, for a change. Jessica Yellen is my guess.
1:09.7	You may remember Jessica from her 17 years as a correspondent on CNN and ABC.
1:15.4	She was the senior White House correspondent for CNN,
1:19.3	but left because she realized that her job was making people irritated, tense, and anxious.
1:25.1	So she went home to L.A. and started the News Not Noise platform on Substack and anxious. So she went home to LA and started the news not noise platform on
1:29.4	Substack and Instagram. Of course, it is a little difficult these days to digest the news without
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