From Trump officials sharing sensitive information on a commercial app to Donald Trump's bid for Greenland,

it's time now for Brooks and Marcus. That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Ruth Marcus,

a longtime columnist formerly of the Washington Post. Jonathan K. Part is away this evening. It's great to have you both here.

Lots of news to discuss this week, starting David, of course, with the controversy over those secret details of pending military strikes in Yemen that were posted on that unsecure group chat that mistakenly included our friend, journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.

We've had a couple of days now to, more than a couple, a few days now to digest this. What stands out to you as the consequences?

Yeah, I've spiraled. You know, when I first

saw Jeff's story, I just thought mind-boggling incompetence, like something I've never seen before.

And it just seemed like, and I've been saying for weeks, the Democrats should talk about nothing but Trump incompetence,

incompetence and competence, but then it got uglier. I was at the gym, believe it or not,

when I watched Pete Hexeth come off an airplane

and make his first comment, attacking Jeff.

But just mostly, it was an aggressive form of bald face lying

that tells you a lot about a guy.

It was obvious they were caught with a screw-up.

A normal human being, I really think 99% of human beings said,

we messed up, we messed up, we're gonna fix this, we messed up.

But not the Trump administration.

They went on a vicious attack of character assassination of ad hominem,

of all the ugliest things it's possible to dredge up and that was their

universal instinct and so i i found it incredibly ugly as the story went on ruth what about that i mean

it's characteristic of a white house that never admits wrongdoing what do you make of the way that

they've they've answered this national security scandal with a fiercely political argument.

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