Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight,

the Pentagon's watchdog finds Defense Secretary Pete Higgsett's now infamous signal chat put

U.S. personnel at risk. As immigration enforcement crackdowns begin in new cities, we explore

the expanded role border

patrol agents are playing far beyond the U.S.-Mexico border. Congress returns to Washington as

Republicans confront a host of issues that are exposing riffs within the party, including

the expected release of the Epstein files. And near the Israel-Lebanon border, farmers are caught in the conflict,

despite a ceasefire between Israel's military and Hezbollah.

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Our lives have been destroyed.

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Welcome to the News Hour. A Pentagon Watchdog report has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. service members at risk when he used the signal messaging app to discuss a military strike in Yemen earlier this year.

His use of signal came to light when a journalist was accidentally added to a chat that gave sensitive real-time updates about a strike against Houthi militants.

Nick Schifrin is here to walk us through

what we know. So, Nick, what did the Pentagon watchdog find? So this is an investigation by the

Department of Defense's inspector general mandated by Congress. It took him months. And according to a

person who has read this document, the inspector general found that the messages that the

secretary transmitted were, quote,

secret no foreign. The definition of that classification level is that unauthorized disclosure could

reasonably expected to cause serious damage to national security, and it can't be shared with foreigners.

And the inspector general went on to say, if those messages had been intercepted, it would have endangered U.S. service members and the mission.

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