Democrats grill Trump officials over Signal leak
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🗓️ 26 March 2025
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USA TODAY Congress Reporter Savannah Kuchar discusses the reaction on Capitol Hill following a report that secret plans for U.S. airstrikes were discussed in a group chat on the encrypted messaging platform Signal.
Russia and Ukraine agree to a sea and energy truce.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.
USA TODAY Senior Reporter Jessica Guynn explains how some federal workers have had a rocky return to the office.
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| 0:19.1 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Wednesday, March 26th, 2025. |
| 0:24.6 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:27.6 | Today, I look at the response to a report that plans for U.S. airstrikes were discussed in a group chat on the messaging platform signal. |
| 0:36.6 | Plus, Russia and Ukraine agreed to a sea and energy truce |
| 0:39.3 | and how the return to the office has been chaotic for some federal workers. |
| 0:44.3 | Democratic lawmakers grilled top Trump administration officials yesterday |
| 0:49.3 | amid fallout from a report that secret plans for U.S. |
| 0:52.3 | airstrikes were discussed in a group chat on the |
| 0:55.1 | encrypted messaging platform signal that included a journalist. |
| 0:59.2 | Editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg reported Monday that he had been added accidentally |
| 1:03.9 | to the chat titled Houthi PC Small Group ahead of a U.S. attack on Iran-backed Houthi sites in Yemen on March 15th. I caught up with |
| 1:12.7 | USA today, Congress reporter Savannah Coacher, to get a sense of how this landed on Capitol Hill |
| 1:17.9 | this week. Hello, Savannah. Hi, thanks for having me. Thanks for wrapping on. Busy week. How did Democrats |
| 1:23.3 | specifically go after this administration yesterday over this breach? |
| 1:33.2 | There's been a variety of responses and Democrats looking for answers, as my colleague Tom Vandenbrook reported some top Democrats in the House sent a letter asking questions about |
| 1:39.9 | what happened. And then over on the Senate side, there was a hearing by the Senate Intelligence Committee. It was already scheduled. And just so happened. And then over on the Senate side, there was a hearing by the Senate Intelligence |
| 1:45.6 | Committee. It was already scheduled and just so happened to follow the Atlantic's report and featured |
| 1:50.7 | Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Radcliffe to the people |
| 1:57.3 | who were reportedly in that group chat. And so they had a lot of questions from Democrats looking for answers about why this |
| 2:06.7 | group chat existed, how a journalist was inadvertently added, and particularly whether or not |
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