Dems call for probe into extraordinary ‘war chat’

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Trump national security officials accidentally leak military plans to a journalist over an unclassified chat app. Also, Democrats hold town halls in GOP districts. Plus, the Trump administration refuses to answer a federal judge’s questions about obeying a court order and invokes the state secrets privilege. And Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff says Vladimir Putin is not a “bad guy.” Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Jen Psaki, Rep. Chris Pappas, Rep. Ro Khanna, Joyce Vance, and Timothy Snyder join Jonathan Capehart.

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0:00.0	The breaking news we have been following is the stunning report today from Jeffrey Goldberg,
0:05.2	editor-in-chief of the Atlantic. The headline of the article is absolutely mind-blowing.
0:11.0	The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war plans.
0:16.3	Nine days ago, Jeffrey Goldberg knew that the United States would launch a strike against rebel soldiers
0:21.6	in Yemen. Jeffrey Goldberg is a journalist. Jeffrey Goldberg does not possess any sort of security
0:28.8	clearance or position in the Trump administration, but Jeffrey Goldberg knew this strike was going to happen
0:35.4	two hours before the rest of the world.
0:39.3	He knew that because he was added to a text message group chat and started receiving messages
0:45.2	from people like this.
0:47.1	J.D. Vance at Pete Hegseth.
0:49.4	If you think we should do it, let's go.
0:52.8	The Trump officials, including the Vice President of the United States,
0:57.6	J.D. Vance, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National
1:04.3	Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisor Mike Walts, and others were sharing highly
1:13.7	sensitive war plans with a journalist.
1:17.6	Also in the emoji-filled thread was Trump White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles.
1:22.6	Again, this was all on an app that can be downloaded by anyone on their very ordinary civilian phone right now.
1:32.0	MSNBC's Jen Saki got the big get tonight.
1:35.0	Jeffrey Goldberg's first cable interview about this unbelievable Trump administration screw up.
1:42.7	I've been, you know, asked this question a few times today.
1:46.0	It's, it's, why did you have such a hard time believing this?
1:50.0	And the answer is because it's unbelievable.
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