Group chat blame game, NPR and PBS scrutiny, Vance joining Greenland trip & more

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

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Intel officials are pointing the finger at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after a journalist was added to a group chat about Yemen strikes. President Donald Trump says Russia could be “dragging their feet.” NPR and PBS will be grilled by lawmakers today over their funding. Vice President JD Vance is joining a controversial trip to Greenland. Plus, new details have been released about the death of the teenage son of a former New York Yankees player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.2	March 27th.
0:36.7	The Trump administration is doing damage
0:39.2	control over the Yemen strike group chat. Top intel officials are shifting the responsibility
0:45.7	to Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth for sending Intel to a message chain on the Signal app
0:51.5	that included a journalist.
0:54.1	House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has written a letter to President Donald Trump,
0:59.0	calling for Hegseth to be, quote, fired immediately.
1:03.4	At a hearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday, the CIA director
1:08.4	and the Director of National Intelligence, repeatedly denied that classified
1:12.5	information was sent to the chat. But GOP senators want more answers, like Mike Rounds,
1:18.5	who said he wasn't satisfied with the responses.
1:20.9	I don't think they simply have to say what the White House said. The White House said they made
1:24.6	a mistake. And I think that's exactly the way to have been handled to begin with it. Democrats argue that if the information shared in the chat wasn't
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