Group chat investigation, FBI Tesla task force, spring heatwave & more

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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There are calls for a probe after a journalist was reportedly accidentally added to a group chat with messages about US plans to strike Yemen. The FBI has created a team to look into the recent Tesla attacks. The Trump administration is cutting dozens of grants for LGBTQ health research. A couple who’ve been in the US for 35 years have been deported back to Colombia. Plus, parts of the US are heating up this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, March 25th.
0:36.5	There are calls for an investigation after a national security adviser reportedly
0:42.3	accidentally added a journalist to a group chat discussing plans to strike Yemen.
0:48.3	Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth is denying that anyone in the Trump administration was texting war plans and has attacked
0:55.0	the reporter in question.
0:56.3	You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist.
1:02.8	He's talking about Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, who spoke to CNN
1:08.0	about Hexeth's messages.
1:10.1	He was texting war plans. He was texting war plans.
1:12.1	He was texting attack plans.
1:13.9	And I continued not to publish it because it felt like it was too confidential, too
1:19.6	technical.
1:21.4	And I worry, honestly, that sharing that kind of information in public could endanger American military
1:29.6	personnel.
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