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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

Group Chat Strike Plans Released

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

CNN

News

3.6857 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Today we focus on the military strike plans inadvertently leaked to a reporter via a group chat and subsequently published today. Were they indeed “classified?” The White House says they were not. Many others, including former military experts, think otherwise.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happening now, breaking news. Group chat strike plans released.

0:07.0

And what they show and the escalating fallout as the nation's top intelligence chiefs are today back up on Capitol Hill.

0:14.0

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Pamela Brown is off today.

0:19.0

I'm Wolf Blitzer. you're in the Situation Room.

0:26.6

This is CNN Breaking News.

0:32.6

And we begin with the breaking news.

0:34.6

The Atlantic Magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg

0:36.6

is releasing the messages from the Yemen strike plan's group chat.

0:41.3

And the screenshots show discussions of weapons and specific timing of U.S. military strikes.

0:48.3

This one shows Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth laying out the timeline of the strikes and that F-18s would be used.

0:55.0

All this comes as the top intelligence officials are right now back up on Capitol Hill.

1:00.0

In just moments, they will testify in front of the House Intelligence Committee.

1:04.0

Yesterday, they testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

1:08.0

Both the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard

1:11.2

and the CIA Director John Radcliffe will again be grilled on their participation in that

1:16.3

messaging thread that was shared with Goldberg and claims like this one from yesterday.

1:23.8

Senator, I can attest to the fact that there were no classified or intelligence equities that were included in that chat group at any time.

1:31.3

So the attack sequencing and timing and weapons and targets you don't consider to, should have been classified?

1:38.3

I deferred to the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council on that question.

1:42.3

Well, you're the head of, you're the head of the intelligence community, and you're supposed to know about

1:47.9

classifications.

1:50.8

We're covering all these breaking news developments from all angles right here in the Situation Room.

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