Hegsethive Pride
Talking Feds
Harry Litman
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
After revealing details of a military operation on a Signal group chat that included a reporter, the Administration circled the wagons, minimizing the episode & declining to undertake a real investigation. A terrific panel of Jonathan Alter, Alisyn Camerota, & David French joins Harry to discuss the potential political & legal fallout. We then take up the effort to whisk people to a hellhole prison in El Salvador, inc the courts’ pushback, and end w/ general thoughts about the state of the Union
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| 1:06.3 | Welcome to Talking Feds, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day. |
| 1:11.8 | I'm Harry Littman. |
| 1:13.7 | Anyone with even a modicum of government experience understands this cardinal rule. |
| 1:20.2 | You don't broadcast military operations over an open source channel like signal. |
| 1:27.0 | And yet, there's our Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegeseth, |
| 1:31.8 | whose chief qualification for the job was his previous tenure |
| 1:35.6 | as a weekend host on Fox News, |
| 1:38.8 | blithely ignoring protocol and transmitting a real-time account |
| 1:43.3 | of an attack on Houthi militants. |
| 1:46.3 | 1215 ET F-18's launch and Tomahawks on target to a signal chat group that included |
| 1:55.1 | the vice president, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of National Intelligence, |
| 2:02.9 | the CIA Director, and Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic. |
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