It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

New York Times correspondents, Luke Broadwater and Annie Cony are here.

Their new book begins with this dedication to the leakers,

gossips, and busybodies who populate the halls of Congress. Of course, as many of you were just

hearing on the BBC, no one needed any leakers gossips or busybodies to inadvertently share the

Pentagon's war plans with a journalist. As the AP reported it yesterday,

Trump officials texted war plans to a group chat in a secure app that included a journalist.

It was just a few hours before the actual attack on the Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen.

And a statement from the National Security Council says the message thread that was

reported appears to be authentic, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the

chain. Others on the chat included Vice President Vance, Defense Secretary HECSeth, Director of National

Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and others, andeth, Director of National Intelligence, Telsie Gabbard,

and others, and oops, the journalist. Luckily for the mission, the journalists did the responsible

thing and did not go public with the information, so the American pilots involved were not put at

risk. It was Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic. So was President Trump grateful after his team leaked to Goldberg by mistake for the way Goldberg handled it?

I'm not a big fan of the Atlantic.

To me, it's a magazine that's going out of business.

I think it's not much of a magazine.

Yep, he attacked the magazine that didn't do

anything, but was only on the receiving end, any opportunity to attack the press, I guess.

And that brings us back to Congress. Democrats are saying the incident shows this administration

is incompetent, while the big topic within the Republican Party, sorry, well, the big topic within the

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