"It's like Veep came back to life": Top Trump administration officials mistakenly include journalist to text chain in shocking security breach

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Questions grow surrounding a shocking security breach after Trump administration officials mistakenly include a journalist to a text chain about secret U.S. military strikes in Yemen. Plus, a judicial clash over the President's deportation flights and use of the Alien Enemies Act. And, the US and Russia begin talks on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine while the Kremlin orders more drone strikes. Susan Glasser, David Drucker, Barbara McQuade, Eric Swalwell, William Taylor, Joel Payne, and Charlie Sykes join as Charles Coleman Jr. hosts The 11th Hour this Monday.

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0:00.0	Tonight, a stunning security breach as high-ranking members of the Trump administration
0:06.0	accidentally added a journalist to a text chain about secret military strikes on Yemen.
0:12.0	Then the clash over deportation flights as judges hammer lawyers from the Justice Department
0:17.0	over Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act.
0:20.0	Plus, Russia and the U.S. start new talks on a potential ceasefire in Ukraine while
0:25.7	the Kremlin orders drone strikes as the 11th hour gets underway on this Monday night.
0:44.2	Good evening. I'm Charles Coleman Jr. in for Stephanie Rule tonight, and we have got a lot to talk about.
0:55.8	It is day 64 of the second Trump administration. And right now, the Trump White House is trying its best to figure out how a magazine editor was accidentally included on a group text where top officials discuss secret military plans. Andre Mischel has the details.
1:02.8	Days before U.S. fighter jets took off from the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea
1:08.2	for strikes against the Iran-backed Pili's in Yemen,
1:11.4	a security breach with potentially catastrophic consequences for the U.S. military.
1:16.5	Details of the U.S. war plans shared in real time with the Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg
1:22.0	by accident on the unclassified commercial messaging app signal.
1:26.2	I assumed that I was being spoofed or hoaxed or being included in some kind of disinformation
1:34.5	campaign because it was simply too improbable to me that they would have such poor
1:41.9	operational security as to inadvertently invite the editor of the Atlantic into a national security discussion about the timing of a bombing campaign.
1:53.8	But it was deadly serious.
1:55.9	Goldberg says he was added by a user, National Security Advisor Mike Walls, to a group chat, including the vice president,
2:02.2	the Secretary of State, the Defense Secretary, the CIA Director, and the Director of National
2:06.9	Intelligence, sharing precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.
2:12.7	Shocking Senate Intelligence Vice Chair Mark Warner.
2:15.7	Holy crap. I mean, when this level of detail is being shared on a non-classified network,
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