Judge Orders Trump Admin to Preserve "Signal" Records
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the beat. I'm Melissa Murray in for Ari Melbur. We begin tonight with the continued fallout |
| 0:05.3 | over that group chat security breach that is now in the courts. Late today, a federal judge heard |
| 0:11.5 | arguments from a government watchdog group suing over Trump officials' use of the signal app to discuss |
| 0:17.5 | military attack plans. The judge issued what he called a compromise order, telling all Trump |
| 0:23.2 | administration defendants to preserve all signal communications from March 11th to March 15th. Meanwhile, |
| 0:29.9 | Democratic and Republican senators on the Hill are calling for an inspector general probe into the |
| 0:34.9 | group chat. Some members are even calling for a criminal investigation. |
| 0:39.5 | But Trump's Attorney General, Pamela Joe Bondi, doesn't seem to be that interested. |
| 0:45.2 | There should be resignations and there should be an investigation either by the Defense Department |
| 0:50.8 | ID, Inspector General, or by the FBI. |
| 0:55.5 | Is DLJ involved at this point? |
| 0:58.3 | It was sensitive information, not classified, and inadvertently released. |
| 1:05.0 | And what we should be talking about is it was a very successful mission. |
| 1:09.5 | There is potentially here a violation of the Espionage Act, as well as the Federal Records |
| 1:14.6 | and Presidential Records Act. |
| 1:17.6 | Today, there are also growing questions about whether two Trump officials misled Congress |
| 1:23.6 | in their sworn testimony about the group chat debacle. |
| 1:26.6 | Telsie Gabbard and John Ratcliffe were asked specifically if weapons, targets, or timing were |
| 1:32.3 | mentioned in those text exchanges. |
| 1:34.5 | We're now going to highlight every single mention of those items from the group chat |
| 1:38.7 | while comparing them to what those officials said under oath. |
| 1:43.6 | Was there any mention, Ms. Gabbard, of a weapon or weapons system? |
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