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The Rachel Maddow Show

Maddow: Trump's clown car Cabinet now an alarming liability as threat from Iran spikes

The Rachel Maddow Show

Rachel Maddow, MS NOW

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4.435.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

"They're not sending their best." Rachel Maddow reviews how the collection of unqualified culture warriors Donald Trump has put in charge of key facets of the United States national security apparatus is much worse than merely incompetent now that Trump has started a war with Iran and stoked a new level of threat against Americans and American interests.

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0:00.0

All right, she was born in Texas, in El Paso.

0:03.3

She went to the University of Maryland.

0:04.7

She joined the Air Force.

0:06.0

In the Air Force, she studied languages and intelligence.

0:10.0

She ended up spending more than a decade in U.S. military intelligence.

0:14.8

And then she left the military for the private sector.

0:18.4

In the private sector, she continued military intelligence work,

0:22.1

including very sensitive stuff, while she worked as a U.S. defense contractor.

0:29.2

And then, in the midst of that very highly sensitive U.S. military intelligence career,

0:44.6

she defected to Iran. She had converted to Islam.

0:53.7

She learned Farsi. She had reported they become enthralled with the Iranian regime, and in particular, with their anti-American propaganda, despite the fact that she was a U.S.

0:56.3

service member who was born in Texas. In 2019, she was indicted in federal court in the United

1:03.2

States for allegedly revealing details to the Iranian government of a highly classified U.S.

1:10.2

intelligence program.

1:11.2

She was charged with allegedly also outing one particular U.S. spy to the Iranian government.

1:18.2

She was also accused of helping the Iranian government's intelligence agencies target the United States.

1:26.1

Specifically, the indictment said she conducted research about people in the U.S.

1:30.8

intelligence community she had previously known and worked with. She used that information on her

1:36.3

former colleagues to draft target packages against these U.S. agents for the Iranians. And then using that information that she gave them,

1:47.5

the Iranian security services launched cyber attacks specifically targeting those Americans,

1:53.7

those American personnel from the U.S. intelligence community. She was indicted in 2019.

2:00.3

Her name is Monica Witt. She was indicted, but she was never

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