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Hello, good morning. This is Playbook's managing editor and author Jack Blanchard. It is Wednesday, March the 26th. It's my birthday tomorrow. The sun is shining and everyone here in D.C. is still obsessed with the biggest national security leak we've seen in ages.

Here is what's driving the day.

We're getting a third day out of the Signalgate story as the White House circles the wagons around National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

He was out on TV last night, along with the President Donald Trump, explaining why nobody needs to resign over this scandal

and how it was all just an innocent mistake. We will see some of the other group chatters out and about

today. Vice President J.D. Vance is making a speech in Virginia. The director of National Intelligence,

Tulsi Gabbas before a House committee, Pete Hegseth, the defense secretaries over still in Hawaii

and headed on to Guam.

And so we will hear from those as well as the White House tries to get its story straight about

what went wrong. We'll also be seeing another member of the cabinet, Christy Noam, who's in El Salvador

today. She is going to visit the prison where all those Venezuelan migrants were deported,

so controversially a couple of

weeks ago and she'll be meeting the president of El Salvador. And I would imagine we'll see some

pictures of her showing off her credentials as she marches around that place. But there's no doubt

that it's the signal story that is still dominating stuff in Washington. And I'm delighted that

I will be joined today by Dasha Burns on the podcast.

Dasha you are our Queen of the White House. You've been following this story closely all week.

Queen or Jester, I don't know. You decide. We'll let the listeners decide, shall we? But I mean, this story must have just dominated your week, right, since it erupted on Monday morning and

everyone's jaws just dropped as they saw what had happened. Oh, you know, I woke up on Monday thinking,

oh, it's a rainy, quiet Monday, what could possibly go wrong. I still have not been able to

lower the shock level among the group of reporters that I've been talking to. I mean, we are still

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