March 30 — Jeffrey Goldberg, Sen. Markwayne Mullin and Sen. Michael Bennet

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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President Donald Trump tells Kristen Welker in a phone interview that he’s “angry” and “pissed off” at Russian President Vladimir Putin. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, exclusively joins Meet the Press to discuss the fallout from the Signal leak. Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) talks about the material shared in the Signal messages. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) discusses how Congress should respond. Jonathan Allen, Michael Dubke, Andrea, Mitchell and Symone Sanders Townend join the Meet the Press roundtable.

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0:00.0	This Sunday, mixed signals.
0:04.0	The Trump administration's national security team accidentally shares plans for military strikes in Yemen in a group text chat with a journalist.
0:14.0	Holy crap.
0:15.0	Nobody was texting war plans.
0:19.0	It was a minute-by-minute accounting of what was about to happen.
0:25.4	There was no classified material that was shared.
0:27.9	Will anyone be held accountable for this mistake?
0:31.1	I take full responsibility.
0:32.3	I built the group.
0:34.3	Someone made a big mistake and added a journalist.
0:39.3	It's an embarrassment. Senator, you need to do better.
0:42.3	So I think it's a witch hunt. I wasn't involved with it.
0:47.3	I'll talk exclusively to the journalist at the center of the story, Jeffrey Goldberg,
0:52.3	the Atlantic's editor-in-chief, plus Republican Senator Mark
0:56.3	Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma, and Democratic Senator Michael Bennett of Colorado, plus driving a hard
1:03.1	bargain. A 25 percent tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States.
1:08.4	America's allies respond to Trump's trade war,
1:11.4	with Canada's prime minister calling it a direct attack.
1:15.3	The old relationship we had with the United States,
1:17.9	based on deepening integration of our economies
1:20.3	and tight security and military cooperation, is over.
1:25.4	And seeing green.
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