If it's Wednesday, top U.S. security officials now admitting sharing sensitive military information

in a group text that included a journalist was a quote mistake as the Atlantic releases transcripts

of the chat, which appears to contradict some of the White House's claims about that conversation.

Plus, the White House says President Trump will announce new tariffs on the auto industry

at any moment now as the country approaches a potentially massive tariff increase next week

that could impact trillions of dollars of U.S. imports.

And President Trump signs an executive order aiming to overhaul U.S. election laws,

including new rules around proof of citizenship and mail-in voting that has some experts warning millions could be disenfranchised.

Welcome to meet the Press Now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington, where the White House is facing intensifying scrutiny over what it told Congress and the American people as it tries to downplay a national security blunder.

Today, the Atlantic released the full transcript of a

signal group chat among President Trump's top advisors that accidentally included its editor-in-chief

discussing sensitive military strikes in Yemen. The Atlantic says they released the messages

after the Trump administration, including the president, said the information was not classified.

But the transcript appears to contradict broad claims by the White House that the information

and the thread wasn't classified in nature, that it didn't contain war planning, and that they

didn't know how the security lapse happened. After trying to dodge questions about the incident

during a Senate hearing yesterday,

today, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard admitted that mistakes had been made

while testifying before Congress. Gabbard was pressed on her testimony yesterday,

suggesting that operational issues were not discussed when the transcript shows they, in fact,

were.

It was a mistake that a reporter was inadvertently added to a signal chat with high-level national security principles,

...