Military Secrets On Signal, Democratic Politics In Congress
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Brian Lair's Daily Politics Podcast from WNYC Studios. |
| 0:10.1 | It's Monday, March 31st. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Matt Katz, former reporter here at WNYC and Gothamist. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm now running a news podcast in Philadelphia called |
| 0:22.4 | CityCast Philly, and I'm filling in for Brian for the next few days. Last week, Atlantic |
| 0:27.9 | Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had been inadvertently added to a signal channel |
| 0:33.2 | in which top members of the Trump administration discussed plans to bomb Yemen. |
| 0:38.7 | Over the weekend, fallout continued over the scandal, dubbed SignalGate. |
| 0:43.7 | A new U-Gov poll shows three out of four Americans, including 60% of Republicans, |
| 0:49.3 | say the Trump administration's use of a signal group chat to discuss military strikes is a, quote, serious problem. |
| 0:56.8 | Yesterday, during a phone interview with NBC's Kristen Welker, President Donald Trump said, |
| 1:02.8 | I don't fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts. He said he still has confidence |
| 1:08.7 | in Secretary of Defense Pete Hexeth and National Security Advisor Michael Walts. |
| 1:13.9 | Waltz was a senior official who actually added Goldberg to the chat. |
| 1:18.1 | The president also told Welker that he would not rule out a third term in office. |
| 1:24.4 | GOP lawmakers have been stoking that idea for several weeks now. And separately, the Trump |
| 1:30.2 | administration's battle for Greenland escalated this weekend after Vice President J.D. Vance and his |
| 1:35.5 | wife visited the island. That trip was largely scaled back due to the uproar among Greenlanders |
| 1:43.0 | and Danes. |
| 1:52.6 | And Republicans will find out this week just how much they'll hold on to their slim majority in the House with their eyes on two special elections in Florida this week. |
| 2:03.2 | Joining us now to recap all of this news this weekend and look ahead in the week coming up is Jim Newell, Slate's political senior politics writer. |
| 2:05.2 | Hey, Jim, welcome to WNYC. |
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