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🗓️ 27 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Tonight, the Signal Group Chat scandal continues to grow with new texts from the Defense Secretary |
0:07.0 | showing details about weapons and timing for a military strike on Yemen. |
0:12.3 | Then the president praises Pete Hexeth calling the League controversy a witch hunt, plus the Michigan |
0:18.3 | Democrat who says it is time for a new generation to take on Trump. |
0:22.2 | Mallory McMurrow joins me as the 11th hour gets underway this Wednesday night. |
0:33.6 | Good evening, everyone. I'm Ayman Moheddin in for Stephanie Rule. It is day 66 of the second Trump administration. |
0:40.8 | And two days ago, we learned that a journalist was invited into a group chat with Trump officials that included details of a military strike on Yemen. |
0:49.6 | Today, the Atlantic magazine published the full signal chat. so people can read it for themselves and judge |
0:55.4 | for themselves. Peter Alexander has the details. |
1:00.1 | Tonight's Secret No More, the reporter who was mistakenly added to that group chat with top |
1:04.8 | Trump national security officials releasing what he says are all of the messages exchanged. |
1:10.0 | Among them, this from Defense Secretary |
1:11.9 | Pete Hegsef, sent just 30 minutes before the U.S. struck Houthi targets in Yemen on March 15th, |
1:18.6 | detailing exact times and the weapons to be used. Heggseth writing at 1144 a.m. just confirmed |
1:25.4 | with Sencom, we are a go-for for mission launch, previewing that at 1215, |
1:30.3 | F-18's launch, the first strike package. At 145, strike drones launch, 2.10, more F-18's launch, |
1:38.2 | and writing that five minutes later is when the first bombs will definitely drop. |
1:43.4 | Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg releasing them after he says multiple officials |
1:47.7 | said no classified information was sent on the encrypted commercial app signal. |
1:52.3 | If the timing of a combat mission, an imminently launched combat mission is not sensitive government information. I simply don't know what is. |
2:07.0 | Well, today, House Democrats had their chance to grill Trump's intelligence officials about |
2:11.6 | the incident. This text message is clearly classified information. |
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