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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Scott Schaefer. |
| 0:02.0 | And I'm Marisa Lagos. |
| 0:03.0 | We host political breakdown. |
| 0:04.5 | With the 2024 election over and President Trump in the White House, there's going to be a lot to keep up with this year. |
| 0:10.3 | Political breakdown has got you covered. |
| 0:12.2 | We'll bring smart analysis, a wide range of voices, and even some laughs. |
| 0:16.0 | Join us for political breakdown every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from KQED, part of the NPR network. |
| 0:22.8 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President Trump is claiming ignorance on a story, |
| 0:30.6 | sending shockwaves through Washington. As NPR's Tamara Keith explains, a journalist from |
| 0:35.2 | the Atlantic was apparently inadvertently added to a group chat where top Trump administration national security officials were discussing planned military action. |
| 0:43.5 | Atlantic Magazine's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, somehow got included in a group chat on the messaging app signal, where the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, and |
| 0:54.8 | others were discussing plans for an attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen. When asked about the story |
| 1:00.8 | and the breach hours after it came to light, President Trump said it was news to him. |
| 1:06.4 | Well, it couldn't have been very effective because the attack was very effective. I can tell you |
| 1:10.4 | that. I don't know anything about it. You're telling me about it for the first time. |
| 1:14.6 | A spokesman for the National Security Council confirms the chat, which broke with longstanding national security protocol, appears to be authentic. |
| 1:23.1 | Tamara Keith, NPR News. |
| 1:24.8 | The Trump administration's plans to shunner to the Department of Education and have met the first court challenge. |
| 1:30.7 | NPR's Alyssa NAD warning reports a group of union, school districts, and educators filed suit today in federal court, saying the effort to seek to overrule 46 years of congressional decision-making. |
| 1:40.4 | The lawsuit comes just a few days after President Trump signed an executive order directing |
| 1:44.8 | the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, to, quote, take all steps necessary to facilitate |
| 1:50.2 | the closure of the department. Trump later announced that the Health and Human Services Department |
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