Welcome to the PDB Situation Report.

I'm Mike Baker.

Your eyes and hear is on the world stage.

All right.

Let's get ourselves briefed. We're starting today's show with the

latest on Signalgate. You knew it had to have a catchy name. That's the stunning blunder that

exposed sensitive national security jatter during the early strikes against Sohoutis. Retired Army

Colonel John Mills, former director of cybersecurity policy at the Pentagon,

will join us to break that all down. Later in the show, U.S. strikes on the Houtis are ramping up,

but how much of this fight is actually being run out of Tehran? Now, Ali Reza Jafrazade,

deputy director of the Washington office for the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

Can't put that on a bumper sticker.

Well, he says the Iran's regime is pulling the strings.

He joins us with the evidence.

But first, today's situation report in Spotlight.

The Trump administration is facing serious questions after a major communications blunder, now known as Signalgate.

During the early stages of U.S. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, senior national security officials,

and there were a lot of them, including the vice president and secretary of defense,

were coordinating in a private signal group chat. Now, if you don't know what

Signal is, it's a commercial app. It's considered to be somewhat secure and discreet, certainly more so

than an open line. Unfortunately, during the course of this chat, someone mistakenly added the

editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg. Okay, enter a journalist.

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