It's Thursday, December 4th. It's not a great signal. We start here.

The Pentagon's watchdog says Pete Hegeseth could have endangered U.S. troops.

He potentially put troops at risk.

We'll tell you what we've learned about the Signalgate report.

Here's something you don't hear often from a House Democrat.

First of all, I want to thank

President Trump. Congressman Quayar avoids bribery charges with a presidential pardon and justice

for the family of actor Matthew Perry. He took full responsibility in that moment saying,

I know what I did was wrong. A doctor who gave him ketamine is sentenced in federal court.

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Stephen Portnoy.

Hey, Brad's out celebrating episodes 2003 and four, and also his birthday. But I've got you

covered from D.C. through tomorrow.

It's going to be a very busy newsday today here in Washington. Up on Capitol Hill, the head

of U.S. Special Operations Command is due to explain to members of Congress what happened with those

strikes he oversaw on suspected drug traffickers in early September. Behind closed doors,

Admiral Mitch Bradley will brief members of both parties. Be sure to face questions about reports

that he ordered repeated strikes on a wrecked vessel, killing two who survived an initial U.S. attack.

But the other big story on the Pentagon beat today involves something we've been talking about since

March, since a prominent

D.C. journalist was accidentally invited into a group chat that had the Defense Secretary sharing

details of a planned U.S. strike on Yemeni rebels. Signalgate, as it came to be called, is back in the

news now because the Pentagon's Inspector General released a report yesterday that was critical of

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