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🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann break down the Trump administration's leak of national security information to a magazine editor – and how Congress reacted to it in a fiery hearing on Tuesday.
Plus, is the Trump administration transparent – or just claiming to be?
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0:00.0 | If you gotten this group chat like Jeffrey Goldberg did, would you have believed it? |
0:04.4 | You're at the grocery store. |
0:06.1 | You're at, you know, wherever you might be. |
0:08.6 | And you get this. |
0:09.6 | That probably would also make me think that this was not real. |
0:13.6 | I personally would have reported it to our security team here at the Washington Post who investigate email scams. |
0:20.1 | He's fishing me. |
0:21.0 | And yeah. |
0:22.0 | Look what happened. |
0:23.1 | Is this crazy? |
0:25.0 | We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the history. |
0:29.7 | Make America great Hickley. |
0:32.7 | How can you be against them? |
0:40.7 | It's the group chat heard round the world. |
0:50.5 | Top Trump administration officials planned a military attack in a foreign country via the messaging app signal and accidentally included a journalist. |
0:52.6 | This is Sidebar from the Washington Post. |
0:55.3 | I'm Libby Casey, joined by my journalistic colleagues, Rhonda Colvin and James Homan, who are in all of my group chats, but you guys know that you're there. |
1:00.9 | Okay, so Democrats are apoplectic about this. Republicans are saying, we all make mistakes. |
1:07.0 | The German news outlet Der Spiegel described it as an airstrike planned like a teenage party. |
1:12.9 | And in an extraordinary hearing today that Rhonda was at, top national security officials went before senators to talk about worldwide threats. |
1:20.5 | And the Democrats were like, the call is coming from inside the house. |
1:24.6 | Like you guys are the threat. |
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