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Save Signal messages, Trump withdraws nomination, Tesla arson suspect & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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We start with a federal judge’s order over leaked text messages on Signal detailing a strike in Yemen. President Donald Trump withdrew a congresswoman’s nomination as a top diplomat. We have the latest on the AP’s legal fight against the White House’s decision to limit its access to presidential events. There are key takeaways from a Senate hearing about the deadly midair plane collision in Washington, DC. And, police investigating several Tesla fires have made an arrest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From CNN, I'm a Falma DK, with the five things you need to know for Thursday, March 27th.

0:08.4

A federal judge ordered key Trump administration agencies to preserve messages on signal between

0:13.9

March 11 through the 15th in a hearing to determine whether officials violated federal record-keeping

0:19.3

laws. Here's CNN's Paula Reid.

0:22.3

Those are the dates when Trump administration officials were on a signal chat with a reporter

0:26.8

from the Atlantic discussing military strikes in Yemen.

0:31.3

Now, this came after a lawsuit, alleging that the administration was violating federal

0:36.0

records laws because they're using this encrypted app that has auto delete features that were enabled by at least one person, one official in that chat.

0:44.4

And it's not clear that they were properly preserving these records.

0:47.4

The Justice Department says it's working to track down these records and properly preserve them.

0:53.7

President Donald Trump says he's pulled Congresswoman Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.S.

0:58.7

ambassador to the U.N. to help preserve the GOP's razor-thin majority.

1:03.1

CNN's Manu Raju has more.

1:05.2

Remember the majority right now is it 218 to 213.

1:08.6

There are two vacant Democratic seats right now.

1:10.5

As soon the Democrats could fill those seats, if she were to step aside, that would make it 217 to 215.

1:16.6

That means in a special election, if it were to go the Democrats way, perhaps we could have a

1:21.6

debt-locked House Republican majority, essentially making give them absolutely no margin for error.

1:29.1

And even though Lee Sophanix district is heavily Republican, Donald Trump carried that pretty

1:34.2

easily in his past election, this is an electorate that is very uneasy.

1:38.6

There's a lot of unrest among voters.

1:41.2

The chief photographer and White House correspondent for the Associated Press says a

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