The self-described Secretary of War put American troops at risk, the Pentagon Watchdog

says.

The lead starts right now.

It's a story we broke here at CNN a few hours ago.

The Pentagon Watchdog pointing fingers at Pete Heggseth.

Sources say that the Inspector General report finds that he risked

endangering the lives of U.S. troops by sharing those sensitive war plans in a group chat

on the unsecure messaging app signal.

I'm going to get a reaction from a key Republican joining us in moments.

And just one day after President Trump called her and the entire Somali American community

garbage in a display of bigotry shocking even from him, the president repeated the smears

today.

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is going to be here to respond.

And joining us on the lead, Michael Dell.

Yeah, that Michael Dell, the man behind one of the world's biggest tech companies who, with his

wife, just offered more than $6 billion to a new Trump investment plan for kids.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start with our politics lead in a story that I broke earlier today with CNN Pentagon reporter Zach Cohen.

Sources tell us that the months in the making classified Pentagon Inspector General report delivered to Capitol Hill last night

concludes that the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hagseth, risked endangering American

service members by sharing sensitive attack plans for targeting Houthi rebels in Yemen. Specifically,

the IG report says Hegseth risked the potential compromise of sensitive Department of Defense

information which could harm military personnel and mission objectives.

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