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CNN 5 Things

Text message fallout, state secrets privilege, UFC champion sentenced & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A journalist spoke to CNN after he says he was added to a text chat on highly sensitive US strike attack plans. The Trump Administration is trying to use the state secrets privilege to avoid handing over details about deportation flights. A Columbia University student and permanent US resident says she’s being targeted for deportation. The head of the US Postal Service has stepped down. Plus, a former UFC champion has been sentenced to five years in prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.8

Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, March 25th.

0:36.8

You can be sure the committee, House and Senate will be looking at us.

0:40.3

It appears that mistakes were made, no question.

0:43.3

That was Republican Senator Roger Wicker, speaking after a national security adviser,

0:49.3

apparently accidentally added a journalist to a text chat on highly sensitive plans to strike Yemen.

0:57.0

The Trump administration has acknowledged the messages, which were sent over the non-government encrypted chat app, Signal.

1:05.0

Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth denied that anyone was texting war plans.

1:09.0

But the journalist in question, Atlantic editor-in-chief

1:12.5

Jeffrey Goldberg, told CNN a different story.

1:16.4

I'm sitting in a Safeway parking lot, watching my phone, and realizing, oh my God, this might

1:21.6

be real. I think Pete Heggseth just sent this group actual targeting information, actual sequencing of an attack.

1:30.3

Spy chiefs who were also reportedly on the message chain are expected to face a grilling about it in the Senate today.

1:37.3

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe are due to testify at a worldwide threat hearing that was

1:45.9

scheduled before the story broke.

1:49.2

The Trump administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to avoid giving information

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