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What was shared today reflects the fact that I was not directly involved with that part of the signal chat.

Every group chat's got a lurker.

Not many are journalists, though. And most chats aren't discussing imminent military operations.

It's Wednesday, March 26th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR. I'm Chris

Bentley.

A little later, we'll take a break from the news and meet the musicians reviving the mandolin orchestra.

Who says the instrument has to play second fiddle to the, well, to the fiddle?

It was very easy.

It was like one phone call. Are you interested? Yeah, let's go. Boom. Everybody was very excited about it.

But first, the signal chat heard around the world. This morning, the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg,

released the group chat he was mistakenly added to where senior Trump administration officials discussed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen earlier this month.

It included discussions of weapons and targeting information.

Houthis say the strikes killed 53 people, including five children.

The casualties also included the Houthis, quote, top missile guy,

according to an account belonging to National Security Advisor Michael Walts.

Here's how he described the killings in the chat.

Quote, we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building, and it's now collapsed,

end quote, to which the VP apparently replied, excellent.

Today, Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee grilled Trump administration

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