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The Big Ben Show

The Group Chat Leak Heard Round The World

The Big Ben Show

Fox News Radio

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.5576 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The accidental leak of a National Security Signal chat to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg has ignited fierce debate and conversation in Washington. While Goldberg is known for his long-standing opposition to President Trump, there is a real question of just how such pertinent information got into the wrong hands. Ben breaks down why it was so surprising that NSA Michael Waltz was the one in the wrong here, what this means for regular DC communication on apps like this, and why this was the first major wake-up call for a White House that had been scandal-free for the first two months.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're listening to Fox News Radio. I'm Ben Domenech.

0:47.8

Conversation in Washington this week has been taken over by just one thing, and that's this issue related to the signal chat that was leaked unintentionally to Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic.

0:55.0

Goldberg is one of the administration's most prominent critics.

1:01.0

He literally ran cover stories about how dangerous a re-election of Donald Trump was,

1:07.0

essentially from the day he left office.

1:10.0

This is not someone who you want on any kind of

1:13.8

conversation about foreign policy or national security, but it's also someone who has a

1:19.1

history of inflating and exaggerating stories in ways that have been opposed and corrected

1:26.1

by even some of the president's most prominent critics,

1:29.6

including, for instance, the Suckers and Losers story, which John Bolton himself, no fan of the president,

1:36.1

rejected. This is someone who obviously has an axe to grind, but that doesn't mean that in this

1:42.1

instance, this isn't a major failure from the White

1:44.9

House, one that could have potentially, in the hands of a different actor, had negative

1:50.8

effects on American interests and potentially even put American lives at risk.

1:57.1

That's why it's so important that such an issue be responded to, I believe, quickly, seriously, and by taking the objections, not as things that are simply coming from the hater component that would use anything against this White House, but rather as a corrective to the way that the use of various apps and things that can be used

2:21.8

to communicate in lieu of traditional texting have been deployed by members of Congress

2:27.6

and by members of this administration in their own lives over the past several years.

2:33.5

You're no longer in the position of not having access to intensely secret,

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