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Now, here in Washington, things have turned Orwellian. The White House is trying to downplay this week's biggest story. The administration and its officials say you, the public, shouldn't be concerned about national security officials planning a secret military operation with troops in harm's way on a signal group chat.

The president says press reaction is part of another witch hunt. It's not. The White House press secretary called the reporter who broke the story after the national security advisor invited

him on the chat, discredited. She says that reporter works for a magazine that is, quote,

failing. Jeffrey Goldberg is not discredited. The Atlantic is not failing. Who better to break down the

double speak and so much more than our fantastic panel on the roundup this week. Steve Clemens

is the founding editor at the Washington Note. Hi, Steve.

Great to be with you. Great to have you. Arthur Delaney is here in the studio senior reporter at HuffPost.

Arthur is always great to see you. Good to be here. And welcome to a new voice on the Friday

roundup, my longtime colleague, Jennifer DeLowy, senior reporter at Bloomberg News. Hi, Jennifer.

Hi, it's great to be here. Great to have you here, too.

Lovely to have you all. After spending days denying it, and despite evidence from the Atlantic,

Trump's national security advisor, Michael Waltz, owned up, sort of, to adding Atlantic editor-in-chief

Jeffrey Goldberg to the war plans chat in an interview with Fox's

Laura Ingram on Wednesday. I take full responsibility. I built the, I built the group. My job is to

make sure everything's coordinated. But how do the number? I mean, I don't mean to be pedantic here,

but how did the number get in the chat? Have you ever had somebody's contact that shows their

name? And then you have a, and then you have somebody else's number there.

Oh, I never make those mistakes.

Right?

You've got somebody else's number on someone else's contact.

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