Trump Admin. Blames Journalist For Self-Inflicted Security Breach

Laura Coates Live

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4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Several of President Donald Trump’s top national security officials, at times with assistance from a top Senate Republican, shifted responsibility to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for sending potentially classified information that appeared in a group chat about US military strikes in Yemen that a journalist was included in. Under sharp questioning from outraged Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard repeatedly denied that the chat contained classified information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.1	Coates. So it's looking like the biggest scandal to hit Trump 2.0 now has a name, Signalgate.
1:11.4	You probably could have guessed that one.
1:13.2	And at any moment, we're expecting to one of the key people in that signal group chat,
1:17.4	Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, to speak to reporters.
1:20.2	We're bringing his remarks live as soon as he starts talking.
1:23.2	Everyone in the administration is trying to spin their way out of the scandal.
1:27.5	They're saying it's no big deal that journalist Jeffrey Goldberg got added to a signal
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