Trump claims leaked war plans were ‘not classified’

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: A massive Trump team leak rattles the intelligence community. Also, voters voice their concerns about Elon Musk’s Social Security cuts. And Democrats slam Trump-Musk cuts impacting American farmers and low-income families. Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Adam Smith, Mark Zaid, Tim Miller, Sen. Ed Markey, and Rep. Angie Craig join Jonathan Capehart.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with the great Jonathan Capehart in for Lawrence. Good evening, Jonathan.
0:04.4	Good evening, Rachel. I'm going to let you off early. Go home. Good night.
0:10.1	Thanks, Rachel. It has been 34 hours since we learned that top Trump officials accidentally texted war plans to Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief
0:22.5	of the Atlantic. And just moments ago, a new declaration from Donald Trump about national
0:28.5	security breach. It's no problem. It wasn't classified, as I understand it. There was no classified
0:36.0	information. There was no problem.
0:39.2	No problem. So reporters, do your thing. Ask every single elected Republican, every military expert,
0:48.4	every national security expert, if they think it was no problem that cabinet-level officials in the Trump administration,
0:56.0	including the vice president and the Secretary of Defense, used an app that you or I could
1:01.9	download from the app store at this very moment to discuss plans about a military strike in Yemen.
1:08.8	Today, the government watchdog group American Oversight
1:12.1	filed a lawsuit against Pete Hexseth and four other Trump officials for using a commercial
1:17.2	messaging app in violation of the Federal Records Act because signal messages are stored
1:23.7	only on an individual's device with no copy or backup of the messages retained on the signal
1:29.6	system or servers. This means that signal messages can be preserved by the individual users through
1:36.1	screenshots or other means, but once deleted, messages cannot be restored or retrieved after
1:42.8	deletion.
1:50.6	The lawsuit asks for an emergency injunction for the Trump officials to preserve all materials and to refer the matter to the Attorney General for enforcement of the FRA, preservation of records, recovery of unlawfully removed records,
1:58.9	and the recovery or restoration of any deleted or destroyed
2:02.9	materials to the extent possible. Jeffrey Goldberg did not release the full message exchange
2:10.0	out of security concerns. Later in the hour, we will discuss Jeffrey Goldberg's latest comments
2:15.2	on what he plans to do with the yet-unpublished group chat,
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