Trump Fires Adviser Mike Waltz in Wake of Signalgate
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
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| 0:23.0 | I'm joined by Sarah Longwood. |
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| 0:23.0 | I'm joined by Sarah Longwell-Summer. |
| 0:24.7 | We are here to give you some breaking news. |
| 0:27.4 | Mike Walls, national security advisor for President Trump, is on the outs. |
| 0:32.2 | He's leaving. |
| 0:33.5 | Multiple outlets are reporting this morning. |
| 0:35.6 | Kudis to Jennifer Jacobs at CBS, who was the first to get it, but now Fox and Politico, both |
| 0:40.9 | reporting that Mike Wals is out, as well as his deputy, Alex Wong. |
| 0:44.8 | The reason is Trump kind of lost confidence in the guy. |
| 0:49.2 | I suppose that happens when you accidentally include the editor of the Atlantic |
| 0:52.4 | on the single chain, and then you discuss incredibly sensitive class-side Atlantic on the single chain and then you discuss incredibly sensitive classified information |
| 0:56.7 | on the signal chain, kind of a big fuck up. But then again, there are a lot of people who |
| 1:01.2 | fucked up on that single chain. So Sarah, what is your immediate take on this? |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah, so the biggest thing is that Walls is the one take in the fall, not HegSeth, |
| 1:10.5 | because HegSeth, the one who shared |
| 1:11.9 | all the classified information. Now, it is true. Wals is the one, and this was always going to be |
| 1:17.2 | the Cardinalson. The Cardinalson was having Jeffrey Goldberg's information in his phone to begin |
| 1:23.8 | with, and then boomering it really hard and like accidentally just dropping him in instead |
| 1:29.7 | of because he's saved he's and it's funny his explanation of this is just we can all empathize |
| 1:36.0 | we can all empathize he saves Jeffrey Goldberg's name under somebody else his information |
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