All right, welcome to The Beat. Our friend Ari Melbur is off. I'm in for him. I'm Jen Saki. We begin tonight, of course, as I just alluded to, with the exploding security scandal engulfing the Trump administration. It's only two days old, if you can believe that. Now, Trump officials are desperately, and I mean desperately, trying to pretend that sharing attack plans on a non-secure app where a

journalist happens to be present, that's a key part of this. It's that they shared it on the app

and the journalist happened to be present. That's how we know about it. But they're all

pretending like this is no big deal. And their answers, I have to say, are leaving a whole lot to

be desired and frankly just raising more questions.

The White House and the president's national security team doubling down on efforts to shift blame surrounding that signal chat debacle.

But certainly the topic is of a nature in which you would not want our adversaries to know.

Current and former defense officials tell me these operational details shared in an

unclassified setting would be considered a breach in national security.

It confirms our darkest assumptions about mishandling of sensitive military operations.

Now for two days, I'm in two days old, Trump and his team have repeatedly denied

that any class of information, any problematic information, was really shared in that chat.

And so today, the Atlantic release more text, unredacted, that reveal discussions of weapons used,

targets, and timing. And I can tell you that is problematic information to be discussing

in an unsecure atmosphere and environment. Now, all the information that any national security

expert, most would tell you, would that, that should be considered classified

at the time because they're so specific and they're detailed and they could put people's lives

at risk. We're going to show you the text with the actual military actions they're describing

because I think it's important to see them. So defense secretary Pete Hegseth wrote, quote,

team update, time now, 1144 Eastern.

Weather is favorable. Just confirmed with CENTCOM, we are go for mission launch.

1215 Eastern, F-18's launch, first strike package. He then goes on to describe more F-18 and drone

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