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Global News Podcast

Trump officials accuse journalist of lying after Signal app leak published in full

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.27.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The White House reacts furiously after The Atlantic magazine published all messages about Yemen airstrikes in a Signal app chat between senior security officials. Also: Valerie, the disappearing dog on Kangaroo Island.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.8

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 27th of March, these are our main stories.

0:11.2

Senior officials in the Trump administration have been grilled in Congress over how planned

0:15.4

U.S. airstrikes on Yemen were discussed in a group chat that accidentally included a prominent journalist.

0:22.4

The military leader of Sudan says the army has regained full control of the capital Khartoum

0:27.2

after nearly two years of fighting against the rival RSF group.

0:32.4

Brazil's Supreme Court says there's enough evidence for the former right-wing president

0:36.6

Jayo Bolsonaro to stand trial for allegedly plotting a coup.

0:43.3

Also in this podcast, the dog that went missing on Australia's Kangaroo Island.

0:48.7

She is definitely alive. You don't get too many little dachshunds running around with pink collars on over here.

0:59.0

We begin in Washington with the continuing row over what some are calling Signalgate,

1:04.1

in which sensitive texts discussing planned airstrikes on the Houthis in Yemen, were accidentally

1:09.9

shared on the signal messaging app with a journalist.

1:13.7

The Trump administration has dismissed the revelation of the leak as a hoax and insisted the chat didn't include any classified information.

1:21.7

In response, the editor of the Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, who received the texts, has now published the whole lot,

1:28.8

including discussions of specific operational details. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, for a second day,

1:35.2

the U.S. House Select Committee on Intelligence grilled top security officials about the leak.

1:40.9

The Democratic representative Jason Crow demanded accountability.

1:45.4

It is completely outrageous to me, completely outrageous to me, that administration officials

1:50.5

come before us today with impunity. No acceptance of responsibility.

1:58.0

Excuse after excuse after excuse, well, we send our men and women downrange to do incredibly

2:04.1

difficult, incredibly dangerous things on our behalf. And yet, nobody is willing to come to us and say

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