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🗓️ 25 March 2025
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USA TODAY Domestic Security Correspondent Josh Meyer breaks down what happened when officials shared detailed secret plans for a U.S. strike on Iran-backed militants in Yemen with a group chat of top Trump administration officials that accidentally included a magazine editor.
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0:19.8 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. And today is Tuesday, March 25, 2025. This is the excerpt. |
0:30.2 | Today, the search for answers after Trump's top officials shared secret war plans in a chat that included a journalist. |
0:40.3 | Plus, a new tariff is on the way, this one pertaining to Venezuela. |
0:46.3 | And when it comes to inflation, Democrats and Republicans seem to occupy separate realities. |
0:54.1 | President Donald Trump's top officials shared secret war plans in a chat on the signal application that included a journalist. |
0:54.6 | I caught up with USA Today, domestic security correspondent Josh Meyer, to discuss the ramifications. |
1:00.7 | Hello, Josh. |
1:01.8 | Hey, Taylor. |
1:02.5 | Interesting story here, Josh. |
1:03.8 | So what exactly happened here with government officials and this signal chat? |
1:08.2 | So as far as we can tell, Jeffrey Goldberg, who is the editor-in-chief of the |
1:12.6 | Atlantic Magazine, was added to a signal chat, which is a publicly available, commercially |
1:18.9 | available, but encrypted app by Mike Walts, who's the National Security Advisor at the White |
1:24.1 | House for President Trump. And then after that, he watched all this back and |
1:27.9 | forth between somebody identifying themselves as J.D. Vance, somebody identifying themselves as Marco |
1:33.4 | Rubio, Pete Hath, of course, the Defense Secretary and all of these people, Tulsi Gabbard, the |
1:38.1 | Director of National Intelligence, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, all talking about whether and when we should |
1:44.0 | be bombing the Houthi |
1:45.4 | militia in Yemen. And so he wrote in his Atlantic piece about this, you know, I wasn't sure, |
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