This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

We're now in day three of the fallout from the shocking news that President Trump's top advisors accidentally admitted a journalist for the Atlantic onto a highly sensitive discussion

of an upcoming military operation.

But today we're going to try to dig into the deeper aspects of the story,

what it says about the failures of right-wing populist and MAGA governance,

and what it reveals about deeper schisms inside MAGA ideology.

There are some big new developments here.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth offered an incredibly

weak defense of this travesty. The Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg revealed most of the text

chain he'd been admitted to, and it contained a ton of operational detail. And importantly,

Trump is reportedly frustrated over this story, and his top allies are deeply

exasperated by his team's handling of it.

Today we're talking about all this with Vox's Zach Beesham, who has a new piece digging

into the underlying meanings of this whole scandal.

Good to have you back on, Zach.

Hey, Greg.

I'm very happy to be here, though I suppose the scandal isn't really a cause for excitement.

It's a pretty dark moment in American National Security.

Sure is. Well, let's start with some of the dark factual stuff. Goldberg released most of the

text chain, and it contained a whole lot of incredibly specific stuff about the coming operation

against Yemen's Houthis.

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