Trump's world of fear and chaos
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin, James Hohmann and JM Rieger discuss the Signal leak by Trump administration officials, whether there could be investigations, and why some of the officials involved are denying classified information was sent in the group chat that included a magazine editor.
Plus, President Trump and his administration seem to be creating a climate of fear at the country's borders, checking visitors' phones and in several cases arresting people who are in the country legally – including a Tufts University student.
And will Trump's tariffs on automobiles affect the economy?
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| 0:00.0 | Look what happened. Is this crazy? We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the history. |
| 0:08.5 | Make America great Hickley. How can you be against them? |
| 0:17.2 | Nothing to see here, folks. And why are you even talking about it? That's the reaction from Trump |
| 0:22.1 | officials on Signalgate. Here's how they're responding. Denials, lashing out at journalists, |
| 0:28.7 | blaming faulty memory, and flatly denying that they shared classified information on a Signal |
| 0:34.6 | group chat that included a magazine editor. The chat was about a U.S. |
| 0:38.7 | military attack on Houthi rebels. Now, amid that chaotic response that we're seeing from the |
| 0:43.6 | Trump administration, the president is continuing to create some chaos and, frankly, fear on |
| 0:48.8 | the international stage in the form of his immigration policy and economic policy in tariffs. |
| 0:54.8 | Welcome to Sidebar from The Washington Post. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm Libby Casey here with senior political correspondent Rhonda Colvin, |
| 1:00.5 | columnist and editorial writer James Homan and senior video journalist J.M. Rieger. |
| 1:05.6 | So this week, it's about the chaos, |
| 1:07.6 | the chaos among Trump's own national security officials as they respond to Signalgate, the chaos and fear at the chaos, the chaos among Trump's own national security officials as they respond |
| 1:11.8 | to Signalgate, the chaos and fear at the border and in international markets that Trump's |
| 1:16.8 | policies are creating. We'll start with the story that people cannot stop talking about |
| 1:22.3 | or maybe texting about. Let's talk about the latest news about this signal chat, Rhonda. What are we hearing |
| 1:30.4 | in terms of Congress and their reaction and what they're going to do about it? Yeah, it's been really |
| 1:35.9 | interesting to see sort of the evolution of this news. On Monday, it kind of was news. You saw some |
| 1:41.6 | dismay from Democrats, shock. Republicans really kind of running away |
| 1:46.5 | from the story saying, you know, mistakes happen. Also, there was like 24 hours where it always |
| 1:52.0 | defies like credibility where they're like, I haven't read it yet. I haven't seen it yet. You're like, |
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