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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Trump Text Fiasco Worsens as Tulsi Gabbard Implodes and Fox Melts Down

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

As the scandal worsens around the news that President Trump’s top national security officials allowed a journalist onto a highly sensitive text chat about war plans, Fox News figures are wildly denying that anything is amiss. Yet under questioning from Senate Democrats, numerous senior administration figures all but admitted that something deeply amiss really had happened, with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard turning in the most disastrous performance. We talked to Rosa Brooks, an expert in national security law, who explains what these latest turns in the saga really reveal about the woeful dereliction of Trump and his advisers—and why we desperately need accountability for it, accountability that Republicans will never deliver.  Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

0:46.5

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

1:07.3

We're now in day two of the fallout from the stunning news that President Trump's most senior national security officials allowed a journalist onto a highly sensitive discussion of war plans.

1:12.7

Fox news figures are out in force denying wildly than anything at all is amiss.

1:17.9

Yet under questioning from Senate Democrats, numerous Trump administration figures all but admitted that something very deeply amiss really had happened, wrecking the pro-Trump spin.

1:24.2

For instance, when Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was pressed on whether the

1:29.0

information was classified, she passed the buck to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

1:34.8

Gabbard evaded wildly on other fronts as well, and CIA director John Ratcliffe made

1:40.1

some striking admissions too.

1:42.4

We're going to try to unravel all of this today with Rosa Brooks,

1:45.6

an expert in national security law who held a senior policy advisor role at the Pentagon during the

1:51.1

Obama presidency. Rosa, thank you so much for coming on. My pleasure, Greg. So the Trump

1:57.6

administration is now under heavy fire over the news that the Atlantic's Jeffrey

2:01.7

Goldberg was included on a chat between Defense Secretary Hegseth, DNI Gabbard, Vice President J.D. Vance,

2:10.4

CIA director Ratcliffe, and many others. They were talking on Signal about their upcoming plans

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