VP Vance Denies Waltz Was "Let Go"

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

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President Trump had four national security advisors in his first term, now he's on his second this time around. President Trump announced today that he’s nominating Mike Waltz to serve as UN ambassador, shifting from his role as national security adviser. This comes weeks after Waltz added a journalist to a group chat discussing military strikes. Plus, the Trump-appointed judge who just ruled against the President on a pillar of his deportation policy. What the judge said and the impact it could have. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.9	Tonight on 360, the president had four national security advisors in his first term. Now he's on his second this time around.
0:22.6	Mike Walts, we're just shown the door, and J.D. Vance says Waltz's new position would be a promotion.
0:27.6	Also tonight, a Trump-appointed judge lays down the law in deportation, saying the president cannot use wartime authority during peacetime to remove people from the country.
0:37.8	And later, we're learning more about that alleged hazing, targeting young members of a high
0:41.0	school lacrosse team, what a relative of one of the 11 accused players is saying
0:45.5	and how the community where it's happening is reacting.
0:48.7	Good evening, thanks for joining us.
0:49.8	President Trump's first national security advisor in his first term lasted 22 days.
0:53.8	So by that standard, President Trump's first national security advisor in his first term lasted 22 days. So by that standard,
0:55.1	President Trump's first national security advisor in his second term, Mike Walts, has lasted a long time.
1:00.5	But today, after just passing the 100-day mark, he was removed along with his deputy. Now, the president
1:05.5	says Mr. Walts will be nominated to be his U.N. ambassador, and perhaps it's only fitting that
1:09.6	the man who jeopardized both his position and, more perhaps it's only fitting that the man who jeopardized
1:11.0	both his position and, more importantly, national security by using the commercially encrypted
1:15.1	app signal when he shouldn't have would be photographed using Signal again during what would
1:20.6	turn out to be his last full day on the job. That is then National Security Advisor Michael
1:25.3	Waltz at yesterday's cabinet meeting, and yes, he is peaking at signal.
1:29.3	Same as he was using when he accidentally led Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg onto that text chain,
1:35.3	discussing an upcoming air strike on Houthi fighters in Yemen.
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