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PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic - Full Show

Washington Week with The Atlantic, 3/28/25

PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic - Full Show

Washington Week

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The fallout continues following Jeffrey Goldberg’s report that top members of President Trump’s national security team discussed military attack plans in a Signal group chat that inadvertently included Goldberg. Joining Goldberg to discuss this and more are Peter Baker of The New York Times, Susan Glasser of The New Yorker, Laura Barrón-López of PBS News Hour and Shane Harris of the Atlantic.

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0:00.0

Tonight on Washington Week, we'll talk about, you guessed it, SignalGate, my inadvertent inclusion

0:08.0

in the suddenly famous Houthi PC Small Group and the consequences of this astonishing security breach.

0:15.8

Next.

0:19.3

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

0:22.9

Despite the Trump administration's enthusiastic efforts to deflect attention away from SignalGate

0:27.9

and the extraordinary security breach it represents, they're doing this mainly by calling me unpleasant names,

0:33.6

Senate leaders of both parties are calling for an investigation and national security advisor Mike Walts, who first included me in the Signal Group, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegesith, are both facing calls to resign.

0:45.2

Joining me tonight to discuss this controversy, Peter Baker, the Chief White House correspondent at the New York Times,

0:51.5

Laura Barone Lopez is the White House correspondent for PBS News Hour. Susan Glasser is a staff writer at The New York Times. Laura Barone Lopez is the White House correspondent for PBS News Hour.

0:55.0

Susan Glasser is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and Shane Harris covers the intelligence

1:00.7

agencies for the Atlantic.

1:03.8

So hi.

1:04.8

Hi.

1:05.8

Hi.

1:06.8

Nice to see all of you.

1:07.7

Thank you for being here.

1:09.4

It's a little bit of an unusual show, but we're just going to act like it's not.

1:14.9

Thank you for all having your phones with you.

1:16.8

I want them visible at all times.

1:19.8

Let's start by talking about the consequences, the serious national security consequences of this issue.

1:28.3

And I want to start with Shane, who can probably lead us through better than almost anyone,

1:33.3

what this means for security and safety in the national security realm.

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