Fallout is growing after a Politico investigation revealed offensive and vile text messages exchanged in a private young Republicans group chat.

The report details racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic language shared among about a dozen members over several months.

To talk more about what the messages reveal and how party leaders are responding, we're joined now by political reporter, Emily Noe, who broke the story.

Thanks for being with us.

Yeah, thank you for having me.

So we have screenshots of these messages in question based on your reporting.

Some of what's on screen here includes racist and anti-Semitic slurs, homophobic sexist messages.

There's talk of putting political opponents

in gas chambers, threats of rape and violence. This is just a glimpse of what you uncovered

across thousands of telegram messages. I understand several of the people involved have already

lost their jobs. What more can you tell us about the fallout and who's been affected?

Right. The fallout has been vast, the story and our reporting has reverted widely across the nation.

By our most recent count, we have eight of the 12 members of this chat that, as you said,

is just filled with racist epithets and gay slurs and references to violence are out

of their jobs.

When we started our reporting, started making the calls after laying out some of these

messages in our drafts, too preemptively were fired from their jobs or had a job offer rescinded.

And pretty soon after we published, we saw that others lost their jobs too.

And the response has reached the highest levels to include the White House.

Here's what the Vice President J.D. Vance said about this yesterday.

The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys, they tell edgy, offensive

jokes, like that's what kids do.

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