LIVE AND UNEDITED! And back again for a midweek rant and quick-take on THE scoop of the week. ICYMI: National Security Advisor Michael Waltz negligently added the Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic to a group Signal message with other Trump Administration officials (Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and others). No one caught the new bonus addition, the group continued to discuss *attack plans* in Yemen, and now the Admin is scrambling for some messaging that sticks. Good news for us: The Atlantic released all the texts this morning! And good news for y’all: we work quick as hell!
Editor’s note: we know we say in the recording the ep wouldn’t be released til the next day… but this Thursday special was so hot we had to deliver it early. <3
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SOURCES:
Breuninger, Kevin. 2025. “The Atlantic Publishes Full Signal Thread With Hegseth, Waltz After Trump Says Texts Not Classified.” CNBC. March 26, 2025. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/atlantic-publishes-signal-thread-with-trump-vp-vance-hegseth-waltz.html
Goldberg, Jeffrey, and Shane Harris. 2025. “Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal.” The Atlantic, March 26. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/
“Karoline Leavitt on X: ‘the Atlantic Has Conceded: These Were NOT “War Plans.” This Entire Story Was Another Hoax Written by a Trump-hater Who Is Well-known for His Sensationalist Spin.” 2025. X (Formerly Twitter), March 26. https://x.com/PressSec/status/1904875629612331123
