This Group Chat Should Have Been An Email feat. Sen. Mark Warner

这次群聊本应是一封电子邮件——马克·华纳参议员联袂呈现

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2025-03-26

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were on Capitol Hill Tuesday for what was supposed to be a routine annual hearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Except it ended up being anything but routine, coming one day after The Atlantic published a damning report about how top Trump officials shared imminent battle plans in a private group chat on Signal. President Donald Trump and other top White House officials spent the day insisting no classified information was shared in that group chat. Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, explains why their claims are hard to believe. And later in the show, Wall Street Journal National Security reporter Alex Ward talks about why Signal-gate is such a big deal. And in headlines: Russia and Ukraine agree to a partial ceasefire, the Department of Homeland Security said it has stopped processing some Green Card applications, and some Florida lawmakers have a solution to fill jobs vacated by deported migrants: child labor!
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  • It's Wednesday, March 26th.

  • I'm Jane Kostin, and this is what a day.

  • The show that you can email and the email won't bounce back,

  • which is not true for Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.

  • On today's show,

  • Russia and Ukraine agree to a partial ceasefire and some Florida lawmakers have a solution for all those jobs vacated by migrants child labor.

  • But let's start with the group chat that's taken over my group chat and the news cycle.

  • Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were on Capitol Hill Tuesday for what was supposed to be a routine hearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee,

  • except it ended up being not very routine

  • because both of them were reportedly part of that now infamous group chat on Signal we told you about yesterday.

  • You know,

  • the one where the vice president and the country's top military and national security officials were reportedly sharing classified information about imminent strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen on an unsecure platform,

  • all while the editor in chief of the Atlantic looked on

  • because the national security advisor had allegedly added him to the chat.

  • Who amongst us right senators, naturally had some questions?

  • Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly asked both Gabbard and Ratcliffe whether they knew about a Defense Department policy that basically says,

  • hey, don't talk about sensitive information on unsecured devices like cell phones.

  • Not even some of the unclassified stuff.

  • Are both of you aware of that DoD policy?

  • I haven't read that policy, not familiar.