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President Donald Trump will make an announcement about tariffs on the auto business right this moment at 4:00 p.m. within the Oval Office, press secretary Karoline Leavitt declares on the White House briefing.

Calling the White House’s bluff, The Atlantic launched the messages Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth despatched to a Signal chat group — which inadvertently included Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg — detailing the assault plans on Houthi targets in Yemen.

Immediately and unsurprisingly, the denizens of President Donald Trump’s favourite morning speak present dismissed the bombshell revelation as a nothingburger, insisting that Goldberg had “overpromised” when he first reported that Hegseth had shared “war plans” in an unclassified textual content chain that included a journalist who was randomly added to it.

Trump responded to the leak throughout a Wednesday look on The Vince Show podcast by cognian win.

Katie Hawkinson and Rhian Lubin report.

House Democrats this morning joined requires Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to resign over the Signal app scandal.

“It is completely outrageous to me that administration officials come before us today with impunity, no acceptance of responsibility,” mentioned Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado. He mentioned Pete Hegseth “must resign immediately. There can be no fixes, there can be no corrections until there is accountability.”

Other Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee rejected assertions by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe that no categorized materials was included within the chat.

They identified that chat messages launched by The Atlantic on Wednesday as proof that the publicity may have jeopardized the mission’s success or endangered U.S. service members’ lives.

“This is classified information. It’s a weapon system, as well as a sequence of strikes, as well as details of the operations,” mentioned Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois. “He needs to resign immediately.”

Embattled Republicans scrambled to downplay the severity of the breach after Goldberg’s explosive report detailed how White House National Security adviser Mike Waltz mistakenly invited him to an encrypted chat the place prime officers mentioned an impending U.S. strike in Yemen.

Hours earlier than President Trump tried to shift the blame to an unidentified “lower level” White House worker, his eldest son focused Golberg on X.

James Liddell has the story.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says that he continues to help all members of President Donald Trump’s nationwide safety workforce following the staggering safety breach generated by their group chat on Signal.

“President Trump and his team have admitted that having a journalist in the group text was wrong, will be reviewed … I believe that all the participants in the chat were under the impression they were using an appropriate and secure form of communication.”

Read Graham’s full assertion by way of X:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, at present on a tour of U.S. bases within the Pacific, has entered the chat (so to talk) and joined the Trump administration’s condemnation of the characterization of what he posted within the Signal group chat as “war plans.”

So, let’s me get this straight. The Atlantic launched the so-called “war plans” and people “plans” embody: No names. No targets. No areas. No items. No routes. No sources. No strategies. And no categorized data.

Those are some actually shitty conflict plans.

This solely proves one factor: Jeff Goldberg has by no means seen a conflict plan or an “attack plan” (as he now calls it). Not even shut.

As I kind this, my workforce and I are touring the INDOPACOM area, assembly w/ Commanders (the blokes who make REAL “war plans”) and speaking to troops.

We will proceed to do our job, whereas the media does what it does finest: peddle hoaxes.

Hegseth was a part of the media from 2014 to 2024 when he labored at Fox News.

Illinois Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi: “This text message is clearly classified information. Secretary Hegseth has disclosed military plans as well as classified information. He needs to resign immediately.”