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Would you need to tell them? I am tell them.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's time for Donkey of the Day.
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It's a read.
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But you're so good at charlomage.
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You want charlomage.
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Solomame who is even dust the other day?
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Soon?
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Then donkey today for Wednesday, March twenty fifth, goes the
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. Now Mike Waltsh accepted full
responsibility Tuesday for accidentally including Atlantic Magazine's editor in chief
Jeffrey Goldberg in a signal group chat with discussions about
military strikes against the what is it the hooties?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
The hootie?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Who's the hooties? And ye even took place? Yes, if
you haven't heard top US officials, which apparently included Vice
President J. D. Vance, The Finch, Secretary Pete Hexth, national
Security Advisor Mike Waltz. They added Jeffrey Goldberg to a
signal platform messaging group where classified military plans were being discussed.
I can't make this kind of stuff up. Let's go
to the news repot please.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's one of the most bizarre and potentially consequential national
security lapses to reach the public forum. Top Trump administration officials,
including national security Advisor Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
Vice President JD. Vance, and Director of National Intelligence Toolsey
Gabbard laid out plans about the US's attack on the
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Huthis and Yemen before putting it into action. The chat
over the unauthorized encrypted messaging app Signal accidentally invited in
on the conversation. Editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
At eleven forty four am. I receive a text in
this chain from someone who claims to be Pete Hegseip,
who provides what I would only call it I can
only call a warplan. I sort of just sort of
wait with my phone to see if this is a
real thing. Sure enough, and around one fifty Eastern time,
I see that Yemen is under attack.
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The White House confirmed the messages Goldberg reported were authentic.
Hegseth then went after and dismissed the reporting itself. Nobody
just sting war plans.
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And that's all I have to say about that.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Jesus Christ, that was ABC News for the report at
this point? Who is God letting executive produce America? This
dramedy is hilarious?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Lauren Michaels, maybe even Key and Peel, the Wayne's brothers,
Dave Chappelle and Neil Brennan. Maybe I don't know. Look,
I don't even know how satire is even a thing nowadays,
because his life itself is a spoof. Now, remember what
I said earlier, Mike Waltz is taking full responsibility. Let's listen.
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It's embarrassing. Yes, we're going to get to the bottom
of it. We have. I just talked to Elon on
the way here. We've got the best technical minds looking
at how this happened. But I can tell you I
don't know this guy. I know him by his horrible
reputation and he really is the bottom scum of journalists,
and I know him in the sense that he hates
the president. But I don't text him. He went on
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my phone. And we're going to figure out how this is.
So you don't know what staffer is responsible for this
right now? Well, look he staffer wasn't responsible. And look,
I take full responsibility. I built the I built the
group to my job is to make sure everything's coordinated.
But how that's a cute. I mean, I don't mean
to be pedantic here, but how did the number. Have
you ever had Have you ever had somebody's contact that
shows their name and then you have an and then
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you have somebody else's. Right, You've got somebody else's number
on someone else's contact. So of course I didn't see
this loser in the group. It looked like someone else. Now,
whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some
other technical means something we're trying to figure out.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
First of all, that's an O mission of guilt. Okay,
Mike Wall said, I take full responsibility. I built the group.
My job is to make sure everything is coordinated. Cool,
So now Trump knows who to fire, right. This level
of incompetence can't be corrected with it my bad. I
mean we're talking classified military plans being discussed over signal. Well,
WhatsApp wasn't available sidebar. I've had so many people try
to get me on signals since Signal and Signaling, and
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I never understood why people wanted to get on that app.
When people say it's because you can have top secret
conversations and nobody can see them mis encrypted, I'm like,
y'all really believe that. Okay, that's actually the easiest way
to get people's information. If I wanted to get everybody's
top secret compos I would create an app that's available
for anyone to download, and I would tell them everything
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on here is secret and nobody will see it. And boom,
now I got you in your top secret war plans. Now,
Mike Waltz has accepted full responsibility. Okay, this is what
he said. But I need y'all to understand that when
you accept full responsibility, that means you and you alone
are responsible. Mike Wafts didn't do that. In fact, all
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he did was blame Jeffrey Golbert, who didn't have to
be in his group chat to begin with. Let's hear
that again.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I don't know this guy. I know him by his
horrible reputation and he really is a bottom scum of journalists.
And I know him in the sense that he hates
the President. But I don't text him. He went on
my phone and we're going to figure out how this happens.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
This is not what full responsibility looks like. Okay, this
is not what taking full responsibility looks like.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Mike.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You already said you are the person who coordinated you
and you alone invited Jeffrey Goldberg to this group chat.
Imagine being the person who got invited somewhere they didn't
want to be in the first place. Okay, the party
is trash and the party promoted blames.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You for the party being whack.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I didn't even have to be here. Okay, if I'm
such a loser, why do you have my number to
begin with? Why would you have your boss's ops and
your phone? You said I'm an antagonist of Trump. No,
I'm a person who calls our bs when I see it.
And this guy, Jeffrey Goldberg, was exposed to the incompetence
of some of our top us officials, and he decided
to do the right thing and share that with the public. Okay,
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Mike Waltz, I would have respected it if you would
have said this was stupid. We were incompetent. I was incompetent.
It's my fault. Therefore I'm stepping down. But no, that's
not what anyone in the Trump administration likes to do.
They take all the credit when something is good and
deflect and blame others when something goes wrong. Mike Waltz,
Mike Waltz, Mike Waltz, Always remember it's easy to blame
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others when things are broken. The hard part is recognizing
the part in it all. Please give Mike Walts, the
National Security Advisor, the biggest he hull. All right, square
up with you so bad? No, I don't. I just
think that it's ridiculous to say you take full responsibility
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for something, but then as you're taking full responsibility, and
I put that in their quotes, you're blaming the other person.
And the fact that our top US officials are discussing
military plans on signal.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Ye, signal men.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Always been done in the group chat.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
That's been a thing for centuries.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You know what, You're absolutely right, You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
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