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Hey there from CNN. I'm Chris DeBoe with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, March 25th.

President Donald Trump expressed confidence in national security advisor Mike Waltz,

after a journalist was accidentally added to a highly sensitive group chat with top

cabinet members about strike plans in Yemen.

The president told NBC Waltz learned his lesson and claimed a staffer added Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg

to the group chat, even though Goldberg has said Waltz added him. Three Trump administration

sources told CNN their strategy is to downplay the severity of the situation and discredit

Goldberg. The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and CIA director John Ratcliffe were reportedly in this group chat too, and they're facing questions and criticism about it from the Senate Intelligence Committee in a hearing today about worldwide threats.

Coupled with recent failures, the finding in today's worldwide threat report should be a wake-up call to all of us to get our House in order.

It's also just mind-boggling to me that all these senior folks were on this line and nobody

bothered to even check.

Gabbard wouldn't say whether or not she was in the chat, citing ongoing reviews into it,

while Ratcliffe admitted he was looped in.

So my communications, to be clear, in a signal message group, were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.

We will make that determination, because if it's not classified, share the text with the committee.

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