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Intel Hearing On Group Chat, Return To Office Mandate, Black Sea Deal

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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President Trump's top intelligence officials face tough questions from lawmakers after a group chat security breach involving secret war plans and a journalist. Federal workers are being called back to the office, but some are finding chaotic conditions, including assignments to storage units. And, the U.S. brokers a deal to allow safe passage through the Black Sea, but Russia demands sanctions relief before it takes effect.

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0:00.0

Trump's intelligence officials got a grilling on Capitol Hill over sensitive war plans shared in a group chat.

0:08.7

It's hard for me to believe that targets and timing and weapons would not have been classified.

0:14.8

Will Democrats get the investigation they want?

0:17.1

I'm Michelle Martin here with Laila Faddle, and this is up first from NPR News.

0:23.1

Federal workers are being ordered back to the office, but when they get there, they're

0:26.9

finding there aren't enough chairs, desks, or toilet paper. How did one employee get told to

0:31.6

report to work at a storage unit? And the U.S. broker to deal between Russia and Ukraine to allow

0:36.5

safe passage through the Black Sea,

0:38.3

but Moscow wants sanctions relief first.

0:40.8

There are about five or six conditions. We're looking at all of them.

0:44.4

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1:13.6

The Trump administration is in damage control mode after the revelation this week that top national security officials shared secret war plans in a group

1:18.7

chat that included a journalist. President Trump was asked about it yesterday. We pretty much looked into it.

1:24.5

It's pretty simple, to be honest. It's not, it's just something that can happen.

1:30.3

CIA director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard were both part of

1:36.2

that group chat, and they appeared before Senate lawmakers yesterday for a previously scheduled hearing

1:41.7

where they faced tough questions about how this security breach could have happened.

1:46.6

NPR Justice correspondent Ryan Lucas is covering this and he's with us now with more. Good morning, Ryan.

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