Keeping Them Honest: Downplay, Disparage, Deny

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.1 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The President and his national security team are aggressively downplaying a group chat with critical military strike plans that included a journalist. Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe also insisted today that no material shared in the chat was classified as they appeared at a heated Senate hearing. The officials shifted responsibility on the defense secretary for sending potentially classified information in the group chat. Plus, inside a Southern California crime ring and their elaborate scheme targeting surfers. Nick Watt shows how the accused criminals were finally taken down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Vanta.
0:03.5	Stressing over cybersecurity, whether you're a startup, growing fast, or already established.
0:08.6	Vanta can help you get ISO-27,01 certified and more.
0:13.5	Plus, it allows your company to centralize security workflows,
0:17.6	complete questionnaires up to five times faster,
0:19.7	and proactively manage vendor risk
0:22.0	to help your team stay compliant.
0:24.2	Head to vanta.com slash Spotify to learn more.
0:28.3	Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.
0:33.4	Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand,
0:41.0	marketing tools that get your products out there.
0:43.3	Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.
0:46.0	From startups to scale ups, online, in person and on the go.
0:50.6	Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you.
0:53.0	Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.
1:00.2	Tonight on 360, security breach. What security breach? The president and his national security team,
1:05.3	aggressively downplay sending critical military strike plans to a journalist. And vital cancer research
1:10.6	in jeopardy after deep
1:11.8	funding cuts to a Pentagon program that focuses on cures for some of the most deadly cancers.
1:17.3	Also, tonight we'll take you inside a Southern California crime ring and their elaborate scheme
1:21.3	targeting surfers, how the accused criminals are finally taken down. Good evening. We begin tonight
1:26.6	with breaking news and a breach of national
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -5 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.