For more on the fallout from today's top stories, I'm joined by our Politics Monday team.

That is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Great to see you both.

Tam, kick us off here.

I want to begin with that stunning Atlantic report by Jeff Goldberg about being added to a national security group chat about military operations unfolding on signal.

What kind of reaction are we seeing among lawmakers to this?

I think some very telling reaction is from the president of the United States, who was asked about it and essentially said, I don't know.

He said, you're telling me about it for the first time. This was hours after the story broke, and he's claiming not to have been briefed on this major national security breach. You have lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, bicameral, all of it, concerned, very concerned about this, because this was a breach. And, you know, the question is in an administration

where the President of the United States has given himself, his White House broad authority

to give security clearances to pretty much anyone they want without going through the process,

are they going to take this seriously or not? Amy, what's your take on that?

They'll take this seriously or not? Well, I think the first place we're going to look is what do

Republicans in Congress decide to do? I think it's pretty clear that had there been a Democratic

president in office that this had happened under their watch,

I would expect to see Republicans rise up and say there must be hearings here. Remember,

Congress is a co-equal branch. Their job is to hold the executive branch responsible and to

dig into these sorts of incidents.

Now, Democrats right now are calling for these level of hearings.

We're not hearing that from Republicans yet.

They come back today, tonight, and I think that would be something that you could see.

We have these conversations a lot on this

between the three of us about whether we're seeing an adequate position and when it comes to the

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