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Trump Officials Debated War Plans on Unclassified Chat App

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

44K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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A.M. Edition for Mar. 25. Group-chat drama roils Washington after senior government officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accidentally let a journalist in on sensitive war plans. Plus, Boeing eyes a chance to withdraw from a Biden-era guilty plea deal. WSJ aviation reporter Ben Katz explains how securing more lenient treatment in the case could be crucial for the embattled company’s recovery. And Canadians get cold feet about traveling south of the border. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Group chat drama, Royals Washington, after top officials accidentally led a journalist in on sensitive war plans.

0:42.1

This is one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time.

0:50.1

Plus Boeing eyes a chance to withdraw from a Biden-era guilty plea deal, and Canadians get

0:56.6

cold feet about traveling to the U.S. It's Tuesday, March 25th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall

1:02.7

Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business

1:07.9

stories moving your world today.

1:13.5

We begin in Washington following revelations that senior national security officials in the Trump

1:18.8

administration discussed highly classified war plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen using a non-government

1:26.3

messaging service and mistakenly included a journalist in the

1:29.9

conversation. The chats over the encrypted signal app included Vice President J.D. Vance,

1:36.6

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and others. The existence

1:42.6

of the chats was first reported by the Atlantic,

1:45.9

whose editor Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently included in the discussion, and a National Security

1:51.3

Council spokesman confirmed the authenticity of the messages. Journal National Security correspondent

1:56.9

Michael Gordon has more. Signal is a popular app for holding private discussions,

2:01.8

but national security experts say that government security procedures do not allow it to be used to convey classified information.

2:09.8

The government has its own secure communications channels for that.

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