Trump administration’s Signal attack plans published in full: Live updates

The stunning revelation that The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief was inadvertently added to a group chat detailing recent airstrikes in Yemen has called into question the U.S. government’s ability to safeguard sensitive information and has exposed a potentially big legal problem.

The behaviour of Trump’s top security personnel “blatantly violated security regulations designed to prevent exactly this kind of leak, which would trigger administrative punishments,” attorney Mitch Jackson wrote on his Substack, citing the Espionage Act, the Federal Records and Presidential Records Acts, among others.

Here’s Rhian Lubin with what else the experts have had to say about the administration’s eyebrow-raising blunder.

Jeffrey Goldberg and colleague Shane Harris have just published the full text thread exchange from the Signal group chat in which the likes of Hegseth, Waltz and Vance discuss their plans for targeting the Houthis in Yemen, which makes for some pretty interesting reading.

This is how White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded:

Here’s more from Rhian Lubin.

The Texas Democrat is facing sharp criticism from Republicans after she mocked Governor Greg Abbott over his wheelchair use.

Crockett has often been praised in recent weeks by progressives for her confrontational stance against conservatives and the Trump administration, particularly when her party elders like Chuck Schumer have been found wanting.

But speaking at the Human Rights Campaign 2025 dinner in Los Angeles this past weekend, the representative said: “We in these hot a** Texas streets, honey.

“Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there. Come on now! And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot a** mess, honey!”

Abbott was paralyzed below the waist at the age of 26 when an oak tree fell on him during a jog in 1984.

Gustaf Kilander and Graig Graziosi have more.

“I would caution my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to refrain from making fun of the ‘Gulf of America’ because next up, you know it may end up being the ‘District of America’ that we’re working on,” the MAGA representative told lawmakers during a Water, Fisheries and Wildlife Subcommittee hearing Tuesday in response to jibes from opposition members about the renaming.

“So just, you know, keep the jokes at bay, and maybe we’ll just stick with the Gulf of America for now.”

Madeline Sherratt reports.

During his Newsmax interview last night, the president pledged to take a “look into” whether the U.S. government should reach a settlement with the family of Ashli Babbit and also into the continued employment of the U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot her dead on January 6 2021.

Trump has repeatedly praised his supporters who attempted to overturn his 2020 election loss, including Babbitt.

The 35-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran, who sported a Trump flag as a cape, was fatally shot while climbing through a broken door barricaded by officers as they attempted to evacuate dozens of members of Congress.

Last January, Babbitt’s family filed a $30 million wrongful death suit against the government.

Very hard to degree with Democrat Eric Swalwell’s observation here on the Defense Secretary’s reassurances yesterday:

Here’s John Bowden’s analysis on what could happen next if this one refuses to blow over.

Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, demanded the resignations of senior Trump administration officials yesterday during an extremely timely and heated gathering of the panel.

Vice Chair Warner grilled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday and slammed National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after they failed to conduct “security hygiene 101” in their Signal chat, failing to notice that The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been included in the text chain.

“Putting aside for a moment that classified information should never be discussed over an unclassified system, it’s also just mind boggling to me that all these senior folks were on this line and nobody bothered to even check,” Warner said.

“Security hygiene 101 – who are all the names? Who are they?”

During the hearing, Warner posted on X that “incompetence is not an option” and said that both Hegseth and Waltz should step down.

The administration’s response to this week’s security scandal has so far been to dig in and hope it can convince Americans to dismiss the unprecedented lapse as media-driven partisan squabbling, even as Democrats are calling for resignations.

Andrew Feinberg and Eric Garcia have this on the mood in Washington right now.

Members of the leaky Signal group reportedly partied with the president at a $1-million-a-seat “candlelight fundraising dinner” at Mar-a-Lago hours after the successful bombing raid on the Houthis took place on March 15.

Some 53 people, including children, were killed in the attacks on Yemen.

According to Wired, the dinner included guests who had been on the chat earlier before the bombings, including National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Others apparently in attendance were Trump’s Middle East and Ukraine negotiator Steve Witkoff, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Elon Musk and his four-year-old son.

The vice president has said he will join his wife Usha on her trip to Greenland this week, suggesting in an online video that global security is at stake.

Vance will join the delegation in visiting the U.S. Space Base at Pituffik in the north of the Arctic territory, as Trump continues to put pressure on Denmark about acquiring it for the United States..

“We’re going to check out how things are going there,” Vance said in a video posted to social media.

“A lot of other countries have threatened Greenland, have threatened to use its territories and its waterways to threaten the United States, to threaten Canada, and of course, to threaten the people of Greenland. So we are going to check out how things are going there.

“Unfortunately, leaders in both America and in Denmark, I think, ignored Greenland for far too long.”