guys I'm not going to lie to you this situation is bad we all know this is like rule one what happens in a group chat stays in a group chat if that sh sees the light of day 99% of people are cooked I mean look what happened to Chris Tyson all of those sus messages were from a group chat and not only did that destroy Chris's career but that was the Catalyst for almost destroying Mr beasts 2 but now imagine if that group chat belonged to the world's most powerful top officials you might wonder what would they be speaking about and what happens if that leaked to the world well that is exactly what's happened this week and honestly after reading into this whole situation I'm going to say it I think we may have just witnessed one of the most embarrassing leaked group chats of all time because not only did it belong to the vice president of the United States and his top officials but they were freaking chopping it up about bombing another country and and speaking sh about Europe behind their back and I know it sounds crazy to say but I don't actually know which is worse the fact that this leaked or how it was leaked because it's not even like they got hacked they themselves accidentally added a journalist of all people into the chat oh man honestly this is truly one of the most insane stories of the year so we got a lot to go through so I guess without further Ado let's stop the Yapp in and let's oh man get get what can I use oh this is so pathetic let's get again Alex do some amazing [ __ ] with editing to make that look good because it was terrible okay firstly you can see I'm not in the new St Empire garage I am in Texas baby and uh currently obviously I'm just like this has to do it's a bit echoey there's a highway right there whatever I'm still getting news to you so shut the [ __ ] up kidding right let's get into it okay so on March the 11th 3 weeks ago keep that in mind the Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added into a group chat on Signal gosh there's actually so many things in the first sentence that we need to unpack first and foremost signal right the Pentagon themselves say that apps like that should not be used as classified Communication channel straight up shouldn't be used and you know to be fair to them it is supposed to be end to end encrypted so signal themselves shouldn't even be able to see the messages but if the Pentagon say it shouldn't be used I imagine there's more to it you'd think they'd have their own government app to chat on right well I don't know I guess they don't secondly the fact that they had a random number in there for for 3 weeks and no one was like huh I I wonder who who that is you know that's wild and lastly out of all of the people that you could have added in you accidentally add a journalist the editorinchief of the Atlantic in fact it is so surreal that when I first read this I was like maybe this wasn't like this was like a purposeful leak because mistakes like that that surreal is almost just like no it can't be true there's got to be something to it anyway journalist Jeff immediately thinks this has got to be a prank right we all would think that he said no way have I just been added to a group chat with the real and let me actually let me run through these people with you Vice President of the United States JD vents the Secretary of Defense Pete hegseth the chief of staff Susie Wilds Trump's National Security adviser Mike Waltz the director of the CIA the intelligence agency how the Secretary of State Marco Rubio the White House policy adviser Steven Miller and more that is wild and yeah I think like most of us Jeff didn't really think too much of it until they started talking about plans to carry out air strikes against Yemen and the houthis I mean this group chat was literally called houthi PC small group oh man and at this point you kind of need to understand a little bit of context as to why they were talking about the houthis in Yemen because as we know because you follow me on Tik Tok and YouTube the Gaza and Israel ceasefire broke down in the last couple of weeks meaning that the houthi started attacking ships traveling through the BB alub straight again and the signal group chat was the Trump administration's uh way of communicating how to respond to this matter and this is where Europe starts getting dragged into this because we all know that the US has made it pretty clear to Europe and the world that they need to be responsible for their own security and ever since they've been making it very clear Europe has kind of done just that recently they even announced a nearly $1 trillion allocation to build up their Collective defense so it's safe to say Europe they get the message all right but when the individuals in this group were talking about how to respond to the houthis several members expressed frustration about having to be the ones to save European trade and this is because the ships that the houthis are targeting are far more European than American in the chat they said things like only 3% of us trade runs through the seis while 40% of Europe p and trade does now JD Vance jumped in you know when those people are like silent and then suddenly in the group chat and then suddenly someone says something and they're like all this feels like the JD Vance type he jumps in on this topic and he says I just hate bailing you're about again to which the Secretary of Defense replied I fully share your loathing of European freeloading it's pathetic all caps bro just imagine Europe reading this right now through a leaked group chat that's oh my God this is like the most 2025 story if if there could be like a perfect chef's kiss of a 2025 story this would be it it's got all the right ingredients JD vents even then questions Trump's Thinking by saying I'm not sure the president is aware of how inconsistent this is with the messaging on Europe right now essentially saying that we're helping them out there's a further risk that we see moderate to a severe spike in oil prices if they carry out these strikes now they go back and forth a little bit and regardless of events his apprehension they eventually come to the conclusion that the US military should carry out these strikes because and I quote we are the only ones on the planet that can actually do this after they all finally came to an agreement they then started inserting precise information and this is important precise information on the in the group chat about weapons packages targets and timings and keep in mind during all of this there's Jeff the journalist sat and I this is all true in a freaking parking lot of a supermarket in his car reading the timings of a country bombing another country in a group chat wow like a Walmart or summon and he is still thinking because this is so surreal this has got to be fake but you know on the off chance that this isn't he says all right let's just check Twitter at the time these strikes are supposed to go down just in case and sure enough I think you see where this is going he has just seen real classified military plans 2 hours before the bombs struck 2 hours oh my God this is the wildest part it's kind of my personal favorite I'm not going to lie so after the air strikes were carried out Mike Waltz hits the group chat with emojis to celebrate ain't no way dropping the fire emoji and the fist bump Emoji after carrying out air strikes on another country is crazy now there's even an update to this story because we are a serious News Channel and we do updates live on air in real time this update is literally coming at me as I'm recording because yesterday we only saw a small portion of all of these group chats right because Jeff the journalist said that if he leaked all of it and it got into the hands of the wrong people you're a foreign adversary he says and I quote it could harm the American Military and intelligence Personnel now because yesterday he only released some this prompted some of the members of the group chat to try and cover their bases and they actually started attacking Jeff The journalist's credibility and they said and I think this was in JD Vance's words he was overselling the information that he saw the White House said Jeffrey Goldberg is well known for his sensationalist spin here are the facts about the latest Story one no war plans were discussed two no classified material was sent to the thread and then one other thing and then thanks to this strong and decisive leadership of President Trump and everyone in the group the houthi strike were successful and effective terrorists were killed and that's what matters to president Trump Mike Waltz who was in the group chat said no locations no sources and methods no war plans foreign Partners had already been notified that the strikes were imminent bottom line president Trump is protecting America and our interests now the senate in a hearing that they had on this whole situation disagreed with this saying if those messages got into the hands prematurely of Russia or China and then they passed them to the hoot it could have led to the death of American Personnel in addition to that the CIA themselves asked Jeff to not release the name of an undercover CIA agent whose identity was allegedly exposed in the group chat so Jeff is saying one things there absolutely was war plans being discussed in there and classified information and then us officials are saying no war plans no classified information and guess what live reporting just now this happened in response today to being dismissed by all of these top officials in the White House Jeff dropped this statement the statements by Heth gabard Ratcliffe and Trump combined with the assertions made by numerous Administration officials that we are lying about the contents of the signal texts have led us to believe that the people should see the text in order to reach their own conclusions there is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that the Trump advisor included in non-secure communication channels especially because senior Administration figures are ATT attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared bro said all right I wasn't going to do it but if you guys want to play this way and we go want to go down this road let's do it so he's basically now saying that he's going to release the full tax everything that he saw into the Atlantic now we're not actually sure if he's going to redact the name of that undercover CIA agent but I imagine you know luckily he's an American that saw this you know and he he wants to protect the interests of his country imagine this was someone else but I imagine that he would redact the name um but I don't know we'll see and that's kind of like the very edge I imagine there's going to be a lot more Fallout but we're at the very edge of what's going down here um and it seems to be getting crazier every single day so I imagine we'll have an update by the end of the week but I think I think let's call it for today Alex everyone I love you I'm in Texas so drop down recommendations while I'm here I'm going to be in Houston and Austin of course don't tell me to try a barbecue I know don't tell me to shoot guns I know but if there's anything else let me know we are not dropping the workload and the News load this week I don't care what I have to do I love you guys and I will see you in the next one make the bed look at this I made the bed for you guys look at how perfect I mean you guys probably already know I've said a few times but I used to be a cleaner used to make beds and look at the fold on that I don't know if you can see it if you can't whatever but just know that that's a beautifully made bed love you peace