Trump's team leaked a top secret war plan. Now what?

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Top Trump officials included the editor of the Atlantic in a Signal group chat discussing plans to strike Houthis in Yemen. Now their political futures hang in the balance.

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00:00Everyone in the White House today is walking on eggshells, wondering if President Trump

00:04is going to pop off and fire National Security Advisor Mike Walz.

00:08Why?

00:09Well, for creating a signal group text that included what looked like pretty sensitive

00:14war plans, then adding a reporter to the thread.

00:17Here are four dynamics to watch as this scandal sucks up all the oxygen in Washington.

00:22Number one, everyone's pissed.

00:24A top Trump ally told me last night, quote, everyone in the White House can agree on one

00:29thing, Mike Walz is a f***ing idiot, but ultimately it's going to be up to President

00:34Trump.

00:35And I'm told that he's going to make this decision based on the TV coverage of this

00:38embarrassing scandal.

00:39This morning, the president said he's sticking with Walz and that he has confidence in him,

00:43but I am told that that could actually change on a dime.

00:46Number two, MAGA versus the Hawks.

00:48Walz is already viewed with suspicion by a lot of people in the administration who are

00:52more isolationist America first type people.

00:55Some see this as the perfect excuse to sideline him, but more traditional hawkish Republicans,

01:01including a lot of them on the Hill, they see Walz as an ally and they're actually

01:04starting to circle the wagons to protect him.

01:06Case in point, Speaker Mike Johnson.

01:09Here's the thing.

01:10I'm told that even if Walz survives this scandal, he has actually already lost the

01:13trust of a lot of his colleagues in the administration.

01:16People are always going to wonder, is he leaking things to this reporter?

01:19Does he often talk to other reporters?

01:21Number three, amateur hour.

01:23Let's make one thing clear.

01:25Walz is not the only person under the gun here.

01:28There were 18 people on the signal chain, 18 top Trump officials.

01:33And finally, remember Locker Up?

01:36Republicans tormented Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server and what

01:40that meant in terms of classified documents.

01:42Now they're rushing to defend the administration.

01:45Democrats, of course, on the other hand, they're pouncing on this controversy after they defended

01:49Clinton.

01:50Guys, only in Washington.

01:55He said, you know, you have a 440.

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