Show Notes
This week, top Trump officials inadvertently shared secret U.S. military plans with a prominent journalist after mistakenly adding him to a group chat.
The journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, who is editor in chief at The Atlantic, discusses what he was thinking as he read the messages and what he makes of the fallout.
Guest: Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief at The Atlantic.
Background reading:
- Read Mr. Goldberg’s piece in The Atlantic about being added to the group chat.
- Read more about Mr. Goldberg, the editor mistakenly added to the Signal chat.
- Here’s the leaked chat, annotated.
- President Trump has downplayed the leak and pointed the finger at Mr. Goldberg.
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