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Mediaite reports: The challenge for politicians in our digital age is that it’s all too easy for digital sleuths to dig up video clips of their past selves and smack them with charges of hypocrisy. Such is the tale of National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who accidentally added a reporter on a group chat discussing secret war plans but less …

The Washington Post reports: Several top officials in the Trump administration discussed highly sensitive military plans using an unclassified chat application that inadvertently included a journalist, the White House acknowledged Monday, a development that swiftly drew criticism from Washington’s national security establishment. Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said the message thread revealed in an …

The Hill reports: Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), a military veteran, on Monday called for a congressional hearing following a news report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted The Atlantic’s top editor key details of the U.S. plan to bomb Houthi targets, just two hours ahead of the attacks. “Only one word for this: FUBAR,” Ryan wrote in a post on …

Axios reports: Members of Congress in both parties exploded in anger Monday after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic revealed he was inadvertently included in a highly-sensitive Trump administration Signal chat on airstrikes in Yemen.  “This is an outrageous national security breach and heads should roll,” Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), a member of the Armed Services Committee, said in a statement …

Jeffrey Goldberg writes for The Atlantic: The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted …

The Associated Press reports: Second lady Usha Vance plans a trip to Greenland, at a time when President Donald Trump has suggested the United States should take control over the self-governing, mineral-rich territory of American ally Denmark. Vance will leave on Thursday and return Saturday, according to her office. Vance and one of her three children will be part of …

CBS News reports: The U.S. and Ukraine said Kyiv would accept a 30-day ceasefire with Russia after talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, with Washington pledging to immediately lift a freeze on intelligence sharing and military aid to Ukraine. “Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual …

“I think the Canadian people, many of them, would love to join the United States with no tariffs, with lower taxes. I have all kinds of neighbors down in Florida who are Canadians who are escaping the liberal policies and are moving in. “What you’re seeing is a reassertion of American leadership in the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic all …

“Everyone is coming to the table because of President Trump. His resounding victory sent a clear message to the rest of the world that chaos won’t be tolerated. I’m glad to see concrete steps towards deescalation in the Middle East. But let’s be clear: The Iran Regime is the root cause of the chaos & terror that has been unleashed …

The Hill reports: Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) will resign from the House on Jan. 20, the day President-elect Trump takes office, to become the national security adviser for Trump’s second term, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill. His upcoming resignation means that House Republicans, who were already slated to have a razor-tight majority, will be at …

Axios reports: White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met earlier this week with Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), who President-elect Trump has appointed as his national security adviser, two sources with knowledge of the meeting said. The first meeting between Sullivan and his successor, who will inherit a set of spiraling crises around the world, took place even though the …

The Wall Street Journal reports: President-elect Donald Trump has asked Rep. Mike Waltz, a Green Beret veteran who served in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa, to be his White House national security adviser, according to people familiar with the discussion. The national security adviser, a highly influential post appointed by the president that doesn’t require Senate confirmation, coordinates among …

“This rhetoric against President Trump, this narrative that he will be the next dictator, that he is the next Hitler coming, it has got to stop. Enough is enough. And when you have this narrative coming from the left, from [the] media, from elected officials, even, that Trump has to be stopped by any means necessary, it shouldn’t surprise anyone …