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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) mocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) hearing aimed at defunding PBS and NPR.

During a Wednesday hearing on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE), Garcia noted that Republicans were more concerned about agencies for public broadcasting than Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sharing secret war plans with a reporter.

A Republican member of the House Armed Services committee claimed he was unaware of a major development in an unfolding Pentagon scandal involving the highest levels of government.

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) appeared Wednesday morning on CNN, about two hours after The Atlantic published new highly detailed text messages from defense secretary Pete Hegseth revealing plans for a bombing raid in Yemen hours before it was carried out, and said he wasn't sure any crimes were committed by revealing classified information over the non-secure Signal app.

CNN's John Berman pushed back against a Republican lawmaker who tried to downplay the gravity of the scandal swirling around Donald Trump's national security team.

The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported new details from the war plans disclosed by defense secretary Pete Hegseth in a group chat to which he had been added, apparently by mistake, and Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) told CNN those deliberations should not have occurred on a commercially available encrypted app.

Appearing on MSNBC moments after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made her opening statement before the House Intelligence Committee, national security lawyer Mark Zaid noted the Donald Trump appointee made an admission that deserves investigation.

Speaking with host Ana Cabrera, and after Gabbard also asserted she couldn't talk in-depth about the Signal chat revelations because of a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Zaid focused on Gabbard stating that the Signal app comes pre-installed on government devices.

Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo and Rep. James Comer (R-KY) agreed that PBS and NPR should be defunded after a reporter's microphone accidentally brushed President Donald Trump's face.

During a Wednesday segment on Fox Business, Bartiromo told Comer that Trump had called for the public broadcasting agencies to have their funding revoked.

Law professor Alan Dershowitz, a defender of President Donald Trump, insisted Republican attempts to impeach judges ruling against the Trump administration were "not constitutionally permissible" and would eventually fail.

During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, Dershowitz was asked about Trump allies who want to impeach U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg and other members of the judiciary for blocking parts of Trump's agenda.

As a pre-scheduled Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) provided expert analysis on what constitutes confidential war-planning secrets contained within the explosive Signal chat revelations that has Donald Trump's administration on its heels, two MSNBC hosts could be heard on un-muted mics gasping.

During an appearance on "Morning Joe," Warner was on hand when news broke that The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had published a collection of screenshots showing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sharing an extraordinarily detailed play-by-play on how the attack on the Houthi rebels would proceed just moments before the assault.

Co-host Jonathan Lemire took part in the interview and read to Warner Hegseth's comments and pressed him on whether they could have compromised the mission and led to American deaths.

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"Just a couple more," Lemire asked his guest before reading Hegseth writing, "'1415 strike drones on target.' This is again, this is all caps. 'This is when the first bombs will definitely drop pending earlier trigger-based targets.'"

"Good lord!" the off-screen Joe Scarborough exclaimed and co-host Mike Brzezinski could be heard letting out an audible gasp.

"The old Russian KGB would give their arm and a leg to try to get that information in real-time, " Sen. Warner contributed.

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Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) on Wednesday did his best to spin Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth leaking top-secret war plans as a positive.

During an interview with CNN's Kate Bolduan, Davidson was asked if he had any concerns about Hegseth inadvertently sharing plans with Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg could have put American service personnel in jeopardy.

Democratic strategist Maria Cardona unloaded on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday amid the fallout from revelations that he inadvertently sent top-secret war plans to the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.

Appearing on CNN, Cardona labeled Hegseth the "secretary of the indefensible" and argued that his cavalier approach to the United States' most closely guarded secrets was emblematic of a lack of seriousness within the Trump administration as a whole.

A cybersecurity expert dismissed national security adviser Mike Waltz's excuse for inviting a journalist to a group chat where high-ranking government officials discussed plans for a bombing raid in Yemen.

The national security adviser suggested to Fox News host Laura Ingraham that The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg has somehow gotten "sucked into" the group chat on Signal, but British security blogger Graham Cluley said that explanation simply isn't plausible.

Donald Trump's national security advisor's attempt to spread blame for the massive security breach during an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday night got a thorough beat-down on MSNBC Wednesday morning.

As the Trump administration attempts to weather a firestorm over The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg being allowed access to a Signal chatroom littered with Trump's inner circle discussing an upcoming attack on Huthis, adviser Mike Waltz ran to the safe space of Laura Igraham's show where he tried to pin the blame of Goldberg for something he is ultimately responsible for.

As he told Fox's Ingraham, "I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but of all the people out there, somehow this guy who has lied about the president, who has lied to Gold Star families, lied to their attorneys, and gone to Russia, hoax, gone to just all kinds of links to lie and smear the president United States, and he’s the one that somehow gets on somebody’s contact and then get sucked into this group."

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He then added, "I didn’t see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical mean, is something we’re trying to figure out.”

That led "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough to comment, "I mean, there's so much wrong there ––where to begin? First of all, you know, feeling the need to call a guy a scumbag and bottom feeder and all this other stuff. I mean, again, it just actually speaks to the culture, just the the sad culture there, number one."

"But also Laura, by the way, pushed, kept pushing him 'Well, wait a second,' you know, and he's saying 'We've got the best technical minds, we're going to get Elon Musk.' You don't need Elon Musk," the MSNBC host exclaimed. "You added it and then it's like, 'Okay, well the staff, it's not the staffer's fault, it's my fault. We don't know how he got there, maybe he put himself on.' He didn't put himself on there! That's not how it works. He added him or somebody in his office added him."

"Number two: I'm sorry, but I think if I were on a national security chain like that, I would be looking at every single number and say, "Okay, who do we have on here?" he added.

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A Democratic lawmaker isn't buying excuses by Donald Trump's high-ranking national security officials for how a journalist ended up in their encrypted group chat to discuss war plans, and he said there's another element to the scandal that's been buried.

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he was invited by national security adviser Mike Waltz into a Signal chat where defense secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed detailed plans for a bombing raid in Yemen that took place about two hours later, but Rep. Dave Min (D-CA) said those officials should not have been using the commercially available encrypted app to have those discussions.

As calls grow for Donald Trump to dismiss Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as part of the fallout from the report that journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was allowed into a war planning chat thereby compromising national security, MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire was asked on Wednesday morning how it is all playing out in the White House.

Sitting down with fellow "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski, Lemire noted that Trump had hoped his second term would go smoother than his first which led to his re-election loss in 2020 and his great concern right now is how the Signal chat debacle is playing out in the press.

"Talk to us. Go behind the doors in the White House," Lemire was promoted by co-host Scarborough. "I mean, you're reporting some people not happy inside the White House at all."

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"First of all, it's just a real throwback also to the first Trump term, which was so chaotic and sloppy and messy, and they really tried this time around to pride themselves on being more professional; they're getting more things done," Lemire reported. "So for some in the in the West Wing, it was an unfortunate reminder of how things were."

"But there is some unhappiness here," he added. "The president himself, as I report today, you know, doesn't like a lot of the media coverage that surrounded about this. Yes, it's a familiar playbook, though: attack the messenger, go after the Jeffrey Goldberg, go after the reporter, the outlet. He called Jeffrey a sleazebag yesterday repeatedly in a White House meeting."

"But by the way," Scarborough interjected. "There's a history there that goes back to Jeffrey reporting from people who work for Donald Trump about what he said about 'suckers and losers.'"

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