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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.

President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order that sidesteps congressional approval process, in order to attempt to restrict voting rights, according to a report.

The order borrows heavily from the Republican-backed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act, which appears likely to pass the House but faces an uncertain future in the Senate, but legal expects say the president doesn't have the authority to make those changes – which may conflict with federal voting laws, reported NPR.

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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A portrait of President Donald Trump that special envoy Steve Witkoff hand-delivered to White House from Vladimir Putin was subjected to a brutal round of criticism from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who mocked the administration official as an example of a “tough guy genius.”

Maddow delivered the strong rebuke Tuesday during her show’s opening monologue as she also ripped into Witkoff for reportedly being inside the Kremlin as high-level administration officials traded top secret war plans on a Signal group chat. She began her takedown by first addressing Witkoff directly.

An Ohio sheriff took to the department's official Facebook page to deliver a stern warning Tuesday to "fat guys" wearing "mom's pajamas" who dare think of vandalizing Teslas in his county.

Richard Jones, sheriff of Butler, County, Ohio, livestreamed himself standing next to a green Tesla Cybertruck and its owner, where he attempted to ward off any would-be criminals thinking of joining in on nationwide attacks on the vehicles.

President Donald Trump told Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Tuesday that he is considering establishing a fund to compensate the January 6 rioters he pardoned for storming the Capitol in 2021.

"I took care of them," said Trump. "I said I was going to, and I did."

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) laughed away National Security Adviser Michael Waltz’s new conspiracy theory as he spent Tuesday blaming journalist Jeffrey Goldberg for the stunning national security failure involving the now infamous leak of the Signal group chat.

“Unbelievable,” Klobuchar told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I think this is an unbelievable assertion to make.”

CNN's primetime anchor Anderson Cooper had a stern message for President Donald Trump's national security advisor, who expressed bewilderment late Tuesday that a journalist "somehow" found himself in a group chat with other top Cabinet officials during a discussion over secret war plans.

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, to a Signal group chat containing 18 senior Trump administration officials, Goldberg wrote in a piece for his publication. The group chat discussed imminent plans for military strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.