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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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A member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence demanded firings Wednesday after the publication of a full transcript of texts of war plans sent by top government officials in an insecure Signal channel.

The chat, which included Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, among others — was littered with apparently classified details two hours before a military attack in Yemen. Inadvertently added to the chat was Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

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.

CNN's Brian Stelter analyzed new reporting by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg on the detailed discussions to which he was privy, and he said those plans were almost certainly classified information.

Donald Trump and his top national security officials insisted the war plans disclosed by defense secretary Pete Hegseth were not classified, after Goldberg reported that he was added to a group chat consisting of top-level administration officials, and The Atlantic's editor in chief published specific details from the discussion.

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.

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg published some of the detailed war plans to which he was given access – apparently by mistake – by Donald Trump's national security team.

The magazine's editor in chief reported earlier this week that national security adviser Mike Waltz had invited him onto a group chat on Signal where defense secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed the plans for a bombing raid on Yemen, and Goldberg said the attack was carried out two hours later – and Goldberg revealed new details after multiple Trump officials testified the information was not classified.

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.

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.