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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.

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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With Russian troops ravaging their native Kharkiv, Nikita Demydov and his wife Alina were offered a way out when the United States welcomed them and their five-year-old daughter as part of a humanitarian program.

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Rosalie Cote and her parents vacationed in the US state of Maine every summer for 25 years -- but this year they are staying home, incensed like many Canadians by Donald Trump's threats of annexation and tariffs.

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US Vice President JD Vance said he would join his wife Usha on a trip Friday to Greenland, adding to pressure on the autonomous Danish territory that Donald Trump wants to take over.

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) strongly condemned the Trump administration officials who openly discussed top secret war plans in a free messaging app that included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.

“It’s not okay,” Cramer said Tuesday. “And any member of Congress, particularly ones that are on important committees or sensitive committees like armed services or intelligence or foreign relations, knows that it's not okay.”

Former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, now 70, has been a prominent figure in the conservative legal movement for decades. After serving as an associate White House counsel for Reagan Administration, Luttig was appointed to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals by President George H.W. Bush appointed in 1991 and stayed there until 2006.

But Luttig is a scathing critic of Donald Trump. And he endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, making it clear that he would rather support a liberal who agrees with the rule of law than a Republican who doesn't.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon made clear what path he thinks Trump administration officials caught up in the Signal group chat controversy should take as he vilified Democratic lawmakers for trying to get to the bottom of the colossal national security error.

“They want a scalp,” Bannon proclaimed of Democrats. “This is the deep state rising up and coming after President Trump publicly, with the fangs bared.”

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's efforts to deport a 21-year-old Columbia University undergraduate who took part in student protests against Israel's invasion of Gaza, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

"The administration has been seeking to arrest the student, Yunseo Chung, since earlier this month, according to a lawsuit filed by Ms. Chung’s lawyers," and to return her to South Korea, according to the report. However, "The judge, Naomi Buchwald, said during a hearing on Tuesday that 'nothing in the record' indicated that Ms. Chung posed a danger to the community or a 'foreign-policy risk' or had communicated with terrorist organizations."

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) clashed with Fox News host Will Cain on Tuesday over a bombshell report that top Donald Trump administration officials used a Signal group chat to discuss war plans in the presence of a reporter.

The explosive report in The Atlantic revealed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared classified information in a Signal chat that included the outlet's editor-in-chief among its membership. The Signal chat included top officials in President Donald Trump's Cabinet who discussed classified military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.