Trump Admin Signal Chat Exposed | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS

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• 1:08Speaker 04

  Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eyes On. We got a special Greek Independence Day episode for you. Joined here with Mark Polymoropoulos, former, obviously, senior CIA officer. We're gonna go on one topic. It's gonna be fast and loose about what went down yesterday with the Signal chat from the article in The Atlantic, which pretty much spelled out what was what. So, Mark, how's it going, man? Have you ever sent like, you know, secret stuff to people on Signal, like while you were working?

• 1:40Speaker 05

  Just to you. I mean, come on. No, well, first of all, I think there's, this is, this is a significant, because now the two Greeks have taken over the show.

• 1:50Speaker 04

  Yep. No more Marines, just Greeks.

• 1:52Speaker 05

  No more Marines and other riffraff around. And so, this is important. It is Greek Independence Day. And we could probably do a whole...

• 2:02Speaker 05

  Podcast on how our fellow Greek Americans were kind of snowed so many of them into into the MAGA world, but that's for another time. So I will just say that I will note I was not invited as a, in my view, as I am a prominent Greek American, I was not invited to the White House yesterday.

• 2:19Speaker 04

  I saw some of my, I knew a couple of kids that were there.

• 2:21Speaker 05

  Right, right. So, so I get, and so I, the way I put it on social media, I guess they lost, you know, my invitation in the mail.

• 2:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah. Well, you probably didn't even, you probably didn't give money to like the inauguration or some shit, you know what I mean, to get the invite?

• 2:37Speaker 05

  I did not do that, but, but thanks for having me on, D. Really an astonishing 24 hours with this explosive report in the Atlantic, which I think, you know, for many of us in the national security world, you know, left us kind of gobsmacked. And that's, by the way, it's on both sides of the aisle. So you're going to see a whole bunch of kind of Republican spin on this. Not necessarily saying it didn't happen, but downplaying it. But in private, every single, you know, Republican national security official that I know is, is equally as alarmed about what happened because in essence, and just to kind of summarize a little bit, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of the Atlantic, was somehow added

• 3:18Speaker 05

  to what is called, what was called in a Signal chat, the Houthi small group.

• 3:23Speaker 04

  And PC means principal committee?

• 3:25Speaker 05

  The Houthi PC small group. Now that, by the way, is the exact name that is used in such small discussions that of course usually are held at this, in the Situation Room. So just the name itself is very revealing that this is almost certainly true. But in it, individuals, including the Vice President and then representatives from some other, you know, national security agencies, Mike Walz, I guess, was the, the one who organized this, the National Security Advisor, but there was clearly classified discussions that were being, including, you know, war plans, and we'll, we'll address that in a second. But I think what was, what was stunning for many of us is that, you know, Signal is a encrypted chat. It's pretty good.

• 4:08Speaker 05

  In fact, I use it to talk to a lot of people. It is considered though by the US government to be unclassified. It is absolutely not appropriate to have, whether it's confidential, secret, or top secret information on it. Period. End of story. And so I think that's what kind of shocked a lot of people.

• 4:28Speaker 05

  There is something else in which, you know, we can talk all about the irony of this, but as a CIA alumnus, a retiree, and I know there's other people who you certainly have here, you know, Mick Mulroy, my good friend. We all received on March 12th, an unclassified email, and you can't make this up, from this CIA alumni organization, unclassified, warning about what? The dangers of Signal. The vulnerability of Signal. And then we have our current director using Signal or participating in this chat. Of course, this was generated by the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz. And so there's just a staggering level of hypocrisy here. So, you know, there's so many things to think about. Then there's, of course, the content of it itself on the policy side, which is really interesting.

• 5:13Speaker 05

  And, you know, we can kind of address these things kind of piecemeal. But bottom line on this is that this seems to be a very serious breach of national security information. Signal is not secure for this type of content. And, you know, let's see what happens. Again, in one of the another incredible ironies, today and tomorrow, the entire national security establishment, including Tulsi Gabbard, the DNI, John Ratcliffe, the CIA Director, Cash Patel, the FBI Director, are all testifying today in front of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in an open hearing that starts at 10 a.m.

• 5:46Speaker 04

  Oh, my God.

• 5:47Speaker 05

  Tomorrow, in front of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. I mean, talk about incredible timing. And these are important briefings because it's the Worldwide Threat Assessment. But I would imagine it's going to be dominated by this issue.

• 6:00Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, you saw Pete Hegseth's response when he got off of his airplane, which he was obviously aware, because Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, who was put into this group chat, and The Atlantic asked for a comment early in the morning before the story went out. So they were well aware of this story. And Hegseth just went into some kind of like, kind of like a rant, denying everything and stuff like that, even after the NSC.

• 6:34Speaker 04

  Fucking, you know, get, you know, confirmed it.

• 6:37Speaker 05

  Well, right. I mean, that's the thing. So, you know, no one's story is straight. I think a lot of people, uh, uh, you know, and we can, you know, you, you, we can, we can kind of dive into, um, the, the players in this. I think a lot of people had faith that Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, um, would be a responsible national security official. He's on this chat. That's unfortunate. Mike Walz, who's a former Green Beret. I think it's disappointing, um, uh, uh, uh, that, that he certainly, um, uh, didn't understand the, the gravity of the security breach here. I mean, he initiated the chat, but Pete Hegseth, you know, uh, you know, plainside kind of diatribe against Jeffrey Goldberg was just ludicrous.

• 7:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 7:16Speaker 05

  Um, and I think that does bring into question his, his, both his suitability and his qualifications as Secretary of Defense. And, and the White House this morning is, is again, is on full on denial mode. I mean, I guess what they're going to say is number one, somehow that signal was a, appropriate for this, which is of course not accurate. Um, the, the biggest, uh, comment they'll have is that, well, they, someone inadvertently, uh, uh, invited a journalist into the chat. And then, then they're going to deny that the, they, these war plans were, were discussed. And I will, I will just say that, you know, for Jeffrey Bull Goldberg to, to, so it seemed to me he acted responsible. The, the Atlantic did not report what was actually the content of it, but there's a lot of swirl going around in Washington that this had to do with, you know, precise targets, number of aircraft used, literally timing of the sorties.

• 8:02Speaker 05

  Um, the, the intelligence that was going to be used, uh, on the ground, um, to help, uh, guide some of the strikes. And so presumably the Atlantic has this stuff and, you know, so, so, you know, the White House denials, you know, are kind of interesting because at some point, you know, someone's not telling the truth and it certainly, uh, uh, seems to be that the White House is spinning now. There's also some reports that Mike Walz's jeopardy might, uh, job might be in jeopardy.

• 8:26Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 8:27Speaker 05

  I think that's probably because, uh, for two reasons. One is that this embarrassed, uh, the administration. Trump doesn't like this. But what's really interesting and maybe we can, you know, I think we can establish the fact that this was a extraordinary security breach. Let me also say, Dee, that, you know, myself, um, uh, or, or, uh, any others in the national security world, if we had done this, put this type of information on signal, we would not only be fired, we'd probably be prosecuted. So let's just say flat out.

• 8:50Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 8:51Speaker 05

  The double is enormous. But the content of the actual messages, and then we can dive into that for a sec. I know this is a quick emergency pod. It's fascinating because it shows policy differences. You have J D Vance, who is not advocating for the strikes. You have, then you have Stephen Miller, the Deputy Chief of Staff, then coming in from kind of left field and saying, hey, this is what the president wants. Do it. And end of story. And J D Vance kind of comes in. And then there's this kind of discussion between Vance and Pete Hegseth shitting all over the Europeans, saying how pathetic.

• 9:25Speaker 05

  Now, of course, in Europe, and I have a lot of friends in Europe, I certainly have a lot of contact with Europe, you know, former national security officials there. They're focused on that. They're like, holy crap, these fuckers really do hate us. These are internal communications. And so I think in some ways, President Trump is probably pissed as well, because this shows some fissures within the administration.

• 9:46Speaker 05

  He Vance actually saying in one of the chats, basically, you know, the president really doesn't get it here. So it's a bit embarrassing for him. So again, there's so many facets of this. There's the security breach, there's the incompetence of inviting a reporter, and then there's the content of, of, of the exchanges, which, which do show some of the inner kind of workings of the Trump administration, you know, perhaps some of the, of the, of the fissures there. And, and so it's, this is, this is a scandal for the ages. I mean, you know, not to get too hyperbolic, but I've never seen something like this. And again, the notion, people use Signal all over Washington. National security officials use Signal and, and probably at times they do so on policy issues that they shouldn't. They do not put in strike plans.

• 10:29Speaker 04

  Right. That's what I was just gonna say. Yeah.

• 10:31Speaker 05

  They don't run a small group, you know, again, this is a, this is a meeting that should be held in the Situation Room. And the other part too, Dee, it's important to note, there's a massive communications infrastructure that all of these officials have at their disposal that follow them around, both at their house and mobile, like this, there's no reason to do this other than laziness.

• 10:50Speaker 04

  Right. Even Mick, who is Deputy Assistant Secretary. Said he's like, there is a, there's a, you know, a protocol to this. We get secured like communications from laptops to phones even, right? So you can have these kinds of conversations without putting it on a commercial app that, yeah, it might be encrypted, but like, my question is like, if your phone's compromised, they can't see what you're typing and signal?

• 11:18Speaker 05

  If your phone compromised, the whole, the whole thing's compromised. I mean, again, signal is not approved for this.

• 11:23Speaker 04

  Right.

• 11:23Speaker 05

  And let me just say once again, the CIA Alumni Association on March 12th in an unclassified letter that we all got, and I say, I can say this because it's unclassified, basically gave us guidance that signal was, was, it was not secure, was vulnerable. And there's, here are some things you can do to kind of tighten stuff up. And, and one of the things that, that is still, we still don't know, Dee, is, you know, signals usually used on your phone.

• 11:47Speaker 04

  Sure.

• 11:47Speaker 05

  And so are these, are these the personal phones of these US government officials? Again, a massive violation. The final piece on this is Steve Witkoff, that, you know, the Middle East slash, you know, Russia, Ukraine envoy, was actually traveling in Russia. And apparently he joined the chat on his, on his phone. Again, Russia being a denied area, along with Beijing, a place where you would never do this. And again, any ordinary national security official would be fired and perhaps prosecuted if they had done it. So, you know, the double standard is enormous. And I would say, um, look, this was a mistake. Got it. But it's worth pointing out, and I'm sorry, you know, maybe some listeners won't like this, but the incredible, incredible hypocrisy. And you could do, maybe this is

• 12:30Speaker 05

  a, this is a good project for you, Dee, alongside whenever this, this, this pod comes out. You could do a compilation.

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• 13:35Speaker 05

  Of Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe, and certainly Mike Waltz, and how they eviscerated Hillary Clinton for the issue with her server.

• 13:47Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 13:48Speaker 05

  On, and Marco Rubio as well, on and on and on. And frankly, this issue and the Hillary server issue was a real one. That's not good what she did. This is far worse. Because again, we have to see if, you know, if as Jeffrey Goldberg claims, and again, I can't imagine this is not true because this is, this is putting The Atlantic, which is incredibly successful, unlike what President Trump said in the interview he did, incredibly successful, profitable magazine in Washington, which has an enormous readership of over, you know, a million subscribers. They wouldn't put their reputation on the line on this. And so, you know, the, the truth is eventually gonna, gonna come out. I mean, you know, it's, they're, they're, they're kind of, the administration is hanging on a, on a precipice right here.

• 14:31Speaker 04

  So there's some word that, I mean, and this is just speculation, that the reason why Jeffrey Goldberg was added to the chat is because Mike Waltz regularly leaks some stuff.

• 14:43Speaker 05

  Well, I mean, you know, look, I have a Signal chat. I have a ton of contacts on there. And every once in a while, I do, I do a request to someone and it's the wrong person. And I go, oh shit, I didn't mean this because I listed it as Keith or Dee or something like that. You know, I have more than one friend who's Dee.

• 15:01Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 15:02Speaker 05

  And afterwards, as I'm having a chat with them, I'm like, holy crap, I'm actually talking to the wrong person.

• 15:06Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 15:07Speaker 05

  And so it's not in your contact list unless you have a reason to have contacted them before.

• 15:13Speaker 04

  Right.

• 15:13Speaker 05

  And by the way, it's not, you know, and so, yeah, I mean, that, you know, that's, that's a, that's something that Mike Walz probably has some explaining to do.

• 15:20Speaker 04

  Sure. I mean, listen, I'm sure this is not like, that's just name of the game.

• 15:23Speaker 05

  Washington, by the way, that's normal.

• 15:25Speaker 04

  Correct. Yeah. And he's the editor in chief too. I mean, I'm sure he's definitely leaked them stuff, but what, or at least gotten comment or something.

• 15:32Speaker 05

  Jeffrey Goldberg is a powerful figure here who has enormous respect. I mean, you know, he's a Trump critic. There's no doubt about that.

• 15:37Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 15:38Speaker 05

  He's written extensively about, you know, Trump's kind of disdain for the US military and there's been controversy back and forth, but there's nothing that, that Goldberg that I've seen that he's done that is actually not accurate. Now, the White House is spinning this. HECF did in this morning, the press, the White House Press Secretary, again, they're, you know, they're, they're doubling down. Look, the Donald Trump method, when a scandal hits is literally to deny it, it didn't happen, even if it's you right in the face.

• 16:02Speaker 04

  Right.

• 16:02Speaker 05

  You know, this is what he learned. This is what they do. And I think they, they probably think that because Republicans are so scared of them, Republicans on the Hill, that they can weather this. Um, and they might. I mean, that's the amazing.

• 16:13Speaker 04

  Definitely will.

• 16:14Speaker 05

  Yeah. And so, so, you know, should people lose their jobs over this? Absolutely. Will they? Probably not, but there's, there's, there's something to, you know, look, you have a lot of, of, uh, current and former military uh, on this chat and some people, you know, probably are Donald Trump fans and some are not, and some are neutral. But, uh, but, but, you know, assuming that Jeffrey Goldberg's right and they, they provided the actual, and this is, this is in advance, two hours before the strikes of, of F-18, uh, of, of, of the, the time of the F-18 sorties and their targets, that is putting US Navy pilots at risk.

• 16:44Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:45Speaker 05

  And I'm sorry, I have, I do have active duty friends in the military and they are appalled at this. Um, and they said, and they said their, their troops are talking about this too. Like, hold on a second. Like, that kind of information, advanced strike planning in terms of specific targets and locations of the platforms used, you know, thank God, this wasn't intercepted by a hostile actor and that wasn't passed to the Houthis.

• 17:06Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 17:07Speaker 05

  The Houthis do have air defense. And so you put US forces at risk, you gotta explain, you know, you, you gotta explain yourself. Um, that to me is, is, is probably the most egregious part of this. People, Americans could have died because of this.

• 17:19Speaker 04

  Yeah. Well, I mean, like, listen, I'm sure you're not supposed to use Signal for talk even about like the broader strategic like, um, policy and stuff like that, but.

• 17:32Speaker 04

  That that part of the conversation wasn't really that spicy outside of like kind of gossipy spicy until Hexeth dropped the, you know, the plans that we haven't seen of the strike. What's going on? What's what? You know what I mean? Like?

• 17:49Speaker 05

  Yep. And and let's yeah. And so so again, that is, that's kind of the holy grail here. That was the oh crap moment. Um, because people do use Signal for stuff that they probably shouldn't and across administrations, but not to this to this level again, that that could have gotten Americans killed. I want to make one point, you know, I love the show. I love coming on. I've been on a million times. I'm sure I come on and some people get pissed because they know I'm a Trump critic.

• 18:12Speaker 04

  We'll get over it.

• 18:13Speaker 05

  I would remind folks who are listening here that and of course, I have a, I'm a contributor for MSNBC. But during the Afghan withdrawal, which was a debacle, I went on MSNBC literally every day on Morning Joe and other places, and I slammed the Biden administration mercilessly to the point where I think people are starting to get pissed at me, but I was so outraged at what happened. Because why? Because I call it like I see it. And what I would ask that kind of more conservative, you know, members of your audience, um, uh, just just step back and take a look and say, look, it's okay. When an administration screws up, they have to take responsibility. They have to take ownership of this.

• 18:50Speaker 05

  Um, uh, defending them, uh, uh, you know, to the to the T is just, you know, is is it goes to a level of kind of, you know, being out there in in the middle, in the middle of nowhere that I, that I can't even believe. You know, there's a, there's a friend of mine. He's a very conservative. He writes for the Washington Examiner. His name is Tom Rogan, um, great national security journalist. And I'll just, I'll read you, um, uh, a tweet he he put out, and which I think is really important. And he said, if your perspective is that the Signal check controversy is just media bias or democratic partisanship, you either don't understand basic military operations, or more simply, you just don't give a shit about carrier air wing one aviators, meaning that that even on the conservative side of the House,

• 19:34Speaker 05

  Tom Rogan, conservative, he writes for the Examiner. He's a friend of mine. I do have friends on the right. Actually, a lot of them, he gets it, you know, and and what he's saying is like, yeah, this is not good. Sorry. And no amount of bullshit and spin is gonna is gonna kind of come around in this. And so there's, there's got to be some accountability.

• 19:50Speaker 04

  Yeah. Well, earlier today on Fox News, uh, Tom, Senator Tom Cotton, um,

• 19:56Speaker 04

  Came out and said that the Biden administration actually approved Signal as an ad used, which is, which is not true. Uh, it's like you have not only just the administration doing it from the press, like the briefing room, you have people on the Hill too. That are also like, you know, trying to spin this and it's just like, it's unspinable because the NFC spokesperson confirmed it.

• 20:21Speaker 05

  You're defending, you're defending the indefensible. What Tom Cotton said, it doesn't even matter. I mean, are you, are we really going to blame Biden for this? I mean, that is pretty extraordinary and Tom Cotton knows better. I mean, geez, I mean.

• 20:33Speaker 04

  Well, you read that in the chat, in the chat, that part where that was released, like their whole media strategy was blame Biden and the some of it. Yeah, you know, so.

• 20:41Speaker 05

  The wild thing about where I live in Northern Virginia is that, you know, I see Tom Cotton at high school baseball games. Josh Hawley is a senator, he lives around the corner from me. So all these people, you know, and they all know better. Um, and so, you know, we live in this weird bubble in DC where you look at people and you just, you know, you know, they don't believe this. But they just feel like they have to say it because they have to blindly defend the administration. Um, uh, you know, what I would like to see is, and I know I watched this closely. Again, I have friends over at Fox. I want to see some Fox News, you know, Brit Hume did.

• 21:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, I saw that.

• 21:11Speaker 05

  I want to see some Fox News commentators and, and, and, uh, and some of the, the staff and the journalists there. Um, just come out and tell the truth. Hey, this was just like I did on MSNBC, the Afghan withdrawal. I was merciless against the Biden. And I know by the way, that, that the White House watches that every morning. And I was like, look, I have to stay credible. So, you know, it would be nice if people could actually tell the truth right here. This is a gargantuan fuck up. Um, you know, there should be accountability and then you move on, by the way. And, and here's the, here's the amazing thing, the strikes on the Houthis, I totally support.

• 21:42Speaker 04

  Right.

• 21:42Speaker 05

  I think it's actually really good that we're, we're taking it to the Houthis. Um, uh, but that's not the issue here. And so I think they're, uh, you know, well, we'll see in the, in the, in the, kind of in the days or weeks ahead. The one thing D is that you never know, because some other kind of national conspiracy is going to happen tomorrow and that's maybe this kind of goes.

• 22:00Speaker 04

  There's going to be some scandals, like Elon's going to do something or something's going to happen and it's going to be. It's gonna fade away. It might carry on for today because and tomorrow because of the hearings going on and that's gonna become what this is about the hearings for sure. Um, but yeah, I can't see it lasting more than a few days because there's only there's something else on the horizon coming.

• 22:20Speaker 05

  Well, I mean, and and again, there's, you know, there's, there are things that actually, I mean, the American people should care about this. Military veterans and active duty should care about this, people in the national security world. Uh, but you know what? There's also, you know, the, the, the kind of the Trump administration's whole process on Doge and now this kind of assault on social security. I mean, that's what Americans are really going to care about.

• 22:39Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 22:40Speaker 05

  Um, so, you know, who knows? But, uh, but again, um, good emergency pod. We needed to do this.

• 22:45Speaker 04

  Yeah, this is good.

• 22:47Speaker 05

  I was fired up and, uh, and again, I would just, I would just kind of, you know, urge, urge listeners to keep an open mind because, you know, when something bad happens, you gotta call it out and you call it out on both sides. And that's what, that's, that's what I try to do. I certainly know that's what you and the team house, uh, always try to do as well.

• 23:02Speaker 04

  Well, I was talking to somebody, yes, a couple of people, yes, and I'm like, listen, me and my half criminal friends in Brooklyn have better op sec than these guys do.

• 23:11Speaker 05

  That's right.

• 23:11Speaker 04

  It's like, what do we, what are you guys even thinking? Like maybe having the policy discussion about the strategy? That's one thing for sure. Fine. But once like Pete Hex has dropped on like a PDF of like, here's the whole plan of what we're gonna do, names, targets, everything.

• 23:29Speaker 04

  In a signal chat. I mean, it's like, dude, they must have given you a briefing when you, on your first day, right? Like they must have given you.

• 23:35Speaker 05

  Signal and, and by the signal again, brought that unclassified message from the CIA Alumni Association located at CIA headquarters, instructing retirees that signal is not secure. I mean, that's on March 12th. Uh, and I believe in February, the NSA, National Security Agency, did the same thing, put out an unclassified statement as well. You can't make this up.

• 23:58Speaker 04

  You know, it's it's unbelievable.

• 24:00Speaker 05

  Dead.

• 24:01Speaker 04

  And just the title of the the whole, the title of the the piece in the Atlantic was was hilarious and also scary. Like the Trump administration sent me the war plan for.

• 24:13Speaker 05

  Pretty wild.

• 24:13Speaker 04

  That's insane. All right, Mark. Mark Palomaropoulos, check him out. All his links will be in the description. You can follow him on Twitter, Blue Sky, everywhere else, MSNBC contributor.

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  New podcast is cooking. I know it is.

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  Can't announce it yet.

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  Can't talk about it, but stay tuned. Stay tuned for that. And if you want to support the show, patreon.com slash the team house. Thanks, Mark. This was awesome.

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