Trump latest news: Atlantic reveals attack plans shared by officials in group chat

Rep. Jasmine Crockett is refusing to apologize for calling wheelchair-bound Texas Governor Greg Abbott ‘Hot Wheels’ despite immense backlash and threats of congressional censure.

The progressive Texas Democrat released a statement following the uproar Tuesday, stating she “wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition” and insisted it was not a jibe about Abbott being differently abled.

Madeline Sherratt reports.

The White House continues to push back on what is considered classified information and what is not, seemingly by saying that if it was included in the Signal group chat, it was not classified — such as the timings and weaponry used.

“The president’s view on all of this remains the same today as it did yesterday,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt says. “There was no classified material discussed.”

Further, despite the Department of Defense handbook stating what is and is not classified, Leavitt says that Secretary Pete Hegseth says what is not classified.

Leavitt also confirmed that Elon Musk’s team will be investigating Signalgate, in addition to the National Security Council and the White House Counsel’s Office. They are apparently going to look at the inadvertent addition of Goldberg’s number to the Signal chat by NSA Mike Waltz.

Despite the focus of the briefing for reporters being on the Signal debacle, Leavitt refuses to take a follow-up question from CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and pivots to a Trump-friendly outlet.

In a quirky US exclave nestled in the northwest corner of Washington state, the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariff war is inescapable. Point Roberts, Washington, is reliant on Canada, and now finds its future uncertain.

Locals and visitors in this unusual waterfront border town, which has long symbolized the two countries’ interdependency, are increasingly concerned about its survival amidst growing cross-border tensions.

President Donald Trump will make an announcement about tariffs on the auto industry today at 4:00 p.m. in the Oval Office, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces at the White House briefing.

Calling the White House’s bluff, The Atlantic released the messages Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent to a Signal chat group — which inadvertently included Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg — detailing the attack plans on Houthi targets in Yemen.

Immediately and unsurprisingly, the denizens of President Donald Trump’s favorite morning talk show dismissed the bombshell revelation as a nothingburger, insisting that Goldberg had “overpromised” when he first reported that Hegseth had shared “war plans” in an unclassified text chain that included a journalist who was randomly added to it.

Trump responded to the leak during a Wednesday appearance on The Vince Show podcast by Vince Coglianese.

Katie Hawkinson and Rhian Lubin report.

House Democrats this morning joined calls for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to resign over the Signal app scandal.

“It is completely outrageous to me that administration officials come before us today with impunity, no acceptance of responsibility,” said Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado. He said Pete Hegseth “must resign immediately. There can be no fixes, there can be no corrections until there is accountability.”

Other Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee rejected assertions by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe that no classified material was included in the chat.

They pointed out that chat messages released by The Atlantic on Wednesday as evidence that the exposure could have jeopardized the mission’s success or endangered U.S. service members’ lives.

“This is classified information. It’s a weapon system, as well as a sequence of strikes, as well as details of the operations,” said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois. “He needs to resign immediately.”