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Hailey Karenia (0:00)
Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Nightly Scroll. I'm Hailey Karenia and I love jumping into the chat just before the show goes live. I love just saying, hey, guys and checking in. And thank you to everyone that's already watching live. I love to see it. Big show for you tonight. The Internet is already joking about that leaked chat between top officials and the Trump administration over their plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen last week. Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett hasn't had the nicest things to say about her Republican counterparts, and Attorney General Pam Bondi is putting her on notice. Plus, President Trump is not a fan of his portrait in Colorado's state Capitol, but I would argue it's not the worst depiction of a Trump family member. I will bring the proof. Okay. All that and so much more on Nightly Scroll Foreign. Here's a quick rundown of what happened with this whole Signal group chat debacle. I'm only going to give you a quick rundown so that we can just go into the memes and the jokes because that's. We can just skip to the good part. Right. But here's what happened. So there's a group chat on Signal that had accounts for Vice President J.D. vance, U.S. secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, among others. The CIA. I'm sorry, National Security Council advisors were in there. Mike Waltz was in there, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, among others. Unfortunately, Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was also added to the group chat. That's a big no. No, that's a mistake. Okay, so apparently National Security Advisor Mike Waltz had tasked someone in his staff, Deputy Alex Wong, to set up this group chat. I don't know who he was trying to add when he added Jeffrey Goldberg, but he did. So unfortunately, there was a rat in the group chat. A member of the mainstream media. The Atlantic is not a friendly medium. They're not a friendly outlet to Trump and Trump's administration. So this was not a good person to add by accident. Let's just skip to the good part here. So there's really nothing that went wrong, per se. It could have gone way worse. It looked bad. But they were allowed to be on Signal. This was the Biden administration allowed government officials and members of the media to have Signal on their government issued laptops, phones, etc. The only caveat is that you're not allowed to disseminate national security information. Classified information. Right, classified. So apparently whatever they were talking about in the chat was not classified. They were apparently, according to Goldberg, talking about information about the targets, weapons that the US Would be deploying and the attack sequencing and timing of the attack. Part of the messages that he talked about in his piece were that, you know, J.D. vance, the vice president, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were kind of in lockstep and they wanted to talk to the president about maybe moving the attack, maybe moving it a week or so or, you know, changing things around. So, again, nothing nefarious, but it just stinks that someone in the media was there to watch this go down. It just didn't look very good for us. So basically there was really no wrongdoing. It just didn't look good. Good. And Caroline Levitt, she posted this on X to kind of like set settle the score. And she said, Jeffrey Goldberg is well known for his sensationalist spin. Here are some facts about his latest story. No, they were no, there were no war plans that were discussed. No classified material was sent to the thread. And the White House Council's office has provided guidance on a number of different platforms for the president's top officials to communicate as safely and effectively, efficiently as possible. So not only that, but Mike Waltz has come out and said, I don't even know Jeffrey Goldberg. I've never talked to him before. This is common. I have people in my phone, I have Democrats in my phone. I have, you know, this is just typical working in the media, working in, you know, Mike Waltz was a congressman. You have members of the media in your phone and you don't necessarily talk to them or know them. This is completely standard. So was it a mistake? I think so. I think he added this person, you know, on accident. And he didn't mean to do it, of course. And Trump has come out and said that this was a mistake. But national Security Adviser Mike Waltz has learned his lesson and he is not going to fire. There's going to be no you're fired. There's no you're fired. He is back to work today. All is well. But I did want to just go off on how, yes, it looks bad, but the strike in Yemen did go off without a hitch. The only thing is Goldberg did know about the strikes two hours before they did take place. So again, nothing bad happened. It could have been way worse. This is why, like Trump said, you know, it's, this is a lesson learned. We don't want to have this thing happen again. It was a mistake. We don't want to repeat history here, but this stuff does kind of happen. You know, there were a lot of conspiracy theories, if you will, or just theories on X. I was seeing a lot of people in conservative media say, you know, this was a setup. You know, maybe Mike Waltz wanted this person in the chat. I also saw, you know, there are a lot of people in Trump's administration on Capitol Hill today. They were being grilled about this. People were questioning the timing of this. Was it a setup to make the Trump administration look bad? I really don't think it was a setup. I think it was a really dumb mistake. And I will tell a personal story here. I've kind of been caught up and not a similar situation because this wasn't like, you know, bombings or like strikes in Yemen. Of course, this was way less serious. But when I was working at Fox as a booker, it's very customary to send the topics over to whoever you're going to have on the show so that, of course, they can be read up on what you're going to be talking about. You don't want to catch people off guard. Even if it's a friendly interview or a not friendly interview. You, you still, you don't, you don't tell people exactly what you're going to ask, of course, but you want to say, like, we're going to ask about such and such so that people are prepared. Anyway, I had sent an email to someone who worked at the Republican National Committee at the time, sending over links to articles and stories that we were going to cover. This person then sent this email to who they thought was their staffer. However, it was not the staffer. It was someone who had the same name in their email address book. And it was someone in the media, a not so friendly person in the media. So then I'm involved in a big thing where it's like, you know, you know, this staffer is sending, you know, they're in cahoots with the RNC and they're sending talking points and messaging, and it wasn't anything like that at all. It was just this big spin job and it had nothing to do with that. I wasn't giving talking points. We weren't in cahoots. I was just letting this person know, hey, this is what we're talking about on the show today. So it just goes to show that you can have good intentions, but it is a good lesson learned. When you send an email, just know that it could be sent to just about anyone. So keep it, you know, you got to keep everything right and tight. You can't, you know, you Gotta cross every T and dot every I. You can't get in a mess like this ever again. But the good news is people on the Internet have a great sense of humor. So I saw this meme. I. I posted this on my Instagram story earlier today and I thought it was hilarious. It's this picture of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, the Defense secretary, Vice President J.D. vance, and they're all in this quad of photos with Elon Musk. And Elon Musk is looking at all of them saying, you guys have a group chat. Like Elon Musk being jealous that he's not in this group chat where they're discussing national security. But of course, he wouldn't have been in that group chat. But I just find it very funny. And then Shane Cashman tweeted this, which I thought was also hilarious. He tweeted Pam Bondi. Attorney General Pam Bondi. She just texted me the Epstein files. If you guys have that tweet, we can show that. But I just thought that was funny. She accidentally texted me the epony files. That would be great because we do want to see those. So if anyone's watching, we do want those released. And apparently they are being released. I've heard that over the weekend the FBI agents are working on this. So hopefully in the next coming days or weeks, we are going to see the Epstein files. That would be great. But I did find this very funny. Give the people what they want, okay? Speaking of fake news, CNN put out this headline and FBI Director Kash Patel has now had to come out and debunk it. So CNN wrote this. Patel plans major cutback to ATF by moving as many as a thousand agents over to the FBI. Apparently, that is not true. So Director Cash Patel said this. He sent a memo calling CNN report of ATF cuts entirely false. This is what he said. This weekend, CNN reported news of a plan on the part of our leadership to cut as many as one third of our ATF agents and reallocate a thousand agents over to the FBI. The report even suggested our leadership team altered course after reading a news report and ultimately backed off of certain aspects of changes. This report is entirely false. The fake news will never be responsible for operational command authority over the atf. We are the brave men and women of the ATF who courageously dedicate themselves to protecting the American public will not have their security jeopardized by the media's disinformation campaigns. When we make decisions, they will be final, regardless of the input of CNN or Any other news organization. So we love to see our FBI director setting the record straight here, setting fake news CNN straight here. That was not the case. Now, Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, she is from Texas, she is a Democrat and she has really stepped in it lately. And I have a lot of videos of her to show. So first I just want to say Jasmine Crockett has come out and saying that she has not incited violence against Elon Musk. But here she is calling for his takedown watch.