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Trump administration officials are defending their participation in a group chat on encrypted messaging app Signal about a highly sensitive operation to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen. CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd breaks it down.
President Trump imposed a 25% tariff on all cars imported into the U.S. on Wednesday. The announcement comes as his administration continues to deal with the aftermath of a leaked Signal group chat among top officials. Political strategists Liza Acevedo and Justin Sayfie join "America Decides" with analysis.
Many Republican lawmakers on Wednesday described the leaked Signal group chat with top Trump administration officials as a "mistake." Some also downplayed the sensitive details on the Houthi strikes shared in the chat. Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York joins "America Decides" with his perspective on the situation.
President Trump's national security adviser has denied knowing the editor of The Atlantic after accidentally adding him to a sensitive group chat.
The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg spoke with CBS News' Ed O'Keefe about his inclusion in top Trump officials' Signal group chat as they discussed plans to bomb Yemen. See the interview.
The Atlantic Magazine released more Signal text messages on Wednesday, detailing what was sent from an account belonging to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, including specific operational details of then-upcoming strikes on Houthi forces in Yemen. CBS News' Charlie D'Agata and Jennifer Jacobs report.
The Atlantic's editor-in-chief released new details on Wednesday from the Trump administration's Signal group chat he was added to about strikes in Yemen. Retired U.S. Army Major and military analyst Mike Lyons joins "CBS News" with reaction.
Intelligence officials faced more questions on Capitol Hill Wednesday about the Signal group chat that top Trump administration officials included a journalist on as they discussed plans to bomb Yemen. See some of the key moments from testimony before the House Intelligence Committee
Hundreds of Palestinians protested against Hamas in northern Gaza Wednesday, demanding an end to the war with Israel. BBC News correspondent Emir Nader has more.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed the leak of a Signal group chat while visiting Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii on Wednesday. Hegseth said the texts exchanged were not war plans. CBS News national security coordinating producer James LaPorta has more.
There are concerns over information shared in a Signal group chat among Trump officials where details of a U.S. military operation were discussed. Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, joins CBS News with more.
Judge James Boasberg, the judge who President Trump has repeatedly lashed out against for blocking the administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act for deportations, has been assigned to oversee a lawsuit stemming from the Signal group chat scandal. CBS News Department of Justice reporter Jake Rosen has more.
Lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee grilled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe about the Signal group texts that may have contained classified information. The details of the chat chain where revealed by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg after national security adviser Mike Waltz apparently mistakenly added him to the conversation about an operation in Yemen. CBS News' Shanelle Kaul reports.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard addressed the House Intelligence Committee for a hearing on global threats to the U.S. Gabbard alleged that the Signal texting application came pre-installed in government devices issued to members of the Trump administration. This comes as more questions emerge over the group chat among Trump officials about attacking a Houthi target in Yemen. The group chat mistakenly included The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg.
Democratic lawmakers are ramping up their attacks on top Trump officials involved in a Signal group chat that mistakenly contained an Atlantic journalist. The text chain included discussions about military operations against the Houthis in Yemen. CBS News' Nikole Killion reports.
The Senate Intelligence Committee heard testimony on Tuesday from key players involved in a group chat on the messaging app Signal, in which the U.S.'s highly sensitive plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen were discussed inadvertently with a journalist. President Trump said that his administration would investigate the government's use of Signal. CBS News contributor and former CIA official Andrew Boyd has more on what it is and how it's used.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are reacting to the Trump administration's group text controversy, though House Speaker Mike Johnson said he doesn't believe Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or National Security Adviser Mike Waltz should be disciplined. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion has more reaction from Capitol Hill.
Several members of the Trump administration, Vice President JD Vance chief among them, have been highly critical of U.S. allies in Europe. This contempt was on full display in the leaked Signal group chat between top officials, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calling those countries "pathetic." Andrew Roth, global affairs correspondent for The Guardian, joins "America Decides" with more.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called on President Trump to fire Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a letter Tuesday over the Yemen war plans text leak. Stephanie Lai, White House correspondent for Bloomberg, and Reese Gorman, politics reporter for NOTUS, join "America Decides" with analysis.
Several Democratic lawmakers are demanding investigations and possibly resignations in the wake of the Trump administration's military group chat leak. Andrew Bakaj, attorney and former CIA intelligence officer, joins "America Decides" to assess the potential legal ramifications from the debacle.
Top Trump officials included a journalist in a group chat about plans to attack Houthis in Yemen, The Atlantic reported Monday. But who are the Houthis, and why is the U.S. military targeting them? Sam Vinograd, CBS News national security contributor, and Josh Skule, former FBI executive assistant director for intelligence, join "America Decides" to discuss.
A journalist mistakenly received Trump administration war plans in advance of an attack on Houthis in Yemen via the commercial messaging application Signal. This came after a February 2025 National Security Agency bulletin warned employees of vulnerabilities in using the app. CBS News' Fin Gómez, James LaPorta and Nikole Killion report.
Monday's story about an Atlantic journalist being included in a group chat among Trump officials discussing war plans for Yemen is reverberating across Washington. CBS News' Ed O'Keefe and Nikole Killion report.
A prescheduled Senate intelligence hearing on Tuesday was dominated by questions from Democrats about the inclusion of the Atlantic's editor-in-chief on a group chat where top Trump officials were discussing plans to bomb Yemen.
The fallout has begun from Monday's revelation that top Trump officials discussed the bombing of Yemen on a group chat that included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg. CBS News' Nikole Killion, Charlie D'Agata, Olivia Rinaldi and Shanelle Kaul report.
The new records include a birthday letter to Epstein allegedly written by President Trump, which he has denied writing.
A former NIH official says she was removed after clashes over vaccines, accusing RFK Jr. and his deputies of posing "a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety."
The Supreme Court froze a lower court order that prevented immigration authorities from stopping people without reasonable suspicion that they are in the U.S. unlawfully.
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo said his department did not do any data analysis on how a change in vaccine rules could affect outbreaks of diseases like measles, polio or whooping cough.
Americans' confidence in finding a new job fell to the lowest measure on record, a survey from the New York Fed shows.
A retired Auburn University professor was stabbed to death in a public park near the school in Alabama on Saturday, according to police and the university.
Economists expect the Bureau of Labor Statistics to revise its jobs data downward for the year ended in March 2025. Here's why.
Chagas disease is already endemic to 21 countries in the Americas, and growing evidence of the parasite is challenging the non-endemic label in the U.S., the CDC says.
President Donald Trump has amplified his promises to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to Chicago by posting a parody image from "Apocalypse Now" featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom over the nation's third-largest city.