Trump's Cabinet Defends Effort to Save Signal Chat Records
A group of President Donald Trump's cabinet members who inadvertently included the editor of the Atlantic in their Signal chat about a military strike in Yemen tried to reassure a judge that they've done enough to preserve records of the exchange.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials said in a filing late Wednesday that a strict order isn't necessary because parts of the group chat in March, including portions not published by the Atlantic, were saved in the 'agencies' recordkeeping systems.'
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