‘The should know better': Trump intel officials struggle to clean up mess from leaked group chat
Cait Conley, Army Veteran and Former Director of Counterterrorism for the National Security Council, Amanda Carpenter, Writer and Editor for Protect Democracy and Tyler Prager, New York Times White House Correspondent join Alicia Menendez in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the continued fallout from the stunning leak involving a reporter being added to a group chat with the highest ranking national security officials in the Trump Administration detailing war plans involvin
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