Valuetainment - “Controlling The Narrative”- The Atlantic’s Signal Chat EXPOSES Trump’s War Strategy Against Houthis

00:00:00.000 This is the Trump officials text war plans to a group chat on a secure app that includes a

00:00:07.420 journalist, which is kind of weird, right? This is a story that comes out yesterday

00:00:11.160 and they were all over the place talking about this. I'll read this to you in a wrap. Let's

00:00:15.860 play a couple of clips. Top Trump officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hexet,

00:00:19.680 Vice President J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, and National Security Advisor Mike Walls texted

00:00:23.980 war plans for Yemen strikes to a signal group that accidentally included Jeffrey Goldberg,

00:00:29.260 editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. Goldberg reported contained operational details of

00:00:33.540 forthcoming strikes on Iran-backed Houthis rebel in Yemen, including information about targets,

00:00:38.160 weapons the U.S. would be deploying. The attack sequencing, the National Security Council

00:00:42.100 confirmed, appears to be authentic. And Trump initially said, I don't know anything about it.

00:00:46.720 You're telling me about it for the first time before joking via Elon Musk post 4D chess genius

00:00:51.100 Trump leaks war plans to The Atlantic where no one will ever see them. The leak revealed by The

00:00:56.840 Atlantic on Monday sparked outrage. The Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer calling it

00:01:01.020 one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I've ever read about in a very

00:01:05.780 long time. Okay, Rob, let's go through a couple of these clips. So here's a president in the

00:01:08.520 Roosevelt room. Go for it, Rob.

00:01:09.980 The story of The Atlantic that said that some of your top accounting officials and aides have been

00:01:16.980 discussing very sensitive material through Signal and included an Atlantic report for that. What is

00:01:22.140 your response to that? I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me,

00:01:27.160 it's a magazine that's going out of business. I think it's not much of a magazine, but I know

00:01:31.420 nothing about it. You're saying that they had what? They were using Signal to coordinate on sensitive

00:01:37.980 materials and... Having to do with what? Having to do with what? What were they talking about?

00:01:43.440 With the Houthis. The Houthis? You mean the attack on the Houthis? Well, it couldn't have been very

00:01:48.440 effective because the attack was very effective. I can tell you that. I don't know anything about it.

00:01:53.100 You're telling me about it for the first time. Anybody else?

00:01:58.060 What else you got? You got one response from Hexeth as well? I do. This is Pete Hexeth getting off a

00:02:02.580 plane where he's asked about the Signal leak. Go for it. Exactly what we're doing as we speak

00:02:08.760 from the beginning overwhelmingly. Why were those details shared on Signal and how did you learn

00:02:14.600 that a journalist was privy to the targets, the types of weapons used? I've heard I've heard I was

00:02:20.360 characterized. Nobody was texting war plans and that's all I have to say about that. Thank you.

00:02:26.500 That's it. Tom, thoughts? Well, I think number one, it appears that everybody's pointing to Mike

00:02:34.780 Waltz and that Mike Waltz apparently sent a text out and it included a journalist. And the journalists

00:02:41.980 are doing what they're doing. They don't go through back channels to say, hey, is this secret? Should

00:02:46.700 we protect the United States? Should we protect what's going on? That's not what the journalist

00:02:50.560 does. The journalist does, hey, let's attack the administration. And there is a newsworthy

00:02:55.800 item. If somebody kind of blew it and included a journalist on here, that's not good. But let's

00:03:02.920 face it, it was a signal communication. It wasn't like 22 megabytes of, you know, documents, documents,

00:03:11.220 documents, documents. And I guess, you know, the Houthis didn't get it in time to duck. So because

00:03:18.280 the attack happened and by most accounts that we're hearing, it was fairly effective on its

00:03:25.400 targets. But it is, you know, that's a careless thing. And I don't think there's a person out

00:03:29.920 there that's not sent a business email where you go to type a name in Outlook and it finishes the

00:03:36.600 name for you. No one's ever done that here. No, never. And it's like the wrong Mike. Mike Jones,

00:03:43.320 Mike Jeffries instead of Mike Jones. Mike Jones with the Porsche, right? Isn't the Mike Jones?

00:03:49.320 No, no. You know what I mean? Mike Lowry. I'm sorry. Mike Lowry. Exactly. You know,

00:03:52.740 a lot of pop culture references. Mike Jones, I don't know, you can't clone. That's kind

00:03:56.620 of careless. But, you know, Mike Waltz is a good man. He's a strong guy. He's a right

00:04:01.380 guy. Can I read you something that may upset you a little bit? Because this story, Daily

00:04:04.900 Mail, says National Security Advisor Mike Waltz firing after inviting the Atlantic Editor-in-Chief

00:04:09.420 Jeffrey Goldberg to a signal chat. Okay. Hootis, PC, small group. Discussing Yemen strikes

00:04:15.180 with Defense Secretary Pete Hex said and J.D. Vance, a White House insider, told Politico,

00:04:19.400 everyone in the White House can agree on one thing. Mike Waltz is an effing idiot. Okay. 1.00

00:04:23.260 This is what Politico, this is the story. Well, this is also Daily Mail and there's

00:04:26.160 no name on that. I totally get it. So I'm just reading this to you on what's being said.

00:04:30.200 While a senior official said half of them saying he's never going to survive or shouldn't,

00:04:35.260 noting it was reckless not to check who was on the threat. It was reckless to having a

00:04:38.720 conversation on Signal, et cetera, et cetera. And then at the same time, there's another

00:04:42.460 one from Daily Mail that comes out saying J.D. Vance says, team, I'm out of the day doing

00:04:49.260 economic events in Michigan, but I think we are making a terrible mistake. We're making

00:04:52.840 a mistake to a Trump team, including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. And then it continues,

00:04:56.880 he warned, there's real risk that the public doesn't understand this or why it is necessary.

00:05:01.780 I'm not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with the message on Europe right now,

00:05:06.520 et cetera, et cetera. And Vance expresses reluctance, but compliance saying, I'm willing to support

00:05:10.600 the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there's strong argument for delaying

00:05:15.920 this for a month, doing this messaging, work on why this matters, seeing where the economy

00:05:20.100 is, et cetera, et cetera. And in hex and urge action, replying, we are prepared to execute.

00:05:24.480 And if I have a final go or no vote, I believe we should. Mike Waltz noted, per the president's

00:05:29.740 request, we are working with DOD in state of, to determine how to compile the costs associated

00:05:35.020 and levy them on Europeans. All right. So that's what Daily Mail is saying, what happened to you.

00:05:40.460 Can I ask you a quick question? Yeah. So if somebody on your staff was to say, hey, Pat,

00:05:44.700 I'm not sure about this. I've got a little bit different point of view here, but whatever

00:05:48.820 you decide, I'm with you. Yeah. Do you want that or do you want silence?

00:05:53.060 No, I love that. That was a point. It's so funny you're saying this. You see, a businessman

00:05:56.100 would think that way. I love that. I actually love the fact that there's an exchange. I love

00:05:59.980 the fact there's like, hey, what do you think about this? What do you think about that? It's

00:06:02.200 very normal for us. Nothing about the threat I'm reading says to me that this shows to me

00:06:09.100 that they're willing to have discourse, debate, exchange. So maybe it was on, because think

00:06:14.140 about it, devil's advocate. Maybe it was on purpose. This is, it doesn't make sense.

00:06:17.720 Why is Mike Walls. Doesn't sound like they work for a dictator. That's, yeah, we, but

00:06:21.240 see, and that's what me and Jake were talking about. Maybe that was the whole ploy is to

00:06:25.100 have something like this league. By the way, why is Mike Walls messaging anybody from the

00:06:29.980 Atlantic? Why is he even in your, the Goldberg guy? Why is he even in your chat? And why would

00:06:33.780 you add him in there? There's no other Goldberg, whatever that's in the White House that would

00:06:40.220 be involved in this situation anyway. So maybe it was a way to show like, hey, listen, look

00:06:44.000 what we're doing behind closed doors. Yeah. We messed up and it could be, maybe they want

00:06:48.720 to get rid. What's this guy's name, Tom? The Mike, Mike Walls. Yeah. It looks to me like

00:06:53.240 if you wanted to fire somebody, guess what's a good way to get his ass fired? Have something 0.99

00:06:57.340 like this happen and then leak it. There's a wrong guy to be aiming at. I think this guy's

00:07:00.500 really capable. He was an early, you know, um, confirmation and he's really strong in

00:07:05.680 position. Gorka's on his team. So yeah, that's what I think there. The, the other thing is

00:07:10.160 it's not unusual. How many media people do you have your phone? I am in my phone. Yeah,

00:07:15.500 true. But I mean, in a, in a signal like this though, this is serious. That's bad. Well,

00:07:19.380 but there's also another angle to it. If I'm, if I'm a cabinet member, I only want to communicate

00:07:26.760 with the media on a secure channel. I don't want to risk that it gets sniffed them on a

00:07:30.980 Gmail or anything like that. Let's see what our foreign affairs expert has to say. Adam,

00:07:34.720 your thoughts on this? Well, yeah, you know, I was actually also on that text chat and I

00:07:39.280 saw this coming a mile away. So, you know, one of your major, uh, words that you're using

00:07:43.840 these days is signal over noise, right? This happened on signal. Ironically to me, this is

00:07:49.900 a lot of noise. The signal is we know who the enemy is. We're going after the Houthis part 1.00

00:07:56.000 of the Iran, uh, proxies, proxies out there. And this was an accident by apparently a capable 0.59

00:08:04.500 guy and, uh, he screwed up. Let's, let's call a spade a spade here. If this were the Biden

00:08:11.060 administration and they accidentally texted Fox news, you don't think the right would be 1.00

00:08:17.980 having a field day with the morons in the DEI woke administration. You guys can't even 1.00

00:08:23.580 do this. The reality is what Trump said is correct. Well, we carried out the attack.

00:08:28.920 We know who the enemy is. These Islamic extremists, Houthis that are basically, there's been a war 0.53

00:08:34.260 in Yemen for over a decade, proxy war between Iran backed Houthis and Saudi backed Yemen government.

00:08:41.840 And, uh, we know who at least we're, we're solving for, but you know, what's funny. Another one of your

00:08:46.780 words is your pet, correct me if I'm wrong is speed. So you wrote in your book, here's a little,

00:08:53.940 uh, uh, preview preview to the, if you're going to buy your, your, uh, next five moves, you said

00:08:59.980 when you trust someone, you can go faster speed. So this is going to be a roadblock in the

00:09:06.480 administration. I don't think anybody should be fired over this, but when you go fast,

00:09:10.960 things are going to break. Yep. So this was a break in the administration. It's so funny.

00:09:17.200 There's a comedian out there, this guy, Ralph Barbosa. Have you seen this guy? Hilarious.

00:09:21.820 Great basketball player for the sons. That's Leandro Barbosa. So this guy's out there just

00:09:27.720 killing it. This guy's killing it. Him and Marcelo, I think he's really funny. He goes, 0.99

00:09:32.940 yo, you know, you know, typically Trump, he came in and this guy is like doing like a hundred

00:09:38.460 different things in like the first hundred days. It's crazy. You know, people say, you know,

00:09:42.480 you got a list of things to do. You know, they don't actually do them. You know, you say you

00:09:47.360 got to go home, you got to do laundry, you got to do dishes. Well, you, maybe you'll watch Netflix.

00:09:51.540 He goes, Trump didn't watch Netflix or nothing. He just went, he just went for it. So Trump is just

00:09:57.440 basically fulfilling so many things in his first hundred days. Things are going to break when you

00:10:02.600 go that fast. So when it comes on to Atlantic, Rob, I got a couple of things I want people to know

00:10:05.880 about the Atlantic. The owner of the Atlantic is Steve Jobs' widow. I think it's a Laura Powell

00:10:11.600 Jobs. Wait, widow? Widow? She's dead? No, he's dead, Vinny. Steve Jobs died. Oh, my bad,

00:10:16.420 my bad, my bad. So she buys the Atlantic, okay? And in an interview, she's being asked,

00:10:24.220 and I'm going to show you an article that the Atlantic wrote in a minute, but Rob, can you pull

00:10:27.120 up the clip of what she said in an interview of why they bought it? This is Kamala Harris sitting

00:10:32.160 next to her, and then watch when she gets asked about the New York Times at the end.

00:10:37.580 Can you see when this was, Rob? Can you go back to the date? This is a while back. This

00:10:41.940 is 2024. This is two weeks before election. This is when they're thinking Kamala's going

00:10:47.660 to win, okay? Most people haven't seen this. Rob, go back and play this clip, please. So

00:10:51.160 watch this, folks. This is the owner of the Atlantic. Go for it.

00:10:53.700 It was pretty obvious to me that we could build, you know, we build out in a very cross-disciplinary

00:11:04.380 way our work, you know, capital investing and policy and philanthropy, and we could do this

00:11:12.620 work forever and ever, and we could have the narrative overtaken by someone who has a lot

00:11:23.480 of power, who's completely contrary to us, and we could never get to the place where we

00:11:28.880 think we're part of a more just and equal society. And so it was obvious that if we could be part

00:11:37.420 of the creation of cultural narrative, that would enhance and amplify all the work that

00:11:46.440 we're doing. Which Hillary Clinton talked about today is telling the story, getting the content

00:11:49.960 out there. Yeah, she was. Yes. Yeah. Look at Kamala. So these are early days for us, but that's

00:11:55.320 the idea behind it. We want to inspire the kind of stories that we'd like to see told. Do you ever

00:12:00.900 see you buying something bigger, like the New York Times, for example? Are they for sale? Is it for

00:12:04.840 sale? It could be for you. Bingo. So controlling the narrative. So now let me show you one thing

00:12:11.940 that's a little bit strange. Here's a story they wrote three years ago, four years ago,

00:12:15.480 I think in 2021. Rob, if you want to pull up this picture, the one I sent you, you know

00:12:19.100 which one I'm talking about? Did you get it or no? I only have the video. Okay. So when

00:12:22.940 you see this, folks, you tell me what kind of narrative she wants to control. Okay. Maybe

00:12:28.960 I'm wrong. Maybe it's just speculation, but this is what happens. This is a woman that gave

00:12:34.600 away, pledged to give three and a half billion dollars to a combat climate change over the

00:12:39.960 next decade. This is to Waverly Street Foundation. Okay. She's worth around $14 billion. She's

00:12:47.400 given away billions of dollars to different folks. Okay. Different donations. But watch

00:12:53.120 this one here. The Atlantic. Here's a story to the right. This is an article called the

00:12:58.700 Great Fake Child Sex Trafficking Epidemic. Rob, can you do me a favor? Exit that real

00:13:04.820 quick and go search that title to make sure that is not, because I did that this morning

00:13:10.180 just to make sure the great fake. Yeah, exactly. Child trafficking. Let's see what comes up.

00:13:16.180 Okay. So is there such a story? Bingo. Click on it. So they did write that. Okay. Weird.

00:13:22.500 So the great fake child sex trafficking epidemic. All right. So that's from four years ago. And 0.78

00:13:28.780 then go back to that picture. And who was she seen sitting next to by? Oh, Ghislaine Maxwell.

00:13:35.040 Okay. Cozying up next to Ghislaine Maxwell. Sex trafficking. So look, the point is, you know,

00:13:40.620 when you look at a paper and you wonder, are they really winning? Are they really advancing?

00:13:48.100 Are they really pushing an agenda? Or are people really done with this? So this is the credibility

00:13:54.240 of a paper like the Atlantic. But the narrative of being controlled is happening by buying magazines

00:14:00.140 like this and getting everybody realized this child sex trafficking stuff is just fake. That

00:14:05.360 doesn't happen. We don't have hundreds of thousands of missing children every year. That movie Sound of

00:14:10.840 Freedom was just a movie, Vinny. That island with that Epstein eye. They just love giving massages. 0.79

00:14:17.860 They just play Jin Rami. Yeah. Yeah. It's what they do. It was a QAnon conspiracy thing. Yeah. 0.90

00:14:21.900 That didn't exist. Freaking demons. But anyway, so they just got to make sure they can't be,

00:14:27.460 they got to be a little bit more like if that happened on our team, we would have a very serious

00:14:32.040 meeting and it would be like, guys, you can only make this mistake one time. You can't do it second

00:14:36.460 time. You do it second time, you're right. We can't do nothing about this here. You cannot be leaking

00:14:39.680 information at this level to others and make sure when you're sending a group, my job is to check who else is in

00:14:45.420 this group. Your job is to check who you're adding in the group. Yeah. And make sure the names are the

00:14:48.600 right name. So we're literally more intentional about it. How many group texts? Yeah. You put me

00:14:52.520 one in this week. Like we're trying to see who's in it. You know which one I'm talking about. Yeah,

00:14:55.560 of course. WhatsApp. Yeah. But you always have to give a title for the group. Yeah. You ever send so

00:15:01.340 many groups? You ever send the wrong text and you immediately know? This guy sends me the wrong

00:15:04.220 pictures. I'm like, listen, stop texting me all these weird pictures. Are you serious? Yeah. It's like, dude.

00:15:09.520 But anyways, I'm dating a girl named Patricia. You got to get your group straight. You got to be

00:15:12.700 careful. It's got, you know, my friends, Miami's herpes cure, you know, all the groups that you

00:15:16.960 got in there. Let me go to the next story. I get a lot of my next, a lot of questions about people

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00:15:30.760 I'm just having a hard time getting out of bed. I'm having a hard time being fired up. I'm having a hard

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“Controlling The Narrative”- The Atlantic’s Signal Chat EXPOSES Trump’s War Strategy Against Houthis

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