Morning Joe hosts rage over group chat that saw Trump war plans leaked

Married MSNBC stars Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski teamed up to tear into Donald Trump Tuesday - after his team looped a reporter into an unsecured group chat that contained top-secret war plans.

The slip-up happened the day before, and was laid bare by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in a Monday report. Goldberg was the journalist mistakenly added, and he joined Scarborough and Brzezinski on the set of Morning Joe to speak on the matter.

Scarborough started by saying he had spoken to several people who voted for Trump, and that they were 'deeply concerned about the recklessness' seen from the Republican's administration.

He added that the likes of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth - one of several officials seen in the chat - were not taking the situation seriously, and 'might as well have just been holding a sign up saying I think people who voted for Donald Trump are stupid' by denying it.

'I'm not exactly sure why he thought he could get away with doing that, when the administration already confirmed it,' he said.

He proceeded to ask his Mika for her input, after claiming that if 'lower-level people had [been caught doing] this, chances are good that they could possibly face charges.'

First, though, Scarborough recalled: 'These people who spent a year and a half attacking Hillary Clinton saying she should be in jail because she used a private email server.

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Brzezinski, the former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, responded by speculating whether other breaches could soon take place - due to the seemingly loose guidelines being seen from the current administration.

'The cavalier nature of the texting,' Brzezinski began, 'along with the incredibly in-depth information about what was about to happen, is staggering and raises the question, how many of these chats are out there on different national security issues?

'If anybody in charge cared about our national security, they'd be launching an investigation into this right now.

'Instead,' she said, figures like Hegseth and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt are 'attacking the press.' 

'Like, this is an incredible breach,' she insisted, after figures like JD Vance, Hegseth, and Marco Rubio were caught openly discussing plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen after National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added Goldberg in.  

'A self-induced breach.'

The former CBS News correspondent proceeded to slam a phrase being used to categorize the breach -  the term 'leaked chat'.

'I'm seeing the term leaked chat,' she said, 'This is not a leaked chat.'

'This is a group chat that included our guest, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, who, and if it wasn't so damn serious, it would be laughable!"    

'But this group chat... that was the mistake,' she went on. 'Somebody by mistake included Jeffrey on a group chat, it was not leaked to the press. The press was included.'

Scarborough, meanwhile, expressed awe over the fact that none of the officials in the chat appeared to noticed Waltz adding Goldberg in - before continuing to discuss an impending military strike that took place later that day.

'I couldn't believe that not one of the other high-ranking officials on the chat – which included vice president JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard – noticed or questioned an unfamiliar name,' he said.

Goldberg said he was displayed as "JG," upon being added to their group, which also included CIA boss John Ratcliffe, Trump adviser Stephen Miller and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

'I can't speak for other people, but I don't go into large group chains without looking at every one of the numbers and saying, "Okay, who am I talking to here' – and that's for cable TV," Scarborough said. 

'These people are blindly going onto a group chat on Signal, talking about where our troops are going, and I find it shocking that not one person said, "Okay, who's this guy with The Atlantic icon??

'So the question is, why wouldn't somebody, Mika, in that group ask, '"Who is JG?"'

'Yeah,' Brzezinski agreed, after Goldberg declared figures like Hegseth and Leavitt had been lying when they said the correspondence did not contain military plans.

'No, that's a lie,' Goldberg told Kaitlan Collins on CNN the night before, recalling how the defense secretary 'was texting war plans, [and] he was texting attack plans.'

'When targets were gonna be targeted, how they were gonna be targeted, who was at the targets, when the next sequence of attacks were happening,' he recalled, hours after Hegseth told reporters in Hawaii: 'Nobody was texting war plans,'

Goldberg added how there was more he didn't publish 'because it was too consequential, too technical and I worry that sharing that information in public could be harmful to American military personnel.'

In his article, Goldberg further noted how 'Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted [him] the war plan at 11:44 am on Monday.'

Bombs were seen dropping in Yemen - where cells of the terror group are stationed - around 2 pm. 

Security officials responsible have since owned up to the oversight.