Earlier this week, the White House confirmed that a journalist was accidentally added to a group chat where a number of the most senior defence officials were discussing a planned strike against the Houthi rebel group in Yemen. The Atlantic's editor-in-chief revealed in an exclusive article that he was accidentally added to the Signal group earlier this month, which included Vice-President JD Vance and Trump’s National Security Advisor. In today's podcast, we explain the sequence of events, the context behind the discussion itself and the fallout since.

Hosts: Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski
Producer: Orla Maher

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