Inside the fallout of a stunning national-security leak

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  Good morning.

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  It's Friday, March 28th.

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  I'm Shemeta Basu.

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  This is Apple News today.

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  On today's show,

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  senior administration officials have been ordered to preserve the signal group chat involving military strikes on Yemen.

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  Trump pulls his nominee for United Nations Ambassador,

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  and major cuts are coming to the Department of Health and Human Services.

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  Let's start with the signal chat.

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  It's been another busy week in Washington as the administration deals with a fallout from mistakenly inviting Atlantic journalist and editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg

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  into a signal group chat in which they explicitly debated and laid out detailed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen,

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  an attack which killed dozens of people, including children.

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  The story prompted questions in congressional hearings, denials,

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  and mixed messaging from the administration and a bipartisan request for an inspector general to investigate the matter.

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  On Thursday, a judge ordered administration officials to preserve the messages on that chat.

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  This all comes as the administration continues its immigration crackdown,

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  and the president suggests fundamentally changing the rules around voting.

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  To help us take stock of a flurry of news stories this week,

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  we called up Politico's White House Bureau chief, Dasha Burns.

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  Hey, Dasha, thanks for joining us.

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