2025-05-02
32 分钟Hey folks,
we're starting the show today with some news that broke after we recorded our show on Thursday morning.
The Washington Post has confirmed that President Donald Trump plans to replace his National Security Advisor,
Michael Waltz.
It's the first high-profile departure of a top Trump appointee,
and it comes just after Trump's 100th day in office.
Trump then announced on social media that he plans to nominate Waltz as the next ambassador to the United Nations.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio would serve as national security advisor in Waltz's place.
You might recall that Waltz was the official who in March added the Atlantic's editor-in-chief,
Jeffrey Goldberg, to an unclassified group chat that contained attack plans in Yemen,
the scandal that became known as Signalgate.
More revelations about the administration's casual approach to information security soon followed.
Waltz has also been at the center of disagreements in the MAGA movement,
given his hawkish politics don't neatly align with MAGA's isolationist elements.
So becoming UN ambassador would mean he would still play a significant role in Trump's foreign policy.
It would also mean that Waltz would face a Senate confirmation hearing where he could be questioned under oath about the signal controversy.
All right, with that news out of the way, let's get to the show.
From the newsroom of The Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
I'm Aaron Blake, senior politics reporter and host of our weekly politics roundtables.
It's Thursday, May 1st.