Hello.
We've had the first big departure from the Trump administration.
The National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, has left the White House.
And now you might know him
because he was the person that set up the signal chat that also included the editor of The Atlantic magazine.
and where the Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth,
shared some quite sensitive details about military operations against the Houthis in Yemen.
Now, his deputy, the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor, Alex Wong,
is also reported to be leaving the administration as well,
which is interesting because I interviewed Alex Wong on Newsnight on Wednesday night.
as part of the coverage of Trump's 100 days in office.
So it looks like that was Alex Wong's last interview.
And I did ask him about the signal chat thing and he was pretty unrepentant about it.
But the thing that really stuck out to people watching Newsnight was this kind of conversational tick that he had of using my name in every single answer.
And to just prove to you what that was like,
we've now done a super cut of every time he said my name.
in that interview, which wasn't even that long.
And it turns out his remaining time was about 12 hours.
So that's Alex Wong and Mike Waltz,
the deputy and the national security advisor who have left the Trump administration.