Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross got in a vicious, adultery-related shot at Trump Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over the leaked war-planning text chain that has taken over the news.
The political media world was stunned Monday when Jeffrey Goldberg dropped a blockbuster report that revealed he was (apparently inadvertently) included in a text chain discussing detailed war plans on the encrypted Signal app.
On Monday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, guest anchor John Berman hosted a panel that included Cross, Dan Koh, Scott Jennings, Joe Borelli, and Leah Wright Rigueur.
After getting a positive take from Jennings, Berman asked Cross for her view. The outspoken Cross immediately called out Jennings, then made a cutting allusion to the Signal app’s use as a means to communicate with “side-pieces” and referenced Hegseth’s self-admitted history of adultery:
CROSS: This is so utterly ridiculous. It’s not only a national embarrassment. This is a national emergency, John. And I just feel like anybody who has the temerity to come on air and try to defend this, Scott, you just said that they’re apologetic or that they’ve admitted some sort of wrongdoing. We just heard the defense secretary denied this whole thing and instead choose to attack Jeffrey Goldberg, who did the responsible thing by not reporting out everything that he heard on this or read on the Signal chat.
When this happened, I actually talked to some friends who worked in intel during the Obama administration and the Biden administration, and I asked, how do you normally communicate about something like this? And there’s a SCIF, that you have to have the highest security level to participate in these conversations. You go in a room where there’s no electronic devices allowed, there are no windows. It’s taken very seriously.
And this is what happens when you have a man whose first job in government was, as president of the United States, who’s politically inept, who employs people who are politically inept. There’s nothing funny about this. We’re putting people who serve this country at danger and we’re asking people to believe nonsense. And this is a travesty.
Do we think President Xi of China is tweeting or texting about his national security plans? Do we think Volodymyr Zelensky is texting about his plans? Do we think President Vladimir Putin is spoonfeeding Russian talking points to American diplomats even on Signal? This is a thing that people use to talk to their side pieces, something Pete Hegseth would certainly know about. This is something that people need to talk about March Madness. It is a crisis that we need to take very seriously, and we can’t present this as journalists. We cannot present this as though these are two opposing political points of view. This is a serious issue that we need to take seriously.
BERMAN: Do you take it seriously, Joe?
BORELLI: I think the administration should take it seriously, right? This is something that’s obviously a mistake.
Watch above via CNN NewsNight.
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