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The President and his national security team are aggressively downplaying a group chat with critical military strike plans that included a journalist. Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe also insisted today that no material shared in the chat was classified as they appeared at a heated Senate hearing. The officials shifted responsibility on the defense secretary for sending potentially classified information in the group chat. Plus, inside a Southern California crime ring and their elaborate scheme targeting surfers. Nick Watt shows how the accused criminals were finally taken down.
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