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00:00But Samar, just going back to the way this has been handled, and now in light of these
00:05latest revelations from the Atlantic, I mean, how did the new revelations change things
00:12as far as how the White House and the Trump administration has been responding to all
00:16of this?
00:17Well, I think it's important to say sort of two things at the outset.
00:20One that in the modern era, this sort of informal communication between political leaders on
00:26social media, different messaging apps, has become fairly frequent.
00:32What is unusual about this episode is the classification level of the information being
00:38shared.
00:39The other thing that's important to say at the outset is that clearly no serious damage
00:44was done to the actual operational success of the military mission against the Houthis.
00:51But having said that, it's clearly a very embarrassing episode, as Mr. Terrell says.
00:57And there could have been potentially a security risk, because what has been shared in this
01:06group, this signal group, is exact timings of attacks, types of aircraft being attacked
01:12several hours in advance of some of those attacks.
01:15And had that leaked to the Houthis, it might have jeopardized the success of the operation
01:20and indeed potentially jeopardized the lives of American pilots and sailors.