White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shut down CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during Wednesday’s press briefing as she aggressively tried to ask a follow up question.
The exchange happened as Collins asked about the story The Atlantic published this week — about a Signal chat group where top Trump administration officials discussed a forthcoming strike on Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
“Since we have these messages released, and you said that the President has now personally reviewed them, in the chat at one point, Pete Hegseth said wrote ‘1415, strike drones on target,’ and in all caps, he said, ‘this is when the first bombs will definitely drop,’ does the President feel that he was misled by his national security advisors, whoever it was that told him there was no classified information in there now that he’s seen these messages?” Collins…