Scott Jennings Gives Trump Officials Rave Reviews After National Security Leak: ‘Refreshing Thing for the Government’ to Admit Mistake

BERMAN: “The idea today, the main thrust of the White House argument all day seemed to be Jeffrey Goldberg is still a bad guy, which explains how we managed to invite him on this group chat. And secondly, it maybe wasn‘t classified because Pete Hegseth sent it. Is that satisfying? I mean, that really was the message today from the White House.”
JENNINGS: “Yeah. And, you know, None of us have seen, you know, what was supposedly war plans, and there‘s still a dispute over, over just how sensitive it really was. But I do think it‘s noteworthy that the White House is able to acknowledge a mistake, say they‘re going to learn from it, say they‘re trying to figure out the technical issues that led to it. I mean, they they did own up to it. I mean, obviously, there‘s been some rhetoric and hyperbole around Goldberg and others who, by the way, I agree, acted responsibly in this particular case. Even though if I have some quibbles with what he‘s done in the past, he did absolutely act responsibly here. So I think that‘s actually kind of a refreshing thing for the government to say, ‘Okay, yes, effed up. We‘ll fix it. This won‘t happen again,’ especially when you contrast it with previous military and national security snafus in our recent history, in which no one was held accountable, no one was fired, no mistakes were admitted. Until the very end, Joe Biden was saying Afghanistan was a success. I like it here that Donald Trump, the president, said, ‘He‘s a good man, but he learned a lesson.’ That tells me he and the president, with Waltz, had a hard talk.”