Jeffrey Goldberg

Barran and Henri Lévy give a talk at the French embassy and Mike Waltz and I are standing with each other.

And it's like, yeah, I know him.

I mean, I found it, you know, I know him.

Yeah, that usually doesn't happen without without intentionality.

The whole point is that they could have made it a two-day story by going, whoops, we won't do that again.

But instead, they decided to attack me.

And more to the point, more relevant, they attacked The Atlantic as a lying institution.

They said that we are lying about I don't know what.

And then they goaded us into releasing the whole transcript of the signal chat.

It was just kind of typical knee-jerk reaction.

I don't even know.

We live in some weird simulation now.

I know it's so far, like we've had competent defense secretaries, we've had incompetent defense secretaries.

We've never had anything like this performance.

Look, by the way, going back to Signalgate, what he was, he's a performer.

Right.

He was performing in the chat for J.D.

Vance and then the others, presumably.

And like the grown up Marco Rubio, who, if you notice in the signal chat, doesn't really participate in the signal chat because he's probably sitting there going, why are we doing this on signal?

Right.