Jeffrey Goldberg

Classified information.

It's not illegal because he has declassification authority.

He's an original classifier, along with the president, which the president called you up today and gave you the exact grid coordinates of the locations of every nuclear submarine in the United States Navy.

He could say, I'm a declassifier, so I decided to share this.

I mean, it would be an egregious, terrible thing to do.

So this goes to... You can have rules and regulations and they should be enforced, but the deeper problem is you have to hire people with judgment, discretion, and smarts in order to be the... I mean, to be the declassifier is an awesome responsibility.

And the fact is that...

Pete Hexeth obviously wasn't up to the task of taking his job, taking his role responsibly, taking his role seriously.

at the, at the, at the Navy, at the White House mess, you know, meet me at two.

And she took, she actually told Mike, well, it's give me your phone.

Give me your phone.

I'm giving it to Elon and he's going to figure out what happened.

It's too good.

Elon said no.

Elon said, no, you've just added his phone number into the chat.

Because he has my phone number.

And I thought you were going to refer to something else, which is like three days after this whole thing started unfolding.

Somebody found this picture of Mike and me at a French embassy.

By the way, listening to Bernard-Henri Lévy, it's like this is like Washington Mad Libs.

You're listening to Mad Libs.