The acting inspector general of the Department of Defense released his report on Signalgate and found that Defense Secretary Hegseth’s behavior endangered the safety of American pilots, and that he should not have been using a commercial messaging app, or his own phone, to share secret information about upcoming airstrikes. The panel discusses the findings and the response.
Clip: Hegseth on defense after Signalgate inspector general report
Dec. 05, 2025 AT 8:42 p.m. EST
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Full Episode: Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 12/5/25
The Trump administration’s self-styled Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, has spent most of this week on defense, facing accusations that he committed war crimes and that he endangered the lives of U.S. pilots. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Peter Baker of The New York Times, Susan Glasser of The New Yorker and Nancy Yousef of The Atlantic to discuss this and more.
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