Trump aides are freaking out that recordings of Situation Room meetings about the Epstein files made their way to New York Times reporters. Rep. Ro Khanna joined Chris Hayes to discuss the Axios report, which claims that Donald Trump “is furious about the blow-by-blow accounts.”
Senior White House officials suspect that Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan got their hands on audio recordings from Situation Room meetings for their upcoming book, Regime Change — a potential breach that has the administration rattled, according to Axios.
Recording devices are strictly prohibited in the Sit Room, making this, if true, an extraordinary security violation.
“We’re afraid some of our most sensitive conversations were being recorded,” one administration source said. “And we have no idea which ones.”
The suspicion stems from the almost verbatim dialogue that appeared in early excerpts covering the Iran war and the Epstein files, published ahead of the book’s June 23 release. The authors drew on more than 1,000 interviews for the project, which chronicles Trump’s second term.
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