The View hosts gleeful over Trump officials Signal debacle, suggest jail time over leaked Yemen military operation plans

“The View” hosts were gleeful Tuesday as they reacted to a journalist being accidentally included in a private chat with senior Trump officials about military operations in Yemen, with Whoopi Goldberg wondering if the administration officials should be jailed.The anti-Trump hosts opened the show with two segments discussing the news that The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently put on a Signal group chat that delved into the decision to strike Houthi targets in the Middle East.The chat included top officials like Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, among others.Critics have called the incident a major security breach, while President Donald Trump and his allies have downplayed it and leveled criticism at the reporter himself.Whoopi Goldberg — no relation to The Atlantic editor-in-chief — played a montage of Trump and other administration officials discussing the sanctity of classified information in the past.“Should we be saying, ‘Lock them up’?” Goldberg said to cheers from the audience.Fellow co-host Sunny Hostin said the officials “may have violated” provisions of the Espionage Act, including laws about retention of records and related to classified information.“A security breach this significant requires a thorough investigation,” she said.

“People can go to jail for something like this.”Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in his first-person account of the saga that he would not print some of what he witnessed in the chat because of the sensitivity of the information with regard to national security.Hostin said he had handled classified material better than members of the Trump administration.Whoopi Goldberg jokingly called the reporter “her cousin.”Fellow co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, an ex-Trump aide and former Pentagon press secretary, was also critical of how the officials used Signal, an encrypted ...