Fmr. DoD official explains why the Signal group chat was classified the moment it was created

Peter Baker , MSNBC political analyst and chief White House correspondent for The New York Times , and Alex Wagner , adjunct law professor at Syracuse University .

Baker : The White House reacts with aggression to judges' rulings against them.

Wagner: It's part of a larger pattern that this president has indicated in 10 weeks in which he's trying to shut down alternate or competing centers of power in Washington .

National security adviser Mike Waltz has been weakened in Trump 's eyes by this, says CNN 's Peter Bergen .

He says the question is whether or not Trump , you know, chooses to do anything. He is basically saying he's not going to take action against them. That doesn't seem to be happening now. It is possible that the president eventually decides he wants to get rid of one or both.

This is the same week that the administration went to court and said that it will not tell a federal judge what time a plane of migrants landed in El Salvador or what time it took off.

The administration invoked this what this called the state secrets privilege.

At the same time, they're saying that information about an upcoming military strike, including the specific times that the warplanes would be hitting the targets is somehow not classified.