Kaitlan Collins used her platform on CNN Monday night to rub the recent group chat leak in Republicans’ faces.

She did so on The Source, hours after The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed he had been mistakenly added to the top-secret group chat between several notable security officials.   

The chat saw figures like JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio openly discuss plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen – messages Goldberg received.

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz was also present, as was director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. CIA boss John Ratcliffe, Trump adviser Stephen Miller and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles were also present. 

Waltz had been the one to add Goldberg in, the White House confirmed. Collins, in turn, devoted much of her show to the  breach – welcoming Goldberg himself as a guest and recently floated presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg as well.

Both had stern words about the oversight, but it was Collins who called out Donald Trump directly, toward the start of the show. She started by summarizing the situation, saying an insider close to Trump’s team described the camp as being ‘stunned’.

She went on to air consecutive clips of Republicans complaining about similar lapses in security from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was relentlessly roasted for using a private email for communications rather than one provided by the State.

All the politicians seen chastising Clinton in the supercut were among those present in the chat, hitting home Collins’ point.

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Kaitlan Collins used her platform on CNN Monday night to rub the recent group chat leak in Republicans’ faces

‘The minute this story published today, it was blasted out in multiple text threads, throughout the administration, viewed by several people I spoke to, as a major unforced error,’ she began, before welcoming her guests.

‘Aides noted it didn’t help that the reporter, Mike Waltz added to this group chat, is one that Trump has a particular disdain for, given his previous reporting on him,’ Collins, 32, continued.

‘And it also wasn’t lost on anyone, in Washington, regarding what Trump used to say about Hillary Clinton, and her use of a private server, or what his now-senior officials once said, either.’

This paved the way for the roughly 30-second mashup, which included statements from Hegseth, Rubio, Ratcliffe, and Waltz highly critical of Clinton’s practices.

‘If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton, they would be in jail right now,’ Hegseth, then a Fox host, is first heard saying of the Clinton scandal. 

‘Nobody is above the law, not even Hillary Clinton, even though she thinks she is,’ Rubio added separately, not long after bowing out of the Republican race for Trump.

‘Mishandling classified information is still a violation of the Espionage Act,’ added Ratcliffe, who is set to address Congress this week, along with Gabbard, to address the emerging scandal.

‘When you have the Clinton emails, on top of the fact that the sitting President of the United States admitted he had documents in his garage but they didn’t prosecute… they didn’t go after these folks,’ added Waltz.

She did so on The Source, hours after The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed he had been mistakenly added to the top-secret group chat between notable security officials who had been discuss plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen. SM refers to trump adviser Stephen Miller

Collins, 32, devoted much of her show to the breach – welcoming Goldberg (left) himself as a guest and recently floated presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg as well

Both had stern words about the oversight, but it was Collins who called out Donald Trump, toward the start of the show. She started by summarizing the situation, saying an insider close to Trump’s team described his camp being left ‘stunned’

Clinton – who lost to Trump after the scandal surfaced as a sticking point in the 2016 election – responded to the leak on X, writing: ‘You have got to be kidding me.’

While not offering more of a reaction, the tweet also appeared to hone in on the figures’ apparent hypocrisy.

At the top of Clinton’s X page sits a pinned interview with Collins from October, where she warned Trump was becoming ‘unhinged.’

An accompanying caption insists: ‘There is no safe haven under authoritarian rule, even if it happens in America.’

Collins, on Monday, went on to present another clip of Hegseth responding the controversy after landing for a meeting with local leaders in Hawaii.

‘So you’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist, who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes, time and time again, to include the, I don’t know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the Fine people on both sides hoax, or Suckers and losers hoax,’ he said of Goldberg, the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief.  

‘This is the guy that peddles in garbage. This is what he does.’

A reporter proceeded to ask why messages detailing a prospective ‘sequence’ of strikes against the Houthis had been leaked, leading Hegseth to outright deny such plans were discussed. 

She went on to air consecutive clips of Republicans complaining about similar lapses in security from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton involving emails. All the politicians seen chastising Clinton were among those present in the chat, hitting home Collins’ point

‘Nobody was texting war plans,’ he said, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt keeping the same story, despite Goldberg – in both a report for the Atlantic and his interview with Collins – saying otherwise.

‘And that’s all I have to say about that,’ Hegseth concluded in the clip.

‘No, that’s a lie,’ Goldberg told Collins shortly after, insisting the defense secretary ‘was texting war plans, [and] he was texting attack plans. 

‘When targets were gonna be targeted, how they were gonna be targeted, who was at the targets, when the next sequence of attacks were happening,’ he recalled, revealing how the chat included ‘attack plans,’ locations and identities of targets.

Goldberg added how there was more he didn’t publish ‘because it was too consequential, too technical and I worry that sharing that information in public could be harmful to American military personnel.’

In his article, Goldberg further noted how ‘Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted [him] the war plan at 11:44 am on Monday.’

Bombs were seen dropping in Yemen – where cells of the terror group are stationed – around 2 pm.

Buttigieg, Biden’s old secretary of transportation, joined Collins later on, saying he believes someone should be fired over the scandal.

Clinton – who lost to Trump after the scandal surfaced as a sticking point in the 2016 election – responded to the leak as well, writing on X: ‘You have got to be kidding me’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (pictured) adamantly denied the story – despite the National Security Council appearing to confirm its validity – and called Goldberg a serial liar 

When reached for comment, a spokesman for the Pentagon told DailyMail.com: ‘We do not have anything to offer beyond the Secretary’s remarks’

‘Absolutely [someone should be fired],’ he told the host.

‘I mean, if I made a mistake like this as lieutenant, I would be probably not just fired, but probably indicted and tried and maybe in prison.’

When reached for comment, a spokesman for the Pentagon told DailyMail.com: ‘We do not have anything to offer beyond the Secretary’s remarks.’