Senior White House officials believe that reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan from The New York Times obtained recordings of White House Situation Room meetings while gathering material for their upcoming book, *Coup: Inside Donald Trump’s Imperial Presidency*. The White House Situation Room strictly prohibits the use of any personal recording devices, so if the leak of these recordings is confirmed, it would constitute a major security breach. Passages from the book released prior to publication—pertaining to an Iran war and the Epstein files—include verbatim transcripts of White House Situation Room meetings. Notably, White House officials did not object to these highly classified dialogue records, including one where Rubio said about Netanyahu’s proposal for regime change in Iran: “In other words, this is all nonsense.” It is reported that Trump was extremely angry over these detailed descriptions. However, journalists do not actually need recordings; there are other ways they can obtain quotes and statements they wish to cite.
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