Jennifer Jacobs

"They say I wear a lot of hats," Elon Musk jokes in cabinet meeting. He grabbed a red "Gulf of America" hat from the cabinet room table and put it over his black DOGE hat. "Even my hat has a hat."

Scoop: CBS News has obtained an internal U.S. govt list of the Venezuelan men the Trump admin deported to El Salvador. Here are their names. www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

Defense Dept spokesperson confirms there's a physical line running between Hegseth's cellphone, which is kept just outside his office, and a monitor on his desk. The workaround, which is unusual, was created to give Hegseth text and Signal message alerts in his office www.cbsnews.com/news/pentago...

Scoop: Trump likely to make leadership changes involving 2 more top roles at Justice Dept, per sources. The changes will affect Harmeet Dhillon, asst AG for Civil Rights Division -- a promotion -- as well as Stanley Woodward, No. 3 official at DOJ -- demotion for him www.cbsnews.com/news/white-h...

Scoop: Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources familiar with the decision told @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Hundreds of US Special Ops military personnel, including Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, now in Middle East, as well as Marines and Army paratroopers, sources tell @cbsnews.com. We reported on some of the preparations March 20. The deployments give Trump options in Iran including with Strait of Hormuz.

BREAKING via @cbsnews.com: About a dozen U.S. service members were injured in an attack on Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi Arabia, according to multiple U.S. officials. A small number sustained very serious injuries; others were considered seriously injured. @JimLaPorta @ellee_watson and me.

New: The USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier will deploy to U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility, the major combatant command overseeing American military operations against Iran, sources told @JimLaPorta @ellee_watson and me. @cbsnews.com

🚨News: The Iranian response to the U.S. peace proposal is expected later today, sources familiar with the matter told @margbrennan and me. President Trump and top White House officials have been told that Iran's counter-proposal would likely arrive Friday via interlocutors. @cbsnews.com

News: An agreement that would allow the federal government to use voter registration data for immigration and criminal investigations is close to being done, sources told @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

Scoop: White House rejected an offer from Elon Musk to cover TSA workers' pay. Suggestion was taken seriously by Trump officials, but they believe partial shutdown is likely to end soon. And there could be legal challenges for Musk to fund the pay, even indirectly, because of his govt contracts.

NEWS: Trump has been strategizing methods to secure or extract Iran's nuclear materials, sources told @cbsnews.com. The timing of any such an operation – if he were to order it – remained unclear Friday night. But planning has centered on JSOC, an elite military unit www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...

NEWS: Pentagon officials have made detailed preparations for deploying U.S. ground forces into Iran, multiple sources told @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...