President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was not upset concerning the national security advisor Michael Waltz after he was Reports A journalist added a text thread wherein top officials discussed upcoming military strikes.
“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson and he is a good man,” “Trump” told NBC News In a phone call when he was asked whether he still had confidence in his top national security assistant.
Asked how Jeffrey GoldbergThe editor -in -chief of The Atlanticwas included in a text thread that Vice President JD Vance and Defense Minister Pete Hegseth included. Trump accused an worker of the lower level.
“It was one of Michael's people on the phone. An employee had his number there,” said the president.
Goldberg revealed in a Bombhell article on Monday that his number on signal, an encrypted messaging app, had been added to a chat thread called “Houthi PC Small Group” on March 13.
The thread showed the participants who discussed and discussed plans in reference to the US bomb attacks on Houthi goals in Yemen, which were ultimately carried out on March 15.
The names of the participants looked as if it would comply with those of the highest Trump administrative officers, including Vance, Hegseth and Waltz and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, director of the National Secret Service Tulsi Gabbard, CIA director John Ratcliffe and Minister of Finance Scott Bessent.
Goldberg rejected it to disclose a few of the content of the texts, including the name of an individual he described as “active intelligence officer”. Goldberg also refused to detail Hegseth's contribution wherein the journalist “company details of the upcoming strikes for Yemen, including information about goals, weapons that would use the United States and attack sequence,” contained.
A spokesman for the National Security Council confirmed the authenticity of the signal group within the Atlantic and said: “We check how an unintentional number was added to the chain.”
In the event of an annual “worldwide threat” before the Senate's intelligence agency on Tuesday morning, Gabbard said that it will “not go into the details” when the highest democrat of the committee, Senator Mark Warner from Virginia, was aggressively questioned.
Gabard and Ratcliffe each said that the signal texts don’t contain classified information.
After Warner had beaten the incident as the newest example of “sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior” of the Trump administration, the officials urged the texts to share with the committee.
Gabbard and ratcliffe haven’t committed. When Senator Ron Wyden, D-ORE, asked if she would work with an audit to verify that she had not participated in other group chats with classified information, Gabard said that she “had no objection”.
Ratcliffe asked the identical query, said that he would “consider that the National Security Council considers appropriate”.
Trump and his officials pushed back the story, contested Goldberg's characterization of the thread as “war plans” and began personal attacks on Goldberg himself.
“Nobody wrote war plans. And that's all I have to say,” said Hegseth on Monday afternoon.
Press spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt repeated the claim that “no” war plans “were” discussed “and denied that a classified material was sent to the signal thread.
In an X -Post later on Tuesday morning, Leavitt said that Trump “continues to trust his national security team, including Mike Waltz”.
Goldberg answered bluntly. “This is a lie. He wrote war plans, he wrote plans for attack” said by Hegseth in a CNN interview on Monday evening.
The criticism of the controversy for the SMS was not limited to Democrats.
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb.
“Just be honest and have it,” said Bacon and added, “it’s a fact” that was included in classified information.
“I believe it's pretty clear,” he said.
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