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President Donald Trump on Tuesday downplayed the scandal over top administration officials discussing plans to strike Yemen on an unclassified commercial chat app.
Trump made it clear that he does not plan to fire his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, who founded the Signal Group and inadvertently added Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
"Michael Waltz has learned a lesson and he's a good man," Trump told NBC's Garrett Haake.
Trump claimed that one of Waltz's aides added Goldberg's number to the conversation. "That was the only glitch in two months and it turned out not to be a serious problem," he said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and press secretary Caroline Leavitt have also downplayed the incident and denied that "war plans" were discussed - a claim that is difficult to reconcile with the messages Goldberg described or fully published.
"No 'war plan' was discussed. No classified material was sent," White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt wrote in X, denying several aspects of Goldberg's story.
"The Houthi attacks were successful and effective. The terrorists were killed and that is what matters most to President Trump," she added.
This is the same line Hegseth took on Monday, when he attacked Goldberg's credibility and denied that he had shared the attack plans in the open group on Signal.
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