National Security Advisor Mike Waltz appeared on Fox News on Tuesday evening, denying that he has the phone number of Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
On Monday, Goldberg published the article, saying it was accidentally added to group chats on serene messaging platform signals. When asked about “Ingraham’s Angle” on the issue by Fox host Laura Ingraham, Waltz spoke about what he said was a Trump administration achievement before denying to know Goldberg personally. (Related: “Why does that happen?”: The Breakfast Club co-host has slammed the decision of journalists to publish Trump-controlled signal messages.)
“That’s embarrassing, yes. [Musk] The middle of here. We have the best technical mind to see how this happened, but I can tell you 100%, I don’t know this guy,” Waltz said.
“I know him in the sense that he hates the president, but I don’t text him. He wasn’t on my phone so I’m going to understand how this happened,” Waltz added.
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Ingraham then asked if the team knew that “the person in charge will take responsibility” for the mixup. Waltz retreated and took full responsibility for building a group chat that includes members such as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, National Intelligence Direction Tulsi Gabbard and Vice President JD Vance.
“I’m not going to be pedantic here, but how did you do that number in the group chat?” Ingraham asked.
“Have you ever had someone else’s contact information that would indicate your name, and then do you have someone else’s number?” Waltz asked. “You have someone else’s number in someone else’s contact. So of course I didn’t see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else.
Following the release of Goldberg’s report, the White House confirmed Daily’s callers about the existence of group chats, confirming that the war plan had been accidentally leaked into the Atlantic.
National Intelligence Director Tarsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe were asked about the chat group at a hearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Email Committee on Tuesday. They said that no classified information was leaked. However, as Goldberg did not publish the full chat thread, Democrat Virginia Sen. Mark Warner pressed them to share chat information with the committee.
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