House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, left, is calling for President Trump to fire Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, right. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
Hegseth on Tuesday fended off a reporter’s questions about the leaked Signal chat group allegedly involving Trump administration officials discussing forthcoming strikes on the Houthis in Yemen. The strikes then happened on March 15.
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, said officials were discussing "war plans," but he decided not to publish some of the highly sensitive information he saw, including precise information about weapons packages, targets and timing, due to potential threats to national security and military operations.
The secretary repeated his claims that "nobody was texting war plans," pushing back on Goldberg's assertion.
TRUMP SAYS WALTZ DOESN’T NEED TO APOLOGIZE OVER SIGNAL TEXT CHAIN LINK
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he knew "exactly" what he was doing after a journalist was mistakenly added to a group chat with senior officials. (Reuters/Yves Herman)
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Fox News’ Landon Mion contributed to this report.
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