Trump Trumps Yemen War Plans Group Chat Fiasco: ‘It can happen’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Tuesday, the use of a signal group was reportedly neglected among the top officials to discuss a US attack on Houthis in Yemen – brought forward when a journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic was “unintentionally” added to the chat.

Trump claimed that “there was no classified information as I understand it,” when he was pricey with questions about the reported accident during a meeting with his ambassadors in the White House. Trump came in defense of national security adviser Michael Waltz and proclaimed military operation as a success.

“They used an app if you want to call it an app that many people use. Many people in government use many people in the media use,” Trump said.

Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Ocean, wrote in a piece published on Monday that he was added to a group chat in the commercially available signal app, where officials, including defense secretary Pete Hegeth and Waltz, discussed the obstacle of strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen. Goldberg said he was apparently added to the chat by Waltz.

The story in the Atlantic described only the operational part of the message chain but did not reveal details.

When asked if anyone would be fired as a result of Firestorm, Trump replied, “We’ve pretty much researched it. It’s pretty simple to be honest … It’s just something that can happen. It can happen.”

Trump attacked the Atlantic as well as Goldberg and doubled about success with the air strikes.

“Well, I mean, see, we’re looking at everything and you know they’ve made a big deal out of this because we’ve had two perfect months,” Trump said.

Waltz said he had technical experts – rather than the FBI – to look at the matter and said to Trump, “We will keep everything as safe as possible. No one in your national security team would ever put someone at risk.”

The Atlantic pushed back toward Trump’s claims.

“Attempts to scare and discredit the Atlantic, our editor and our reporting follows an obvious playbook of elected officials and others in power who are hostile to journalists and the first amendments to all Americans,” the magazine said in a statement on Tuesday night. “Our journalists continue with fearless and independently report the truth in the public interest.

“Jeffrey Goldberg received information and discussion on military planning among the country’s top national security leaders when he was inadvertently added to their non-secure messaging group,” added it. “This is great – and was confirmed yesterday by the National Security Council.”

Democrats at Capitol Hill were against the administration over the incident throughout Tuesday.

Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., A Marine veteran, said during a news conference that Signal Group Chat National Security violation “put American life at risk.”

Moulton said Trump administration officials lie about the incident, which is “not in the leadership manual for our armed services.”

“Oh, this information was not classified? Without once to know the full details, we know that the time of attack of this operation was in the message. Let’s be clear: It’s classified information. That’s all you need to know,” he added.

The congressman acknowledged that there is “no excuse here, but there is also no accountability, and it is very clear that secretary Hegeth, with how he handles this, has no honor, has no sense of duty and has absolutely zero responsibility for his own actions.”

The house’s minority leader Hakeem Jeffries called for Hegeth to be fired over the group.

“Pete Hegeth is the most unqualified defense secretary in American history,” he said in a statement. “His behavior was shocking conscience, risking American life and probably violating the law.”

Earlier Tuesday, Democrats for National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe grew over the use of signal and the information discussed on the chat.

The intelligence officials who testified as part of a previously planned consultation for Senat’s Select Committee on Intelligence also claimed that there was no classified information included in the message chain.

Faced with questions from the Senates Democrats about why information on attack sequencing or timing, as reported by the Atlantic, would not be considered classified, Ratcliffe said that defense secretary Hegeth had the authority to decide what was classified or not. Gabbard postponed such issues to the Ministry of Defense.

Ratcliffe also said he believed that national security adviser Waltz intended the chat to be “a mechanism to coordinate between high -level officials but not a replacement for using high side or classified communication for something that would be classified.”

Democratic Senator Mark Warner, Vice President of the Panel, threw the incident as “Slurned” and said others would have been fired for the same behavior. Warner also pressed officials to share the messages with legislators after saying they did not contain any classified information.

“If there was no classified material, share it with the selection. You can’t have it both ways,” he said.

Republicans on the panel did not raise as many questions about the question during the hearing, which were set to focus on worldwide threats. Although late. Todd Young, a Republican from Indiana, said he would ask questions about the signal event in a closed door session.

Officials of the White Huss National Security Council said they “review” how Goldberg could have been mistakenly added to the group with 18 members who included several of the country’s top military officials.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the review Tuesday, but said “no ‘war plans’ were discussed.” She added that no classified material was sent to the signal group Chat.

“The White House -Attorney’s Office has provided guidance on a variety of platforms for President Trump’s chief officials to communicate as safely and efficiently as possible,” she said.

“At this point, it seems that the message stream reported is authentic and we are reviewing how an unintended number was added to the chain,” NSC spokesman Brian Hughes said in a statement sent to ABC News after first publishing by the Atlantic.

The extent of the review, including whether it would try to determine why high -level discussions about military planning took place outside official channels, was not immediately clear from Hughes’ statement.

Trump did not commit to changing the procedure or completely cutting off the use of signal within the administration as a result of the failure.

“I don’t think it’s something we look forward to using again. We may be forced to use it. You may be in a situation where you need speed as opposed to gross security and you may be forced to use it, but generally I think we probably won’t use it much,” he said.

Despite his efforts to neglect the incident, President Trump repeatedly stated that he does not like this means of communication and said he thinks it is best to be in the situation of these conversations.

“Sometimes someone can get into these things. It’s one of the prices you pay when you’re not in the space of the situation without phones on, which is always the best, honestly,” Trump said.

“Look, if it was up to me, everyone would sit in a room together,” Trump said later. “The room would have solid lead walls and ceiling and a lead floor. But you know life doesn’t always let you do it.”

ABC News’ Fritz Farrow, Luis Martinez, Lauren Peller, Lalee Ibssa, Isabella Murray, Ivan Pereira and Meredith Deliso contributed to this report.