
Top Trump administration officials involved in the discussion of war plans on a Signal group chat continued to downplay the importance of the content there, but a key question that catalyzed the controversy remains largely unanswered: how was The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg added to the chat?
National security advisor Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth struggled to answer, with the former saying that analysts are still trying to determine how that was possible and the latter downplaying the importance of the content discussed.