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Trump news at a glance: Waltz takes fall for Signal blunder as president dismisses security threat

Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Waltz
Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Waltz, has accepted full responsibility for setting up a Signal group to discuss secret US plans to bomb Yemen. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA

Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said he took full responsibility for a stunning leak of military plans in a Signal chat, while Trump intervened to defend him, saying it was “the only glitch in two months”.

“I take full responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything is coordinated,” Waltz said in an interview with Fox News, in which he conceded: “it’s embarrassing”.

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