Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, hit back at Michael Waltz’s claim that the two had never met.
“My number was in his phone. He mistakenly added me to the group chat. There we go,” Goldberg said Sunday on “Meet The Press.”
On Tuesday, Waltz, the national security adviser, said he takes “full responsibility” for adding Goldberg to a group chat that discussed war plans, a scandal that was brought to light when Goldberg wrote about it for The Atlantic last week. In the article, Goldberg detailed how he was inadvertently added to a group chat with 18 Donald Trump administration officials, in which the officials planned war strikes in Yemen.
Trump said there was nothing unclassified in the group chat and the mistake is not a security concern.
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