'Sloppy, careless, incompetent'

Democrats on the committee called on Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to resign. Senator Mark Warner blasted what he called "sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior."

Journalist Goldberg said that Hegseth sent information in the Signal chat about the Yemen strikes including targets, weapons and timing ahead of the strikes on March 15.

He said he was added to the group chat two days before the Yemen strikes but did not publish sensitive information on the attacks.

Hegseth, a former Fox News host with no experience running a huge organization like the Pentagon, launched the fightback by saying that "nobody was texting war plans."

The White House then went into full damage control mode on Tuesday, attacking Goldberg and describing the story as a "coordinated effort" to distract from Trump's achievements. "Don’t let enemies of America get away with these lies," White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said on X, describing the row as a "witch hunt."

Trump and his aides have repeatedly used the same term to dismiss an investigation into whether the Republican's 2016 election campaign colluded with Moscow.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X on Tuesday that "no 'war plans' were discussed" and "no classified material was sent to the thread." She also attacked Goldberg as being "well-known for his sensationalist spin."

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