The White House is standing by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and national security adviser Mike Waltz.

Hegseth and Waltz have come under fire after Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, was added to a Signal group chat by Waltz that featured top officials in the Trump administration. The Atlantic’s story showed Hegseth provided times of warplane launches, strike packages, and targets of Houthi rebels in Yemen.

“We have never denied that this was a mistake,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday. “The national security adviser took responsibility for that. And we have said we are making changes.”

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