In sitting down with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, President Donald Trump said he spoke with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the Signal chat controversies, and expressed confidence his embattled Pentagon leader will turn it around after a rocky start.

“I think he’s gonna get it together,” Trump told The Atlantic in an Oval Office exclusive published Monday morning.

“I had a talk with him, a positive talk, but I had a talk with him.”

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