The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

Hours after this hearing, “PBS News Hour” put on Jeffrey Goldberg for almost seven unchallenged minutes to toot his own horn for having the fortune of Team Trump messing up and including him in a chat on the private encrypted app Signal as officials discussed bombing the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.

CNN’s Jake Tapper offered a short but scathing assessment on Monday amid the White House’s efforts to sweep the war group chat fiasco under the rug. Tapper interviewed The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg,

The Trump administration tried to paint the Atlantic editor as a liar, so he felt compelled to prove them wrong -- and he had the receipts.

An inadvertent invitation to a group chat thrust The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg into the center of an explosive national security breach that's put the White House on the defensive. Why it matters: Goldberg's decision to disclose the discussion of planned strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen and publish the group chat's contents has embroiled top Trump officials in scandal and exposed them to potential legal jeopardy.

Mr. Goldberg, who was included on a private text thread discussing war plans, was a longtime national security reporter who became editor of The Atlantic in 2016.

Is Jeffrey Goldberg legally allowed to release the Signal messages he received? - Goldberg published vague information about the attacks in Yemen more than a week after they occurred

The Atlantic published additional text messages from the Signal group chat that its Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to accidentally last week.

Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg defended his decision Wednesday to publish the full transcript of messages from a secret government group chat he was added to, as White House officials struggle to downplay the catastrophic leak.