Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is accusing Mike Waltz of lying about talking with him — ridiculing on Sunday the claim that his phone number was mysteriously “sucked into” the national security adviser’s cellphone before being included in a Signal group chat about Yemen airstrikes.

Screenshots shared by Goldberg show Waltz added the journalist to the Signal chat about an upcoming attack on the Houthi rebels in Yemen, but Waltz has repeatedly said he had neve

Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg dismissed National Security Adviser Mike Waltz’s claim that his phone number was “sucked in” to a Trump administration Signal chat discussing a military strike in Yemen.

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.

President Donald Trump again addressed the stunning Signal messaging app scandal from earlier this week, calling the Atlantic’s reporting on it “fake news” and suggesting he won’t be firing any of his Cabinet members who were part of the group chat.