Live updates: Atlantic reveals attack plans shared in Signal after Trump officials denied they contained classified information

President Donald Trump responds to The Atlantic publishing more texts this morning from the Signal chat.

In an interview with Vince Coglianese, the president said: “There weren’t details, and there was nothing in there that compromised, and it had no impact on the attack, which was very successful.”

Trump continues to push a theory that something nefarious happened that allowed editor Jeffrey Goldberg to access the text group — despite National Security Adviser Mike Waltz taking full responsibility and the screenshots confirming he added Goldberg to the group chat.

“A thing like that, maybe Goldberg found a way. Maybe there’s a staffer, maybe there’s a very innocent staffer, but … I think we’ll get to the bottom of it very quickly and it’s really not a big deal.”

The publication of The Atlantic’s bombshell reporting on the Trump administration’s Signal security breach could not have come at a more awkward time for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and FBI Director Kash Patel, who are in the middle of spending two days on Capitol Hill briefing lawmakers in public on security threats to the country.

The Supreme Court has upheld Biden’s regulations on “ghost guns” or untraceable firearms that can be assembled by buying a parts kit online. Justices agreed that the regulations are OK but “ghost guns” meet the definition of a “firearm” as it’s described in the Gun Control Act – a long-standing federal law that regulates guns.

Interestingly, this opinion contained photos of guns to show how they are classified as weapons. We rarely get photos in opinions so that’s kind of fun.

The opinion was 7-2 with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissenting

Podcast host, Army veteran, and political consultant Fred Wellman raises an interesting point — did Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth type out the attack plan he sent out in the Signal group chat, or did he copy and paste it from another document or message?

This begs the question, what else is on his phone?

The world’s richest man has issued an ominous message to veteran Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters, 86, after she was filmed suggesting that First Lady Melania Trump should be investigated and possibly deported from the United States.

Waters came under fire from Musk after a video of her speaking at an anti-Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) rally at the weekend in Los Angeles went viral.

Madeline Sherratt has the story.

With Trump seemingly reluctant to be drawn into this mess, it’s been up to Leavitt and the vice president to respond so far, with the latter once more attacking Jeffrey Goldberg’s credibility.

Here’s a counterpoint from our own Andrew Feinberg:

US District Judge James Boasberg, with whom the president recently tangled over the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, has been assigned the lawsuit brought by American Oversight over the Signalgate debacle.

Trump’s response to that little development is going to be quite something…

While the administration might quibble over the difference between “war plans” and “attack plans”, there now seems little doubt that the information shared in the Signal chat was highly sensitive and went into detail on exactly what was planned for the Houthis on the Red Sea, calling into serious question the denials we’ve heard so far that classified material was shared.