House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on Monday evening that White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should not face discipline over a chat they had over the encrypted messaging app Signal that allegedly included plans to strike a Yemeni terrorist group.
Johnson was questioned by reporters on camera about a report by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, that he had somehow been added to the chat group, in which Waltz and Hegseth shared plans for an attack on the Houthis.
“Of course not,” Johnson responded when asked about whether the two should face punishment of some kind….