Chris Matthews declared the White House attack plans leak story has moved from “blunder” to “cover up” after the full texts chain including defense officials was published by Jeffrey Goldberg on Wednesday.
Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, released on Wednesday messages from a Signal chat he was accidentally included in that had everyone from Vice President JD Vance to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth discussing a then-upcoming attack on the Houthis in Yemen. The messages show that the timing of the attack and other details were being discussed, but White House officials continue to deny that any classified information was shared with Goldberg.
Matthews dismissed the administration’s defenses — and accused it of trying to cover up a major national security mistake, calling the information “clearly” classified.
Goldberg was reportedly accidentally looped into the conversation by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. Matthews praised Fox News’ Laura Ingraham for pressing Waltz on Tuesday night about the mistake.
Matthews said:
I believe this story moved from blunder, which it was the last few days, to cover up, and the cover up began almost immediately. We saw the president after coming out of his meeting. We saw last night on Laura Ingraham’s show where Mike Waltz tried to defend himself. She was very good at pushing him and pushing him pretty well, I thought, and have to tell you she’s going to go further tonight after this information. This is classified information. It’s strike zone. It’s about an attack by the United States on the Houthis, a warfront that hadn’t gotten much attention before in this country, but it has now.
Matthews recalled his own time working as a speechwriter for late President Jimmy Carter and how national security information would flow and be protected. The former MSNBC host suggested there is more to Goldberg’s number being attached to the call than we know thus far.
He said:
There’s two stories. What was Jeffrey Goldberg’s phone number doing in the office of Mike Waltz? Why did they have the phone number? Nobody’s asked this question. What, are they hanging out together? Do they talk occasionally? How come they had the number and how could it find itself into this call list of people? How did that happen? By accident? Accident?! There is no accident here. This happened because somebody did it.
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