Atlantic Magazine’s editor Jeffrey Goldberg warns the release of additional text messages regarding war plans following his inclusion in a group chat

The Atlantic editor who published some of the war texts from Donald Trump’s administration is considering releasing more of the group chat. 

Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, disclosed to Tim Miller on the Bulwark Podcast that his team is considering releasing the entire collection of Signal messages.

‘My colleagues and I, along with the individuals advising us on this matter, have some fascinating discussions ahead,’ Goldberg shared during the podcast interview.

‘But just because they’re irresponsible with material, doesn’t mean that I’m going to be irresponsible.’ 

On Monday, Goldberg stunned listeners by revealing that Trump’s national security team had included him in a classified chat about military operations in Yemen.

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz started the conversation on Signal, an encrypted messaging app. 

It included users identified as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

A CIA representative, Trump adviser Stephen Miller and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles were also listed in the group. 

Goldberg noted that ‘Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted (him) the war plan at 11:44 a.m.’ The bombs started dropping in Yemen around 2 p.m.

Jeffrey Goldberg (pictured), the magazine’s editor-in-chief, told Tim Miller on the Bulwark Podcast his team is mulling over releasing the full trove of Signal messages

Goldberg made the jaw-dropping revelation that Trump’s national security team added him to a top secret chat about military strikes in Yemen. (Pictured: Smoke plumes rising above buildings following bombardment on Yemen’s Huthi-controlled capital Sanaa on March 19, 2025)

Longtime Washington DC journalist Goldberg was shocked to find himself part of what should have been a highly confidential conversation.  

‘It should go without saying—but I’ll say it anyway—that I have never been invited to a White House principals-committee meeting, and that, in my many years of reporting on national-security matters, I had never heard of one being convened over a commercial messaging app,’  he wrote in The Atlantic.

The shocking story shows operational details were unwittingly revealed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host, is now under the microscope over the egregious failing. 

Goldberg noted that ‘Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted (him) the war plan at 11:44 a.m.’ The bombs started dropping in Yemen around 2 p.m. 

Trump told reporters at the White House he hadn’t seen The Atlantic story: ‘I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of the Atlantic. It’s to me, it’s a magazine that’s going out of business.’

Emojis and congratulations appeared in the text chain after a successful mission

President Donald Trump – with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – played down the article

When pressed about the Signal chat, Trump said: ‘It couldn’t have been very effective, because the attack was very effective. I can tell you that I don’t know anything about it. You’re telling me about it for the first time.’

While speaking with reporters in Hawaii, Hegseth claimed that Goldberg had not got hold of the confidential messages. 

‘You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again,’ Hegseth said. 

On the Bulwark podcast, Miller asked Goldberg whether he would consider publishing the messages to demonstrate the legitimacy of his claim. 

‘Maybe in the coming days, I’ll be able to let you know that, ‘OK, I have a plan to have this material vetted publicly’,’ Goldberg said. 

‘But I’m not going to say that now, because there’s a lot of conversations that have to happen about that.’

Goldberg doubled down, saying the group chat messages included ‘who they were trying to kill in the next two hours’. He slammed Trump’s team as ‘defensive’. 

Trump defended his National Security Adviser Mike Waltz in the wake of the Signal scandal

Jeffrey Goldberg (pictured), the magazine’s editor-in-chief, told Tim Miller on the Bulwark Podcast his team is mulling over releasing the full trove of Signal messages

‘At moments like this, when they’re under pressure because they’ve been caught with their hand in the cookie jar or whatever, you know, they will just literally say anything to get out of the moment,’ Goldberg said. 

‘As much as I enjoy national security investigative reporting, I don’t need strike plans two hours before a launch,’ he added. 

‘That should not be coming into my phone. I mean, I take this stuff very, very seriously and I take the responsibility not to get Americans killed very, very seriously.’ 

This is a breaking news story with updates to follow.