Goldberg dismisses Waltz’s Signal leak defense: ‘Numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones’

Atlantic editor says Trump adviser's defense for accidentally adding him to war plans chat was implausible

Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg has dismissed the explanation offered by national security adviser Mike Waltz for how he was included in a Trump administration group text chat about - and in advance of - the recent bombing of Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Goldberg said Waltz's theory that his contact was sucked in" to his phone via somebody else's contact" was implausible.