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I'm John Dickerson.

The Secretary of Defense insists nobody was texting war plans.

And Pete Heggseth says, I know exactly what I'm doing. Today we learned exactly what he was

doing in that chat in which the Trump National Security team discuss plans for a U.S. attack

on Yemen's Houthi rebels. We know because the journalist who was accidentally invited into the

chat released the text today. At O'Keefe is at the White House where earlier today they were still contending nothing

Heggseth texted was classified, but Ed, did that change?

Well, here at the White House tonight, officials cannot rule out that someone might lose their job over all of this.

That's because while the president and others are publicly downplaying the significance of it all, half a dozen national security officials across the government tell CBS News tonight

that because the text messages included specific targets and weapons systems, they believe

the information is classified. After initially withholding what he considered to be information

too sensitive for publication,

Atlantic Magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg today shared it anyway.

Why did you publish what you published?

He's on Tuesday, the President of the United States said there's nothing classified

or sensitive in the emails, in the texts.

I think people should see for themselves. They're saying nothing happened.

I'm saying that this represents a serious breach in national security and communications. That's what

journalism is for. The new article revealed that on the morning of March 15th, defense secretary

Pete Higgs has shared with Vice President Vance and other senior officials the specific times

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