Welcome to the NewsHour. Today, the Atlantic Magazine published the full messages among the President's national security aides right before the launch of military strikes in Yemen.

The new messages written on the commercially available app, Signal, show that the Secretary of Defense posted the timing and weapons used in the attack 30 minutes before the operation began.

Those details have shocked many in the national security community and dominated a pre-scheduled

House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill today. Nick Schiffran starts our coverage.

This is classified information.

At a hearing dedicated to worldwide threats, Democrats today pointed their criticism inside the administration.

Communicating these sorts of things in signal is not okay.

Targets, times.

Those kinds of things are absolutely classified.

The accusations followed the Atlantic's publishing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegeseth messages

that he wrote before surprise attacks on Houthi leaders and targets revealing extraordinary

detail.

Time now, 1144 Eastern.

Weather is favorable.

Just confirm with Central Command, we are a go for mission launch.

12.15 p.m. F-18's launch first strike

package. 145 p.m. trigger-based F-18 first strike window starts. Target terrorist is at his

known location. To 10 p.m. More F-18's launch. 2.15 p.m. strike drones on target. 3.36 p.m. F18's second strike starts.

We are currently clean on operational security.

Godspeed to our warriors.

Everyone here knows that the Russians or the Chinese could have gotten all of that information.

And they could have passed it on to the Houthis who easily could have

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