Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

I'm Celia Hatton and I'm coming to you live from our studio in central London.

We begin today with the continued fallout from a group chat fiasco

involving the highest ranking officials in the Trump administration,

the very people that are tasked with overseeing America's security.

We know this group was debating a military strike on the militant Houthi group in Yemen,

not because a whistleblower told us, but because a prominent journalist was mistakenly invited to join the group's chat on an unsecure messaging app, Signal.

Here's that journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, speaking to the U.S. public broadcaster, PBS.

You know, it really became a very bizarre situation on Saturday the 15th of March when I was shared on a text in this group from somebody purporting to be Pete Hegeseth, the Secretary of Defense.

This text contained operational military information, including the time that bombs were supposed to start dropping on Yemen.

And this was two hours before that time.

So I simply waited and stared at my phone.

Sure enough, the American attack on Yemen began to be felt at about 130 Eastern or so,

150 Eastern.

And that's when I realized that the chain was real. Until that point, I really had a deep

suspicion that I was being spoofed or hoaxed. The White House has confirmed that Mr. Goldberg was

inadvertently added to the group chat, but Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Defense Secretary, still had

harsh words for the editor of

the Atlantic. Here he is, responding to questions from journalists after landing at joint

base Pearl Harbor Hickham in Hawaii.

You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a

profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again

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