Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Kesb.

Today, the American magazine, The Atlantic, doubled down, publishing the full text exchange

between senior US government officials on the commercial messaging app signal. Relating to the US airstrikes

on the Houthi movement in Yemen last week, a journalist Geoffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to the

chat, making him privy to the strikes before, during and after their launch. The publication

wrote today that there was a clear public interest in publishing

the details. After the White House downplayed these significance yesterday and after the journalist

Jeffrey Goldberg was personally criticised by the Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegeseth, who called him

a peddler of hoaxes and a deceitful and discredited journalist.

Well, yesterday it just so happened there was a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing

at which senior Trump officials, including those on the signal chat, were grilled on the subject.

Today, the House Intelligence Committee got the chance to do the same.

And here's the Democrat Congressman Jason Crow lambasting, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard,

and director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe. I spent my life in service to this country. I deployed

three times to combat in service to this nation. I learned in that time in service

that responsibility is core to leadership. You accept responsibility when things go wrong. You admit

mistakes. You set the standard from the very top. It is completely outrageous to me, completely outrageous to me that administration officials come

before us today with impunity, no acceptance of responsibility.

Excuse after excuse after excuse, well, we send our men and women downrange to do incredibly

difficult, incredibly dangerous things on our behalf.

And yet, nobody is willing to come to us and say this was wrong.

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