Goldberg tells BBC the White House should fix security breach instead of blaming reporterspublished at 22:07 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March
‘Why did they invite me?’ – Goldberg says Trump officials should accept mistake
The BBC’s North America editor Sarah Smith spoke with The Atlantic’s editor Jeffrey Goldberg in the wake of his explosive story about being added to a Signal chat group with top Trump administration officials.
Today, the White House has vigorously defended the group chat, saying no war plans were shared and no classified information was texted.
Goldberg tells the BBC the text messages seem like “sensitive, war-planning information to me”.
“This is why we put the all the information on our website, just so people can read themselves and make up their own minds,” Goldberg says.
Goldberg says the Trump administration is blaming reporters rather than “actually acknowledging that they have a massive national security breach, and that they should just go fix it”.
“The administration is
more interested in calling me bad names, which is fine, they’ve done that for
years.
“I mean, that’s, that’s the point,” he says. “That’s the point about leadership. Leadership, you deal with your mistakes, try to make things better, move on. But that’s not the playbook here.”
