Calls have been growing for National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to stand down after he invited a reporter to a private White House group chat on Signal.

President Donald Trump downplayed the texting of sensitive military plans to a Signal group chat that included an editor for The Atlantic saying "it wasn't classified information" and slammed the journalist mistakenly added to the chat as a "sleazebag.

President Trump said he still has confidence in national security adviser Mike Waltz in an interview with NBC on Tuesday, following a report by a journalist for The Atlantic who says he was included in a text message chain with officials about plans for an ...