The Trump administration tried to paint the Atlantic editor as a liar, so he felt compelled to prove them wrong -- and he had the receipts.

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

CNN’s Jake Tapper offered a short but scathing assessment on Monday amid the White House’s efforts to sweep the war group chat fiasco under the rug. Tapper interviewed The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg,

The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, has released more messages from the Signal chat group for senior Trump administration officials that he was accidentally added to, in which discussions about an upcoming strike on the Houthis took place.

Mr. Goldberg, who was included on a private text thread discussing war plans, was a longtime national security reporter who became editor of The Atlantic in 2016.

An inadvertent invitation to a group chat thrust The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg into the center of an explosive national security breach that's put the White House on the defensive. Why it matters: Goldberg's decision to disclose the discussion of planned strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen and publish the group chat's contents has embroiled top Trump officials in scandal and exposed them to potential legal jeopardy.

Washington Week' host and 'The Atlantic' editor Jeffrey Goldberg lamented that the Trump administration responded to his Signal story in an "aggressive" way instead of taking responsibility. Goldberg advised journalists to "continue to do your job" and "be willing to be intimidated.

The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg has released nearly all of the transcript of the Signal group chat that he was included in, where administration officials planned a deadly military strike on Yemen earlier this month.