Trump says national security adviser Mike Waltz 'has learned a lesson' after Yemen attack leak 'glitch' | 25 March 2025 | President Trump stood by national security adviser Mike Waltz on Tuesday, one day after he was revealed to have looped in the Atlantic magazine's editor-in-chief on deliberations about striking the Houthis in Yemen earlier this month. "Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man," the president told NBC News in a brief interview Tuesday. Trump, 78, added that the addition of Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group that included Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had "no impact at all" on the outcome of the March 15 airstrikes, which the president described as "perfectly successful." [Who voted for Trump so that Yemen would be bombed? Trump promised to keep the U.S. out of foreign wars and entanglements.]