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The presence of Goldberg in the chat, which was active during discussions about recent U.S. military successes in the Middle East, raised serious questions about digital security and internal vetting.
When pressed by Ingraham about whether a member of his own intelligence team may have intentionally leaked access, Waltz strongly denied any foul play from his side.
Laura Ingraham:
Is someone in your intel team trying to cause trouble here? Because that’s the scuttlebutt out there.
Mike Waltz:
We have people… No. Look, this is a great group. The President has a great team. This is not first-term.
Ingraham zeroed in on whether the contact entry could have been deliberately tampered with. Waltz stood firm, dismissing the idea of sabotage while acknowledging the bizarre nature of the incident.
Laura Ingraham:
No, your team. I’m not talking about the other principals?
Mike Waltz:
No, no, no. These were principals and a couple of staff that were coordinating, as you saw, having a policy discussion as we went forward. Then, just in the days before, what was an incredible strike. But not only did we take out people that the Biden team never could, we took out headquarters, missile caches, and actually one of the leaders of the Houthi organization. We’ve since taken out several since. That’s what they don’t want to talk about.
Waltz confirmed that the team has launched a technical investigation into the breach and emphasized the administration’s recent military achievements—something the mainstream media has completely ignored in favor of chasing a digital hiccup.
“…It’s embarrassing, yes. We’re going to get to the bottom of it. I just talked to Elon on the way here. We’ve got the best technical minds looking at how this happened. But I can tell you for 100%, I don’t know this guy.”
The confusion only deepened as Ingraham demanded an explanation for how Goldberg’s number was saved in Waltz’s phone.
Mike Waltz:
Well, look, a staffer wasn’t responsible. Look, I take full responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything’s coordinated. But how does that—I don’t mean to be pedantic here, but how did the number get into the chat? Have you ever had somebody’s contact that shows their name, and then you have somebody else’s number there?
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Laura Ingraham:
I never make those mistakes.
Mike Waltz:
You’ve got somebody else’s number on someone else’s contact. Of course, I didn’t see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical means is something we’re trying to figure out.
He stressed that no staffer had planted the contact and reiterated that cybersecurity experts are investigating how the mix-up occurred.
Laura Ingraham:
But how did it end up in your phone?
Mike Waltz:
That is why we’ve got the best technical minds, right? That’s disturbing. I’m sure everybody out there has had a contact where it said one person and then a different phone number.
Laura Ingraham:
But you’ve never talked to him before, so how’s the number on your phone? I’m not an expert in any of this, but it’s just curious. How’s the number on your phone? Someone sent you that contact?
Mike Waltz:
Well, if you have somebody else’s contact and then somehow it gets sucked in…
Waltz also admitted he was expecting someone else entirely in the group chat, but didn’t name names.
Laura Ingraham:
Was there someone else supposed to be on the chat that wasn’t on the chat—that you thought was on the chat? That you thought was on there?
Mike Waltz:
The person that I thought was on there was never on there. It was this guy.
Laura Ingraham:
Who was that person?
Mike Waltz:
Well, I’m not—look, Laura, I take responsibility. I built the group. But look, that’s the part we have to figure out.
Waltz wrapped the segment with a shot at Democrats, saying they were quick to turn a blind eye to Iran-backed terror strikes but are now obsessing over a minor technical error—because Trump’s military wins are piling up.
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“This was an operation that—I mean, it amazes me. I guess the Democrats were fine to leave all the sea lanes shut down. We’re fine to have destroyers fired on dozens of times by this terrorist group and fine to have Iran keep supplying them with missiles. That was okay. The President takes decisive action. Now we’re seeing some real success in taking down their air defenses, opening the sea lanes, taking out their leadership. We don’t want to talk about that. We don’t want to talk about this.”
