Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth admitted that he shared information over Signal on Tuesday morning, though he maintained the details were “informal” and “unclassified.” In mid-March, he shared details of impending attacks on the Houthis in Yemen in at least two separate Signal group chats,

The news comes about a month after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was mistakenly added to a separate Signal chat with national security leaders.

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he stood behind U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, after reports that he shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Houthis in a message group that included his wife,