Top US officials could have committed 'perjury' over Signal gaffe | LBC

The US president’s national security team - including vice-president JD Vance, defense secretary Peter Hegseth, Marco Rubio and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard - used a group chat to discuss top secret plans for airstrikes on Yemen.

Waltz started the chat on Signal, a commercial encrypted messaging app - accidentally adding a journalist who saw their secret plans.

The jaw-dropping leak supposed that Waltz would be axed from Trump's top team, however, so far the President has stood by Waltz saying he's a "good man" and that he's "learned a lesson".

Prior, he said he was not aware of the security breach when questioned by a reporter, saying he was “not a big fan” of The Atlantic, describing it as a failing business.

LBC's Washington Correspondent Simon Marks tells Shelagh Fogarty that certain top officials, including Tulsi Gabbard, could have committed 'perjury', after lying under oath.

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