Trump National Security Advisor Mike Waltz leaves Post after signal scandal – NBC4 Washington

• The national security advisor Mike Waltz leaves his post after controversy about his creation of a signal messaging app group, which was used in March to discuss the US military plans.
• President Trump said that he would name Waltz as a US ambassador to the United Nations, and this Foreign Minister Marco Rubio would act as an interim National Security Advisor.
• Waltz was striking in a rose garden event in the White House, which marked the national prayer day on Thursday. Many other high -ranking officials from the Trump administration were present.

The national security advisor Mike Waltz leaves his post in the Trump administration after controversy about his creation of a signal messaging app group with which the US military plans were discussed in March.

president Donald Trump Confirmed Waltz's departure in a social media post hours after the media reported that the consultant was suppressed.

Trump said that he was nominated by Waltz as a US ambassador to the United Nations, and this Foreign Minister Marco Rubio would serve as an interim National Security Advisor until the office could be filled.

The deputy national security advisor Alex Wong is expected to leave his job, three sources that talked to NBC News on Thursday about the two outputs.

Waltz was striking in a rose garden event in the White House, which marked the national prayer day on Thursday. Many other high -ranking officials from the Trump administration were present.

The signal group, which Waltz has accidentally created, contained the editor of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, who had exchanged details about news about the Trump's Trump Management Officials.

The other members of the group were Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, Finance Minister Scott Bessent, CIA director John Ratcliffe and director of the National Secret Service Tulsi Gabbard.

Goldberg reported that the texts ended on March 15 with Hegseth, in which “precise information about weapon packages, goals and timing” of attacks on Houthi forces in Yemen contained within hours of these texts.

The 51 -year -old Waltz is the first big civil servant to leave the White House since Trump's second term in January.

Trump told Atlantic at the beginning of this week that Waltz's job was safe.

In a discussion with Atlantic reporters, Trump was asked if he believed that Hegseth would remain as a Pentagon boss.

Hegseth was criticized for his disclosure of the attack plans for the group, which included Goldberg, and for his separate use of the app to send his wife, brother, his lawyer and some adjutants about the planned strikes of the Houthi forces.

“Yes, he is safe,” said Trump about Hegseth.

When asked whether Hegseth would stay in the administration longer than Waltz, Trump replied: “Waltz is doing well. I mean, he is here. He just left this office. He is doing well. He was also beaten up.”

The internal watchdog of the Pentagon examines Hegseth for its use of signal to discuss upcoming military strikes.

The investigation by the inspector's general inspector will determine whether Hegseth and other employees of the Ministry of Defense have complied with the “use of a commercial news application for official business”, the last month.

Hegseth and others in the Trump administration played down the controversy and explained that no classified information about the signal chats were passed on.

The chairman of the Senate Minister, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., said reporters on Thursday that he was released from his post.

“Look you should fire him, but they shoot the wrong guy,” said Schumer. “You should fire Hegseth.”

Trump's first national security advisor, a lieutenant general of the army, lieutenant general Michael Flynn, resigned under fire at the beginning of 2017 after misleading for 24 days because of his contacts with the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the President's transition.

At the end of 2017, Flynn agreed to commit himself guilty of lying to the FBI because of his conversations with Kislyak.

Trump pardoned Flynn at the end of 2020, months before the office.

Correction: John Ratcliffe is director of the CIA. An earlier version incorrectly stated its name.