The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

CNN’s Jake Tapper offered a short but scathing assessment on Monday amid the White House’s efforts to sweep the war group chat fiasco under the rug. Tapper interviewed The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg,

The Trump administration tried to paint the Atlantic editor as a liar, so he felt compelled to prove them wrong -- and he had the receipts.

An inadvertent invitation to a group chat thrust The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg into the center of an explosive national security breach that's put the White House on the defensive. Why it matters: Goldberg's decision to disclose the discussion of planned strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen and publish the group chat's contents has embroiled top Trump officials in scandal and exposed them to potential legal jeopardy.

Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg defended his decision Wednesday to publish the full transcript of messages from a secret government group chat he was added to, as White House officials struggle to downplay the catastrophic leak.

The Atlantic published additional text messages from the Signal group chat that its Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to accidentally last week.

The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg has released nearly all of the transcript of the Signal group chat that he was included in, where administration officials planned a deadly military strike on Yemen earlier this month.

This week's fallout from the Signal group chat marks the latest chapter in the longtime feud between The Atlantic editor and the president.

At the Capitol grilling of the PBS and NPR CEOs on March 26, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) asked PBS boss Paula Kerger, "Would you believe that PBS is fair and objective and nonpartisan?" Kerger said, "Yes.