Mike Waltz is grilled via the signal leaf at UN ambassadoring

Donald Trump's former national security consultant, Mike Waltz, was examined by US senators about his role in a sensitive signal group chat in which officials discussed war plans.

Before a hearing on Tuesday, Waltz appeared in order to apply for the Senate confirmation as a Trump candidate for the ambassador for the United Nations after he was removed from his previous post in May.

When surveying the Democrats, Waltz claimed that he had not shared a classified information in the chat that accidentally contained a journalist.

The incident in March, which became known as “Signalgate”, threw the White House into turmoil and triggered a debate about the government's cyber security.

Waltz invited the group chat about the signal, to which Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio as well as several other top administrators to discuss an upcoming strike against the Houthi Rebel Group in Yemen.

The editor -in -chief of the Atlantic Magazine, Jeffery Goldberg, was also added to the highly sensitive chat and ultimately reported on his participation and the content of the chat.

In the middle of the Fallout, Waltz appeared in Fox News to take on “full responsibility” for the development of the group chat and added that it was “embarrassing”. Waltz and the White House have retained that no classified information was passed on in chat.

Waltz was removed from his post by Trump in May, who nominated him ambassador in the United Nations.

Despite the opposition of some democrats, he is probably confirmed because the Republicans have a majority in the US Senate.

During the hearing in front of the Senate Committee, Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, he hoped to hear Waltz Express “regret about the parts of the very sensitive, timely information about a military strike on a commercially available app”.

Signal was not “an appropriate, safe means of communication highly sensitive information,” said Senator Coons.

“This commitment was driven by the Biden Administration by Cyber Security Infrastructure Security Agency and recommended by Cyber Security Infrastructure agency,” replied Waltz. He argued that the use of signal “not only authorized”, but “was highly recommended”.

“This was demonstrably confidential information,” said Senator Coons and asked Waltz whether he had been examined to expand the signal group to conclude a journalist.

“The White House has carried out an investigation and my understanding is that the Ministry of Defense is still investigating,” Waltz replied.

Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, also asked Waltz whether the Pentagon investigation into secretary Hegseth had not yet been completed.

Waltz replied that he should not comment on an ongoing examination and not, but should be retained that no classified information was shared.

In contrast, the Republicans of Waltz in the committee largely avoided the signal matter, but concentrated on the US financing of the United Nations and asked how he would deal with China's increasing influence.

Senator Rick Scott, a Republican in Florida, who once served next to Waltz in the US representative house, called him a “man of integrity, grit and principle”.

Waltz 'nomination to be the leading envoy in the United States at the United Nations.

The position would play a key role in the representation of the US interests abroad during a time when the Trump government reduced billions in foreign aid and released thousands of employees of the Foreign Ministry and the US Agency for International Development (USA).

Senator Mike Barrasso, a Republican of Wyoming, asked Waltz about his “commitment, every dollar who goes to the UN to ensure that our taxpayers are used with care”.

In response to this, Waltz listed a number of international organizations and projects, of which he said that the United States helped with the financing, of which he believed that it deserved the review, including several climatic companies such as the UN Environmental Program, the International Union for Nature Conservation, Commission for Environmental Cooperation and much more.

“I think it is obliged for this administration to say what it does, make it safer, stronger and more wealthy and we get enough for our money,” said Waltz.