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President Trump said his national security adviser "learned a lesson" after he mistakenly opened up a secret chat of Trump officials to a reporter.

President Donald Trump stood by his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, on Tuesday, calling him a “good man” a day after a report that he and other senior administration officials used a commercial messaging app to discuss secret military plans for Yemen and inadvertently included a journalist in the group chat.

The Trump administration unknowingly added a reporter to an encrypted group chat of senior officials in which they debated whether the U.S. should attack the Houthis.

The Trump administration is facing political uproar after the White House confirmed that a journalist was inadvertently added to an unsecure group chat in which US national security officials planned a military strike in Yemen.