Mike Waltz, former National Security Advisor at Donald Trump, has faced an inquiry into his role in a sensitive signal group chat with American senators in which authorities discussed sensitive war plans.

After being removed from his former post in May, Waltz appeared before a hearing on Tuesday, demanding confirmation of the Senate as Trump’s candidate for the Ambassador to the United Nations.

As part of the questioning of Democrats, Waltz said he did not share classified information in the chat, which accidentally included a journalist.

The March incident, known as “signalgate”, threw the White House into the upheaval and provoked the debate about the administration’s cyber security.

Waltz organized a group chat on the signal, which included the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and State Secretary Maro Rubio as well as several other top administration officers to discuss a adjacent strike on the Houthi rebellious group in Yemen.

Editor -in -chief of Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, was also added to highly sensitive chat And eventually reported on their participation, and chat content.

Between Fallout, Waltz Fox appeared on Fox News to take “full responsibility” To create a group chat, saying that it was “shameful”. Waltz and White House have stated that no classified information was shared in chat.

Waltz was Trump removed from his post in May Which nominated him for the US Ambassador to the United Nations.

Despite some Democrats opposition, they will be confirmed as Republicans hold majority in the US Senate.

In the hearing before the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Cons, a Delaware Democrat Senator, said that he hoped to listen to the Waltz Express, “Sadly on sharing what was the timely information about a military strike on a very sensitive, a commercially available app.”

The signal “was not a suitable, safe means of communicating highly sensitive information,” the Senator Cons said.

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

“It was a protesting sensitive information,” the Senator Cance said, and asked Waltz if they were investigated to expand the signal group to include a journalist.

“The White House conducted an inquiry and my understanding is that the Defense Department is still conducting an inquiry,” Waltz replied.

Tim Cin, a Democrat Senator from Virginia, also asked Waltz whether the Pentagon was under investigation at Secretary Hegseth.

Waltz replied that they should not, and cannot, an ongoing investigation was not commented, but maintained that no classified information was shared.

In contrast, Waltz’s partner Republican in the committee avoided a large -scale signal case, instead focused on American funding in the United Nations and asked how he would join China’s growing influence.

Senator Rick Scott, a Florida Republican, who once served with Waltz in the US House of Representative, called him “man of integrity, grit and principle”.

Waltz’s enrollment to be the majority of America in the United Nations comes amid international uncertainty about the role of America on the world stage and the strength of their commitments to foreign colleagues.

The situation will play an important role in representing American interests abroad when the Trump administration has reduced billions in foreign aid and has fired thousands of employees in the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Vyoming Republican, Senator Mike Bairaso, asked Waltz about “the commitment to review every dollar going to the United Nations, to ensure that our taxpayer dollar is being used wisely.”

In response, Waltz listed a series of international organizations and projects, in which he said the US helped in funds, in which he admitted that he included the United Nations Environment Program, several climate-focused institutions for the protection of the International Union, many climate-focused institutions, the Environment Cooperation Commission, and more.

“I think it is alert to this administration to say what it is doing, is it making us safe, strong and more rich, and we are sufficiently bang for our deer,” said Waltz.