WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE SIGNAL MESS. The brouhaha over the group text involving top members of the Trump national security team is rapidly coming down to two questions: One, how did the participants in the group, which included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, national security adviser Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and others somehow come to include the virulently anti-Trump journalist Jeffrey Goldberg? And two, did the running conversation, conducted on the commercially available encrypted app Signal, include classified information about the U.S. attack on the Houthis in Yemen on March 15?

Waltz, who created the group and is the focus of much discussion, did his first media interview Tuesday night with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham. The first question, of course, was how Goldberg, a leading figure in the anti-Trump Resistance, got into a conversation that was supposedly limited to very senior administration officials.