Karoline Leavitt confirmed President Donald Trump has seen the entirety of the group chat messages released by The Atlantic and refused to call the information classified.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gives a press briefing at the White House in Washington, on March 26, 2025. | Francis Chung/POLITICO

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wouldn’t rule out that someone would lose their job over the Signal leak scandal during a briefing Wednesday afternoon.

Leavitt was asked by a reporter if she would definitively say that no one would be fired after a journalist was accidentally added to a Signal thread with top U.S. officials discussing military plans.

“What I can say definitively is what I just spoke to the president about, and he continues to have confidence in his national security team,” Leavitt said, evading the question.

President Donald Trump defended national security adviser Mike Waltz during an interview on Tuesday night.

“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson and he’s a good man,” Trump said in the interview.

Leavitt confirmed that Trump has seen the entirety of the group chat messages released by The Atlantic and refused to call the information in the chat classified, instead referring to it as “a sensitive policy discussion.”

Some Trump allies and administration officials are concerned by Waltz’s clean-up strategy, saying he’s digging a deeper hole for the White House. Other military and government officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s messages in the chat leaked sensitive attack details that were “reckless and dangerous.’”