The Trump administration tried to paint the Atlantic editor as a liar, so he felt compelled to prove them wrong -- and he had the receipts.

CNN’s Jake Tapper offered a short but scathing assessment on Monday amid the White House’s efforts to sweep the war group chat fiasco under the rug. Tapper interviewed The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg,

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

An inadvertent invitation to a group chat thrust The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg into the center of an explosive national security breach that's put the White House on the defensive. Why it matters: Goldberg's decision to disclose the discussion of planned strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen and publish the group chat's contents has embroiled top Trump officials in scandal and exposed them to potential legal jeopardy.

Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg defended his decision Wednesday to publish the full transcript of messages from a secret government group chat he was added to, as White House officials struggle to downplay the catastrophic leak.

The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg has released nearly all of the transcript of the Signal group chat that he was included in, where administration officials planned a deadly military strike on Yemen earlier this month.

Jeffrey Goldberg joins Ashley Parker to discuss breaking the Signal story, the fallout, and more. Don’t miss this subscriber-only event on Thursday, April 3 at 11:30 a.m. ET.

The White House has closed the case of the scandal over a secret Signal chat, where The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was mistakenly added, said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt,