President Trump has backed National Security Advisory Michael Waltz this morning, saying the adding of Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic was only a ‘glitch’ and not a serious one.

Here’s the reporting from NBC News:

President Donald Trump stood by his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was accidentally added to a private, high-level chat on the messaging app Signal where military plans were being discussed.

“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump said Tuesday in a phone interview with NBC News.

Trump’s comments were his first substantive remarks since The Atlantic broke the story, which detailed how journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to a group chat on a private messaging app where plans for military strikes in Yemen were discussed. Goldberg said he was added to the discussion after receiving a request from a user identified as Waltz.

When asked what he was told about how Goldberg came to be added to the Signal chat, Trump said, “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there.”

Trump said Goldberg’s presence in the chat had “no impact at all” on the military operation.

The president expressed confidence in his team, saying he was not frustrated by the events leading up to The Atlantic’s story. The situation, Trump said, was “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one.”

Trump and Waltz spoke on Monday about The Atlantic’s story, according to two sources familiar with their conversation. Waltz has not yet commented publicly on the story.

I love that Trump is dismissing this as a ‘glitch’ and putting his full weight behind Waltz. It’s exactly what I was hoping would happen and, in my opinion, it’s the end of the story.