Newly revealed texts from group chat about Yemen strikes

There are major developments in the controversy over what Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth divulged in real time over the encrypted consumer messaging app "Signal" shortly before a US military strike operation in Yemen.

Now the Atlantic Magazine has published what it reports are the text messages Hegseth shared within a chat-group that included top intelligence officials, and inadvertently the magazine's editor -in-chief.

The administration, including Hegseth, still insisted the messages were not classified.

A claim that led the Atlantic to publish the messages. Some reports were sent as US warplanes, were moments from flying to their targets. One message purported to have come from Hegseth reading: "Weather is favorable. Just confirmed we are going for a mission launch."

Another reading: "12:15 et. F-18's launch (first strike package)"

Today top intelligence officials faced a grilling by democrats in the house intel committee as the calls for an investigation grow.