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A Republican member of the House Armed Services committee claimed he was unaware of a major development in an unfolding Pentagon scandal involving the highest levels of government.

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) appeared Wednesday morning on CNN, about two hours after The Atlantic published new highly detailed text messages from defense secretary Pete Hegseth revealing plans for a bombing raid in Yemen hours before it was carried out, and said he wasn't sure any crimes were committed by revealing classified information over the non-secure Signal app.

CNN's John Berman pushed back against a Republican lawmaker who tried to downplay the gravity of the scandal swirling around Donald Trump's national security team.

The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported new details from the war plans disclosed by defense secretary Pete Hegseth in a group chat to which he had been added, apparently by mistake, and Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) told CNN those deliberations should not have occurred on a commercially available encrypted app.

Appearing on MSNBC moments after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made her opening statement before the House Intelligence Committee, national security lawyer Mark Zaid noted the Donald Trump appointee made an admission that deserves investigation.

Speaking with host Ana Cabrera, and after Gabbard also asserted she couldn't talk in-depth about the Signal chat revelations because of a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Zaid focused on Gabbard stating that the Signal app comes pre-installed on government devices.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, and at least one former lawyer thinks that they may have lied under oath about classified intelligence in a group chat.

On Monday, a bombshell report in The Atlantic alleged that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared secret war plans in a Signal chat that included a reporter among its membership.

Randy Fine, the Trump-endorsed Florida Republican candidate running to replace current national security adviser Mike Waltz, is taking heat from some GOP operatives as he faces a race that is much closer than expected.

Politico reports that Republicans still believe they will prevail in the upcoming special election in Florida's 6th Congressional District, but they are having to devote far more resources toward keeping it red than they should have to, especially since President Donald Trump won the district by 30 points last year.

Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo and Rep. James Comer (R-KY) agreed that PBS and NPR should be defunded after a reporter's microphone accidentally brushed President Donald Trump's face.

During a Wednesday segment on Fox Business, Bartiromo told Comer that Trump had called for the public broadcasting agencies to have their funding revoked.

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg was randomly chosen Wednesday to preside over the scandal some are beginning to call "Signalgate."

On Monday, a bombshell piece in The Atlantic reported that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared secret war plans in a Signal chat that included a reporter among its members.

Law professor Alan Dershowitz, a defender of President Donald Trump, insisted Republican attempts to impeach judges ruling against the Trump administration were "not constitutionally permissible" and would eventually fail.

During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, Dershowitz was asked about Trump allies who want to impeach U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg and other members of the judiciary for blocking parts of Trump's agenda.

As a pre-scheduled Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) provided expert analysis on what constitutes confidential war-planning secrets contained within the explosive Signal chat revelations that has Donald Trump's administration on its heels, two MSNBC hosts could be heard on un-muted mics gasping.

During an appearance on "Morning Joe," Warner was on hand when news broke that The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had published a collection of screenshots showing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sharing an extraordinarily detailed play-by-play on how the attack on the Houthi rebels would proceed just moments before the assault.

Co-host Jonathan Lemire took part in the interview and read to Warner Hegseth's comments and pressed him on whether they could have compromised the mission and led to American deaths.

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"Just a couple more," Lemire asked his guest before reading Hegseth writing, "'1415 strike drones on target.' This is again, this is all caps. 'This is when the first bombs will definitely drop pending earlier trigger-based targets.'"

"Good lord!" the off-screen Joe Scarborough exclaimed and co-host Mike Brzezinski could be heard letting out an audible gasp.

"The old Russian KGB would give their arm and a leg to try to get that information in real-time, " Sen. Warner contributed.

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A member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence demanded firings Wednesday after the publication of a full transcript of texts of war plans sent by top government officials in an insecure Signal channel.

The chat, which included Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, among others — was littered with apparently classified details two hours before a military attack in Yemen. Inadvertently added to the chat was Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) on Wednesday did his best to spin Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth leaking top-secret war plans as a positive.

During an interview with CNN's Kate Bolduan, Davidson was asked if he had any concerns about Hegseth inadvertently sharing plans with Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg could have put American service personnel in jeopardy.

CNN's Brian Stelter analyzed new reporting by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg on the detailed discussions to which he was privy, and he said those plans were almost certainly classified information.

Donald Trump and his top national security officials insisted the war plans disclosed by defense secretary Pete Hegseth were not classified, after Goldberg reported that he was added to a group chat consisting of top-level administration officials, and The Atlantic's editor in chief published specific details from the discussion.