Foreign hello, and welcome to NewsHour LIVE from the BBC World Service in London.
I'm Rebecca Kesby.
There's been a furious reaction among Democrats in the United States as more details of the intelligence leak involving senior figures in the Trump administration have emerged today.
The director of the CIA and the head of the US National Intelligence have been taking tough questions at a Senate committee today.
But President Trump has been playing down the significance of the leak,
though he did say an investigation would be carried out.
But he's been responding to questions from journalists in the past hour or so.
We always want to use the best technology.
This was the best technology for the.
Moment, but again, it wasn't classified.
So they probably viewed it as being.
Something that wasn't that important.
And it obviously with the attack being I mean, I don't know if it's.
Been read out to you yet, but.
That attack was a tremendous success for the US well,
just to recap briefly, a journalist from the Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg,
was accidentally added to a chat group on the commercial messaging app Signal on which the US Secretary of defense,
the national security adviser and the vice president, among others,
discussed military action against the Houthi movement in Yemen today.
Jeffrey Goldberg told the US Public broadcaster PBS and explained he was so shocked to be included in that chat