Michael Waltz Is Trying to Become UN Ambassador. Senate Democrats Are Trying to Make Signal-Gate Stick.

“I was hoping to hear from you that you had some sense of regret,” Sen. Chris Coons said of Waltz’s participation in a Signal chat discussing war plans.

Mike Waltz, Donald Trump
White House national security adviser Mike Waltz listens as President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office. Leah Millis/AP

Democrats may be trying to make the most out of the latest Trump administration controversy — the back-and-forth over releasing investigatory documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — but they’re also still trying to make the Trump administration’s first major scandal, Signal-gate, stick.

When President Donald Trump’s nominee for United Nations Ambassador, Michael Waltz, came before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, Democrats trained their focus on Waltz’s participation in the Signal chat when he was Trump’s national security adviser.

Although Trump has quietly repurposed Waltz for this U.N. ambassador job, Waltz told senators he was not “fired” from the national security adviser role.