Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's Signal chat woes snowball

Trump and his administration, however, have repeatedly defended the national security leader publicly. 

On Thursday, Trump confirmed that members of the National Security Council had been fired, but remarked it was not many individuals. The president added that he continues to have trust in his national security team amid the turmoil. 

Signal is an encrypted messaging app that operates similarly to texting or making phone calls, but with additional security measures that help ensure communications are kept private to those included in the correspondence. 

"There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again," she continued. "And we're moving forward. And the president and Mike Waltz and his entire national security team have been working together very well, if you look at how much safer the United States of America is because of the leadership of this team." 

Fox News Digital has compiled a timeline of accusations and outrage directed at and involving Waltz since the Atlantic's first report on the chat leak.