Sue Gordon, former principal deputy national intelligence director, said the Trump administration needs to deal with any "persistent risk" to communications following the Signal chat leak.

As reports continue to come out about the Trump administration’s use of Signal, the company issued a statement to clear the air, saying its software is "the gold standard for private, secure communications.

Trump administration officials are defending their participation in a group chat on encrypted messaging app Signal about a highly sensitive operation to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen. CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd breaks it down.

Fallout continues after it was learned that top officials in the Trump administration inadvertently added The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to an unsecured Signal group chat discussing a U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen.

No one is expected to be fired over the Signal national security group chat incident. That is according to President

Sue Gordon, the former deputy director of national intelligence in the first Trump administration, said the “risk of loss” from the Signal group chat could have been “profound.” Gordon joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday,

Trump, you may love Michael Waltz. You love Pete Hegseth. You may love these guys. Somebody has to go down,” David Portnoy said.

The White House said Monday it has concluded its review into how a journalist was added to a Signal message group chat, as high-ranking officials discussed military strikes in Yemen, calling the case "closed.

The Trump administration sought to put the scandal over its use of the Signal messaging app behind it on Monday, calling it case closed, even as the breach provoked bipartisan criticism and opened up divisions inside the White House.