5 Takeaways From Mike Waltz’s Confirmation Hearing to Be UN Ambassador

Mike Waltz, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, faced a tough confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 15 for his nomination as United Nations (U.N.) ambassador. He fielded questions about his responsibility in adding a journalist to a sensitive military phone chat group and vowed to protect American sovereignty at the U.N. Waltz, who served three terms in Congress before Trump tapped him to be national security adviser, left that role in May after lawmakers scrutinized him for inadvertently adding a journalist from The Atlantic to a Signal chat group discussing a U.S. military strike on Houthi terrorists in Yemen....