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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied that he had shared "war plans" after accidentally texting secret military information to a reporter ahead of a strike on Yemen.

During a rant on an airport tarmac Wednesday, Hegseth suggested he had been acquitted of wrongdoing after The Atlantic described his text messages as "attack plans" instead of "war plans."

"Nobody's texting war plans!" the defense secretary exclaimed to reporters. "I noticed this morning out came something that doesn't look like war plans. And as a matter of fact, they even changed the title to attack plans because they know it's not war plans."

"There's no units, no locations, no routes, no flight paths, no sources, no methods, no classified information," he insisted. "My job, as it said atop of that, everybody's seen it now, team update is to provide updates in real time, general updates in real time, keep everybody informed. That's what I did! That's my job!"

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"And with President Trump's leadership, our enemies are on notice."

As Hegseth walked away, he continued to get peppered with questions.

"Mr. Secretary, how do you square what you said with what your messages show?" a reporter yelled. "Mr. Secretary, did you share classified information? Mr. Secretary, did you declassify that information before you put it into action?"

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