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.

The one news story that’s been all but inescapable this week is the Trumpworld embarrassment crudely recognized as “Signalgate” —the awkward, alarming saga of how the Atlantic’s editor in chief became an inadvertent witness to the government’s military planning via a group chat on the privately owned, encrypted messaging app Signal.

After the revelation that he was part of a secret chat, Vice President JD Vance’s focus wasn’t on the security breach. Instead, it seemed to be concern that he had questioned his boss.

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,