Very disturbing thing I have noticed recently is that U.S. officials no longer care about being perceived as lying. After the "SignalGate" scandal several top officials went public to claim that the information they shared was not classified (immediately disproved after it was then published) or that it was somehow "planted" there by a nefarious infiltrator, for which no evidence at all was provided.

The reason they are doing this is because they don't care about convincing people necessarily, they just have created their own separate right-wing media echo chamber that just need to feed narratives to run with. We are well past the era of reasoned debate or persuasion. 

We are still far from that point thanks to separation of powers and a strong judiciary, but this is how dictatorships operate. Over time it generates a level of cynicism in the system that makes it unsupportable.

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Any theories on why Goldberg is letting Mike Waltz claim they don’t know each other and letting them all tar him?

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Payout from a defamation lawsuit, but seems like he values journalistic respect for protecting his sources higher. And maybe he figures Waltz might pass him more info.

Because he can. What do you think Goldberg has to gain by engaging more than he has?