President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired back at NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell on Wednesday as she attempted to question them on reports that the Iranian nuclear sites were not “obliterated.”
An early assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which was leaked to CNN, found that the damage done to Iran’s nuclear facilities likely only set back the Iranians’ nuclear program by a few months, which contradicted Trump’s claim that the sites were “completely obliterated.” While O’Donnell repeatedly asked about the report, Trump said the DIA report is incomplete and does not properly assess the damages caused by the U.S.’ bombings on Saturday night.
“You talked about having some on-the-ground assessments at Fordow and other sites … What is your message then, sir, to the intelligence community when they present reports?” O’Donnell asked.
“[The DIA] presented a report that wasn’t finished. We’re talking about something that took place three days ago. The report was done days ago,” Trump said, with O’Donnell attempting to push back. “Wait a minute, they didn’t see it. All they can do is take a guess. Now if you take a look at the pictures, if you take a look at how it’s all blackened. You know the fire and brimstone is all underground because it’s granite and it’s all underground. You don’t show it. But even there, with all of that being said, the whole area for 75 yards around, the hole where it hit is black with fire … It’s been obliterated, totally obliterated.”
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An initial classified assessment found the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities set back Tehran’s nuclear program by a matter of months, according to three sources familiar with its contents.
The assessment, produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s military intelligence wing, said the strikes caused the entrances to two nuclear enrichment facilities, including Fordo, to be sealed off. Resumption of the enrichment program may be determined by how long it takes Iran to clear the entrances and make repairs to electrical and water supplies, two sources familiar with the report’s findings said.
The DIA assessment also indicates some of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile was moved before the strikes, one of the sources said.
Officials familiar with the report cautioned that it was an early assessment that could change as more information becomes available about the sites. It was not immediately clear at what confidence level the judgments included in the report were made.
A complete battle damage assessment is still being assembled, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said on Sunday at a press availability.
“Final battle damage will take some time, but initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction,” Caine said.
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Was it all Kayfabe all along?
President Trump just came right out and told you, for anyone with ears to hear.
What’s “Kayfabe” mean anyway?
In professional wrestling, kayfabe refers to the practice of maintaining the illusion that the staged events, rivalries, and characters are real, even though they are not. It’s a suspension of disbelief that allows audiences to become invested in the storylines and characters. Essentially, it’s the wrestling industry’s version of “the show must go on” and maintaining the appearance of legitimacy.
And is that what we just got with Iran’s “retaliation” strike against the USA?
President Trump just told you:
🤯Trump just now: Iran said, “you mind if we shoot missiles at you at 1pm?” I said, “yeah, that’s fine.”
— Meet Kevin (@realMeetKevin) June 25, 2025
Check this out…
💥 KABOOM — President Trump literally confirms it was all KAYFAB with Iran!
“Iran was very nice, they gave us warning. They said we’re going to shoot them. Is 1 o’clock ok?
I said it’s fine… and everybody was emptied off the base, so they couldn’t get hurt.”
🔴 MY THOUGHTS:
Come on… you gotta admit this is a pretty weird thing to say, coming from a “terror regime”. Right?Trump put Iran in check in 2018. We are watching a clandestine military operation take place.
💥 KABOOM — President Trump literally confirms it was all KAYFAB with Iran!
“Iran was very nice, they gave us warning. They said we’re going to shoot them. Is 1 o’clock ok?
I said it’s fine… and everybody was emptied off the base, so they couldn’t get hurt.”
🔴 MY THOUGHTS:… pic.twitter.com/A6TkDPDPMo
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) June 25, 2025
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Arn Anderson’s real name isn’t Arn Anderson. It’s Martin Anthony Lunde. But because he kinda-sorta looked like fellow pro wrestler Ole Anderson, he “became” an Anderson in the weird, wacky world of wrestling. (Of course, Ole Anderson wasn’t really an Anderson either: In the 1960s, Alan Robert Rogowski “became” Ole Anderson, when he was teamed with “brothers” Gene Anderson and Lars Anderson… a.k.a. Larry Heiniemi.) Out of the four Andersons, only one was authentic.
Which is why it worked: A 4-1 ratio is all you need to sell a lie.
If everything you say is untrue, nobody will listen to you. A Devil who only told lies would collect zero souls. There needs to be an anchor — something real and tangible for you to exploit.
The overwhelming majority of political pundits — from the biggest stars on Fox News to the lowliest “influencers” on social media — simply aren’t smart enough to offer new insights and thoughtful, original analysis of fast-breaking events. And that’s a problem, because their livelihood depends on their minds and their mouths: If they aren’t saying something different than the next guy, then what’s the point in paying ‘em for their opinions? These pundits work, after all, in an attention-driven marketplace.
Unfortunately, this incentivizes media “experts” to greatly exaggerate their “expertise.”
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“I don’t see them getting back involved in the nuclear business anymore. I think they’ve had it. They’ve been at it for 20 years, and I don’t see that happening either.”
President Donald Trump spoke to press at the NATO summit from The Hague in the Netherlands on Wednesday, telling reporters that he did not think restarting negotiations with Iran was necessary since the “war is done.”
Trump celebrated the missile strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling it “obliteration.” He said that “no other military on Earth could have done it” and it was an “incredible exercise of American strength” that has “paved the way for peace with a historic ceasefire agreement.”
He said that he believes the 12 Day War is “over,” and added “I don’t think they’re going to be going back at each other.” He noted a letter that stated Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities were rendered “totally inoperable” during the strikes, and that the strikes “set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons for many years to come.”
Trump was asked what made him “so confident” that the conflict between Israel and Iran was over, to which Trump replied, “they’re both tired, exhausted. They both fought very, very hard and very viciously, very violently, and they were both satisfied to go home and get out.”
“Can it start again? I guess someday it can. It could maybe start again soon. I think a big telltale sign was when, as you know, Iran, somewhat but not much, violated the ceasefire. And Israel had the planes going out that morning, and there were a lot of them, 52 of them. And I said, you got to get them back, and they brought them back. They didn’t do anything.”
He said of Iran, “I don’t see them getting back involved in the nuclear business anymore. I think they’ve had it. They’ve been at it for 20 years, and I don’t see that happening either.”
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All those breathless headlines about Iran’s nuclear program from the fake news media on Tuesday are, well, fake news. Shocking, I know.
We kind of already knew that, as my colleague Chris Queen reported yesterday and others have spoken out on it, but when it comes to foreign policy, I listen to one man and one man only, and that is Secretary of State Marco Rubio. On Wednesday, he not only set the record straight on the impact of bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, but he also explained why most of Europe is wrong to want to sanction Russia.
Rubio, who is traveling with President Donald Trump to Europe this week, sat down for an interview with Politico on Wednesday morning, and, as you can imagine, Iran was the first topic to come up. Rubio’s biggest problem with the situation is the intelligence leak and the fact that it was likely misread and/or misused just to embarrass the president or promote an agenda:
Well, I can’t talk to you about intelligence. I can also tell you that intelligence leaks are one of the most frustrating things anywhere, not just because you’ve got somebody who has access to this putting stuff out there, but because it’s so often mischaracterized. An intelligence report, for anyone who’s ever seen it, sometimes is an assessment. Some analyst will make an assessment, or analysts will make an assessment. And in these leaks, what you typically have is someone who read it and then leaks it to the media, giving it the spin and the angle they want it to have because they’ve got some purpose: embarrass the administration, they were against the action, whatever it may be.
After expressing his frustration with intelligence leaks, he explained that our bombs did significant damage to Iran’s nuclear program.
Let me tell you this. The Iranian program, the nuclear program today, looks nothing like it did just a week ago. The program today has been set behind significantly from where it was a week ago. It is in far worse shape today than it was a week ago because of U.S. actions and because some of the actions the Israelis took. So the bottom line is they are much further away from a nuclear weapon today than they were before the President took this bold action. That’s the most important thing to understand. Significant, very significant, substantial damage was done to a variety of different components, and we’re just learning more about it.
Understand that most of the damage that occurred here in Fordow occurred deep underground. That’s why we used penetrator weaponry to do that. So that’s why I hate commenting on these stories, because often the first story is wrong and the person putting it out there has an agenda. And I would say that story is a false story and it’s one that really shouldn’t be re-reported because it doesn’t accurately reflect what’s happening here.
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Vice President J.D. Vance has vowed that America will not see “boots on the ground” in Iran.
Vance made the promise as he defended President Donald Trump’s bold airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“We’re not at war with Iran,” Vance told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“We’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.
“We have no interest in a protracted conflict.
“We have no interest in boots on the ground,” he said.
“We didn’t blow up diplomacy.”
Trump has said he has no interest in a prolonged conflict in the Middle East after the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend.
The strikes led to criticism from Democrats, as well as some libertarians and non-interventionists on the Right, who feared Trump was breaking a promise not to embroil the U.S. in another war.
Vance, a vocal non-interventionist, said that Trump’s strikes had a limited objective and only came as a last resort.
“We only took this action when it was clear, as the president said, that the Iranians were tapping us along,” he said.
“The Iranians are clearly not very good at war.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Speaking to reporters during a press conference to finish out his visit to the 2025 NATO Summit, President Donald Trump revealed talks with Iran are in the works and won’t be about their “obliterated” nuclear program.
“We may sign an agreement. I don’t know,” Trump said. “I don’t think it [a signed agreement] is necessary.”
🚨PRESIDENT TRUMP: We’re gonna talk with Iran next week — But not about Nuclear weapons because “we blew it up…to kingdom come!”
He says the administration will “meet with them,” and that there might be an agreement. pic.twitter.com/Jse1gBbJjG
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 25, 2025
Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth all vehimentely pushed back on leftist media reports Wednesday that the U.S. military strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure over the weekend didn’t severely damage their program.
🚨NEW — President Trump TORCHES Fake News CNN while reading an assessment from Israel on the DEVASTATION caused to Iran’s nuclear program!
“Our pilots…they were maligned and treated very bad, demeaned by fake news CNN, which is back there, believe it or not.”
“Wasting time!… pic.twitter.com/siAyOo35Zk
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 25, 2025
Earlier in the day Trump told reporters Iran could be a great country and that they should return their focus to the oil business, not building a nuclear bomb.
President Trump responds to Iran’s FM at NATO:
“The last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now, they want to recover.”
“They’re not going to have a bomb and they’re not going to enrich.” https://t.co/unZWAs8pMu pic.twitter.com/J4pgRZuoTm
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) June 25, 2025
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Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) has said that US and Israeli strikes on Iran on Sunday have rendered the Fordow underground enrichment site “inoperable.”In a handout, the IAEC claimed the “devastating” strikes “destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure.”
“We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran’s military nuclear program, has set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years,” the statement said.
The statement was initially shared by the White House and then later released on X by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Israeli assessment contradicts a leaked intelligence report from the US, which suggests that Iran’s nuclear programme has only been set back by a few months and was not “completely and fully obliterated” as US President Donald Trump claimed.
The report issued by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) on Monday is at odds with statements from Trump and Netanyahu about the status of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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President Trump shut down Iran’s nuclear program and helped get a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. CNN is so upset about it; their reporting is worse than usual. Today’s show breaks it down.
“How can anyone be upset about that?” Crowder said.
Per a Truth Social post from the POTUS:
FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY. THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC!
However, CNN would like you to believe otherwise.
According to CNN:
The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by seven people briefed on it.
The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. It is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by US Central Command in the aftermath of the US strikes, one of the sources said.
The analysis of the damage to the sites and the impact of the strikes on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is ongoing, and could change as more intelligence becomes available. But the early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also said on Sunday that Iran’s nuclear ambitions “have been obliterated.”
Homan warns of possible Iranian sleeper cells who entered US under Biden– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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Border czar Tom Homan revealed Sunday that 1,272 Iranian nationals were released during the Biden administration, who were among the “over 10 million people” who crossed into the United States illegally.
Homan’s warning comes after President Donald Trump announced on Saturday night that the U.S. struck Iran, in which “a full payload” of bombs was dropped on three nuclear sites in the country. The border czar was asked about the possibility of sleeper cells occupied by Iranians in the U.S., to which he reiterated his national security concerns posed by the last administration’s handling of the border and how it greatly contrasts with Trump’s security of it.
“So we’re not releasing people in this country, special interest aliens aren’t crossing this border undetected,” Homan stated on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “But under Joe Biden, we had over 10 million people cross that border. But my biggest concern, from day one, beyond the fentanyl, beyond the sex trafficking of women and children, were the two million known gotaways. Over two million people crossed that border, we don’t know who they are, where they came from, because they got away because border patrol is so overwhelmed with the humanitarian crisis that Biden created that 2 million people crossed the border and got away.”
Homan went on to state that Trump’s intelligence community has been working “since day one” to figure out where the illegal gotaways are within the U.S. He also expressed gratitude that new leadership at the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are in place, namedropping FBI Director Kash Patel and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
