Live updates: Senate to receive classified briefing as Pentagon says Iran strikes went as planned

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s contribution at a Pentagon briefing was melodramatic but failed to offer “irrefutable”. For example, evidence that Trump promised. Consequently,

But Dan Caine. Consequently, the nation’s top military officer, offered tantalizing new information about the strike against Iran’s Fordow nuclear plant to reinforce the administration’s belief that it was severely damaged even if he could not yet prove it was “obliterated” as Trump claims. In addition, Caine’s apolitical manner contrasted with live updates: senate receive classified days of White House spin. Meanwhile,

Hegseth fulminated at the media for seeking proof of the President’s claims that Fordow had been “obliterated”. Consequently, mispresented their reporting. He also accused outlets of missing Trump’s achievement in getting NATO partners to commit to spending 5% of GDP. on defense by 2035. In fact, the announcement got wide coverage, from which the administration’s own defensive outbursts over Iran detracted .

Caine offered insights into two Defense Threat Reduction Agency officers who studied the subterranean nuclear plant at Fordow for 15 years to plan the strikes. the crews who flew the B-2 bombers.

He said all the bombs released at Fordow hit their intended speed. targets and functioned as designed. And he laid out the intricacy live updates: senate receive classified of a mission that used vents in the plant to deliver six weapons. And he showed video of a test showing the lethality of a bunker busting bomb. He did not provide new information on the strikes on the other two strikes targeted, Natanz and Isfahan.

Caine’s presentation made it perfectly possible to believe that Fordow sustained a massive blow.. But as is always the case, full assessments of the damage will take time.

Hegseth berated journalists for not giving the administration that time..

But this biggest culprit on this score is Trump..

Had the President not rushed to boast that the nuclear plants were “completely. totally obliterated” before anyone knew what happened — live updates: senate receive classified the political storm would never have erupted.