June 26, 2025 • 106 mins
American Sunrise on Real America's Voice
Segment A: DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ADDRESSES IRAN NUKE SITE STRIKES
Segment B: DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ADDRESSES IRAN NUKE SITE STRIKES
Segment C: DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ADDRESSES IRAN NUKE SITE STRIKES
Segment D: DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ADDRESSES IRAN NUKE SITE STRIKES
Segment E: SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN TAKES OUT KEY BUDGET PROVISIONS
Segment F: SOME DEMS WEARY OF IMPEACHMENT
Segment G: THE IMPORTANCE OF FRIENDSHIP
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, America.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome to American Sunrise.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Well, it's culture.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We have breaking news to share with you.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Politics.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
President Trump is joining us live now from Florida.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We've got your couple.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
This is what it looks like to be a patriot.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
We have to protect the American family.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
The American dream is still alive.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm David Brody, I'm Terrence.
Speaker 6 (00:26):
And I'm Doccentina.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Breaking news from Real America's Voice.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
We begin this morning with breaking news. Welcome to American
Sunrise everyone. I'm Terrence, Babs, Doctor Gene and David Brody
will join us shortly. However, at the moment, we are
waiting at press conference involving Secretary of Defense Pete Haigseth.
We're also hearing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
We'll be on hand for this news conference. Here's alive.
Look at the podiums again. We're expecting both men to
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take the podium at any moment.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
The goal of.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
This presser is to provide irrefutable proof of the damage
done toward Ron's nuclear sites and to clarify some of
the details of the bombings that were reported incorrectly by
both The New York Times and CNN. President Trump claims
the pilots who flew the B two bombers are upset
that their hard work is being minimized by the mainstream media.
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It is something the President, Secretary of Defense and Secretary
of State addressed on Tuesday before leaving the NATO summit
in the Hague, Netherlands. Again, we are waiting for the
principles to take the podium. When that happens, will take
you there live. In the meantime, let's bring in David
and Washington DC doctor Gina in West Palm Beach to
discuss this as we wait for the Secretary of Defense
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to take the podium. This is a really big deal
and it's something David that has really perturbed the administration,
the coverage of this issue, but also the fact that
there was a leak of what should be classified information
about the bombing and the impact thereof.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's right, and they think it's coming from the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
What a shock, and so that in other words, a
Democrat somewhere in Congress or potentially somewhere else leaking this
information out, and so therefore they are clamping down t bates.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
They are saying, you know what, we're.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Going to limit the amount of intelligence now that we
provide Democrats in Congress, Democrats are as you might imagine,
are up in arms.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So that's kind of the story going forward here, Doctor.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
G Yeah, I think it's bigger than this.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Though not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but let's
not forget the powers that be. This is not just
the Democrats. This is about the entire establishment, the entire
military industrial complex, wanting to engage us in a war.
If they can get us in a war under President Trump,
they know they win.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
And that's what this is really about.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
And I take a short exception with my very highly
esteemed and beloved colleague David Brodie, who says, look, there
will never be boots on the ground. That's what they want.
They want boots on the ground, make no mistake about it.
They want to cause so many problems that we end
up with boots on the ground.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Go ahead, David, don't get me wrong. There's no doubt
they want boots on the ground, and there's no doubt
they want nation building. But that wasn't what I was
saying saying.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
President Trump for that right.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
President Trump will never do that unless.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
They back him into it. And that's what they're trying
to do. I just want people to see this.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Good point.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Yes, good, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's hey, guys.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
So look, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I do want
to bring in our rav White House Chief White House Correspondent,
Brian Glen. He's outside the White House as we continue
to wait and guys, if we can maybe even put
in a lower box what's happening there at the Pentagon
so we can continue to monitor that. So, Brian, what's
the latest year hearing about what to expect from today's
news conference that's expected to happen quite literally at any moment.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
Yeah, well, we're on standby for that as well.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Okay, Brian, I'm sorry we're gonna interrupt you now shown
because they're they're at the podium. Here's Bob Pete.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
He could you see, mister chairman where there was a
historic outcome. I want to start with that real quick.
I think there's so much news, so many things happening,
that oftentimes big momentous moments get missed. What President Trump
accomplished in NATO yesterday was game changing and historic. A
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shift in burden sharing to European responsibility in NATO that
most would have said was impossible at the beginning of
his term, but he said NATO needs to pay up.
They started in the first term, and here in his
second term, we've accelerated that. Thirty two NATO countries committed
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to spending five percent of their GDP on defense on
actually investing in the NATO alliance. So I hope, with
all the ink spilled, all of your outlets find the
time to properly recognize this historic change in continental security
that other presidents tried to do, other presidents talked about.
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President Trump accomplished it. It's a huge deal. I see,
we're here this morning because in hunting for scandals all
the time, in trying to find wedges and spin stories,
this press corps and the press corps miss historic moments.
You miss historic moments like five percent at NATO, which
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when you hear I was in the closed door briefing,
I wish there could have been cameras in there when
you heard the prime ministers and presidents of other countries
to a man and to a woman looking at President
Trump and saying this never could have happened, never would
have happened. Seemed impossible five years ago, two years ago,
eight years ago. But here we are because of your leadership.
If you ask them the question, I bet they'd say
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the same thing. But searching for scandals, you miss historic
moments like recruiting at the Pentagon historic levels, and the Army,
the Air Force, and the Navy. Yeah, maybe there'll be
little mention here or there. But because it was under
President Trump's leadership, because it was because Americans are responding
to him as commander in chief, the press corps doesn't
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want to write about him or bring us to the
topic of the moment and the highly successful strikes in Iran.
Let me read the bottom line here. President Trump directed
the most complex and secretive military operation in history, and
it was a resounding success, resulting in a ceasefire agreement
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and the end of the Twelve day War. There's been
a lot of discussions about what happened to what didn't happen.
Step back for a second. Because of decisive military action,
President Trump created the conditions to end the war, decimating
choose your word, obliterating, destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities. I want
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to read some of the assessments that have been provided
because whether it's fake news, CNN, MSNBC, or the New
York Times. There's been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment.
I've had a chance to read it. Every outlet has
breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from DA I'm looking
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at it right now again. It was preliminary a day
and a half after the actual strike. When it admits
itself in writing that it requires weeks to accumulate the
necessary data to make such an assessment, it's preliminary, it
points out that it's not been coordinated with the intelligence
community at all. There's low confidence in this particular report,
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it says in the report. There are gaps in the information.
It says in the report. Multiple lynchpin assumptions are what
this assessment a lynchpin assumption. You know what that is.
It means your entire premise is predicated on a lynch pin.
If you're wrong, everything else is wrong. And yet still
this report acknowledges it's likely severe damage. Again, this is preliminary,
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but leaked because someone had an agenda to try to
muddy the waters and make it look like this historic
strike I wasn't successful. I'm gonna get to the chairman
in a moment, because he's going to lay out the
particulars for you based on his professional military experience. But
here's what other folks are saying. The DiiA that put
that report out says, this is a preliminary low confidence
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report and will continue to be refined as additional intelligence
becomes available. How about the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission. The
devastating US strikes on Fourdeaux destroyed the site's critical infrastructure
and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. Have any of these
quotes made their way into the New York Times or
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The Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN any of these quotes? How
about this one? This is a new one from the UN.
The United Nations no friend of the United States or
certainly Israel.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Often.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Here's the head of the UN Atomic Energy Agency this morning,
Raphael Grossi. US and Israeli strikes caused enorman damage to
Iran's nuclear sites. Don't take my word for it. How
about the IDF's chief of staff. I can say here
that the assessment is that we significantly damage the nuclear program,
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setting it back by years, I repeat years. The Iranian
foreign minister, the spokesman, our nuclear instrations have been badly
damaged that's for sure. I'm sure that's an understatement. John Radcliffe,
the Director of the CIA, putting out a statement just
last night. CIA can confirm that a body of credible
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intelligence indicates Iran's nuclear program has been severely damaged by
recent targeted strikes. This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable,
very different than preliminary assessment with low confidence. He's saying,
historically reliable and accurate source of method that several key
Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be
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rebuilt over the course of years. Continues to collect additional
reliably sourced information to keep appropriate decision makers fully informed.
How about DNA Telsea Gabbard Yesterday, she writes, and I
quote new intelligence confirms what POTUS has stated numerous times.
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Iran's nuclear facilities have been destroyed. Institute for Science and
International Security President David Albright. Overall Israel and US attacks
have effectively destroyed un Iran's centrifuge enrichment program time and
time again. I can go down the list those that understand,
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those that see, those that do proper assessments recognize that
what the United States military did was historic and again
before I pass it to the chairman because you, and
I mean specifically you the press, specifically you the press core,
because you cheer against Trump so hard it's like in
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your DNA and in your blood. Cheer against Trump because
you want him not to be successful so bad. You
have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You
have to hope maybe they weren't effective, Maybe the way
the Trump administration is represented him isn't true. So let's
take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it,
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spin it in every way we can to try to
cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind over
whether or not are brave pilots were successful. How many
stories have been written about how hard it is to,
I don't know, fly a plane for thirty six hours.
Has MSNBC done that story, as Fox? Have we done
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the story how hard that is? Have we done it
two or three times so that American people understand? How
about how difficult it is to shoot a drone from
an F fifteen or sixteen or F twenty two or
F thirty five, or what it's like to man a
Patriot battery, or how hard it is to refuel mid
air giving the American people an understanding of how complex
and sophisticated this mission really was. There are so many
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aspects of what our brave men and women did that
because of the hatred of this press, corps are undermined
because your people are trying to leak and spin that
it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible, and folks in this room
are privy to that information because of the proximity here
in the Pentagon. It's an important responsibility. And time and
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time again, classified information is leaked or pedled for political
purposes to try to make the president look bad. And
what's really happening is you're undermining the success of incredible
B two pilots and incredible F thirty five pilots, and
incredible refuelers and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission
set back a nuclear program in ways that other presidents
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would have dreamed. How about we celebrate that. How about
we talk about how special America is that we only
we have these capabilities. I think it's too much to ask.
Unfortunately for the fake news, so we're used to that,
but we also have an opportunity to stand at the
podium and read the truth of what's really happening. And
the reality is you want to call it destroyed, you
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want to call it defeated, you want to call it obliterated,
choose your word. This was an historically successful attack and
we should celebrate it as Americans, and it gives us
a chance to have peace, chance to have a deal,
and an opportunity to prevent a nuclear Iran, which is
something President Trump talked about for twenty years and no
other presidents had the courage to actually do so. With that,
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I want to hand it over to the Chairman of
Joint Chiefs. They've done technical analysis on this, not just
on the strike, but also on our patriot defenders, on
all you did, and mister Chairman will hand it over
to you.
Speaker 9 (13:49):
Good morning, Thank you, Miss s Rictorry, and good morning
and all of you. Thank you, thank you for being here.
As a follow up to my comments on Sunday's press conference,
I wanted to give you a few updates this morning
on something I'm honored to do as a chairman, and
that's a chance to get to talk about some of
our service members and the incredible things that they do on.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Behalf of our nation.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
And I apologize ahead of time for the length and
the detail. Today, I'm going to brief you on a
couple of things. First, I'm going to talk about our
air defenders at Aludd in Katar and their actions on Monday.
Then I'm going to walk you through a little bit
about the academics that went into the attack against four Dah,
the massive ordnance penetrator weapon, and we're going to show
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a video.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
That highlights the effects that that weapon has.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
Of course, nobody was down inside the target, so we
don't have video from the target.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
First.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
On Monday, as the President has stated, on Monday morning,
we began to receive indications and warnings that Iran intended
to attack US bases in the region that morning. Building
on the work that Sentcom Commander Eric Carilla had done
and on the order of the President, at Alude'd Airbase
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and Katar and around the region, we assumed a minimum
force posture. Most folks had moved off the base to
extend the security perimeter out away from what we assessed
might be a target zone. Except for a very few
Army soldiers at aluded at that point, only two Patriot
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batteries remained on base. Roughly forty four American soldiers responsible
for defending the entire base to include Sencom's forward headquarters
in the Middle East, an entire air base, and all
the US forces there. The oldest soldier was a twenty
eight year old captain. The youngest was a twenty one
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year old private who'd been in the military for less
than two years. So let's put ourselves out there for
a second. Imagine you're that young first lieutenant. You're twenty
five or twenty six years old, and you've been assigned
as the tactical director inside the Command and Control Element. You,
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at that age, are the sole person responsible to defend
this base. Listening next to you as your early warning
operator whose job is to notify you of imminent attack.
There's five people inside a vehicle and five people outside
of a vehicle around these a total of, as I said,
forty four. By the way, you've sat in the Middle
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East for years, deployed over and over again, extended multiple times,
always being prepared, but unsure of when that particular day
will come that you must execute your mission and not
fail at doing it. In this case, these Patriot crews
were deployed from Korea and Japan as part of our
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US forces there to ensure that we had the most
capable missiles in.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
The cent area of responsibility.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
As the day continues, you start to hear more and
more chatter in the information space about an appending attack,
and as the sun starts to set in the west,
you get orders from your higher headquarters to make sure
that your missile batteries are pointed to the north. There
are just a few other teammates. It's hot, you're getting nervous,
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and you expect an attack outside of those Patriot vehicles.
Your hot crew, which is one NCO and four additional soldiers,
turns a key and relinquishes control of those missiles to
that young lieutenant inside the vehicle, and you wait. You
know that you're going to have approximately two minutes, one
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hundred and twenty seconds to either succeed or fail. And
then at approximately twelve thirty pm on Monday, that's seven
thirty pm in Katar, as the sun sets in.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
The west, Iran attacks.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
As the targets were detected, round after round of Patriot
missiles are ejected from their canisters by an initial launch charge.
Then the main solid rocket motor ignites. You can feel
this in your body. If you've ever been around a
patriot taking a shot, and round after round goes out
and guides against those missiles coming inbound. We believe that
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this is the largest single patriot engagement in US military.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
History, and we were enjoyed.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
We were joined in this engagement by the Katari Patriot crews.
I'm not going to tell you how many rounds were shot,
but it was a bunch because of classified purposes, and
we're aware that something there's reports of something getting through.
What we do know is there was a lot of
metal flying around between attacking missiles being hit by patriots,
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boosters from attacking missiles being hit by Patriots, the Patriots
themselves flying around in the debris from those Patriots hitting
the ground. There was a lot of metal flying around,
and yet our US air defenders had only seconds to
make complex decisions with strategic impact. These awesome humans, along
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with their Katari brothers and sisters and arms, stood between
a salvo of Iranian missiles and the safety of value. Deed,
they are the unsung heroes of the twenty first century
United States Army. And I know a lot of you
have seen the videos online and the excitement as those
Patriots departed their launchers and went up and guided. This
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really demonstrates the combat capability and capacity of our army
Air defenders simply stated, they absolutely crushed it.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
If you'd flip this over, thanks.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
Let me next move to a walk through of the
GBU fifty seven Massive Ordnance Penetrator weapon and share a
little bit about the planners who did this and their
work on the weapon.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
First, let me set the stage for you.
Speaker 9 (20:14):
There's an organization in the US called the Defense Threat
Reduction Agency DITRA. DITTRA does a lot of things for
a nation, but DITTRA is the world's leading expert on
deeply buried underground targets. In two thousand and nine, a
Defense Threat Reduction Agency officer was brought into a vault
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at an undisclosed location and briefed on something going on
in Iran. For security purposes, I'm not going to share
his name. He was shown some photos and some highly
classified intelligence of what looked like a major construction project
in the mountains of Iran. He was tasked to study
this facility, work with the intelligence community to understand it,
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and he was soon joined by an additional teammate. For
more than fifteen years, this officer and his teammate lived
and breathed this single target four dough, a critical element
of Iran's covert nuclear weapons program. He studied the geology.
He watched the Iranians dig it out. He watched the construction,
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the weather, the discard material, the geology, the construction materials,
where the materials came from.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
He looked at the vent shaft, the.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Exhaust shaft, the electrical systems, the environmental control systems, every nook,
every crater, every piece of equipment going in and every
piece of equipment going out. They literally dreamed about this
target at night when they slept. They thought about it
driving back and forth to work, and they knew from
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the very first days what this was for. You do
not build a multi layered underground bunker complex with centrifuges
and other equipment in a mountain for any peaceful purpose.
They weren't able to discuss this with their family, their wives,
their kids, their friends, but they just kept grinding it out,
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and along the way they realized we did not have
a weapon that could adequately strike and kill this target.
So they began a journey to work with industry and
other tacticians.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
To develop the GBU fifty seven. They tested it.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
Over and over again, tried different options, tried more. After that,
they accomplished hundreds of test shots and dropped many full
scale weapons against extremely realistic targets for a single purpose,
kill this target at the time and place of our
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nation's choosing. And then, on a day in June of
twenty twenty five, more than fifteen years after they started
their life's work, the phone rang and the President of
the United States ordered the B two force that you've
ported to go strike and kill this target.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
Yesterday.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
I had the incredible honor and privilege of spending time
with these two Defense Threat Reduction Agency officers who've given
so much. One of them said, quote, I can't even
get my head around this. My heart is so filled
with the pride of being a part of this team.
I am so honored to be a part of this.
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To you both, thank you, and thank you to your families.
Operation Midnight Hammer was the culmination of those fifteen years
of incredible work. The air crews, the tanker crews, the
weapons crews that built the weapons, the load crews that
loaded it. Before I run through this video today, I
want to talk a little bit about weaponeering and what
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goes into into an attack. Weaponeering is the science of
evaluating a target. I mentioned all of those factors before
that these two DITRA officers had thought about. Ultimately, weaponeering
is determining the right weapon and use combination to achieve
the desired effects and maximum destruction against a target. In
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the case of four DAH, the Ditter team understood with
a high degree of confidence the elements of the target
required to kill its functions, and the weapons were designed,
planned and delivered to ensure that they achieved the effects
in the mission space. By the way, in the beginning
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of its development, we had so many PhDs working on
the MOP program doing modeling and simulation that we were
quietly and in a secret way the biggest users of
supercomputer hours within the United States of America. So let
me talk about Let me talk about the graphic a
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little bit. In the GBU fifty seven, which all of
you I know know, is a thirty thousand pound weapon
dropped only by the B two.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
It's comprised of.
Speaker 9 (24:59):
Steam explosive and a fuse programmed bespokely each weapon to
achieve a particular effect inside the target. Each weapon had
a unique desired impact angle, arrival, final heading.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
And a fuse setting.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
The fuse is effectively what tells the bomb when to function.
A longer delay in a fuse, the deeper the weapon
will penetrate and drive into the target.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
So on four.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
DOH in June of two thousand and eight, you can
see these three holes depicted. Here is the main exhaust
shaft with two additional ventilation shafts on either side. The
United States decided to strike these two ventilation shafts seen
here on the main graphic as the primary point of
entry into the mission space.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
In the days preceding.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
The attack against Fourneaux, the Iranians attempted to cover the
shafts with concrete to try to prevent an attack. I
won't share the specific dimensions of the concrete cap, but
you should know that we know what the dimensions of
those concrete caps were. The planners had to account for this.
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They accounted for everything. The cap was forcibly removed by
the first weapon and the main shaft was uncovered. Weapons two, three,
four five were tasked to enter the main shaft, move
down into the complex at greater than one thousand feet
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per second, and explode in the mission space. Weapon number
six was designed on each side, so there were six
on each side. Weapons number six was designed as a
flex weapon to allow us to cover if one of
the preceding jets or one of the preceding weapons.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
Did not work.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
The video I'm about to show you is a culmination
of over fifteen years of development and testing. As I said,
hundreds of test shots on various models. This is one weapon,
So if you take a view of this is five additionals,
you'll get a sense of what this looks like. Hopefully
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you can see it and there's not too much reflection.
Tom runs our videos out there. We'll run it at
full speed so you can see it and then go
back through it.
Speaker 10 (27:32):
Go ahead, Tom, keep it.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Going for a minute.
Speaker 10 (28:05):
You'll see inside the mission space.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
Unlike a normal surface bomb, you won't see an impact
crater because they're designed to deeply bury and then function.
I know there's been a lot of questions about that.
All six weapons at each vent at four doh went
exactly where they were intended to go. A bomb has
three effects that causes damage, blast, fragmentation, and overpressure. In
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this case, the primary kill mechanism in the mission space
was a mix of overpressure and blast ripping through the
open tunnels and destroying critical hardware. The majority of the
damage we assessed based on our extensive modeling was a
blast layer combined with the impulse extending from the shock.
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Imagine what this looks like six times over. A point
that I want to make here. The Joint Force does
not do BDA by design. We don't grade our own homework.
The intelligence community does. But here's what we know following
the attacks and the strikes on four DAH. First that
the weapons were built, tested and loaded properly. Two, the
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weapons were released on speed and on parameters. Three, the
weapons all guided to their intended targets and to their
intended aim points. For the weapons functioned as design, meaning
they exploded. We know this through other means, intelligence means
that we have that were visibly We were visibly able
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to see them, and we know that the trailing jets
saw the first weapons function and the pilots stated, quote this,
this was the brightest explosion that I've ever seen. It
literally looked like daylight. Let me now turn to the
bomber crews themselves, give you a few details about them.
The crews that attacked Fordeaux were from the Active duty
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Air Force and the Missouri Air National Guard. The crews
ranked from captain to colonel, and most were graduates of
the Air Force Weapon School, headquartered at Nellis Air Force
Base in Nevada. I will state for the record that
there is no beach, volleyball, or football at the Air
Force Weapon School. They were male and female aviators on
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this mission, and a crew member told me when I
talked to them on video the other day that this
felt like the Super Bowl, the thousands of scientists, airmen
and maintainers all coming together.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
One last story about people.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
When the crews went to work on Friday, they kissed
their loved ones goodbye, not knowing when or if they'd
be home. Late on Saturday night, their families became aware
of what was happening, and on Sunday, when those jets
return from White Men, their families were there, flags flying
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and tears flowing. I have chills literally talking about this.
The jets rejoined into a formation of four airplanes, followed
by a formation of three, and came up overhead white Men,
proudly in the traffic pattern, pitching out to land right
over the base and landing to the incredible cheers of
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their families who sacrifice and serve right alongside their family members.
Like I said, there were a lot of flags and
a lot of tears. One commander told me, this is
a moment in the lives of our families that they
will never forget. That, my friends, is what America's Joint
Force does. We think, we develop, we train, we rehearse,
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we test, we evaluate every single day, and when the
call comes to delay, we do so. I could not
be more proud standing up here today of our joint Force.
I'm filled with gratitude that I get to tell their story.
And as we stand here right now, our forces remain
on a high state of readiness in the region, prepared
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to defend themselves. And one last thing, our adversaries around
the world should know that there are other DITRIC Team
members out there studying targets for the same amount of
time and we'll continue to do so. Thank you very much.
I apologize for the length I look forward to your questions.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Thank you, mister Chairman. I would just thank you, by
the way for that extensive work, the lay down, I
mean even you have that laser pointer. Okay, yes, sir,
thank you scaring me away as always. I mean even
in just the public reporting, if you see the post
striped shaft of the three holes, the vast majority, and
fairly so, the vast majority speculation has been those are
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the three strike points, when in actuality, what you realize
is these are the events. These are the caps. The
first munition took the cap off, and the other five
went down the center hole, which if you're planning the target,
you would want it to be the direct one going
to the bottom. These are the types of things that
go into the planning for a strike that we wouldn't
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the Pentagon would not expect, the press corps, the American
people that initially understand. So laying this information out is helpful,
but it's also why we asked for a beat, for
a moment, for a day or two, the opportunity to
tell that story, because, as the chairman said, these men
and women that did this mission, they just want to
do their job. They're not expecting their story to be told.
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They're not expecting the glory. They are grateful for the
flags and the hugs of family, that's why they do
the job. But they also know they were part of
something historic. We know how historic it was the Chairman,
does I know, Our staffs know, and so that's why
we are and the President of the United States States knows.
And that's why it's almost personal when we see the
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way in which leaks are used to try to disparage
the outcome or muddy the waters about the impact of
what happened without being responsible with information and allowing the
professionals to assess and provide that information, just like the
Chairman did. So thank you, mister Chairman, for that information.
And we welcome a few additional questions.
Speaker 11 (34:27):
Yes, sir, the General on Sunday you said final battle
damage will take some time, and you also said, I
think BDA is still pending and it would be way
too early for me to comment on what may or
may not still be there at New Qui facility.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
So that was just over three days ago.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
So what has changed? Would you use the term obliterated
as well, sir?
Speaker 9 (34:50):
Like I said, we don't do BDA. I'll refer that
to the intelligence community and you're.
Speaker 11 (34:55):
Talking with them. I mean, what changed in the past
three days? And make you so you know, sir?
Speaker 8 (34:59):
I think I I.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Mean, I think I explained what changed. Uh, there was
a great deal of irresponsible reporting based on leaks, preliminary
information in low confidence. Again, when someone leaks something, they
do it with an agenda. And when you leak a
portion of an intelligence assessment, but just a little portion,
just a little portion, that makes it seem like maybe
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the strike wasn't effective, then you start us a news cycle,
whether it's the Washington Post or Fox News or CNN
or MSNBC, you start a news cycle that starts to
call into question the ethics. No, that's why. So you
bring the chairman here, who's not involved in politics, here,
a new politics. That's that's that's my lane to understand
and translate and talk about those types of things. So
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I can use the word obliterate it. He could use defeat, destroyed,
assess all of those things. But ultimately we're here to
clarify what these weapons are capable of, which anyone with uh,
you know, two ear, two eyes, some ears in a
brain can recognize that kind of firepower with that specificity
at that location and others is gonna have a devastating effect.
So we all recognize there will be days and weeks ahead.
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That's why yesterday I said, if you want to know
what's going on, at four to zero. You better go
there and get a big shovel, because no one's under
there right now. No one's under there able to assess,
and everyone's using reflections of what they see. And that's
why the Israelis, the Iranians, the IAA, the un to
a man and too a woman who recognized the capability
of this weapon system are acknowledging how destructive it's been.
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So that's what's that's what's changed just three or four
days later. See this is a point. This is how
difficult it is to actually manage. You just watched a
video of what this weapon is capable of. That's where
we find our confidence is in the skill of men
and women and the capability of the systems they employed,
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and the recognition so far on the reflections that it
was a highly successful mission.
Speaker 9 (36:48):
Sure, I think you could, I'd say, got the IC
should be able to help you answer that question. They
look at a variety as the Secretary is alluded to,
we look at a variety of things.
Speaker 8 (36:58):
I don't do that.
Speaker 9 (36:59):
They do all different sources of intel, which I'd refer
you to them to get clarity on the instill.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Again, I go back to the IC, whether it's Director
Radcliffe or Odie and I Gabbart. I read the statements
at the beginning. They're the ones aggregating the intelligence, and
they're saying nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to
be rebuilt over a number of a year's facilities were destroyed.
Where we got right here, So you cited a body
of credible intelligence to suggest that the damage at Porto
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and other places.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
What is that referring to? And when we see it?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I was reading from the CIA director's statement which came
out last night. CIA again, they do the BDA, they
do the assessment. CIA can confirm that a body of
credible intelligence indicates it also goes on to say new
intelligence from historically reliable and accurate sources and methods. Now
you can imagine, you can imagine the CIA director is
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going to be very careful about how he articulates things
of that sensitivity five secret, top secret, compartmentalized. He's going
to know things that you're not going to know, that
the press isn't going to know. And he's reflecting that
the sources he's seeing are highly credible. Uh, they've they've
given credible intelligence. They are those processes of given credible
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intelligence in the past, and that's what he's basically on.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Do you think we need to see that?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Do you have a top secret clearancer?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Eventually the American public see.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yes, Yeah, I wanted to I wanted to ask briefly,
just not you check it shirt.
Speaker 12 (38:32):
Oh so, Mike Glennoth Washington, Yes, thanks.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (38:35):
Anybody who's ever read a battalions to report after a
fight knows that it's usually the initial report is usually wrong,
sometimes grossly. So this is what happened in the sense
that it caused y'all to sort of rethink the intelligence
process or the dissemination or do you think it's just
I mean, it's a process itself doesn't require any more adjustment.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Well, I can tell you what the chairman told me
in the situation room and reminded us all, which is
alongside what you just said, sir, is that the first
first reports are almost always wrong. They're almost always incomplete,
right anything, whether it's a squad level operation or strategic
level operation. The initial reflections you get are coming at
you at a high rate of speed from a lot
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of different sources. So your job is to step back
and assess them. And that's why we're urging caution about
putting it premising entire stories on biased leaks to biased
publications trying to make something look bad. How about we
take a beat, recognize first the success of our warriors,
hold them up, tell their stories, celebrate that wave an
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American flag, be proud of what we accomplished. And in
the meantime, I can assure you the Chairman and his staff,
the intelligence community, our staff and others are doing all
the assessments necessary to make sure that mission was indeed successful.
Speaker 13 (39:56):
Yes, right there, so thank you. Mis Run has to
recognized that their nuclear program was indeed severely damaged, but
they also said that the US strikes only strengthened their
ability and their determination to complete their nuclear program. How
do you respond to us or is that a provocation
from Iran?
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Well, I would say Iron's going to have to say
a lot of things right now in order to bolster
their image, especially internally. You know, in if the media,
there's a lot of things they'll say for domestic consumption,
but we're watching very closely what they do. Again, that's
the intel community. Our job as the chairman, I mean,
the chairman laid it up so beautifully. Our job is
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to be prepared, and how proud are you? How proud
am I? I didn't know the full story of those
men and women fifteen years ago who've been pointing at
that target. It makes me proud to be an American.
That's an awesome story. I hope we can tell more
aspects of that in an unclassified way in the future.
That's a great thing to know. Our job is to
be prepared when the commander in chief calls based on
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those assessments. So of course our i SE Intelligence Committee
will keep watching what Iran does and pay attention to that.
But the President has created the contours the opportunity for
a deal for peace in something that the world said
was intractable, that wasn't possible, and we got that piece
that cease fire, that option because of strength, because of
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his willingness to use American military might that no one
else on the planet can do with the kind of
planners and operators that the Chairman just laid out. Yes, sir,
right there.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Yep, sir.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Just a quick question.
Speaker 14 (41:31):
There's public imagery available saying that highly enriched uranium was
moved out of FOURD before the strikes. Is that accurate?
Have you seen that and mister chairman, a question for you.
Have you been pressured to change your assessment or given
more rosy intelligence assessment to us by any political factors,
whether it's a president or the Secretary, And if you were,
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would you do that?
Speaker 8 (41:55):
Yeah, well, that one's easy.
Speaker 9 (41:56):
No, No, I have not, and no I would not.
My job as a chairman is to offer a range
of options to the President and the National Command Authority,
to deliver the risks associated with each of those, and
then take the orders of the National Command Authority and
go execute them. I've never been pressured by the President
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or the Secretary to do anything other than tell them
exactly what.
Speaker 10 (42:23):
I'm thinking, and that's exactly what I've done.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
There's nothing that I've seen that suggests that what we
didn't hit exactly what we wanted to hit in those locations.
Speaker 15 (42:34):
It's about highly enriched uranium. Do you have certainty that
all the highly enrich uranium was inside the Four Dome
Mountain or some of it? Because there were satellite photos
that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days
in advance, are you certain none of that highly enriched
uranium was moved?
Speaker 3 (42:52):
Of course, we're watching every single aspect. But Jennifer, you've
been about the worst, the one who misrepresents the most
intentionally what the President says. I'm familiar about.
Speaker 15 (43:05):
The ventilations chefs on Saturday Night, and in fact, I
was the first to describe the B two bombers, the refueling,
the entire mission with great accuracy. So I take issue
with that.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
I appreciate you acknowledging that this was the first, the
most successful mission based on operational security that this department
has done since you be here, and I appreciate that.
So we're looking at all aspects of intelligence and making
sure we have a sense of what was where.
Speaker 16 (43:32):
Why not acknowledge the female pilots that also participated in
this mission. The early messages that you sent out only
congratulated the boys.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
So when I say something like our boys and bombers, see,
this is the kind of thing the press does.
Speaker 8 (43:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Of course, the chairman mentioned a female bomber pilot. That's fantastic.
She's fantastic, she's a hero. I want more female bomber pilots.
I hope the men and women of our country sign
up to do such brave and audacious things. But when
you spin it as because I say our boys and
bombers as a common phrase, I'll keep saying things like that,
whether they're men or women. Very proud of that female pilot,
just like I'm very proud of those male pilots. And
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I don't care if it's a male or a female
in that cockpit, and the American people don't care. But
it's the obsession with race and gender in this department
that's changed priorities. We don't do that anymore. We don't
play your little games. Yes, right there.
Speaker 16 (44:22):
Certainly that the uranium was removed from a facility before the.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
B two struck, So I'm not aware of any intelligence
that I've reviewed that says things were not where they
were supposed to be moved or otherwise.
Speaker 17 (44:33):
Yes, Kelly Meyer with News Nation, and just off the top,
when they were grateful for the service of these pilots
and everybody that serves I wanted to ask you. The
CIA statement said when possible, they will provide updates and
information to the public for transparency, and I believe that's.
Speaker 15 (44:48):
What we're looking for here.
Speaker 17 (44:50):
Do you commit to share the Defense Intelligence Agency report
when it is ready so the American people can understand
more about the intelligence assessment.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Well whatever, Actually the report that was discussed, this preliminary
report was a what's called a restrike report, So it
comes to us to give us an assessment whether a
target would need to be restruck, right, that's the reason why.
So based on internal feedback loop that we're supposed to
have access to. Unfortunately someone took advantage of that. But
whatever is supposed to be made public will be. But
whatever has to say sensitive.
Speaker 8 (45:19):
Certain it's jump in you know.
Speaker 9 (45:21):
One of the things that that I'm trying to do
through this journey that we're on together, of course transparency,
but also the requirement to really protect these capabilities.
Speaker 8 (45:31):
I guess the time's up. But so there's a balance.
Speaker 9 (45:36):
In there, right, we do need to preserve options should
the nation and the Joint Force be tasked to go
do something again. So I'm confident we'll find the middle ground.
But there are some things that that if asked, I'd
want to not release related.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
So we're gonna leave it right there. I want to
thank the heroism of our men and women in military.
In the military, what they accomplished is truly historic, setting
back the Iranian nuclear program untold number of years. It
was a devastating attack. We appreciate you covering it.
Speaker 8 (46:04):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 18 (46:06):
Thank you talk a little bit more about your Rolso,
so you were listening to a news conference there at
the Pentagon involving Secretary of Defense Pete Heigseth and the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussing the attack
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on uh that nuclear.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
Facility in iron also blasting the news media for its
coverage of how this all was carried out, more importantly,
the efficacy of that attack. Let's bring in doctor Gena
and David uh to offer up a bit more context
to all of this.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Uh So, A.
Speaker 5 (46:43):
Lot to unpack here, David and doctor Gina. I don't
know necessarily where to start. Uh So let's start with
the media, I guess, David, and basically the way that
they were just dressed down by Secretary Hegseth for their coverage.
Let's start there, and then we'll move on to the
efficacy and the information we're continuing to get about just
how good the strike was.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
Well, let's specifically talk about someone in the media. If
you caught that where we all caught it at the
end when he said, Jennifer, he's talking about Jennifer Griffin
at Fox News, and of course Pete Hegseeth formerly a
Fox News some bad blood between both of them, that's
who he was talking to in the audience there. She
pushed back and then he decided to have a few
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words after that. Look, this was a dressed down of
the media. That was the main reason, I shouldn't say
the main reason. It was a key reason for what
they wanted to do here to basically say, how dare you?
Speaker 1 (47:37):
And it's a good point, it's a great point. Actually.
Speaker 4 (47:40):
You know, when you don't give all of the facts,
when you give a partial truth, it becomes false. And
that's what we're seeing from the media specifically. This is
a low credibility report, a low credibility report that is
preliminary at best.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
And once again that isn't in the CNN.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
I keep going back to CNN because it's the CNN
story that started all of this, and so and there's
a lot more to talk about regarding the media, But
the point is, and his and Pete Hegsett's point was
is that they're not telling the full story.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Well, that should not shock us at all.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
And what's interesting to me is the Ratcliffe stuff the CIA,
Radcliffe stuff and Telsea gabber Bolt saying that they were
indeed destroyed, and then when they were asked, how do
you know, basically saying that there is new intelligence according
to Ratcliffe at the CIA, new intelligence from quote highly
credible sources saying that nuclear facilities were destroyed. He also
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Hegsith also said this that this was all predicated on
multiple Lynchpin assumptions. You know, I thought that was interesting
because you don't get that in the media story. Multiple
Lynchpin assumptions, you see, because that's the caveat, that's the disclaimer.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
That's like, hold on for a second.
Speaker 4 (48:57):
Possibly this could have been the case, but we don't
know because we're assuming X, Y, and Z. See, that's
never explained, Gina. The context is never explained in the media. Instead,
they want the headline. And the reason they want the
headline is because they want to bash Trump, because Trump
ultimately is good for business.
Speaker 6 (49:13):
But it's deeper than that. It's deeper than that.
Speaker 7 (49:15):
It goes back to what I said initially at the
open of the show today, This is not just about
bashing Trump. This is about the deep state wanting to
put us in a war. The deep State wanting to
insinuate that Iran still has nukes, so therefore we must
put boots on the ground and go back in and
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check about these nukes. How reprehensible when you think about it,
It's not only reprehensible, David, because if we put troops,
our troops in harm's way again because our bomber pilots
were obviously in harms way, but if we put boots
on the ground, in our troops in harms way again,
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for the military industrial complex, the deep state to be
able to take this victory from the American people. They're
trying to take it from Trump, as you said, but
they're trying to take it from the American people.
Speaker 6 (50:07):
That is reprehensible.
Speaker 7 (50:09):
Number two on this whole thing that just has me
seething this morning, is that what an exercise and futility Terrence.
Why does Pete heg Why did we need our top
level military officials and secretaries on stage this morning explaining
what they know to be true, what they've already done,
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rehashing on the defense.
Speaker 6 (50:35):
Why do we need that?
Speaker 7 (50:36):
Because the Left is willing to compromise us in order
to get what they want, as you said, David, to
undermine Trump but also to get their way on putting us.
Speaker 8 (50:48):
In a war.
Speaker 6 (50:49):
That's the ultimate goal.
Speaker 7 (50:50):
I don't want to lose sight of that for one second.
This isn't a Maga versus democrats kind of a fight.
This is literally the deep State versus the American people
and our military.
Speaker 1 (51:03):
Look, guys, there's still a lot to unpack.
Speaker 5 (51:05):
And you use the word reprehensible, doctor Gina, There's another
angle to this story that I find reprehensible, and I'd
like to get your guys' take on that. When't we
get a chance to come back, but for now, we
do have to take a quick break. We're back in
a moment.
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Sunrise everyone. I'm Terrence, Babs, Doctor Gene and David Brody
will join us shortly. However, at the moment, we are
waiting at press conference involving Secretary of Defense Pete Haigseth.
We're also hearing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
We'll be on hand for this news conference. Here's alive.
Look at the podiums again. We're expecting both men to
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take the podium at any moment.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
The goal of.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
This presser is to provide irrefutable proof of the damage
done toward Ron's nuclear sites and to clarify some of
the details of the bombings that were reported incorrectly by
both The New York Times and CNN. President Trump claims
the pilots who flew the B two bombers are upset
that their hard work is being minimized by the mainstream media.
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It is something the President, Secretary of Defense and Secretary
of State addressed on Tuesday before leaving the NATO summit
in the Hague, Netherlands. Again, we are waiting for the
principles to take the podium. When that happens, will take
you there live. In the meantime, let's bring in David
and Washington DC doctor Gina in West Palm Beach to
discuss this as we wait for the Secretary of Defense
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to take the podium. This is a really big deal
and it's something David that has really perturbed the administration,
the coverage of this issue, but also the fact that
there was a leak of what should be classified information
about the bombing and the impact thereof.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's right, and they think it's coming from the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
What a shock, and so that in other words, a
Democrat somewhere in Congress or potentially somewhere else leaking this
information out, and so therefore they are clamping down t bates.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
They are saying, you know what, we're.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Going to limit the amount of intelligence now that we
provide Democrats in Congress, Democrats are as you might imagine,
are up in arms.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So that's kind of the story going forward here, Doctor.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
G Yeah, I think it's bigger than this.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Though not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but let's
not forget the powers that be. This is not just
the Democrats. This is about the entire establishment, the entire
military industrial complex, wanting to engage us in a war.
If they can get us in a war under President Trump,
they know they win.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
And that's what this is really about.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
And I take a short exception with my very highly
esteemed and beloved colleague David Brodie, who says, look, there
will never be boots on the ground. That's what they want.
They want boots on the ground, make no mistake about it.
They want to cause so many problems that we end
up with boots on the ground.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Go ahead, David, don't get me wrong. There's no doubt
they want boots on the ground, and there's no doubt
they want nation building. But that wasn't what I was
saying saying.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
President Trump for that right.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
President Trump will never do that unless.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
They back him into it. And that's what they're trying
to do. I just want people to see this.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Good point.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Yes, good, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's hey, guys.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
So look, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I do want
to bring in our rav White House Chief White House Correspondent,
Brian Glen. He's outside the White House as we continue
to wait and guys, if we can maybe even put
in a lower box what's happening there at the Pentagon
so we can continue to monitor that. So, Brian, what's
the latest year hearing about what to expect from today's
news conference that's expected to happen quite literally at any moment.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
Yeah, well, we're on standby for that as well.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Okay, Brian, I'm sorry we're gonna interrupt you now shown
because they're they're at the podium. Here's Bob Pete.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
He could you see, mister chairman where there was a
historic outcome. I want to start with that real quick.
I think there's so much news, so many things happening,
that oftentimes big momentous moments get missed. What President Trump
accomplished in NATO yesterday was game changing and historic. A
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shift in burden sharing to European responsibility in NATO that
most would have said was impossible at the beginning of
his term, but he said NATO needs to pay up.
They started in the first term, and here in his
second term, we've accelerated that. Thirty two NATO countries committed
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to spending five percent of their GDP on defense on
actually investing in the NATO alliance. So I hope, with
all the ink spilled, all of your outlets find the
time to properly recognize this historic change in continental security
that other presidents tried to do, other presidents talked about.
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President Trump accomplished it. It's a huge deal. I see,
we're here this morning because in hunting for scandals all
the time, in trying to find wedges and spin stories,
this press corps and the press corps miss historic moments.
You miss historic moments like five percent at NATO, which
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when you hear I was in the closed door briefing,
I wish there could have been cameras in there when
you heard the prime ministers and presidents of other countries
to a man and to a woman looking at President
Trump and saying this never could have happened, never would
have happened. Seemed impossible five years ago, two years ago,
eight years ago. But here we are because of your leadership.
If you ask them the question, I bet they'd say
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the same thing. But searching for scandals, you miss historic
moments like recruiting at the Pentagon historic levels, and the Army,
the Air Force, and the Navy. Yeah, maybe there'll be
little mention here or there. But because it was under
President Trump's leadership, because it was because Americans are responding
to him as commander in chief, the press corps doesn't
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want to write about him or bring us to the
topic of the moment and the highly successful strikes in Iran.
Let me read the bottom line here. President Trump directed
the most complex and secretive military operation in history, and
it was a resounding success, resulting in a ceasefire agreement
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and the end of the Twelve day War. There's been
a lot of discussions about what happened to what didn't happen.
Step back for a second. Because of decisive military action,
President Trump created the conditions to end the war, decimating
choose your word, obliterating, destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities. I want
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to read some of the assessments that have been provided
because whether it's fake news, CNN, MSNBC, or the New
York Times. There's been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment.
I've had a chance to read it. Every outlet has
breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from DA I'm looking
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at it right now again. It was preliminary a day
and a half after the actual strike. When it admits
itself in writing that it requires weeks to accumulate the
necessary data to make such an assessment, it's preliminary, it
points out that it's not been coordinated with the intelligence
community at all. There's low confidence in this particular report,
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it says in the report. There are gaps in the information.
It says in the report. Multiple lynchpin assumptions are what
this assessment a lynchpin assumption. You know what that is.
It means your entire premise is predicated on a lynch pin.
If you're wrong, everything else is wrong. And yet still
this report acknowledges it's likely severe damage. Again, this is preliminary,
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but leaked because someone had an agenda to try to
muddy the waters and make it look like this historic
strike I wasn't successful. I'm gonna get to the chairman
in a moment, because he's going to lay out the
particulars for you based on his professional military experience. But
here's what other folks are saying. The DiiA that put
that report out says, this is a preliminary low confidence
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report and will continue to be refined as additional intelligence
becomes available. How about the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission. The
devastating US strikes on Fourdeaux destroyed the site's critical infrastructure
and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. Have any of these
quotes made their way into the New York Times or
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The Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN any of these quotes? How
about this one? This is a new one from the UN.
The United Nations no friend of the United States or
certainly Israel.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Often.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Here's the head of the UN Atomic Energy Agency this morning,
Raphael Grossi. US and Israeli strikes caused enorman damage to
Iran's nuclear sites. Don't take my word for it. How
about the IDF's chief of staff. I can say here
that the assessment is that we significantly damage the nuclear program,
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setting it back by years, I repeat years. The Iranian
foreign minister, the spokesman, our nuclear instrations have been badly
damaged that's for sure. I'm sure that's an understatement. John Radcliffe,
the Director of the CIA, putting out a statement just
last night. CIA can confirm that a body of credible
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intelligence indicates Iran's nuclear program has been severely damaged by
recent targeted strikes. This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable,
very different than preliminary assessment with low confidence. He's saying,
historically reliable and accurate source of method that several key
Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be
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rebuilt over the course of years. Continues to collect additional
reliably sourced information to keep appropriate decision makers fully informed.
How about DNA Telsea Gabbard Yesterday, she writes, and I
quote new intelligence confirms what POTUS has stated numerous times.
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Iran's nuclear facilities have been destroyed. Institute for Science and
International Security President David Albright. Overall Israel and US attacks
have effectively destroyed un Iran's centrifuge enrichment program time and
time again. I can go down the list those that understand,
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those that see, those that do proper assessments recognize that
what the United States military did was historic and again
before I pass it to the chairman because you, and
I mean specifically you the press, specifically you the press core,
because you cheer against Trump so hard it's like in
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your DNA and in your blood. Cheer against Trump because
you want him not to be successful so bad. You
have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You
have to hope maybe they weren't effective, Maybe the way
the Trump administration is represented him isn't true. So let's
take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it,
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spin it in every way we can to try to
cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind over
whether or not are brave pilots were successful. How many
stories have been written about how hard it is to,
I don't know, fly a plane for thirty six hours.
Has MSNBC done that story, as Fox? Have we done
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the story how hard that is? Have we done it
two or three times so that American people understand? How
about how difficult it is to shoot a drone from
an F fifteen or sixteen or F twenty two or
F thirty five, or what it's like to man a
Patriot battery, or how hard it is to refuel mid
air giving the American people an understanding of how complex
and sophisticated this mission really was. There are so many
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aspects of what our brave men and women did that
because of the hatred of this press, corps are undermined
because your people are trying to leak and spin that
it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible, and folks in this room
are privy to that information because of the proximity here
in the Pentagon. It's an important responsibility. And time and
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time again, classified information is leaked or pedled for political
purposes to try to make the president look bad. And
what's really happening is you're undermining the success of incredible
B two pilots and incredible F thirty five pilots, and
incredible refuelers and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission
set back a nuclear program in ways that other presidents
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would have dreamed. How about we celebrate that. How about
we talk about how special America is that we only
we have these capabilities. I think it's too much to ask.
Unfortunately for the fake news, so we're used to that,
but we also have an opportunity to stand at the
podium and read the truth of what's really happening. And
the reality is you want to call it destroyed, you
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want to call it defeated, you want to call it obliterated,
choose your word. This was an historically successful attack and
we should celebrate it as Americans, and it gives us
a chance to have peace, chance to have a deal,
and an opportunity to prevent a nuclear Iran, which is
something President Trump talked about for twenty years and no
other presidents had the courage to actually do so. With that,
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I want to hand it over to the Chairman of
Joint Chiefs. They've done technical analysis on this, not just
on the strike, but also on our patriot defenders, on
all you did, and mister Chairman will hand it over
to you.
Speaker 9 (13:49):
Good morning, Thank you, Miss s Rictorry, and good morning
and all of you. Thank you, thank you for being here.
As a follow up to my comments on Sunday's press conference,
I wanted to give you a few updates this morning
on something I'm honored to do as a chairman, and
that's a chance to get to talk about some of
our service members and the incredible things that they do on.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Behalf of our nation.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
And I apologize ahead of time for the length and
the detail. Today, I'm going to brief you on a
couple of things. First, I'm going to talk about our
air defenders at Aludd in Katar and their actions on Monday.
Then I'm going to walk you through a little bit
about the academics that went into the attack against four Dah,
the massive ordnance penetrator weapon, and we're going to show
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a video.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
That highlights the effects that that weapon has.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
Of course, nobody was down inside the target, so we
don't have video from the target.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
First.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
On Monday, as the President has stated, on Monday morning,
we began to receive indications and warnings that Iran intended
to attack US bases in the region that morning. Building
on the work that Sentcom Commander Eric Carilla had done
and on the order of the President, at Alude'd Airbase
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and Katar and around the region, we assumed a minimum
force posture. Most folks had moved off the base to
extend the security perimeter out away from what we assessed
might be a target zone. Except for a very few
Army soldiers at aluded at that point, only two Patriot
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batteries remained on base. Roughly forty four American soldiers responsible
for defending the entire base to include Sencom's forward headquarters
in the Middle East, an entire air base, and all
the US forces there. The oldest soldier was a twenty
eight year old captain. The youngest was a twenty one
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year old private who'd been in the military for less
than two years. So let's put ourselves out there for
a second. Imagine you're that young first lieutenant. You're twenty
five or twenty six years old, and you've been assigned
as the tactical director inside the Command and Control Element. You,
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at that age, are the sole person responsible to defend
this base. Listening next to you as your early warning
operator whose job is to notify you of imminent attack.
There's five people inside a vehicle and five people outside
of a vehicle around these a total of, as I said,
forty four. By the way, you've sat in the Middle
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East for years, deployed over and over again, extended multiple times,
always being prepared, but unsure of when that particular day
will come that you must execute your mission and not
fail at doing it. In this case, these Patriot crews
were deployed from Korea and Japan as part of our
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US forces there to ensure that we had the most
capable missiles in.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
The cent area of responsibility.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
As the day continues, you start to hear more and
more chatter in the information space about an appending attack,
and as the sun starts to set in the west,
you get orders from your higher headquarters to make sure
that your missile batteries are pointed to the north. There
are just a few other teammates. It's hot, you're getting nervous,
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and you expect an attack outside of those Patriot vehicles.
Your hot crew, which is one NCO and four additional soldiers,
turns a key and relinquishes control of those missiles to
that young lieutenant inside the vehicle, and you wait. You
know that you're going to have approximately two minutes, one
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hundred and twenty seconds to either succeed or fail. And
then at approximately twelve thirty pm on Monday, that's seven
thirty pm in Katar, as the sun sets in.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
The west, Iran attacks.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
As the targets were detected, round after round of Patriot
missiles are ejected from their canisters by an initial launch charge.
Then the main solid rocket motor ignites. You can feel
this in your body. If you've ever been around a
patriot taking a shot, and round after round goes out
and guides against those missiles coming inbound. We believe that
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this is the largest single patriot engagement in US military.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
History, and we were enjoyed.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
We were joined in this engagement by the Katari Patriot crews.
I'm not going to tell you how many rounds were shot,
but it was a bunch because of classified purposes, and
we're aware that something there's reports of something getting through.
What we do know is there was a lot of
metal flying around between attacking missiles being hit by patriots,
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boosters from attacking missiles being hit by Patriots, the Patriots
themselves flying around in the debris from those Patriots hitting
the ground. There was a lot of metal flying around,
and yet our US air defenders had only seconds to
make complex decisions with strategic impact. These awesome humans, along
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with their Katari brothers and sisters and arms, stood between
a salvo of Iranian missiles and the safety of value. Deed,
they are the unsung heroes of the twenty first century
United States Army. And I know a lot of you
have seen the videos online and the excitement as those
Patriots departed their launchers and went up and guided. This
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really demonstrates the combat capability and capacity of our army
Air defenders simply stated, they absolutely crushed it.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
If you'd flip this over, thanks.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
Let me next move to a walk through of the
GBU fifty seven Massive Ordnance Penetrator weapon and share a
little bit about the planners who did this and their
work on the weapon.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
First, let me set the stage for you.
Speaker 9 (20:14):
There's an organization in the US called the Defense Threat
Reduction Agency DITRA. DITTRA does a lot of things for
a nation, but DITTRA is the world's leading expert on
deeply buried underground targets. In two thousand and nine, a
Defense Threat Reduction Agency officer was brought into a vault
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at an undisclosed location and briefed on something going on
in Iran. For security purposes, I'm not going to share
his name. He was shown some photos and some highly
classified intelligence of what looked like a major construction project
in the mountains of Iran. He was tasked to study
this facility, work with the intelligence community to understand it,
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and he was soon joined by an additional teammate. For
more than fifteen years, this officer and his teammate lived
and breathed this single target four dough, a critical element
of Iran's covert nuclear weapons program. He studied the geology.
He watched the Iranians dig it out. He watched the construction,
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the weather, the discard material, the geology, the construction materials,
where the materials came from.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
He looked at the vent shaft, the.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Exhaust shaft, the electrical systems, the environmental control systems, every nook,
every crater, every piece of equipment going in and every
piece of equipment going out. They literally dreamed about this
target at night when they slept. They thought about it
driving back and forth to work, and they knew from
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the very first days what this was for. You do
not build a multi layered underground bunker complex with centrifuges
and other equipment in a mountain for any peaceful purpose.
They weren't able to discuss this with their family, their wives,
their kids, their friends, but they just kept grinding it out,
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and along the way they realized we did not have
a weapon that could adequately strike and kill this target.
So they began a journey to work with industry and
other tacticians.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
To develop the GBU fifty seven. They tested it.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
Over and over again, tried different options, tried more. After that,
they accomplished hundreds of test shots and dropped many full
scale weapons against extremely realistic targets for a single purpose,
kill this target at the time and place of our
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nation's choosing. And then, on a day in June of
twenty twenty five, more than fifteen years after they started
their life's work, the phone rang and the President of
the United States ordered the B two force that you've
ported to go strike and kill this target.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
Yesterday.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
I had the incredible honor and privilege of spending time
with these two Defense Threat Reduction Agency officers who've given
so much. One of them said, quote, I can't even
get my head around this. My heart is so filled
with the pride of being a part of this team.
I am so honored to be a part of this.
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To you both, thank you, and thank you to your families.
Operation Midnight Hammer was the culmination of those fifteen years
of incredible work. The air crews, the tanker crews, the
weapons crews that built the weapons, the load crews that
loaded it. Before I run through this video today, I
want to talk a little bit about weaponeering and what
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goes into into an attack. Weaponeering is the science of
evaluating a target. I mentioned all of those factors before
that these two DITRA officers had thought about. Ultimately, weaponeering
is determining the right weapon and use combination to achieve
the desired effects and maximum destruction against a target. In
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the case of four DAH, the Ditter team understood with
a high degree of confidence the elements of the target
required to kill its functions, and the weapons were designed,
planned and delivered to ensure that they achieved the effects
in the mission space. By the way, in the beginning
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of its development, we had so many PhDs working on
the MOP program doing modeling and simulation that we were
quietly and in a secret way the biggest users of
supercomputer hours within the United States of America. So let
me talk about Let me talk about the graphic a
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little bit. In the GBU fifty seven, which all of
you I know know, is a thirty thousand pound weapon
dropped only by the B two.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
It's comprised of.
Speaker 9 (24:59):
Steam explosive and a fuse programmed bespokely each weapon to
achieve a particular effect inside the target. Each weapon had
a unique desired impact angle, arrival, final heading.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
And a fuse setting.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
The fuse is effectively what tells the bomb when to function.
A longer delay in a fuse, the deeper the weapon
will penetrate and drive into the target.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
So on four.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
DOH in June of two thousand and eight, you can
see these three holes depicted. Here is the main exhaust
shaft with two additional ventilation shafts on either side. The
United States decided to strike these two ventilation shafts seen
here on the main graphic as the primary point of
entry into the mission space.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
In the days preceding.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
The attack against Fourneaux, the Iranians attempted to cover the
shafts with concrete to try to prevent an attack. I
won't share the specific dimensions of the concrete cap, but
you should know that we know what the dimensions of
those concrete caps were. The planners had to account for this.
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They accounted for everything. The cap was forcibly removed by
the first weapon and the main shaft was uncovered. Weapons two, three,
four five were tasked to enter the main shaft, move
down into the complex at greater than one thousand feet
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per second, and explode in the mission space. Weapon number
six was designed on each side, so there were six
on each side. Weapons number six was designed as a
flex weapon to allow us to cover if one of
the preceding jets or one of the preceding weapons.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
Did not work.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
The video I'm about to show you is a culmination
of over fifteen years of development and testing. As I said,
hundreds of test shots on various models. This is one weapon,
So if you take a view of this is five additionals,
you'll get a sense of what this looks like. Hopefully
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you can see it and there's not too much reflection.
Tom runs our videos out there. We'll run it at
full speed so you can see it and then go
back through it.
Speaker 10 (27:32):
Go ahead, Tom, keep it.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Going for a minute.
Speaker 10 (28:05):
You'll see inside the mission space.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
Unlike a normal surface bomb, you won't see an impact
crater because they're designed to deeply bury and then function.
I know there's been a lot of questions about that.
All six weapons at each vent at four doh went
exactly where they were intended to go. A bomb has
three effects that causes damage, blast, fragmentation, and overpressure. In
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this case, the primary kill mechanism in the mission space
was a mix of overpressure and blast ripping through the
open tunnels and destroying critical hardware. The majority of the
damage we assessed based on our extensive modeling was a
blast layer combined with the impulse extending from the shock.
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Imagine what this looks like six times over. A point
that I want to make here. The Joint Force does
not do BDA by design. We don't grade our own homework.
The intelligence community does. But here's what we know following
the attacks and the strikes on four DAH. First that
the weapons were built, tested and loaded properly. Two, the
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weapons were released on speed and on parameters. Three, the
weapons all guided to their intended targets and to their
intended aim points. For the weapons functioned as design, meaning
they exploded. We know this through other means, intelligence means
that we have that were visibly We were visibly able
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to see them, and we know that the trailing jets
saw the first weapons function and the pilots stated, quote this,
this was the brightest explosion that I've ever seen. It
literally looked like daylight. Let me now turn to the
bomber crews themselves, give you a few details about them.
The crews that attacked Fordeaux were from the Active duty
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Air Force and the Missouri Air National Guard. The crews
ranked from captain to colonel, and most were graduates of
the Air Force Weapon School, headquartered at Nellis Air Force
Base in Nevada. I will state for the record that
there is no beach, volleyball, or football at the Air
Force Weapon School. They were male and female aviators on
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this mission, and a crew member told me when I
talked to them on video the other day that this
felt like the Super Bowl, the thousands of scientists, airmen
and maintainers all coming together.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
One last story about people.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
When the crews went to work on Friday, they kissed
their loved ones goodbye, not knowing when or if they'd
be home. Late on Saturday night, their families became aware
of what was happening, and on Sunday, when those jets
return from White Men, their families were there, flags flying
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and tears flowing. I have chills literally talking about this.
The jets rejoined into a formation of four airplanes, followed
by a formation of three, and came up overhead white Men,
proudly in the traffic pattern, pitching out to land right
over the base and landing to the incredible cheers of
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their families who sacrifice and serve right alongside their family members.
Like I said, there were a lot of flags and
a lot of tears. One commander told me, this is
a moment in the lives of our families that they
will never forget. That, my friends, is what America's Joint
Force does. We think, we develop, we train, we rehearse,
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we test, we evaluate every single day, and when the
call comes to delay, we do so. I could not
be more proud standing up here today of our joint Force.
I'm filled with gratitude that I get to tell their story.
And as we stand here right now, our forces remain
on a high state of readiness in the region, prepared
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to defend themselves. And one last thing, our adversaries around
the world should know that there are other DITRIC Team
members out there studying targets for the same amount of
time and we'll continue to do so. Thank you very much.
I apologize for the length I look forward to your questions.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Thank you, mister Chairman. I would just thank you, by
the way for that extensive work, the lay down, I
mean even you have that laser pointer. Okay, yes, sir,
thank you scaring me away as always. I mean even
in just the public reporting, if you see the post
striped shaft of the three holes, the vast majority, and
fairly so, the vast majority speculation has been those are
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the three strike points, when in actuality, what you realize
is these are the events. These are the caps. The
first munition took the cap off, and the other five
went down the center hole, which if you're planning the target,
you would want it to be the direct one going
to the bottom. These are the types of things that
go into the planning for a strike that we wouldn't
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the Pentagon would not expect, the press corps, the American
people that initially understand. So laying this information out is helpful,
but it's also why we asked for a beat, for
a moment, for a day or two, the opportunity to
tell that story, because, as the chairman said, these men
and women that did this mission, they just want to
do their job. They're not expecting their story to be told.
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They're not expecting the glory. They are grateful for the
flags and the hugs of family, that's why they do
the job. But they also know they were part of
something historic. We know how historic it was the Chairman,
does I know, Our staffs know, and so that's why
we are and the President of the United States States knows.
And that's why it's almost personal when we see the
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way in which leaks are used to try to disparage
the outcome or muddy the waters about the impact of
what happened without being responsible with information and allowing the
professionals to assess and provide that information, just like the
Chairman did. So thank you, mister Chairman, for that information.
And we welcome a few additional questions.
Speaker 11 (34:27):
Yes, sir, the General on Sunday you said final battle
damage will take some time, and you also said, I
think BDA is still pending and it would be way
too early for me to comment on what may or
may not still be there at New Qui facility.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
So that was just over three days ago.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
So what has changed? Would you use the term obliterated
as well, sir?
Speaker 9 (34:50):
Like I said, we don't do BDA. I'll refer that
to the intelligence community and you're.
Speaker 11 (34:55):
Talking with them. I mean, what changed in the past
three days? And make you so you know, sir?
Speaker 8 (34:59):
I think I I.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Mean, I think I explained what changed. Uh, there was
a great deal of irresponsible reporting based on leaks, preliminary
information in low confidence. Again, when someone leaks something, they
do it with an agenda. And when you leak a
portion of an intelligence assessment, but just a little portion,
just a little portion, that makes it seem like maybe
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the strike wasn't effective, then you start us a news cycle,
whether it's the Washington Post or Fox News or CNN
or MSNBC, you start a news cycle that starts to
call into question the ethics. No, that's why. So you
bring the chairman here, who's not involved in politics, here,
a new politics. That's that's that's my lane to understand
and translate and talk about those types of things. So
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I can use the word obliterate it. He could use defeat, destroyed,
assess all of those things. But ultimately we're here to
clarify what these weapons are capable of, which anyone with uh,
you know, two ear, two eyes, some ears in a
brain can recognize that kind of firepower with that specificity
at that location and others is gonna have a devastating effect.
So we all recognize there will be days and weeks ahead.
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That's why yesterday I said, if you want to know
what's going on, at four to zero. You better go
there and get a big shovel, because no one's under
there right now. No one's under there able to assess,
and everyone's using reflections of what they see. And that's
why the Israelis, the Iranians, the IAA, the un to
a man and too a woman who recognized the capability
of this weapon system are acknowledging how destructive it's been.
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So that's what's that's what's changed just three or four
days later. See this is a point. This is how
difficult it is to actually manage. You just watched a
video of what this weapon is capable of. That's where
we find our confidence is in the skill of men
and women and the capability of the systems they employed,
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and the recognition so far on the reflections that it
was a highly successful mission.
Speaker 9 (36:48):
Sure, I think you could, I'd say, got the IC
should be able to help you answer that question. They
look at a variety as the Secretary is alluded to,
we look at a variety of things.
Speaker 8 (36:58):
I don't do that.
Speaker 9 (36:59):
They do all different sources of intel, which I'd refer
you to them to get clarity on the instill.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Again, I go back to the IC, whether it's Director
Radcliffe or Odie and I Gabbart. I read the statements
at the beginning. They're the ones aggregating the intelligence, and
they're saying nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to
be rebuilt over a number of a year's facilities were destroyed.
Where we got right here, So you cited a body
of credible intelligence to suggest that the damage at Porto
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and other places.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
What is that referring to? And when we see it?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I was reading from the CIA director's statement which came
out last night. CIA again, they do the BDA, they
do the assessment. CIA can confirm that a body of
credible intelligence indicates it also goes on to say new
intelligence from historically reliable and accurate sources and methods. Now
you can imagine, you can imagine the CIA director is
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going to be very careful about how he articulates things
of that sensitivity five secret, top secret, compartmentalized. He's going
to know things that you're not going to know, that
the press isn't going to know. And he's reflecting that
the sources he's seeing are highly credible. Uh, they've they've
given credible intelligence. They are those processes of given credible
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intelligence in the past, and that's what he's basically on.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Do you think we need to see that?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Do you have a top secret clearancer?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Eventually the American public see.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yes, Yeah, I wanted to I wanted to ask briefly,
just not you check it shirt.
Speaker 12 (38:32):
Oh so, Mike Glennoth Washington, Yes, thanks.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (38:35):
Anybody who's ever read a battalions to report after a
fight knows that it's usually the initial report is usually wrong,
sometimes grossly. So this is what happened in the sense
that it caused y'all to sort of rethink the intelligence
process or the dissemination or do you think it's just
I mean, it's a process itself doesn't require any more adjustment.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Well, I can tell you what the chairman told me
in the situation room and reminded us all, which is
alongside what you just said, sir, is that the first
first reports are almost always wrong. They're almost always incomplete,
right anything, whether it's a squad level operation or strategic
level operation. The initial reflections you get are coming at
you at a high rate of speed from a lot
(39:21):
of different sources. So your job is to step back
and assess them. And that's why we're urging caution about
putting it premising entire stories on biased leaks to biased
publications trying to make something look bad. How about we
take a beat, recognize first the success of our warriors,
hold them up, tell their stories, celebrate that wave an
(39:43):
American flag, be proud of what we accomplished. And in
the meantime, I can assure you the Chairman and his staff,
the intelligence community, our staff and others are doing all
the assessments necessary to make sure that mission was indeed successful.
Speaker 13 (39:56):
Yes, right there, so thank you. Mis Run has to
recognized that their nuclear program was indeed severely damaged, but
they also said that the US strikes only strengthened their
ability and their determination to complete their nuclear program. How
do you respond to us or is that a provocation
from Iran?
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Well, I would say Iron's going to have to say
a lot of things right now in order to bolster
their image, especially internally. You know, in if the media,
there's a lot of things they'll say for domestic consumption,
but we're watching very closely what they do. Again, that's
the intel community. Our job as the chairman, I mean,
the chairman laid it up so beautifully. Our job is
(40:36):
to be prepared, and how proud are you? How proud
am I? I didn't know the full story of those
men and women fifteen years ago who've been pointing at
that target. It makes me proud to be an American.
That's an awesome story. I hope we can tell more
aspects of that in an unclassified way in the future.
That's a great thing to know. Our job is to
be prepared when the commander in chief calls based on
(40:57):
those assessments. So of course our i SE Intelligence Committee
will keep watching what Iran does and pay attention to that.
But the President has created the contours the opportunity for
a deal for peace in something that the world said
was intractable, that wasn't possible, and we got that piece
that cease fire, that option because of strength, because of
(41:18):
his willingness to use American military might that no one
else on the planet can do with the kind of
planners and operators that the Chairman just laid out. Yes, sir,
right there.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Yep, sir.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Just a quick question.
Speaker 14 (41:31):
There's public imagery available saying that highly enriched uranium was
moved out of FOURD before the strikes. Is that accurate?
Have you seen that and mister chairman, a question for you.
Have you been pressured to change your assessment or given
more rosy intelligence assessment to us by any political factors,
whether it's a president or the Secretary, And if you were,
(41:54):
would you do that?
Speaker 8 (41:55):
Yeah, well, that one's easy.
Speaker 9 (41:56):
No, No, I have not, and no I would not.
My job as a chairman is to offer a range
of options to the President and the National Command Authority,
to deliver the risks associated with each of those, and
then take the orders of the National Command Authority and
go execute them. I've never been pressured by the President
(42:20):
or the Secretary to do anything other than tell them
exactly what.
Speaker 10 (42:23):
I'm thinking, and that's exactly what I've done.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
There's nothing that I've seen that suggests that what we
didn't hit exactly what we wanted to hit in those locations.
Speaker 15 (42:34):
It's about highly enriched uranium. Do you have certainty that
all the highly enrich uranium was inside the Four Dome
Mountain or some of it? Because there were satellite photos
that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days
in advance, are you certain none of that highly enriched
uranium was moved?
Speaker 3 (42:52):
Of course, we're watching every single aspect. But Jennifer, you've
been about the worst, the one who misrepresents the most
intentionally what the President says. I'm familiar about.
Speaker 15 (43:05):
The ventilations chefs on Saturday Night, and in fact, I
was the first to describe the B two bombers, the refueling,
the entire mission with great accuracy. So I take issue
with that.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
I appreciate you acknowledging that this was the first, the
most successful mission based on operational security that this department
has done since you be here, and I appreciate that.
So we're looking at all aspects of intelligence and making
sure we have a sense of what was where.
Speaker 16 (43:32):
Why not acknowledge the female pilots that also participated in
this mission. The early messages that you sent out only
congratulated the boys.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
So when I say something like our boys and bombers, see,
this is the kind of thing the press does.
Speaker 8 (43:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Of course, the chairman mentioned a female bomber pilot. That's fantastic.
She's fantastic, she's a hero. I want more female bomber pilots.
I hope the men and women of our country sign
up to do such brave and audacious things. But when
you spin it as because I say our boys and
bombers as a common phrase, I'll keep saying things like that,
whether they're men or women. Very proud of that female pilot,
just like I'm very proud of those male pilots. And
(44:07):
I don't care if it's a male or a female
in that cockpit, and the American people don't care. But
it's the obsession with race and gender in this department
that's changed priorities. We don't do that anymore. We don't
play your little games. Yes, right there.
Speaker 16 (44:22):
Certainly that the uranium was removed from a facility before the.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
B two struck, So I'm not aware of any intelligence
that I've reviewed that says things were not where they
were supposed to be moved or otherwise.
Speaker 17 (44:33):
Yes, Kelly Meyer with News Nation, and just off the top,
when they were grateful for the service of these pilots
and everybody that serves I wanted to ask you. The
CIA statement said when possible, they will provide updates and
information to the public for transparency, and I believe that's.
Speaker 15 (44:48):
What we're looking for here.
Speaker 17 (44:50):
Do you commit to share the Defense Intelligence Agency report
when it is ready so the American people can understand
more about the intelligence assessment.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Well whatever, Actually the report that was discussed, this preliminary
report was a what's called a restrike report, So it
comes to us to give us an assessment whether a
target would need to be restruck, right, that's the reason why.
So based on internal feedback loop that we're supposed to
have access to. Unfortunately someone took advantage of that. But
whatever is supposed to be made public will be. But
whatever has to say sensitive.
Speaker 8 (45:19):
Certain it's jump in you know.
Speaker 9 (45:21):
One of the things that that I'm trying to do
through this journey that we're on together, of course transparency,
but also the requirement to really protect these capabilities.
Speaker 8 (45:31):
I guess the time's up. But so there's a balance.
Speaker 9 (45:36):
In there, right, we do need to preserve options should
the nation and the Joint Force be tasked to go
do something again. So I'm confident we'll find the middle ground.
But there are some things that that if asked, I'd
want to not release related.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
So we're gonna leave it right there. I want to
thank the heroism of our men and women in military.
In the military, what they accomplished is truly historic, setting
back the Iranian nuclear program untold number of years. It
was a devastating attack. We appreciate you covering it.
Speaker 8 (46:04):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 18 (46:06):
Thank you talk a little bit more about your Rolso,
so you were listening to a news conference there at
the Pentagon involving Secretary of Defense Pete Heigseth and the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussing the attack
(46:26):
on uh that nuclear.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
Facility in iron also blasting the news media for its
coverage of how this all was carried out, more importantly,
the efficacy of that attack. Let's bring in doctor Gena
and David uh to offer up a bit more context
to all of this.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Uh So, A.
Speaker 5 (46:43):
Lot to unpack here, David and doctor Gina. I don't
know necessarily where to start. Uh So let's start with
the media, I guess, David, and basically the way that
they were just dressed down by Secretary Hegseth for their coverage.
Let's start there, and then we'll move on to the
efficacy and the information we're continuing to get about just
how good the strike was.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
Well, let's specifically talk about someone in the media. If
you caught that where we all caught it at the
end when he said, Jennifer, he's talking about Jennifer Griffin
at Fox News, and of course Pete Hegseeth formerly a
Fox News some bad blood between both of them, that's
who he was talking to in the audience there. She
pushed back and then he decided to have a few
(47:26):
words after that. Look, this was a dressed down of
the media. That was the main reason, I shouldn't say
the main reason. It was a key reason for what
they wanted to do here to basically say, how dare you?
Speaker 1 (47:37):
And it's a good point, it's a great point. Actually.
Speaker 4 (47:40):
You know, when you don't give all of the facts,
when you give a partial truth, it becomes false. And
that's what we're seeing from the media specifically. This is
a low credibility report, a low credibility report that is
preliminary at best.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
And once again that isn't in the CNN.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
I keep going back to CNN because it's the CNN
story that started all of this, and so and there's
a lot more to talk about regarding the media, But
the point is, and his and Pete Hegsett's point was
is that they're not telling the full story.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Well, that should not shock us at all.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
And what's interesting to me is the Ratcliffe stuff the CIA,
Radcliffe stuff and Telsea gabber Bolt saying that they were
indeed destroyed, and then when they were asked, how do
you know, basically saying that there is new intelligence according
to Ratcliffe at the CIA, new intelligence from quote highly
credible sources saying that nuclear facilities were destroyed. He also
(48:38):
Hegsith also said this that this was all predicated on
multiple Lynchpin assumptions. You know, I thought that was interesting
because you don't get that in the media story. Multiple
Lynchpin assumptions, you see, because that's the caveat, that's the disclaimer.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
That's like, hold on for a second.
Speaker 4 (48:57):
Possibly this could have been the case, but we don't
know because we're assuming X, Y, and Z. See, that's
never explained, Gina. The context is never explained in the media. Instead,
they want the headline. And the reason they want the
headline is because they want to bash Trump, because Trump
ultimately is good for business.
Speaker 6 (49:13):
But it's deeper than that. It's deeper than that.
Speaker 7 (49:15):
It goes back to what I said initially at the
open of the show today, This is not just about
bashing Trump. This is about the deep state wanting to
put us in a war. The deep State wanting to
insinuate that Iran still has nukes, so therefore we must
put boots on the ground and go back in and
(49:36):
check about these nukes. How reprehensible when you think about it,
It's not only reprehensible, David, because if we put troops,
our troops in harm's way again because our bomber pilots
were obviously in harms way, but if we put boots
on the ground, in our troops in harms way again,
(49:56):
for the military industrial complex, the deep state to be
able to take this victory from the American people. They're
trying to take it from Trump, as you said, but
they're trying to take it from the American people.
Speaker 6 (50:07):
That is reprehensible.
Speaker 7 (50:09):
Number two on this whole thing that just has me
seething this morning, is that what an exercise and futility Terrence.
Why does Pete heg Why did we need our top
level military officials and secretaries on stage this morning explaining
what they know to be true, what they've already done,
(50:32):
rehashing on the defense.
Speaker 6 (50:35):
Why do we need that?
Speaker 7 (50:36):
Because the Left is willing to compromise us in order
to get what they want, as you said, David, to
undermine Trump but also to get their way on putting us.
Speaker 8 (50:48):
In a war.
Speaker 6 (50:49):
That's the ultimate goal.
Speaker 7 (50:50):
I don't want to lose sight of that for one second.
This isn't a Maga versus democrats kind of a fight.
This is literally the deep State versus the American people
and our military.
Speaker 1 (51:03):
Look, guys, there's still a lot to unpack.
Speaker 5 (51:05):
And you use the word reprehensible, doctor Gina, There's another
angle to this story that I find reprehensible, and I'd
like to get your guys' take on that. When't we
get a chance to come back, but for now, we
do have to take a quick break. We're back in
a moment.
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