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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We're ruling with common sense. You know, whether you're a
conservative or liberal, or as they like to say, progressive.
They don't like the word liberal anymore. Progressive I think
it's a beautiful word too. That's why I call him liberal.
It's too nice a word. I don't know how you
can be progressive when you're turning the country backwards.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good Friday morning. So nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update. And here are the
big stories we're talking about today. First up, classified report
is now out suggesting that Iran's nuclear program still intact,
was likely well all faulty info and where to come from,
directly from the Iranian government. Yet the media went with it. Well,
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the DoD chief Pete Headseth, he's coming out and having
a lot to say about the media telling this story
that is Iranian propaganda. Also, a former Biden official has
now come out on TV saying that Iran's nuclear program
was in fact set back significantly, again, the complete opposite
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of what the media has been trying to sell you on.
We have the receipts and we'll play it for you.
It's the forty seven Morning Update, and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
In a scathing report, the CIA director John Radcliffe ripping
Democrats during a closed door briefing of senators on Thursday
by comparing President Donald Trump's successful airstrikes eliminating Iran's nuclear
program to former President Barack Obama's failures with his rand
nuclear deal. A source in the room saying that Radcliffe
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and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Secretary's
Defense Pete Headseth had all the senators there for a
closed door briefing on Thursday. They said that the Democratic
senators repeatedly pressed them about the effectiveness of the strike,
pushing for more proof than they had been offered on
the matter. In response, Radcliffe told them, per the source
president in the room, the way he knows how effective
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they were was how quickly they folded to Trump versus
how long they dragged out negotiations with Obama. You know
how you know the strikes were devastatingly effective, Radcliffe told
the Senate Democrats and the briefing, per one source quote,
Iran has been fighting Israel for decades. They strung along
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the Obama administration for twenty months while negotiating the JCPOA,
but Trump made them accept the ceasefire with their mortal
enemy in twenty minutes. Radcliffe wasn't done there. He also
said during the briefing that the contents of a statement
he previously released publicly in which he said the CIA
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can confirm that Aaran' nuclear program had been severely damaged
by the strikes Trump ordered last weekend, saying quote, this
includes new intelligence now from an historically reliable and accurate
source and method, that several ki Iranian nuclear facilities were
destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course
of years. Now, Radcliffe was obviously speaking to the centers
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in a private room, but that didn't stop the DoD
Secretary Pete Hedgseth from telling the world exactly what happened
in these attacks and just how wrong the media actually was.
Take a listen to his statement at the Pentagon, specifically
speaking to the media that's been lawing about the effectiveness
of the attack.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
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 DIA. I'm looking at it
right now. Again, it was preliminary, a day and a
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half after the actual strike. When it admits itself in
writing that it requires weeks to accumulate the necessary data
to make such an assessments preliminary, it points out that
it's not been coordinated with the intelligence community at all.
There's low confidence in this particular reports, it says in
the report. There are gaps in the information. It says
in the report. Multiple lynchpin assumptions are what this assessment
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a lynchpin assumption? You know what that is. It means
your entire premiss 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,
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
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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. THEDIA that put that
report out says that this is a preliminary low confidence
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
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and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. Have any of these
quotes made their way into The New York Times, 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 in the United States or
certainly Israel. Often. Here's the head of the UN Atomic
Energy Agency this morning, Raphael Grossi. US and Israeli strikes
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caused enormous 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, 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
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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 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
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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 rebuilt over the course
of years. CIA continues to collect additional reliably sourced information
to keep appropriate decision makers fully informed. How about DNA
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Telsea Gabbard yesterday, she writes, and I quote new intelligence
confirms what POTUS has stated numerous times. 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
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can go down the list those that understand, those that see,
those that do proper assessments recognize that what the United
States military did was historic.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Isn't it nice to know that President Donald Trump has
put people like Pete headset in positions of power to
call out the liars and the leakers and the media
when they try to pull these bs shenanigans lying about
what's happening in reality, especially when it comes to foreign
policy and the issue of our national security. Now, story
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number two, there is a new classified report that is
suggesting that Iran's nuclear program, still intact, likely relied on
faulty info Iranian propaganda from Iranian sources. This is when
the media decided to run with the story, knowing that
their propaganda was literally coming from Iran. The top secret
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Defense intelligence agency known as the DIA assessment that claimed
Iran's nuclear sites suffered only moderate damage likely relied on
faulty information from deceitful Iranian sources that according to several
former US intelligence officers, one of whom described the documents
as so unreal you can wipe your aas with it.
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The classified DIA report ignite a media firestorm in the
days after President Donald Trump authorized those precision strikes on
Iran's top three nuclear sites. The findings, of course, werein
the league to CNN and The New York Times, which
you heard about a moment ago. Then they presented them
as facts as bombshell evidence that the US bombing run
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only set back Tehran's nuclear ambitions by you know, a
couple of months. The US intelligence community deemed that initial
assessment with quote low confidence a fact. CNN purposely admitted
from its original story and based it solely on satellite
imagery and interceptic communications known as signal intelligence from Iranian officials. Again,
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think about this. You have the Iranian government putting out
propaganda and media companies in this country putting it out
there as fact. Shortly after the assessment leaked, Axios reported
that communications intercepted by Israel suggested that Iran's military officials
have been giving false situation reports to the country's political leadership,
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downplaying the extent of the damage. Such communications likely made
their way into the da report. According to three former
US intelligence operatives, including a current US official and other
veteran national security insiders, who spoke to the Washington Free
Beacon both on and off the record, some of them
referred to the DIA as the discount intelligence agency. It's
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basically messaging by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, messaging by Tehran.
That is what a former intelligence officer with the US
Central Command who operated in the Middle East for nearly
thirty years, said, In fact, CNN actually had to report
on this, and here's what it sounded like when a
former Biden of official had this to say about Iran's
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nuclear program.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Usteine, a longtime diplomat who served as President Biden's senior
advisor for Energy and Investment. And I think one question
that regular people will have, you know, listening to what
came out of that briefing today on Capitol Hill from
Republicans from Democrats, is what should they take away when
there is such a divide between the politicians over what
is the fate of Iran's nuclear capacity and where that
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stands tonight? What do you think?
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Well, first, Kaitlin, it's good to be with you. Look,
I think the most important thing is to separate out
what's politics and what is happening on the ground over
the last year a year and a quarter. Last April,
Iran launched a missile attack against Israel, which was one
hundred ballistic missiles company by two hundred or so UAVs.
The United States military coordinated a response and defeated that attack.
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But that was really the first time that Iran and
used its own territory to attack Israel. They did it
again in October, and again the United States supported Israel
and with regional partners as well as European countries to
defeat it. And now since then, Iran has lost most
of its deterrence power. They had three things going for them.
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They had proxies meaning terrorist organizations in Lebanon, in Syria
and Iraq and Yemen that supported them. The second was
the missiles, and the third was the thread of a
nuclear weaponization. Of their nuclear capabilities, most of their proxies
are either weakened to the point they can't respond or
are choosing now to distance themselves from Iran. Their missile
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capability has been proven to be less effective because of
the United States ability to defend the region, and now
their nuclear capability is likely at least set back. Now
the whole idea of obliterated or destroyed. These are political
terms that are not really relevant, and I would urge
Americans not to really pay attention to those words. What
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we do know, we know that as a result of
the both the Israeli the American strikes, the nuclear program
was set back significantly. How much we don't really know.
Most Israeli military analysts and generals that I've spoken to
over the last twenty four to forty eight hours. I
think this has gone from a six month's breakout to
timeframe to two years, so an eighteen month or two
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year delay in their program. But here's the thing. They
have also lost other capabilities. They've lost their command and control,
they've lost military leaders, they've lost scientists, and they lost
their conversion so they're clearly weakened. And lastly, Israel has
proven that they have an intelligence caivability inside Iran that
if they tried to reconstitute we'll we the United States, Israel,
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other European allies will know about it.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yet again, more proof of the propaganda coming from the
media trying to convince you that somehow one of the
most successful missions in modern military history was a failure,
all because Donald Trump is the one that's said to
do it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
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