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Jun 26, 2025 - World

CNN Anchor Kate Bolduan not only defended her network but also railed against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s claim that the network's reporting was “inaccurate.”Her remarks came at the end of Hegseth’s briefing on the bombing of an Iranian nuclear facility.“First and foremost, there was some new detail offered on the mission, on the cruise that pulled off this mission,” Bolduan said. “It's great to get some more information on that, but at the same time, we do need to make clear that despite the emotional speech and outrage from the defense secretary, what he said about the DIA assessment is what CNN reported on."She added, “His issue, that he took about it being preliminary, about it being low confidence. CNN reported on all of this. I was looking back just to make sure that we had it all throughout the reporting process."The anchor continued to defend the outlet’s integrity. “CNN had reported that it is preliminary and, of course, can be updated, including these two parts. It is still early. We reported in our initial report for the U.S. to have a comprehensive picture of the impact of the strikes.”“None of the sources described how the DIA assessment compares to the views of other agencies in the intelligence community,” Bolduan said. “The U.S. is continuing to pick up intelligence, including from within Iran, as they assess the damage.”“Also,” She went on, “in CNN reporting, [the secretary] took real issue and seemed very upset about it not being stated that this was there was low confidence stated in this assessment. It's also in CNN reporting, including this, that the final U.S. military battle damage assessment by the DIA could take days or even weeks to complete, multiple sources familiar with the Pentagon's process told CNN.”“And now a lot of the questions that still remain,” she said. “Honest, questions that everyone in that room should be asked, that he had been berating the honest questions about any U.S. military operation. Those do continue.” Watch the full segment below or click the link. - YouTube youtu.be

Jun 26, 2025 - World

Donald Trump on Thursday spread a "rumor" about his enemies in the media.Trump took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to announce the hearsay about two news outlets he has opposed for several years."Rumor is that the Failing New York Times and Fake News CNN will be firing the reporters who made up the FAKE stories on the Iran Nuclear sites because they got it so wrong," Trump wrote in reference to stories about internal documents leaked to the press. "Lets[sic] see what happens?"The president has consistently claimed that the Iran nuclear sites were "completely obliterated," and that his own administration was wrong to suggest the barrage could have only set back the Middle Eastern nation's nuclear program by a few months.See the full post here.

Jun 26, 2025 - World

President Donald Trump has put the world one step closer to the “unimaginable catastrophe” with his actions against Iran, according to Newsweek columnist David Faris.“President Donald Trump's reckless and illegal strikes on Iranian nuclear sites now threaten to blow up [80 years worth of work through the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)],” Farris said. Faris, who is an Associate Professor at Roosevelt University, added, “Trump's aggression is more likely to lead to what scholars call a ‘proliferation cascade’ than it is to stop Tehran's nuclear program.”Breaking down the NPT, he said there are two components. One, don't build nuclear weapons. Two, work toward an “abolition“ of nuclear weapons. Faris noted the second piece to the treaty is “much less discussed, component required the five signatories already in possession of nuclear weapons at the time the treaty was signed (the U.S., USSR, U.K., France, and China).”Today, there are nine nuclear-armed countries, and the professor notes they all “have basically abandoned” the “abolition” part of the treaty. Although these nine countries hold nuclear arms, former National Security Council staffer Jon Wolfsthal believes there are “40 additional states that are technically advanced enough to build nuclear weapons if they chose to do so."Faris believes “Because the nuclear-armed countries have now gone decades without serious disarmament efforts, that trust [to abolish the weapon] was already wobbly.” Now, Faris said, Trump’s bombing of an Iranian nuclear facility “has basically just destroyed [that trust].”“A world with a growing number of nuclear powers is less safe and more prone to almost unimaginable catastrophe.” The professor later added, “That has been the driving principle of America's successful nuclear policy for decades, and with one capricious order, President Trump has inadvertently made the nightmare of a proliferation cascade much more likely.”

Jun 25, 2025 - World

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) alleged that President Donald Trump's administration got "caught lying" on Iran. Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday, the senator said that Trump's administration is now scrambling to explain why conflicting statements from Trump can both be true. "The intelligence was — was very inconclusive. The intelligence says we don't know. It could have been very severe. That's what the intelligence says. So I guess that's correct. But I think we can take that. We don't know," Trump said Wednesday morning at a NATO meeting. It was very severe. It was obliteration. And you'd think that a media outlet would say, 'Isn't that a great thing?'"Murphy said that there's always going to be "low confidence" in assessing a strike when the intention was to destroy something underground. So, it didn't make sense that Trump would be so insistent that he "obliterated" the targets. "We don't have cameras underneath there. We don't know exactly what we hit or what we didn't hit. But the initial assessment of [Defense Intelligence Agency] DIA, of the photographic evidence is that they did not fundamentally destroy those assets," said Murphy. "And what we also know is that the Iranians were successful in moving a lot of the enriched uranium out of Fordo, and that maybe is the most important fact."He said that if the United States didn't destroy the 60% enriched uranium, then nothing else really matters. "They frankly don't need that many centrifuges in order to continue to enrich up to nuclear grade. So listen, they're mad. They're furious. You can see it in their voice because they got caught in a lie. They got caught in a lie. They went out there and said that the nuclear capacity of Iran was obliterated, that we'd set back the program at least a year. They knew they were lying when they said it. They got caught in the lie. That's super embarrassing."He went on to say that it's the reason that the administration is "trying to cover up that lie" using "righteous indignation." They're "blaming everybody but themselves for the fact that they did the really unforgivable sin of national security communication," said Murphy. "They fudged intelligence about our national security. You can't do that because, as we have seen over and over again over the course of our history, that's what gets us into unnecessary wars of choice. That's what gets not dozens or hundreds of Americans killed, but thousands of Americans killed. They're angry because they got caught lying this weekend."See the comments in the video below or at the link here. - YouTube youtu.be

Jun 25, 2025 - World

President Donald Trump will reportedly limit intelligence sharing with Congress after a top-secret report leaked, indicating that the U.S. strike on Iran set back the country's nuclear program only months.Axios reported that the Trump administration would share less intelligence through the CAPNET system after CNN and The New York Times published details of a Defense Intelligence Agency assessment on Iran.The report contradicted Trump's claim that Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities had been "obliterated.""We are declaring a war on leakers," a senior White House official told Axios. "The FBI is investigating the leak."In a statement on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed the leak on a "low-level loser."